Alexander Brush (1759-1840)
I mentioned at the start of this series that we have five ‘official’ Rev
War soldiers with Bovina Connections, but there may be a sixth. And that man is Alexander Brush, the first settler in
the Bovina Center hamlet. The fact that he may have served in the Revolution
comes from his obituary, published in the September 30, 1840 Delaware Gazette.
Brush was a native of Smithtown, Long Island. He came to Bovina in the late 1790s. His obituary
noted that “…and when our fathers, few in number, were contending for Liberty
and were resolved to throw off Britain’s yoke, he entered the contest and was
among those who survived the bloody conflict, and long did he live to enjoy the
benefits of American Independence.” Unfortunately, I’m not sure what it means
to have ‘entered the contest.’ If he did enlist, we’ve had no luck finding an
actual service record. So that’s why Alexander is a maybe on the list of
Bovina’s revolutionary war soldiers. But I’ll keep digging.
I did a blog entry about Alexander in 2015 - go to https://bovinanyhistory.blogspot.com/2015/09/stories-from-bovina-cemeteries.html to see a bit more about him.
Keep in mind that there may be other Revolutionary War
soldiers with Bovina connections that we simply don’t know about. But I’ll keep
digging here too.
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