When Peter Brush was born on 22 March 1763, in North Castle, Westchester, New York Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Joshua Brush, was 45 and his mother, Margaret, was 43. He had at least 5 sons and 1 daughter with Margaret Meyer. He lived in Haverstraw, Orange, New York, United States in 1790. He died after 1830, in Monroe, Orange, New York, United States, and was buried in Dutchess, New York, United States.
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English: metonymic occupational name for a brush maker, from Middle English brush ‘brush’ (Old French brosse ‘brushwood’).
Americanized form of German Brusch or Brüsch ‘heather, broom, brushwood’ (see Bruesch ).
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