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An Account of Some of the Descendants of John Russell, the Emigrant from Ipswich, England, who Came to Boston, New England, October 3, 1635, Together with Some Sketches of the Allied Families of Wadsworth, Tuttle, and Beresford (Google eBook)
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Rev. Samuel Russell, second son of the Rev. John and Rebecca (Newberry) Russell, born Nov. 4, 1660, graduated at Harvard in 1681.
After graduation, for a while he taught the grammar school
* Report of Record Commissioners, Boston, Births, 1700-1800, p. 7. t New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. XVI, p. 13. at Hadley. On the 12th of September, 1687, he was called to the pastorate of the church at Branford, Connecticut, and there he served for the remainder of his life. "He became the second father of the town. His ministry, peaceful and prosperous, was prolonged forty-four years, though he was disabled from preaching during the last six years of his life."
"Tradition makes it probable that the proposed meeting [for considering the establishing of Yale College] took place in the south parlor of the house of the Rev. Samuel Russel, and that the few then assembled, by engaging to give books from their scanty libraries as a nucleus of College property, constituted themselves the founders of the institution, and in this capacity presented their petition for a charter to the General Assembly the next week"* [second week of October, 1701]. He was one of the most active supporters of the project and became one of the trustees of the new college.
In May, 1699, he preached the election sermon and received the thanks of the General Assembly.
Rev. Samuel Russell married Abigail Whiting, born 1666, daughter of the Rev. John and Sybil (Collins) Whiting of Hartford, Connecticut.
He died June 25, 1731. His widow Abigail, died May 7, 1733.

* Yale Biographies and Annals, 1701-1745, F. B. Dexter, p. 2. f On the Branford First Church Records is entered the marriage, Nov. 15, 1744, of a Daniel Russell to Rebecca Foster.
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20 VI Jonathan born Aug 21, 1700
26 VII Ebenezer born May 04, 1703
27 VIII Ithiel bapt May 1705
28 IX Mary bapt February, 1708


John Russell, eldest son of the Rev. Samuel and Abigail (Whiting) Russell was born January 24, 1687, graduated at Yale in its first class, that of 1704, and lived in Branford, Connecticut, where he was one of its most influential citizens. He was town clerk for more than twenty years, justice of the peace for nearly thirty years, and deputy to the General Assembly for forty-five sessions, serving as speaker of the lower house in 1751.
He rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Militia, and was for the last twenty-four years of his life a deacon of the First Church in Branford. He married December 17, 1707, Sarah Trowbridge, born November 26, 1686, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Winston) Trowbridge of New Haven, Connecticut, who died January 23, 1761. He died
06 John b. Sept 13 1710
11 Thomas b. Sept 15, 1712
12 Sarah b. Sept 24, 1715
13 Abigail b. Dec 24 1717
14 Mary b. Sept 12 1720
15 Rebecca B. Feb 06 1723



John Russell, eldest son of John and Sarah (Trowbridge) Russell, born September 13, 1710, married October 11, 1732, Mary Barker, daughter of Edmund Barker. He died March 13, 1751, and his widow married (2) July 25, 1753, John Tully " Esqr.," of Saybrook, Connecticut, by whom she had two Children:
Maverick, b. June 10, 1754,
d. Sept. 26, 1754.

Sarah, b. Oct. 11, 1757.
Married Feb. 6,1783, Samuel Tully.

Children Of John And Mary (barker) Russell.
7 I Edward, b. Aug. 19, 1733.
8 II John, b. Oct. 10, 1736.
III Mary, b. April 28, 1739.
IV Thomas, b. July 4, 1742,
bur. Aug. 28, 1742.
9 V Thomas, b. July 31, 1743. 10 VI Joseph, b. Dec. 14, 1746. .
VII Ebenezer, b. Dec. 26, 1747.
Married Sept. 13, 1769, Elizabeth Stark.
VIII Rutherford, bapt. Mar. 26, 1749,

bur. Sept. 5, 1749.
IX Abigail, bapt. July 29, 1750,

bur. Aug. 26, 1750. X Orphana, b. Sept. 18,1751.
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Jonathan married Barker, Eunice on 12 Dec 1722 in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut. Eunice was born on 2 Jun 1703 in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut; died in Aug 1787. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]