Rust, Manley T.
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Mandley Taylor Rust was born on 4 May 1795 on the family farm called Willow Hill in Loudoun County. Mandley was the son of Mathew Rust and Martha Triplett. Mandley married Sarah Chilton on 12 September 1816 with Methodist minister John Littlejohn officiating. The couple had four children. Rust owned at least one enslaved man, named Jacob, whom he sold to James Steward on 11 February 1824. Mandley T. Rust died on 22 May 1839 on his farm in Lovettsville. Rust’s will suggests that he was of better than middling wealth as shown through his collection of silver cups and a silver watch.
Rust started a business partnership with Eli Offutt based in Leesburg sometime before 1816. The partnership was dissolved on 25 March 1817. An announcement of the dissolution in the Genius of Liberty newspaper included a warning that the partners were demanding payment of debts owed them. Rust and Offutt brought a series of lawsuits against their debtors following the dissolution. Upon the death of Stevens T. Mason Jr., Rust collected a fifty dollar debt from Mason’s estate. Rust and Offutt also received sixty-four dollars and nine cents from Mason’s estate on 19 February 1818. After the death of Hugh Douglas, the Mason family, as the administrators of Douglas’s will, settled his two hundred dollar debt to Rust and Offutt on 10 March 1819.
By Tyler Dicembrino
