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(Il) Matthew, fifth son of the immigrant. John Libbey, and his wife. Agnes, was born in Scar- borough. Maine, in 1663, and died in March. 1741. In 1600 he went to Portsmouth and thence to Kit- tery, in the winter of 1600-1700. There he built a house of hewed timber, the upper story of which projected over the lower one so as to afford protec- tion against Indians in case they attempted to set fire to or break into the house, the projecting upper story having openings so that the inmates could shoot down those below without exposing them- selves. In that house, which stood for nearly one hundred years, he lived until his death. Some time before the second organization of the town of Scar- borough he, with Roger Deering, John Libbey and Roger Hunnewell, went down to Black Point and built a saw mill on Nonesuch river. His interest in that mill he afterwards gave to his three sons, Wil- liam. John and Andrew. It is not probable that he operated the mill long himself. He married Eliza- beth Brown. daughter of Andrew Brown, one of the principal inhabitants of Black Point. She survived him two or three years. Both were buried in the
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family burying ground where repose the remains of five generations of their descendants, their graves marked by rough stones. They had fourteen chil- dren. the first six born in Scarborough and Ports- mouth, and the remainder in Kittery. They were : William, Matthew, Mary. Rebecca, Hannah, John, Andrew, Sarah, Nathaniel, Dorcas, Samuel, Mehit- able. Lydia and Elizabeth.
(III) Lieutenant Andrew. seventh child and fourth son of Matthew and Elizabeth (Brown) Libbey, was born in Kittery, now Eliot, Maine, De- cember 1, 1700, and died in Scarborough, January 5. 1773. He returned to Scarborough and became one of the largest farmers in the town, but took no part in public office holding. He was interested in hav- ing the youth of the town instructed, and in 1743 was one of a committee of three, chosen "to get a schoolmaster." It is not known that he was in actual service in the French war, but from 1745 until his death he was known as Lieutenant Andrew Lib- bey. At his death he left a good property. He mar- ried (first) Esther Furber, daughter of Jethro Fur- ber. of Newington. New Hampshire. He and she were members of the Congregational Church. She died October 1. 1756, and during the next year he married Eleanor (Libby) Trickey, who outlived him and died September 27, 1781. His eleven children, all by the first wife, were: Andrew. Joshua, Eliza- beth. Henry, Abigail, Joseph, Daniel, Edward. Sarah. Esther and Simon.
(IV) Andrew (2), eldest child of Lieutenant Andrew (I) and Esther (Furber) Libbey, was born in Scarborough, February 13. 1732. and died in Gray. February 21, 1801. He settled. first, in the interior of the town on land adjoining his brother Joshua : There he lived until 1789, when, with his four youngest sons, who were all that then remained with his family, he moved to Gray "to settle his boys." and resided on Dution Hill the remainder of his life. He married, November 16. 1755, Miriam Burns, who was born on the passage of her parents from Ireland to this country. She died March 13. 1827. at the advanced age of ninety years. They had eleven children : Elizabeth, Anna. Esther. William. Jane. Rebecca, Mary, Andrew, Joseph, David and Simon.
(V) Andrew (3), eighth child and second son of Andrew (2) and Miriam (Burns) Libbey, was born in Scarborough, May 27, 1771. He was a farmer. and owned and occupied four different places in Gray. In his old age he and his wife. whose maiden name was Sarah Cummings, went to live with their son Elias, in Windham, and there they both died. she February 21, and he March 31, 1855. They had eight children: Christiana, Elias. Ebenezer Cobb, Joseph, Esther, Lucinda, Charlotic and Lucy.
(VI) Elias. second child and eldest son of An- drew (3) and Sarah ( Cummings) Libbey, was born in Gray. Maine, November 4. 1796. He removed to Windham when a young man, and in 1822 settled on the farm on which he ended his life. May 29. 1869. He was industrious and added to his prop- erty, and among other improvements built a brick house on his farm. He married, April 8, 1821. Eliza- beth Hawkes, of Windham, who was born July 27. 1705. and died October 17. 1878. They had nine children, all born in Windham. They were: Ebe- nezer H., born May 9. 1822: Andrew. February 22, 1824: Elihu, see forward; Sarah P., July 29, 1828: Albert Mitchell, August 27. 1830: Lydia L., March 13. 1833: Daniel C., March 16, 1835: Rebecca H., March 28 IS37; and Hannah A., March 29, 1838.
(VII) Elihu, third son and child of Elias and Elizabeth (Hawkes) Libbey, was born in Windham, January 30, 1826. He was educated in the common schools, and after leaving them he taught school and worked in saw mills. for ten years. In 1861 he went to Gorham. New Hampshire, and bought an interest in the Gorham Lumber Company, and later became a member of the firm of E. Clement & Company. They owned mills in Gorham and in Portland, Maine. and about 1887 Mr. Libbey sold his interest in the lumber industry and bought the entire Gor- ham concern, and operated it under the name of E. Libbey. When his sons took an interest in the busi- ness the title of the firm became E. Libbey & Sons. In 1903 the concern became a stock company under the style of E. Libbey & Sons' Company, Elihu Libbey, president : Walter C. Libbey, vice-president ; and Charles C. Libbey, secretary and treasurer. This company now operates four mills at. Gorham and vicinity and a soft pine board mill at Bartlett. Mr. Libbey is an energetic and successful man and a leading citizen. He has served as first selectman one year. He is a deacon in the Gorham Congrega- tional Church, of which he has been a member since its formation. He is a member of Lodge No. 54. Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Gorham. He married, September 30. 1855, Elizabeth M .. daughter of John and Huldah (Maxwell) Elliot. of Windham. They have four sons: Walter C .. born October 21, 1856: Alna B., April 30. 1859: Charles C., July 1, 1861, and Eugene W., October 5, 1868.
The Russells of New England come
RUSSELL of distinguished English ancestors. The family relation of those of the
name who arrived in America in the first half of the seventeenth century is not clearly established. but there is reason to believe that they all were of the same general family on the other side of the At- lantic ocean. The first of the name to reach New England is supposed to have been the Hon. Richard Russell, who was a son of Paul Russell, of Here- ford, England. Richard was born in 1611, appren- ticed at Bristol, England, in 1628, and arrived at Boston in 1640, with his wife, and both received admission to the church in Charlestown. Massachu- setts, in 1611. "This line of Russells," says Wy- man. "was eminent in social station and distin- guished in multifarious public service for nearly two centuries." The Hon. Richard was a merchant, representative, councillor, speaker, treasurer and as. sistant. He married (first), Mary Pitt and (second) Mary Chester. In early Charlestown history men tion is made of one Thomas Russell, a merchant who is referred to as of some relation to Hon. Richard, and who was admitted to the church in Charlestown in 1675-6. This Thomas married Pru- dence Chester and had three children.
(I) William Russell, of Cambridge, Massachi- setts, had a. "lot in stinted pasture" in 1656, besides other lands, nine acres bought in 1659 of R. Lowden. and three and a half acres bought in the same year from Ann Frothingham. Little else is known of this William or of his antecedents or subsequent life. except that he married Martha -, .who after his death married H. Bradshaw, and after him Thomas Hall. William Russell died February 14, 1661-62, leaving children-Joseph, Benjamin, Phebe. John. Martha, Philip. Thomas, William, Jason and Joyce. (Mention of Philip and descendants ap- pears in this article).
(II) Joseph, first son and child of William and Martha Russell, was of Cambridge, Massachusetts,
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and married, June 23. 1662. Mary Belcher. His will was admitted to probate in 1694, and his property, which was inventoried at the value of two hundred and seventy-four pounds, was divided among certain of his children. The issue of Joseph and Mary ( Belcher) Russell was: Mary, Martha, Abigail, Prudence, Joseph, Walter, Mariah, Jeremiah, John and Samuel.
(Il1) Walter, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, fifth son and second child of Joseph and Mary (Belcher) Russell, was taxed in Charlestown from 1727 to 1746, and his will, 1747, devised land to his wife and children, comprising nine acres and one hundred rods in Charlestown. Walter Russell married (first), Mary Patten, May 17, 1689, and (second), Eliza- beth Winship, April 3, 1706. She died April 1.4, 1750, aged sixty-four years. Walter died March 30, 1748. His children were : Joseph, Mary. Walter, Martha, Jeremiah, Elizabeth, Edward ( 1718), Ed- ward (1721), Samuel, Daniel and Hubbard.
(IV) Joseph, son of Walter and Elizabeth ( Win- ship) Russell, kept a school in 1724. and during the course of his life bought and sold considerable property in lands, which at his death was divided among his children according to the provisions of his will. Ilis wife whom he married October I, 1724, was Mary Robbins. and their children were: Patten, Walter and Philemon, besides others whose names are lost.
(V) Walter, son of Joseph and Mary (Robbins) Russell, was born January 24. 1737, and died March 5, 1782, at Menotomy, on the Charlestown side. Like his father, he too acquired many parcels of land and evidently was an extensive dealer, having many separate tracts at the time of his death. His estate was administered by his widow, with power of guardianship of all their children. Walter Rus- sell married (first), December 14. 1758. Mary Wy- man, who died December 1, 1760, at the age of twenty-three years according to the marks on her gravestone at Arlington. He married (second), December 17, 1761, Hannah Adams, and she after his death married Enos Jones. The children of Walter were: James, Walter, Thomas, Hannah, Na- thaniel. John, Joseph and others.
(V1) Walter, second son and child of Walter and Hannah (Adams) Russell, was born May 3. 1765, and died July 15, 1848. Besides the property which came to him from his father Walter acquired much land on his own account and must have been an extensive and probably successful dealer. lle lived at Arlington, Massachusetts, and was a
minute-man of the militia of his town, and was at the battle of Lexington, which was the beginning of the Revolutionary war. He married, June 26, 1788, Frances Cutter (perhaps Cutler), who died August 31, 1849. They had a family of twelve chil- dren, the names of all of whom are now unknown. but among them was a daughter Frances and a son Nahum.
(VI1) Nahum, son of Walter and Frances ( Cut- ter) Russell, was born probably at Arlington, Mas- sachusetts. and was one of the carly settlers in the town of Greenfield. New Hampshire, where he came in 1823. flc owned a tract of two hundred aeres of land on what is now known as Boylston street, and was a farmer and extensive cattle raiser. lle married Lucretia Johnson, and their children were: John, Nahum, George, Lucretia and William.
(VIII) Nahum, son of Nahum and Lucretia (Johnson) Russell, was born in Charlestown (now Somerville), Massachusetts, November 9, 1816, and
was a boy of seven years when his parents removed from that town to Greenfield, New Hampshire. For the time in which he lived Nahum Russell was a man of education and much prominence, and one of the most extensive farmers in the town. llis lands comprised six hundred acres and at time- his flock of sheep numbered as many as three hundred. IJis lands lay in part in each of the towns of Green- field, Francestown and Bennington, being located at the point where those towns adjoined each other, but his home was in Greenfield. In politics he was a Democrat and held various town offices, select- man a number of years and also representative to the state legislature. He married. February 20, 1839, Electa Rogers, and by her had children as fol- lows: John, who lived in Greenfield and is now dead; Elizabeth, who married John Gregg and died in Lowell, Massachusetts; Frank Edward, now liv- ing in Greenfield, and one other child who died in infancy.
(IX) Frank Edward, son of Nahum and Electa (Rogers) Russell, was born in Greenfield, New Hampshire, February 5, 1852, and was educated in the public schools of that town and Francestown Academy. His occupation in life is farming, and it is no idle compliment to say that he is one of the largest and best farmers in all Hillsborough county. Ilis dairy stock comprises from seventy to eighty cows, chiefly Ayrshires, and all of fine grade. The farm he occupies is the same previously owned hy his father, and its six hundred acres never have been less productive under the management of the son. Alr. Russell is a firm Democrat and has served as town supervisor and selectman. He is a member of Greenfield Grange, No. 23. Patrons of Husban- dry, and has held all the offices of that organization from gate-keeper to master, having served in the latter capacity four years. He married. July 4, 1875, Mary C., daughter of Benjamin and Eliza (Smith ) Pollard, of Greenfield, and has one son, Wilfred Russell, born January 17, 1882, married Helen Duke, of Plainfield. Vermont, February 27, 1907.
(Il) Philip, fourth son and sixth child of Wil- liam and Martha Russell, was born in 1650. His first wife and the mother of eight of his nine chil- dren was Joanna, daughter of Jame. Cutler. She was born in 1660, and married April 19, 1680, and died November 26, 1703. His second wife was Sarah Brooks, of Medford, Massachusetts, whom he married October 18, 1705. Ilndson's "History of Lexington, Massachusetts," says: "The name of Philip Russell is borne on our earliest parish and town records; and he appears to have enjoyed the confidence of the people, not only in the new set- tlement, but in the old town." Ile was a subscriber to the meetinghouse at the "Farms" in 1692, and on the committee to seat the same. lle was one of the selectmen of Old Cambridge in 1700-01. He died February 7. 1730. The children of Philip and Joanna (Cutler) Russell were: James, born about 1681; Joanna, born December 20. 1083. who became the second wife of William Munroe; William, men- tioned below; Philip, born September 18. 1688; Samuel, born January 12, 1690-01; Jemima, born 1692, married William Locke: Thomas, born July 3. 1698: Abigail. born September 11, 1700, married David Sprague, of Charlestown, Massachusetts; Sarah, the youngest child, who married Joseph Rus- sell on April 26, 1737, was probably the daughter of Philip Russell and his second wife. Sarah Brooks. (111) William, second son and third child of
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Philip and Joanna (Cutler) Russell, was born July 23, 1686. He held a commission as captain, and was constable in Lexington during 1722-23. 1-1 e
married Elizabeth and there are four chil- dren recorded : Nathaniel, Lydia and Submit, who were baptized from 1707 to 1712, and Joel. Joel
was born August 2, 1716, and married Huldah They lived in Littleton. Massachusetts, and later moved to Rindge, New Hampshire, where they died. It is probable that Philip and Joanna Russell had other children.
(IV) Nathaniel, eldest of the four recorded children of William and Elizabeth Russell, was baptized February 23, 1707. He married, probably in Lexington, Mara or Mary -- , and removed to Littleton, Massachusetts, about 1730. He was a lawyer of means and a leading citizen. As justice of the peace he joined many persons in matrimony. He was prominent in the affairs of the town, and held many offices. IIe died about 1763, and his wid- ow moved to Rindge, New Hampshire, where she lived with her son Nathaniel. Nathaniel, Sr., and Mara Russell had seven children: Abigail, born March 5. 1727, in Lexington; Isaac. born August 26, 1720, married Mary ; Nathaniel. born December 27, 1733, married Abigail Goldsmith, and moved to Rindge, New Hampshire; Elizabeth, born March 31, 1736; William, born March 4. 1737-38, married Lucy Goldsmith: Mary, born July 30, 1740; Josephi, mentioned below.
(V) Joseph, youngest of the seven children of Nathaniel and Mara Russell, was born May 16. 1743. He married, in Harvard, Massachusetts, July 12, 1768, Sarah Russell, who was born in 1743, and died March 10, 1813. Josephi Russell died December I, 1799. They had six children: Mary, or Mercy, born in Harvard, January 9, 1769, married Ephraim Munjoy, and died at New Ipswich, New Hampshire, about 1859, aged ninety years; Sarah, born in Har- vard, March 2, 1771, died young; Rufus, born in Littleton, June II. 1773; Reuben, born in Littleton, July 10, 1775; Betsey, born July 10, 1780; and Rox- anna, who died young.
(VI) Rufus, eldest son and third child of Joseph and Sarah (Russell) Russell, was born June 1I, 1773. He married at Mason, New Hampshire, No- vember 13, 1800, Esther, daughter of Thomas and Sarah ( Barrett) Tarbell. of Mason. She was born in Mason. August II, 1780, and.died in Keene. New Hampshire, September 1, 1863. He owned considerable land in the neighborhood of Marl- borough, and at one time he lived near Spofford Lake in Chesterfield, and owned the island on which he used to pasture his sheep. He was taxed in Chesterfield from 1809 to 1817, inclusive. The lat- ter part of his life he and his wife lived with their son Thomas, on the old Stephen Russell farm in the west part of Keene, where he died August 26, 1858. His widow outlived him five years. They had nine children: Matilda, born September 15. ISO1 : Saralı, born April 5. 1803; Thomas Tarbell, mentioned below ; Rufus, born September 13. 1807. died young ; Sally, born May 31. 1809; Delana. born July 31, 1812; George K., born December 29. 1814; Joseph, born August 31, 1819; Mary, born October 18, 1822.
(VII) Thomas Tarbell, eldest son and third child of Rufus and Esther (Tarbell) Russell. was born April 15, 1805, in Chesterfield, New Hamp- shire. Ile was a machinist by trade, and was en- ployed a short time in the armory at Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1835 he came to Keene and set-
tled on a farm in the west part of the town; the property still remains in the Russell family. He carried on a farm and had a contract for building a portion of the Cheshire railroad in that region. He dealt extensively in wood and timber lands. He died December 30, 1865. He married at Shelburne, Massachusetts, in 1832, Lucinda, daughter of Laban and Sarah (Tarbell) Lewis, of Chesterfield, New Hampshire. She was born at Lorraine, New York, January 9, 1812, and died at Keene, New Hamp- shire, July 13, 1887. They had eight children : George K., born November 27, 1833, died December 19, 1850; Thomas Tarbell, born April 25, 1835; Charles Lewis, mentioned below; Sarah J., born February 12, 1840, died December 19, 1901; Mary Esther, born March 23. 1842; Henry W., born Junie 16, 1844. died unmarried in Keene, New Hampshire, July 30, 1887; John R., born July 23, 1848; Ella Maria, born July 3, 1853.
(VIII) Charles Lewis, third son and child of Thomas and Lucinda (Lewis) Russell, was born January 24, 1838, in Keene, New Hampshire. He was educated in the common schools of Keene, and at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, New Hamp- shire. He farmed two summers in Tunbridge. Ver- mont, then moved to West Swanzey, New Hamp- shire, where he was engaged in the lumber business for a period of ten years. Next to farming the most important industry in Swanzey has been the working of pine into building material and wooden ware. There was a large quantity of superior. old growth pine in this region. In 1873 Mr. Russell engaged in the pail manufacturing business with Edwin F. Reed. After three years Mr. Reed sold his interest to George E. Whitcomb, and the firm name became C. L. Russell & Company. Thi- con- tinued up to May, 1898, when the plant was burned out with a loss of fifteen thousand dollars. About 1903 Mr. Russell built his present chair factory in Keene. the business being conducted under the firm name of C. L. Russell & Sons. From 1895 to 1900 he was interested in the box factory at West Swanzey. The firm was known as Snow & Russell. From 1885 to 1896 lie was engaged in the manufacture of brick at Keene. In politics Mr. Russell is a Dem- ocrat, and he belongs to the Masons. He was one of the founders of the Cheshire County Savings Bank and is member of its board of trustees. Charles L. Russell married at Keene, May 13, 1873, Mary M., daughter of Peter and Sarah Lyner Ennis, of Stoddard, New Hampshire. She was born Novem- ber 21, 1843. They have three children: Harry Lewis, born April 15, 1874; George Tarbell, born May 1, 1879; Grace Mabel, born July 9, 1881.
(Second Family ).
The name of Russell has ever been
RUSSELL distinguished in Massachusetts, and it is numerous in all the New Eng-
land states. Forty-seven of the family had been graduated at the various New England colleges as carly as 1826. In England the family is num- erous and notable. Lord John Russell, third son of the sixth Duke of Bedford, was Prime Minister in 1846-52 and 1865-66. The celebrated martyr, Lord William Russell, who was beheaded in Lincoln's Inn Fields, July 21. 1683. was a son of the first Duke of Bedford. George Russell, younger brother of the martyr, was in Boston in 1679, and was admitted freeman in 1680, but probably returned to London before the execution of his brother. In this connec- tion is may be of interest to mention Rev. John Russell. of Wethersfield, Connecticut, who was
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graduated at Ilarvard College in 1645, and was installed pastor of the church at Hladley, Massachu- setts, in 1659. It was in his house in Hadley that Whalley and Goffe, two of the regicides who sen- tenced Charles I to death, were for a long time concealed, and where they were supposed to have died. James Russell, of Charlestown, Massachu- setts, born in 1640, was a judge and treasurer of Massachusetts. Judge Chambers Russell, of the supreme court of Massachusetts, who graduated from Harvard in 1731. belongs to this branch of the family. There are many other notable Russells in the early history of the colonies, and nearly twenty of the name are found among the seventeenth century immigrants to New England.
(I) Robert Russell, born in England, in 1630, emigrated to this country and was in Andover, Massachusetts, before 1660. He lived in the neigh- boring town of Billerica for a short time, but the section of Andover known as the Scotland district seems to have been his permanent American home. Ile appears to have owned considerable land, lc- cause several deeds bearing his signature are still in existence. On July 6, 1659, Robert Russell mar- ried Mary Marshall, daughter of Thomas and Jo- anna (Marshall), of Lynn, Massachusetts, who was baptized in 1642. They had ten children. all born in Andover: Mary, Thomas, whose sketch follows. Robert, James, Joseph, Sarah, Benjamin, Hannalı, John and Elizabeth. Robert Russell died at An- clover, December 3, 1710, aged eighty years.
(II) Thomas, eldest son and second child of Robert and Mary ( Marshall) Russell, was born in 1663, at Andover, Massachusetts, and lived in that town all his life. His wife's name was Phebe, and she was probably the daughter of Thomas and Mary (Holt) Johnson. There were eleven chil- dren : Robert, Mehitable, Thomas, Phebe, Mary, Sarah, James, Peter, whose sketch follows; Joseph, Jemima and William. Thomas Russell died at Andover in 1731.
(III) Peter, fourth son and eighth child of Thomas and Phebe Russell, was born in Andover, Massachusetts, April 23, 1700. He was a farmer in that town until 1738, when he sold his land in Massachusetts and moved to Littlefield, New Hamp- shire. On March 31. 1727, Peter Russell married Deborah Crosby, daughter of Joseph and Sarah ( French) Crosby, of Billerica, Massachusetts, who was born July 13, 1709. There were thirteen chil- dren : Pelatiah, mentioned below ; Deborah, Rachel, Peter, Rebecca, Phebe, Peter, Deborah, Joseph, Ilan- nah, James, Sarah and Thomas. Of these children, the first Deborah and the first Peter died young, and Pelatiah died before his father. Peter Russell died in November, 1759, and his will, dated No- vember 3, and proved on November 28, of that year, makes liberal provisions for his wife Deborah and bequests to his ten living children and to the heirs of his eldest son, Pelatiah.
(IV) Pelatiah, eldest child of Peter and Deborah (Crosby) Russell, was born at Andover, Massa- chusetts. December 27. 1727. When a child the family moved to Litchfield. New Hampshire. His death at the early age of thirty years was caused by wounds received in the service of his country. In the French and Indian war Pelitiah Russell served as sergeant in Captain Thomas Tash's company, Colonel Blanchard's regiment, from April 24, to No- vember 1, 1755. This regiment was stationed at Fort Edward. In the Crown Point expedition of 1757, Pelatiah Russell was second lieutenant in Cap-
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