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2. Moses Warren, born January 29, 1827, died November 5, 1852: married, April 24, 1851, Isabel L. Tucker, born at Medford,
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Massachusetts, daughter of Ambrose and Elizabeth B. (Shed) Tucker. She married (second), Frost.
3. Child, born May 8, 1828, died May II, 1828.
4. James Otis, born May 26, 1829, died De- cember 9, 1906; married (first) ) at East Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, November 2, 1851, Susan Celina Bennett, daughter of William Symmes and Susan Elizabeth (Russell) Ben- nett; she died November 2, 1893, aged sixty- one years three months and three days; mar- ried (second) at Boston, Massachusetts, July 23, 1896, Mrs. Gustavus (Simonson) Weberg. Children: i. Harriet Celina, born December 25, 1854; married October 28, 1880, Benjamin F. Kimball, of Woburn. ii. Martha Elizabeth, born October 20, 1859; married, February 7, 1888, Orville Thomas Curtis, of Woburn. iii. Annie Laurie, born February 4, 1862 ; married March 6, 1890, Frank L. Perry. iv. William Warren, born September 13, 1864; married (first) June 28, 1893, Mary F. McLane, who died at Troy, New York, November II, 1894, daughter of William D. and Susan W. Mc- Lane ; married (second) June 29, 1898, Alice Jeeves.
5. Mary, born November 4, 1830, died Feb- ruary 19, 1894, married, July II, 1850, Lewis Shaw, of Roxbury, Massachusetts, who died at Woburn, February 21, 1879, aged sixty-five years. Children: i. Edward L. (Shaw), born June 4, 1853, died September 18, 1891 ; mar- ried February 18, 1875, Nellie S. Thompson, of Woburn. ii. Charles Clifford (Shaw), born April 7, 1858; married Carrie N. Wheelock, of Clinton, Massachusetts. iii. John Warren (Shaw), born December 22, 1869.
6. Martha, born April 22, 1832, died June 28, 1857; married April 26, 1852, Parker Eaton, of Woburn; children: i. Nathan Wy- man (Eaton), born November 16, 1855, mar- ried, November 16, 1878, Nellie Thompson, of Sanford, Maine.
7. Eustace, born April 22, 1834, see for- ward.
8. John Hartwell, born December 21, 1837, died at Woburn, September 9, 1888; married, June 28, 1865, Martha B. Smith, of Lexington, Massachusetts, children: i. Ida Frances, born August 5, 1866, married, April 23, 1900, Wal- ter F. Lowell, of Somerville, Massachusetts. ii. Harriet, born March 13, 1874, died August 16, 1874.
9. Everett, born November 7, 1838; mar- ried (first) Delia R. Evans, of Woburn, who died April 29, 1874, aged thirty-two years,
and married (second) September 28, 1875, Clara E. Farrington, of Boston, Massachu- setts. Children by first wife: i. Marcia Frances, born July 25, 1869 ; married, October II, 1892, Edward Billings Sullivan. ii. Mary Bertha, born August 6, 1870; married, Octo- ber 16, 1893, George H. Taylor, of Woburn. iii. Delia Edna, born August 29, 1872 ; married June 6, 1893, Dan Louis Smith. Children by second wife: iv. Morton Everett, born Sep- tember 14, 1876. v. Alfred N., born January 28, 1878, died young.
IO. Adeline, born May 10, 1840; married, November 27, 1862, Griffin Place, of Woburn. Child: i. Everett Griffin (Place), born Octo- ber 10, 1863, died May 2, 1899; married, No- vember 22, 1886, Alice G. Dow, of Woburn.
(VIII) Eustace Cummings, son of Moses Cummings (7), born at Woburn, April 22, 1834; married (first) January 1, 1854, Ange- line Moore, born at Cambridgeport, Massa- chusetts, died at Woburn, December 15, 1863, daughter of Clark and Mary J. Moore, of Cambridge, Massachusetts ; married (second) July 18, 1866, Susan C. Scott, of Woburn, born at Charlestown, Vermont, died at Wo- burn, November 28, 1866, aged twenty-five years and seven months, daughter of Darius and Lucy Goodwin, married (third), July, 1867, Mrs. Ellen (French) Hill, of Exeter, New Hampshire, born March 6, 1846.
Eustace Cummings was educated in the common schools of Woburn. He learned the trade of tanner and currier in his father's shop at North Woburn. In 1857 he was admitted as a partner in the leather concern of Shaw- Taylor & Company, at North Woburn, where he remained for a few years. He then pur- chased a shop on Fourth street, Woburn, and started in the leather business there, having as partner Griffin Place, who remained with him a short time. Later his brother Everett Cum- mings was with him for awhile, and then he took as a partner his brother John Hartwell Cummings, who was a member of the concern until his death in 1888; then for a few years his son-in-law William H Bowers had an in- terest in the business. After Mr. Bowers retired from the concern Mr. Cummings admitted his son, Edward Haven Cummings, as a partner, and in the fall of 1903 his son- in-law, John Swain Jaquith, was admitted to the firm, and the name of the firm was changed to the E. Cummings Leather Company, with Eustace Commings as president, John Swain Jaquith as treasurer, and Edward Haven Cum- mings as secretary. Children by first wife:
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I. Wilber Eustace, born January 16, 1855; married (first),' November 9, 1881, L. Kath- erine Smith, of Woburn, and (second), 1894, Minnie Moody; resides at Los Angeles, Cal- ifornia. Children by first wife: i. Grace Agnes, born December 16, 1882 ; married, June IO, 1903, Leonard M. Fowle, of Woburn. ii. Helen E., born October 25, 1885. iii. Arthur E., born September 15, 1888. iv. Lester A., born July 3, 1890, died January 16, 1892.
2. Angeline Ella, born December 18, 1858, married November 27, 1879, William H. Bow- ers, of Woburn, who died April 27, 1893. After the death of her husband Mrs. Bowers removed to Los Angeles, California ; children : i. Isabel May (Bowers), born March 6, 1882. ii. Chester Herbert (Bowers), born March 6, 1887; iii. Evelyn Cummings (Bowers), born January 24, 1891. iv. William Sidney (Bow- ers), born October 12, 1894.
3. Jennie Isabel, born October 15, 1859; married, January 12, 1882, William E. Sprague, of Stoneham, Massachusetts.
4. Albert Moses, born November 17, 1861, died December 12, 1893.
5. George E., born December 15, 1863, died April 18, 1864.
Children by third wife :
6. Grace Mayland, born March 10, 1870, died January 30, 1898; was educated at Wellesley College, class of '91; a brilliant student and singer ; sung in home church for years, was of great help to her father because of her rare business ability.
7. Edward Haven, born February 25, 1874, see forward.
8. Ethel Rogers, born January 1, 1880; mar- ried, October 9, 1901, John Swain Jaquith, of Woburn; children: i. Eleanor Frances, born at Woburn, April 12, 1903. ii. Grace Cum- mings, born at Thetford, Vermont, July 8, 1906.
(IX) Edward Haven Cummings, son of Eustace Cummings (8), born at Woburn, Feb- ruary 25, 1874; married, January 6, 1897, Louise Adeline Simonds, born at Woburn, August 20, 1874, daughter of George and Ellen (Wade) Simonds, of Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
Edward Haven Cummings was educated in the public schools of Woburn and the Mitchell Boys' School at Billerica, Massachusetts, and also at Ricker and Bradford's Commercial School at Boston. He then entered the employ of his father, Eustace Cummings, and spent about three years in learning the tanner's trade. He then entered the business office of
the firm at No. 67 South street, Boston, and after a few years there returned to the Wo- burn factory, taking charge of the manufac- ture. Later he was admitted as a partner with his father on the retirement of William H. Bowers, and continued one of the partners, the firm name being changed to E. Cummings Leather Company, of which corporation he is the secretary and a director. The concern transacts a large tanning and currying busi- ness, disposing of their product in the Boston and European markets. Their plant, which is located on Fowle street, Woburn, has a floor space of twenty thousand square feet, and they employ about sixty workmen.
Mr. Cummings is a member of the Congre- gational church of Woburn, and a Republican in politics. Children : I. Eustace Haven, born at Winthrop, Massachusetts, October 21, 1898. 2. Grace Mayland, born at Woburn, May 15, 1902, died August 30, 1902. 3. Ed- ward Stanleigh, born at Woburn, November 13, 1904. 4. Helen Frances, born December 18, 1907, at Woburn.
William Russell, immigrant RUSSELL ancestor of a large family of this surname in Cambridge, Charlestown, Arlington, Lexington, Woburn, Massachusetts, and vicinity, was doubtless born in England. He settled in 1636 in Cam- bridge, and lived there until his death, Feb- ruary 14, 1661-2. He was a carpenter by trade. He was one of the proprietors of Cam- bridge in 1645. His wife Martha joined the Cambridge church. She married, second, March 24, 1665, Humphrey Bradshaw, and third, Thomas Hall. Russell died February 14, 1661-2. Children: I. Joseph, born in Eng- land, 1626. 2. Benjamin. 3. Phebe, born 1642. 4. John, born September II, 1645. 5. Martha. 6. Philip, born 1650. 7. Thomas. 8. William, born April 28, 1655. 9. Jason, born November 14, 1658. 10. Joyce, born 1660, baptized May 31. These children were probably not by the same mother, and are not supposed to be in correct order.
(II) Joseph Russell, son of William R'us- sell (1), was born in England, in 1626. The records give his age as ten when he came with his mother in 1636; he gave his age as twenty-five in 1651. He died 1694. His will was dated November 14, and filed December 17, 1694. He bought of Thomas Danforth six acres in 1674. He had numerous tracts of land. He married, June 23, 1662, Mary
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Belcher, daughter of Jeremiah Belcher, of Ipswich. She died June 24, 1691. Children, born at Cambridge: I. Mary, born 1664, bap- tized January 8, 1664-5. 2. Martha, born 1666; died February 1, 1691. 3. Abigail, born May 30, 1670; married Nathaniel Hancock. 5. Joseph, born July 15, 1673. 6. Walter, born April 30, 1676, mentioned below. 7. Maria, born November 28, 1678; married Thomas Prentice. 8. Jeremiah, born January 21, 1680-1. 9. John, born July 13, 1683. 10. Samuel, born August 9, 1685.
(III) Walter Russell, son of Joseph Rus- sell (2), was born in Cambridge, Massachu- setts, April 30, 1676, and died March 30, 1748. He settled in Menotomy, (Arlington). Dur- the last twenty years of his life he lived in Charlestown. He married Mary Patten, May 17, 1689, and second, April 3, 1706, Elizabeth Winship, who died April 14, 1750, aged sixty- four years. His sons Walter, Samuel and Hubbard sold their rights in his estate to their brother Daniel. Children, born in Menotomy : I. Joseph, born August 25, 1703, mentioned below. 2. Mary, born February 8, 1706-7; married John Dixon. 3. Walter, born 1709; died 1763. 4. Martha, born January 27, 1711-12; married John Wilson. 5. Jeremiah, born 1713-14. 6. Elizabeth, born 1715; mar- ried Mathew Cox. 7. Edward, baptized August 10, 1718. 8. Edward, baptized Octo- ber 15, 1721. 9. Samuel, baptized Feb- ruary 9, 1723-4. 10. Daniel, born May 5, 1728. II. Hubbard, baptized August 22, I731.
(IV) Joseph Russell, son of Walter Rus- sell (3), was born in Menotomy, Massachu- setts, August 25, 1703, and died November 13, 1776. He was well educated, and when a young man taught school, about 1724. He lived on the farm in the north side of the main road in Menotomy until September, 1730, when he removed to the west border of Charlestown, now Somerville, on the road to Winter Hill. He was taxed in Charlestown from 1729 to 1770. His will was made No- vember 9, 1776, and filed November 25, 1776. He married October 9, 1724, Mary Robbins, who died December 28, 1781, aged eighty years. The family is buried at West Cam- bridge. Children: I. Mary, born March 9, 1726-7. 2. Lucy, baptized March 16, 1728-9, died young. 3. Lucy, baptized January 17, I730-I. 4. Patten, baptized January 28, 1732-3. 5. Walter born January 24, 1737, mentioned below. 6. Mary, baptized April 22, 1739, died young. 7. Philemon, born August
I, 1740. 8. Mary, born May 20, 1743; died October 16, 1762.
(V) Walter Russell, son of Joseph Russell (4), was born at Charlestown, Massachusetts, January 24, 1737; died March 5, 1782. He was taxed in 1756, and from 1761 to 1773 at Charlestown. He owned much real estate in and about Charlestown. He was a soldier in the Revolution, in the company of Captain John Parker, of Lexington, in 1775 ; in the company of Captain John Bridges, regiment of Colonel Eleazer Brooks, in 1776, and in Captain Na- than Smith's company, Colonel Jacobs's regi- ment, 1778. His widow was appointed admin- istratrix of his estate and guardian of their children in 1782. He married December 14, 1758, Mary Wyman, who died December I, 1760, aged twenty-three years. Her grave is at Arlington. He married second, December 17, 1761, Hannah Adams, who married sec- ond, Enos Jones, of Ashburnham. She died October 17, 1836, aged ninety-three years. Children : I. James, born April 17, 1763. 2. Walter, born May 3, 1765. 3. Thomas, born June 9, 1767. 4. Hannah, born February 8, 1772 ; married Isaac Hall. 5. Nathaniel, born April 5, 1774. 6. John, born August 29, 1776. 7. Joseph, born March 15, 1779. And per- haps others.
(VI) James Russell, son of Walter Rus- . sell (5), was born at Charlestown, Massachu- setts, April 17, 1763. He resided at Menotomy, and had a pew in the church there. He was a farmer, assuming a man's share of the work and responsibilities on the death of his father. He was twelve years old at the time of the battle of Bunker Hill. The day of the battle he and a younger brother drove to Salem with a load of green peas and sold the produce, but the boys were held up by British soldiers at the spot now known as Medford Square, in Medford, and ordered to help carry the dead and wounded from the battle field. The boys had no liking for the dreadful work, and seized an opportunity to make their escape. He was at one time a licensed inn-holder. He married, March 6, 1783, Rebecca Adams. Children : I. Walter, born in year 1783; married Rebecca Hill. 2. Rebecca, born July 31, 1785; married Amos Whittemore. 3. James, born January 14, 1788. 4. William Adams, born May 14, 1790, mentioned below. (VII) William Adams Russell, son of James Russell (6), was born at Charlestown, Massachusetts, May 14, 1790. During his youth he attended the district schools, and helped his father with the farm-work. He and
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his brother remained on the homestead. For many years he and his father used to find occupation also in the alewive fishing in the brook that ran through the Russell farm. The industry became profitable. The fish were cured and shipped south to be used as food on the southern plantations. He acquired a competence, and in his later years did a con- siderable banking business, lending money, etc. He died January 2, 1856. He was a Univer- salist in religion and a Democrat in politics. He formerly belonged to Hiram Lodge of Free Masons of Lexington, Massachusetts, but during the anti-Masonic movement the lodge surrendered its charter and he ceased to be a member. He enlisted in the war of 1812, and marched to camp in Boston, but there was little actual service by Massachusetts troops in that war, and he was in no engage- ment. He received a grant of one hundred and sixty acres of land, which afterward his son George had. When his father died a third of the farm came to him as his share, and he bought the other two-thirds.
He married Keziah Teel, born February 28, 1794, daughter of Benjamin and Rhoda Teel, of Charlestown. Her father was a farmer. Children, born at Charlestown: I. William Adams, Jr., born May 2, 1811, mentioned be- low. 2. Keziah, born October 11, 1813; mar- ried Anthony Hatch, of Medford. 3. Re- becca, born February 3, 1815; died February II, 1815. 4. James, born January 6, 1816; died January 5, 1838. 5. Lucretia T., born July 25, 1819; married Uriah Carr, of New Hampshire. 6. John Quincy Adams, born February 2, 1822; died in California. 7. Re- becca, born July 16, 1824; married George Stearns, of West Cambridge. 8. Charles Henry, born June 28, 1828; died December IO, 1884. 9. Walter, born September 10, 1831 ; died December 25, 1831. 10. Harriet, born March 9, 1834; died March 12, 1834. II. Caroline, born March 9, 1834 (twin), died April 8, 1834. 12. George, born June 22, 1836, mentioned below.
(VIII) William Adams Russell, son of William Adams Russell (7), was born at Charlestown, May 2, 18II. He attended the common schools, and helped his father on the farm in his boyhood. His father and his brothers and he followed the alewives fishery on the farm, the profits at times amounting to more than a hundred dollars a day. At the age of twenty-eight he bought his farm at Medford. Part of his farm was included in Winchester when that town was
set off of Medford. He followed garden farming the rest of his life. He speculated also very successfully in real estate and made money rapidly.,
He was a Universalist in religion. For- merly a Democrat in politics, he was in later years a Republican. He trained in the mili- tia, and rose to the rank of captain in the Charlestown company. He was a man of unusual ability, upright, honorable in his deal- ings, and highly esteemed by his townsmen.
He married Harriet Hill, daughter of David and Betsey (Adams) Hill, of West Cam- bridge, Massachusetts. Children: I. Harriet Jane, born March 30, 1839; resides on the old homestead. 2. Mary Elizabeth, born April 25, 1840, lives on the old homestead. 3. George Hill, born October 1, 1842. 4. James William, born October 18, 1844; married No- vember 5, 1874, Ella L. Symmes, of Winches- ter ; children : i. Alice Symmes, born Septem- ber 15, 1875; married, June, 1905, Alfred H. Hildreth, of Cambridge ; ii. Fred Adams; born March 17, 1877 ; married November 14, 1906, Mary L. Prentice, of New York; iii. James William Jr., born September 19, 1878; mar- ried December 31, 1901, Charlotte Lowell Skillings, of Winchester ; child : Lincoln Low- ell, born October 5, 1904; iv. Bertha Louise, born February 7, 1884. 5. Edward, born April IO, 1848, mentioned below. 6. David, born February 4, 1852; married Mrs. Agnes (Whiteside) Condon, of Boston.
(IX) Edward Russell, son of William Adams Russell (8), was born at Medford, Massachusetts, April 10, 1848. He received his education in the public and high schools of his native town. He worked at home on the farm during his boyhood and until he was twenty-four years old, when he went to work for his uncle Walter Rus- sell, in Arlington, as salesman in his pro- duce business. He was subsequently em- ployed for three years by Varnum Frost, at Belmont, in a similar position. In 1878 he removed to Winchester, buying the Carlton farm of eighty acres there of John D. Carlton. He added to this farm from time to time until at present he has a hundred and forty acres of the best land in the vicinity. He makes a specialty also of market gardening for the Boston market. He has been successful with various investments, particularly with railroad stocks and real estate. Mr. Russell is a Re- publican in politics. He was formerly a mem- ber of Bethel Lodge, No. 12, of Odd Fellows, Arlington. He is a member of the Boston
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Market Gardeners' Association, and the Calu- met Club of Winchester. He was a member of Lawrence Light Guard, Company E, Fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia for four years, 1868 to 1872, at Medford.
He married, January 4, 1879, Mrs. Mary (Rooney) Hodge, of Woburn; and second, April 28, 1897, Minnie L. Mulligan, born March 30, 1871, daughter of James and Bridget Mulligan. Her father was a sales- man. Children of Edward and Mary Russell : I, Harriet Hill, born March 25, 1879, teacher at Charlton City, Massachusetts, public schools. 2. Elizabeth Adams, born January 5, 1881 ; married to Charles Chapman, June 29, 1907. 3. Clara Rebecca, born August 4, 1882; stenographer, Boston. 4. Gracie May, born June 29, 1885, died October 21, 1886. 5. Ethel Jane, born September 21, 1888, lives at home. Children of Edward and Minnie L. Russell. 6. Martha Louise, born March 30, 1898. 7. Esther, born June 17, 1901. 8. Margaret, born February 19, 1905, died Jan- uary 3, 1908.
(VIII) George Russell, son of William Adams Russell (7), was born at Charlestown, Massachusetts, June 22, 1836. He was edu- cated there in the district schools, and by pri- vate study. During his youth he worked on the farm when not at school, and later he drove a wagon to Boston to market his father's produce. In 1856 he started in the produce business on his own account, raising produce on the same farm with his father. After the death of his parents he carried on the farm until 1875, when he removed to his present residence in Woburn, Massachusetts. He bought the old Henry Parker farm, compris- ing seventy-five acres in the western part of the town, and added to the place by purchase until he had about one hundred acres. He is a part owner of the old homestead also. Mr. Russell has one of the most extensive and profitable market gardens of the vicinity, raising all kinds of vegetables for the Boston market, and keeping his wagons on the road with produce most of the time. He is a Uni- versalist in religion, and a Republican in poli- tics. He has been elected warden of his dis- trict many years, and often served his party as delegate to nominating conventions. He was formerly a member of Hiram Lodge of Free Masons, of Arlington, and of the Royal Arch Chapter there. He was a member of the Boston Market Gardeners' Association, and of Company E, Fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, of which he was lieutenant
four years. He enjoys to an unusual degree the confidence and esteem of his neighbors and townsmen.
He married, February 26, 1857, Betsey Fi- delia Parker, who was born June 7, 1836, daughter of Frederick and Nabby (Thomp- son) Parker, of Woburn, Massachusetts. Her father was also a farmer. Children: I. Em- ma. Thompson, born December 14, 1857 ; mar- ried February 26, 1879, Charles H. Harts- horn, of Medford ; child : Edith Russell Harts- horn, born August 5, 1879; died August 5, 1880. 2. Carrie, born October 19, 1861 ; mar- ried June 1, 1888, Charles Edward Suther- land, of Woburn. 3. Josie, born September 19, 1863; married December 30, 1889, Charles F. Speare, of Woburn; children: Alice Josie, born March 29, 1891; Marion R., born June 5, 1893. 4. George Parker, born August 29, 1868; married April 12, 1893, Josie H. Winn; children : i. Lois W., born February 26, 1895; died April 26, 1895 ; ii. Winn, born November 22, 1896; iii. Fred, born June 17, 1898. 5. William Adams, born June 9, 1874; married November 8, 1898, Elsie R. Remington.
(IX) George Parker Russell, son of George and Betsey Fidelia (Parker) Russell, was born at Somerville, Massachusetts, Aug- ust 29, 1868. He entered the public schools, where he remained until ten years of age, when he removed with his parents to Wo- burn, Massachusetts, where he completed his schooling in the Cummings and Cambridge street schools, at sixteen years of age. He assisted his father on the farm and continued with him at market gardening until twenty- five years of age, when he rented the farm of his father and conducted the business in his own interest for five years. In 1898 he removed to Winchester, where he rented the Windmere farm and conducted market gar- dening for three years. In the meantime (1900) he purchased the old Johnson place in the east portion of Woburn, later known as the Draffin place, consisting of forty acres. He built three extensive greenhouses with an area of ten thousand square feet of cultivating space, and there makes a specialty of market produce during the summer season and a spe- cialty of violets in winter, both going to the Boston market. Mr. Russell has also about eighteen thousand square feet of sashbed space in connection with his regular green- houses. He sends his produce regularly each day to Boston, and his farm is one of the finest in the eastern portion of Woburn. He also purchased the old Abbott place, but later sold
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it to Dobbins Brothers. He is a man of strict temperance habits, devoted to his business in- terests, and a hard worker, which is shown in the many improvements he has made since establishing his plant. He is a Unitarian in religion and a Republican in politics.
Mr. Russell married, April 21, 1892, Jose- phine Harriet Winn, of Burlington, Massa- chusetts, born May 14, 1872, daughter of Wil- liam and Elizabeth (Pollock) Winn, of Bur- lington, the former a farmer. Their children : Lois W., born February 26, 1895, died April 26, 1895; Winn, born November 22, 1896; Fred, born June 17, 1898.
(For first generation see William Russell, I).
(II) John Russell, son of
RUSSELL William Russell (I), was born in Cambridge, Septem-
ber II, 1645. He married Elizabeth Fiske, daughter of David Fiske (I), a wheel- wright of Cambridge and Watertown, who was born in England. Fiske was admitted a freeman, March 16, 1637-38; was a town offi- cer and juror ; deposed April 1, 1672, that he was about forty-nine years old; died about 1662. John and Elizabeth Russell were both living in 1731. Children : I. Martha, born August 1, 1675, died November 7, 1675. 2. David, mentioned below. 3. Jonathan, "died at Harvard, December 22, 1777, at an ad- vanced age." 4. William. 5. Abigail, born April 18, 1686. 6. Patience, born May 27, 1688. 7. Esther, born December 19, 1690.
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