George RUSLING

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  General Notes:

There is a tradition in the family that, not long before his (James #1) leaving England, he had been to London with an uncle George to purchase goods, and on their return they were pursued by a “press-gang”-a common thing there then to impress men for the navy. Being a fine rider and well-mounted-accustomed to horses-he leaped his horse over a hedge and a ditch, and so escaped. But George Rusling, being a poor rider and not accustomed to horses-of a sedentary and religious turn of mind-was captured and made to serve several years on a British man-of-war. My father used often to tell this, and also my great-uncle (Thomas V. Fowler, born in England), and so there ought to be some grains of truth in it. ¹