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The ancestry of the Rus- RUSSELL sell family has been traced to the reme test antiquity and includes many ancient royal lineages.
( I) Sigurd Hring Turstain was king of Sweden in A. D. 733. (11) Ermengarde, daughter of Sigurd, married. about 750, Throud. king of Throndheim, in Norway. ( III) Ei-dan. their son, was king of Throndheim in -80. (IV ) Halfdan, son of Eisdan, was king of Throndheim in 810. (V) Eisdan Glunru, son of Halfdan. was king of Throndheim in 840. (VI) Hilda. daughter of Eisdan Glunru. was countess of Upland : married. in 850. Iver. Earl of Up- land. (VII) Eisdan Glunru, their son, was Prince of Upland in 870. a warrior and a Viking. (VHID) Regvall, his son, was the
first recorded Earl of Moere. The first rec- ord of him is dated 885. One of his sons was Earl of Orkneys and discovered the use of peat for fuel. Another son after- wards became Duke Robert of Normandy. ( 1X ) Hrellegur or Drogo, son of Rogvald. succeeded his father as Earl of Moere in 80,6. ( X) Rollo Turstain, son of Hrelle- gur. was Earl of Moere in Norway, suc- ceeding his father in 020. (XI) Auslech Turstain, son of Rollo Turstain, was made first Baron of Bricquebec in 943. (XII) Turstain Fastenburgh, son of Auslech Tur- stain, became Baron of Bricquebec about 98o.
( XIII) William Bertrand, son of Tur- stain, was with his son Hugh at the battle of Hastings. He was a cousin of Matilda. Countess of Flanders, and a cousin also of William the Conqueror : became Baron of Bricquebec in 1028, and was the first to use the family crest, a lion rampant crowned.
(XIV) Hugh. Lord of Barreville and Le Rozel, son of William Bertrand, took the name of Le Rozel from the castle he in- herited in England. He was born about 1021 in Bricquebec. Normandy, and accompanied the Conqueror to England, taking part in the battle of Hastings, and was allotted large properties in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. England.
(XV) Richard De Rozel. son of Hugh. was also Lord of Rozel: took part in the First Crusade, and inherited a great estate from his father.
(AVD) Hugh De Rozel, son of Richard. was born in fro, died in 1163. owning large estates, the greater part of which he gave away in charity. He was also in the First Crusade. The record of his marriage does not give the name of his wife, but describes her as a woman of large wealth.
( XVTID Robert -De Russell, son of Hugh. born about 1130, spelled the name Rosel: was in the command of the Earl of Chester at the battle of Lincoln. He died about 1201.
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(XVIII) Odo Russell, son of Robert, lived on the family estates at Berwick, Eng- land.
ried, in 1215, Rose Bardolf and was one of the barons present at the signing of the Magna Charta by King John.
(XX) Sir Ralph Russell, son of John, married, about 1230, Isabel de Newmarch ; was sheriff of Wiltshire: attended King Henry in 1242 in the war with France.
(XXI) Sir William Russell, son of Sir Ralph, was born in 1257; married Eleanor de Aule : died in 1311.
(XXII) Sir Theobald Russell, son of Sir William, was born in 1304; married Eleanor LaTour ; was killed in the attack on Helen's Point at the age of thirty-two years.
(XXIII) Sir William Russell, son of Sir Theobald, was a member of parliament in 1338-48: married Lady Muschamp.
(XXIV) Sir Henry Russell, son of Sir William, was member of parliament from 1425 to 1442.
( XXX) Sir John Russell, son of Sir Henry, married Elizabeth Berringham: was speaker of the house of commons in the second year of Henry VI., and was again in parliament in the tenth year of that reign and in 1450.
( XXVI) John Russell, Esq. son of Sir John, was keeper of the Royal Artillery in Carisbrook Castle ; married Elizabeth Fox- more.
(XXVII) James Russell, Esq .. son of John, was member of parliament in the reign of Henry VIII. : married Alicia Wyc. of a prominent family.
(XXVIII) John Russell, Esq., son of James, was afterwards the first Earl of Bed- ford, and his history is familiar to all stu- dents of English history; died March 14, 1555.
(XXIX) Lord Francis Russell, son of John, was second Earl of Bedford : married Margaret, widow of John Gostick ; died July 28, 1585.
(XXX) Sir Francis Russell, son of Lord
Francis, married Elizabeth Wyndham; died at Highgate in 1584.
(XXXI) Edward Russell, son of Sir (XIX) John Russell, son of Odo, mar -- Francis, was third Earl of Bedford; born
March. 1575: married. December, 1594. Lucy Harrington; he died May 3, 1627.
(XXXII) John Russell, younger son of Edward, was born in England in 1597; mar- ried, in 1630, and came to Boston, Massa- chusetts, with his wife and son. John. in 1635. He removed to Wethersfield, Con- necticut. in 1648, and went with the early settlers to Hadley, Massachusetts, where he died May 8, 1680, aged, according to the record, eighty-five years. Ile married ( sec- ond ) Dorothy, widow of Rev. Henry Smith. He left sons, John, mentioned below, and Philip.
(XXXIII ) Rev. John Russell, son of John Russell, was born in England, 1626, and came to this country with his father as a child. He graduated from Harvard Col- lege in 1645 and succeeded the Rev. Henry Smith as minister at Wethersfield. Reli- gious dissension in the church there led to his removal, with a large part of the church members, to Hadley in 1059-60. In the chimney of his house the regicide judges of Charles I. Goffe and Whalley, found a refuge. He married, January 28, 1049, Mary, daughter of Worshipful John and Dorothy (Mett ) Talcott: ( second ) Rebecca. daughter of Thomas Newbury; (third ) Phebe Gregson, daughter of Thomas, and widow ci Rev. John Whiting. Rev. John Russell died December 10. Ing2, his widew September 19. 1730. Ilis epitaph read- : "Who first gathered and for thirty-three years faithfully governed the flock of Christ in Hadley till the Chief Shepherd suddenly called him off to receive his reward in the sixty-sixth year of his age, December 10. 1692. Rebecca, made by God a meet help to Mr. John Russell and fellow-laborer in Christ's work-a wise. virtuous, picu- mother in Israel lyes here in full assurance of a joyful resurrection." Children of first wife : Jehm, bern Septum or 23. 1050; Re ..
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Jonathan, September 18. 1655. Children of second wife: Rev. Samuel, November 4. 1660, mentioned below: Elizur, November 8, 1663: Daniel, February 8, 1665. or 1666, died young.
(XXXIV) Rev. Samuel Russell, son of Rev. John Russell, was born November 4. 1660; graduated from Harvard College in 168t : married Abigail, daughter of John Whiting: was pastor at Deerfield, Massa- chusetts, and Branford, Connecticut. where he died June 25. 1731. A common prayer hook containing his signature, bearing date of 1700. is in the possession of his fourth grandson, Lawrence Russell. This book was printed in England. 1633. He had Samuel. mentioned below.
(XXXT) Samuel. son of Rev. Samuel Russell, was born at Branford, 1693 : gradu- ated from Yale College in 1712; died 1740. He was the first minister at North Guil- ford, Connecticut.
(XXXVI) Thomas, son of Rev. Samuel Russell, was born October 6, 1727, at Bran- ford: graduated from Yale in 1749: was brigade surgeon in the revolution : married. about 1700. Mary Patterson: died in 1803 at Piedmont. New Hampshire. Children : Thomas, Samuel, John Hancock. mentioned below.
(XXXVII) John Hancock, son of Thomas Russell. was born about 1760: graduated from Yale College. In 1802 he removed to Malone, New York, where he practiced law for many years. In 1829 he came to Canton. New York, with his Nous, and died at an advanced age al att ten years later. He married Anna Word, of Malone. Children : Cynthia, Lucretia. Han- nah, Amanda. Victor Thomas. Thomas Vic- tur (twin of preceding ). mentioned below. John Leslie, mentioned below.
(XXXVIII, Thomas Victor, second sn of John Hancock and Anna ( Wood) Russell, was born January 17, 1817. at Ma- lone, New York, and was educated in the public schools of his native town. He en- saged in the study of law, was admitted to
the bar, and early in life removed to Can- ton, New York, where he became promi- nent as an attorney and filled various pub- lic offices, including that of district attorney of St. Lawrence county. Mr. Russell was an eminent advocate and participated in the trial of many noted cases. He particularly excelled in the criminal branch of the law, and his conduct of these won for him wide notice. In August, 1844. he married Lucia L. Conkey, born in Canton, daughter of Thomas Hamilton Conkey. Children : Charles Hazen, mentioned below: Annie, wife of William Stearns, residing in Boston, Massachusetts: Benjamin. a citizen of Brooklyn, Greater New York.
(XXXVIII) John Leslie son of John Hancock and Anna ( Wood) Russell, was born at Fairfax, Vermont. February 11. 1805. He removed in 1807 with his parents . to Mak ne, Franklin county, and was edu- cated at the common school and academy of that place, entering the University of Ver- mont in 1823. He was graduated in 1826 at the age of twenty-one and for a year read law with Judge Ingles, of Union Village, Washington county, New York, and for an- other year with Asa Hascall, of Malone. He was admitted to the bar in 1828, and in the fall of 1820 moved to Canton, where he followed his profession until 1814. when he became a member of the state assembly. In 1834 he was appointed county treasurer. which office he held until the adoption of the constitution of 1846, when he was elect- ed to that pritien and held it until 1855. He was postmaster of Canton under Presi- dents Jackson and Van Buren. In 1846 he was a member of the constitutional con- vention, serving on the committee on cur- rency and banking. On the death of A. C. Low, county clerk of St. Lawrence county. Mr. Russell was appointed to fill the un- expired term, and held the office for the benefit of Mr. Low's widow, turning over to her at the close of his incumbency the en- tire proceeds of the office. Mr. Russell was a close friend of Governor Silas Wright.
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and in sympathy with him in politics, and was for a generation conspicuous in the county, at the bar, in positions of public trust, and in the esteem of his fellow-citi- zens. His death occurred April 19. 1861. He married, in 1832, Mary Wead. Chil- dren : Mary, Ada, Sybil, resides in Califor- nia : Leslie Wead. mentioned below.
(XXXIX) Charles Hazen, elder son of Thos. V. and Lucia 1 .. (Conkey) Russell, was born July 11. 1845. in Canton. New York, and began his education in the public schools of that town. He was a student at St. Lawrence University of that place, and removed to Philadelphia, where he pursued the study of law and was admitted to the bar in 1877. He settled in Brooklyn, New York, and began the practice of his pro- fession. Two years later he was elected to the assembly, and was re-elected the follow- ing year. In ISSI he was elected a member of the state senate, and served with distinc- tion in that body. He was chosen by the Republican party as a presidential elector in 1900. Mr. Russell takes high rank among the attorneys of Greater New York, and maintains an office on Broadway. Manhat- tan. As a member of the firm of Russell & Percy he is interested in various financial institutions, being a trustee of the Nassau Trust Company and Washington Trust Company, and a director of the Mechanics' Bank of Brooklyn. He is associated with numerous clubs, including the Republican Club of New York, St. Lawrence, and the Young Republican and Union League of Brooklyn. He is a trustee of St. Lawrence University at Canton, and of Wells Col- lege, Aurora, New York. He married (first) January 30. 1878. Stella Goodrich. born May 1, 1854. died Igor, daughter of Colonel William Bingham Goodrich, of Can- ton. He married (second) in 1900, Mrs. Annah Ayres Linguist.
and from sixteen to eighteen years of age taught a district school in the vicinity. He then began the study of law in the office of Nicholas Hill. Peter Cagger and John H. Porter, of All any, and remained with that famous law firm until 1850 when he went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and entered the law offices of Carey & Pratt. In 1861 he returned to Canton and was admitted to the bar May ; of that year. He had accepted a commission as first lieutenant in the First Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry and was about to start for the front when he received a telegram announcing his father's death and calling him home. He undertook the settlement of his father's estate, and began the practice of his pro- fession at Canton. In 1862 he formed a partnership with William H. Sawyer, and the firm continued until December 29, 1876. when Mr. Sawyer was appointed to the $1- preme court bench. After that time he had no law partner. In 1867 Mr. Russell was elected to the constitutional convention of the state of New York and served on the committee on suffrage of which Horace Greeley was chairman, and also on the com- mittee on corporations. In 1869 he was elected district attorney of St. Lawrence county, but declined renomination at the end of his term. From 1869 to 1872 he was law professor in St. Lawrence University, lecturing twice a week. In 1876 he was nominated by both parties and elected st- pervisor of the town of Canton. In 1876 he was presidential elector on the Republican ticket : in 1877 he was elected county judge. While supervisor he was largely instrumen- tal in effecting a permanent settlement of the troublesome question of the location of public buildings and securing the erection by the county of an elegant county building in Canton. Mr. Russell was an active mem- ber of the building committee. While he was serving his term of six years as county judge, he was chosen attorney-general of the state of New York, in November, 1881.
(XXXIX) Leslie Wead, son of John Les- lie Russell, was born in Canton, New York, April 15. 1840. He was educated in the common schools and academy at Canton, and served with distinction, marked effi-
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cieney and fidelity for two years. Remov- ing to New York City he practiced there from January 1, 1884. to January 1. 1892, when he took his place on the supreme court bench. In November, 1890, he was elected to congress, but before he took his seat was nominated by both Democratic and Republi- can parties and elected justice of the su- preme court, an office he filled with honor until October, 1902, when he resigned, to resume the practice of law in New York. He died February 3. 1903. For many years there was hardly a case of importance in St. Lawrence county in which Judge Russell was not retained. His long and varied prac- tice, his natural fairness of mind, soundness of judgment and profound learning emi- nently qualified him for his judicial position and won him honor and distinction in his office. He was a vestryman of Grace Protes- tant Episcopal church of Canton. He mar- ried, October 19. 1864. Harriet, daughter of Rev. R. F. Lawrence, a Presbyterian clergyman of Malone. New York. a de- scendant of the distinguished Lawrence fam- ily of Watertown and Groton, Massachu- setts. She was born October 30, 1843. at Claremont. New Hampshire. Children : I. Lawrence, born July 27. 1867, mentioned below. 2. Jessie. November 9. 1873. died July 13, 1908. 3. Robert. December 28, 1876. 4. Harriet. February 14. 1879. Two others died in infancy. John and Mary.
(XL) Lawrence Russell, son of Hon. Leslie Wead Russell, was born July 27, 1867. at Malden, Massachusetts. He attend- ed Canton Union School until fourteen years of age, then studied for a year at St. John's School and for three years at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire. After studying law for a year in the office of his father, he entered Williams College. but withdrew to study his profession in Coluim- bia Law School, New York, from which he was graduated in the spring of 1889. He was admitted to the bar in February. 1890, and in October following opened his office in Canton, where his father and grandfather
had practiced before him. He has enjoyed a large and interesting practice. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of St. Lawrence Lodge, No. III, Free and Accepted Masens of Canton: of St. Law- rence Chapter. Royal Arch Masons; of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity ; vestryman of Grace Episcopal church.
He married. April 3. 1893. Mabel Bost- wick, of New York City, born October 31, 1868. daughter of Charles Byron and An- nette ( Cockburn ) Bostwick, the former of whom was for many years a merchant in New York City. Children, born at Can- ton : Mabel and Dorothy (twins), January 17, 1894: Mary. November 11. 1895; Les- lie Wead. born April 23. 1898, died No- vember. ISO8: Lawrence Russell, born January 23. 1902.
The family MacCulloch McCULLOCK ( spelled also MicCul- lock. Mccullough and in various other ways ) is one of the oldest and most distinguished in Scotland. It was established before the Norman conquest, in Wigtonshire and Kircudbrightshire, Scot- land. and numbers in every generation some of the leading men of Scotland.
(I) General William McCullock, of the Kirkcudbright family, was an officer of the British army, and died in the service in In- dia. He was doubtless related to William McCulloch. of Mertoune, Kircudbright, member of the Scottish parliament.
(IF) William, son of General William McCullock, was born in Kircudbright. Ile was in Canada as early as 1756, and cornet in the Fifty-fifth regiment in the British army. He came to New York city in 1799. and engaged in the leather business, which he followed the rest of his life. He died at an advanced age. about 1824. He married Nancy Van Wie, of Van Wie's Point, six miles below the city of Albany. (See Shankland. ) Children: 1. Robert, Kennie. Catherine and William.
(III ) William (2), son of William { 1}
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McCullock, was born in New York city in 1800, and died in Lowville, New York. No- vember 12, 1887. He was educated in the public schools, and served an apprenticeship of six years at the tinsmith trade under Philip Embury, a nephew and namesake of the first Methodist Episcopal minister in the United States. In 1826 McCullock came to Watertown, New York, and worked there as a journeyman at his trade. He then es- tablished himself in business at Brownville. New York, and continued as a master tin- smith with much success until 1841. when he removed to Lowville. From that time until 1853 he had a hardware store and tin- smiith business at Lowville. After 1853 he conducted a private banking business. In 1864 his bank was chartered as the First National Bank of Lowville, of which he was cashier the remainder of his life, a period of twenty-seven years. He made it one of the largest and strongest banking institu- tions of Northern New York. He was a self-made man, shrewd and upright in busi- ness, an able financier and useful citizen. In carly life he was a Whig, but he joined the Republican party carly in its existence. and supported it loyally during the war and aft- erward. He never sought public office for himself. He was one of the founders of the Protestant Episcopal church at Lowville. one of the first vestrymen of old Trinity Church of Watertown, and the last sur- vivor of the original membership of that church. He married. in 1822. Mary Van Slyck, born in INon, died in August. 1853. daughter of William Van Slyek, of Sche- nectady, New York. She is buried in Greenwood cemetery. Long Island, as are all the deceased members of the family. Children: Frederick. mentioned below : Mary: William, served in the Fourteenth New York regiment in the civil war, and died in New York in 1862: Henry: Enima.
(IV) Frederick, son of William (2) Mc- Cullock, was born at Brownville, New York. September 14. 1834. He was educated at the Flushing ( Long Island, Institute. Then
he served an apprenticeship of six years, learning the trade of tinsmith and the hard- ware business. In 1853. before he was of age. he engaged in New York city in one of the first fruit canning establishments in the country, under the firm name of J. Mc- Cullock & Company. and continued for about seven years. After spending a year at Middletown. Orange county. New York, he opened a tinware and hardware store at Martinsburg, Lewis county. New York, and conducted a successful business for several years. In 188; he came to Lowville to take charge of his father's banking interests. and since 1899 has been president of the First National Bank of Lowville. He is a mem- ber of the Protestant Episcopal church. In politics he is a Republican.
(The Shankland Line).
Shanklin, or Shankland. as. some of the family spell it. is an old Scotch surname. The family is numerous in Aberdeenshire at the present time. A branch of the fam- ily went with the Scotch to the north of Ireland. At the battle of the Boyne, in July, 1690. a Shanklin was in command of a regiment of dragoons and was rewarded for his gallant conduct by the grant of an estate called Butler's Hill, near Inniskillen, in the north of Ireland. Four brothers, doubtless closely related to this soldier, founded the family in America.
(I ) Robert Shankland. born in Ireland. about 1725. came. in 1747, to New York from Inniskillen, leaving Dublin Univer- sity, where he had matriculated; settled in Orange county, near the Clintons and oth- ers who had been his father's neighbors in Ireland. He married Saralı Beaty. a rela- tive of General James Clinton, of revolu- tionary fame. The Beatys and Clintons took part in the defense of forts Constitu- tion and Independence, and Alexander Beaty was one of those killed in battle. Robert and his descendants spell their name Shankland. He settled in New Britain. Orange county. New York: removed in
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1750 to Cherry Valley, Otsego county, New York, where he died in 1790. aged seventy years. Children : Andrew. Alexander, Wil- liam. Thomas. Margaret and Sarah. Rob- ert fought against the Indians in the colo- nial wars. During the revolution he was a Whig. but his wife was a lovalist. Their son Andrew was the only one sharing the loyalist sentiments of his mother. and he enlisted twice in the British army. located after the war in Virginia. and died there in 1828: from him many prominent southern Shanklins are descended. William, son of Robert, was a soldier in the American army: his son. William Henry Shenck- land, was a judge of the supreme court of New York. Thomas, son of Robert. was also in the American army. as was also his brother Alexander, who settled at Canaan. Wayne county, Ohio, and died there. Their many descendants are numerously represent- ed in the various patriotic societies of the L'nited States.
Andrew, brother of Robert Shankland, came afterward to New York. He re- tained the spelling Shanklin. Children : Nancy, married Bernardus Bloomingdale ; Caty, married John McPherson, resided in Galway, Saratoga county, New York: Jen- ny, resided in Galway, unmarried: son. died at sea, leaving a son. Robert Henry, of New York.
Thomas Shanklin. brother of Robert Shankland. came with his brother Andrew. His gravestone is in the Albany ( New York) burying-ground. He and his im- mediate family held to the spelling Shank- lin.
William Shankland. brother of Robert Shankland, came to America in 1775 and landed at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but soon joined Robert in Cherry Valley. He also spelled the name Shankland. Children : Robert, settled in Newburgh. Orange coun- ty. New York: Nancy, married Grande "\ an Wie, and settled near Albany, at Van Wie's Point : their daughter Mary married Wil- liam McCullock. ( See MeCullock. )
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The Collins family of Tal- COLLINS cottville. New York, de- scend from Lewis Collins, who arrived from England at Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was ac- companied by four sons-Nathan, John. Al- bert and Dexter. Through maternal lines the present family connects with the old New England Talcott family. also of Eng- lish origin. Both the Collins and Talcott families furnished soldiers for the army of Independence, as well as for the war of 1812.
(II) John Collins, of Boston, Massa- chusetts, died March 20. 1670. He was a shoemaker. and a member of the Artillery Company, 1644. In 1640 he had a grant of land at Braintree. He married Susanna -. and had sons John and Thomas. daughters Susanna. married. 1662. Thomas Walker: and Elizabeth. John Collins had a brother Edward.
( III ) John (2) Collins, of Middletown. Connecticut, son of John (D), of Boston. was born 1640. died 1704. He was a shoe- maker. and probably learned the trade with his father. He removed with his wife to Middletown in 1603. thence to Saybrook. Connecticut, in 1668, where he joined the church that year. He was propounded for freeman in October. 1669. He next re- moved to Guilford. Connecticut, where he died. Hinman says he was deputy in 1672. but Savage cannot find any proof that he was. He married ( first ) - Trowbridge. died I668: (second). June 2. 1669. Mrs. Mary Kingsworth: ( third ). March 6. 1700. Mrs. Mary Taintor. By his first marriage he had sons John and Robert. By his sec- ond wife he had a daughter Mary.
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