The Descendants of Thomas and Richard Brush of Huntington, Long Island,
Stuart C. Brush and Russell B. Brush, Gateway Press, Inc, Baltimore, 1982; and Supplement II.
From the Brush book (above):
Though hardly a youth at the time of the Revolution, Stephen followed his father's sentiments and sided with the United Empire Loyalists. In 1806 he joined his brother John who earlier had taken his family to Canada to a new area offered by the British government. "Words cannot express the hardships and privations of the Loyalists in their journey to Canada." Eventually homes and farms were built out of the forested land, and the town of Colchester came into being.
Stephen died just two years later; Jennie then married ?? Huffman and lived the rest of her years in Colchester. She and Stephen perhaps had some daughters, but none has been identified.
Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 48-49:
The Quick family prominent for several generations in Canada, has had able representatives in the township of Colchester South, County of Essex, in the late Cornelius R. Quick, and now in his capable daughter, Mrs. Annie A. (Quick) Brush, widow of the late Arthur B. Brush...
The late Arthur B. Brush, born Dec. 2, 1850, was a descendant of the John Brush, who came to Canada about 1799, with a company of United Empire Loyalists, and who was followed a few years later, in 1806, by his brother Stephen, from whom many residents of Colchester and Malden townships are descended. John Brush, in the assignment of government land drew Lot 89, Concession 1, and resided there till the day of his death. He married Miss Betsy Wright, ...
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