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.
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 first of the family here was Alexander Quick, grandfather of Cornelius R., who was undoubtedly one of the large family of Quicks who were natives of Cornwall, England, though settled in the State of Kentucky, near Cincinnati, Ohio. Being unwilling to take up arms against England, he was obliged to leave his home, and with his entire family he moved to Canada, and settled on Lot 8, of the Gore, in the township of Colchester, at a time when there were but one or two families anywhere in the region. In those days the Indians were trouble-some and the family were obliged to protect their log cabin by a stockade of logs, set endwise in the ground. Tradition says that three of the daughters and one son of Alexander Quick were carried away captive by the Indians, and only two of the daughters were regained even by the payment of a ransom, though the son, Joseph, was released. Mr. Quick was well advanced in life when he went to Canada, and only survived a few years after the change. His sons were: Joseph, father of Cornelius R; Cornelius, who moved to Mersea; Elijah, who settled in Colchester South, and lived there until 1879, when he removed to the State of Michigan, and there remained; John, who located in Trenton, Michigan; Alexander, who resided in the township of Colchester South; and David, who removed to Illinois in 1865.
Joseph Quick was born in Kentucky, about one mile from Cininnati, Ohio. He was the eldest of the family, and, with his sisters, was captured by the Indians. While two of his sisters were brought back, he was kept thirteen years before released through the agency of Col. Elliot, of Amherstburg. He followed his parents to Canada, and after his father's death he carried on the clearing of the farm and homestead, a tract of 200 acres in Lot 8, given his father by the government as a reward for his loyalty. His brother, Alexander, was a farmer and a blacksmith, and had a shop near the house, where he made axes, hoes - in fact, all the metal tools required by the pioneers. Joseph Quick died of typhoid fever, at a ripe old age, passing away Aug. 29, 1845, aged seventy-six. In Gosfield South, County of Essex, he married Susanna Munger. She bore her husband twelve children, all but one of whom were living at the time of their mother's death, Jan. 16, 1849. Mary, born May 21, 1811, was twice married, first to Stephen Brush and second to Philip Wright. John, born Dec. 18, 1813, died in this county. David, born Nov. 26, 1815, married Margaret Loop, and moved to Flint, Michigan, where both died. William F., born July 24, 1817, married Miss Angeline Pelon, and lived in Colchester North. Cornelius R. is mentioned below. Alexander, born Dec. 7, 1821, married Henrietta Lipps. Leonard, born May 25, 1825, died young. Sarah Ann, born Feb. 26, 1827, was the wife of Domineque Pelon, who was drowned in the Detroit river. Elizabeth, born Dec. 28, 1828, married first Joseph Kline, and second Thomas Nesbett, who resided at Flint, Michigan. Hannah, born Oct. 7, 1830, married Thomas Leslie. Philip, born Sept. 24, 1832, married Miss Amelia Pastorious, and at Harrow operates a hotel. Lucinda, born Aug. 31, 1834, is Mrs. Albert Lidwell.
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Mary Quick 1811-1892
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