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A
GENEALOGICAL REGISTER
OF THE
FIRST SETTLERS OF NEW-ENGLAND. KIRK, THOMAS, sent in 1665 to arrest Messrs. Whalley and Goffe. Hutch. RUSSELL, DANIEL, a preacher, and a native of Charlestown, grad. in 1669 at H. C., of which he was a fellow, and was invited in 1678 to settle as the minister of Charlestown, [See 3 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. i. 261] but he died 4 Jan. 1679. The name of Russell has ever been distinguished in the annals of Massachusetts, and has prevailed in all the N. E. states. Forty-seven had grad. at the N. E. colleges, in 1826, of whom 13 have been clergymen. GEORGE, Hingham 1636; Scituate between 1636 and 1657. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. iv. 240. The George Russel who was at Boston in 1680, is supposed by Hutchinson to have been a younger brother of the celebrated Lord William. Russel, who was beheaded in Lincoln's Inn Fields, 21 July, 1683, ‘. 42. ??*JAMES, Charlestown, son of the Hon. Richard Russell, was born 4 Oct. 1640, admitted freeman 1668, elected representative 1679, assistant from 1680 to 1686, counsellor under the new charter 1692, was a judge, and treasurer of Massachusetts, d. 28 April, 1709, ‘. 68. His wife was Maybel, daughter of Gov. Haynes. JOHN, Charlestown and Boston, finally settled in Boston, where he became the first minister of the Baptist church, 28 July, 1679. He d. 24 Dec. 1680. According to Benedict, the Russells of Providence and its vicinity are descended from him. JOHN, Woburn, may be the one admitted freeman in 1644. He is styled in Woburn records, "the Anabaptist," and d. 1 June, 1676. JOHN, Cambridge 1636, may be the one called sen., and admitted freeman in 1681. JOHN, Roxbury, was admitted freeman 1654. JOHN, New-Haven, died 1681. Dodd, 146, 162. JOHN, minister of Weathersfield, Conn., grad. at H. C. 1645, [W. Winthrop] removed to Hadley in 1659, and was there installed, and d. 10 Nov. 1692. It was in his house in Hadley that Whalley and Goffe, two of the judges who sentenced Charles I to death, were for a long time concealed, and where they are supposed to have died. A Philip Russell was of Hadley in 1664. JONATHAN, minister of Barnstable, son of the preceding, grad. at H. C. 1675, was ordained 19 Sept. 1683, d. 21 Feb. 1711, ‘. 56. His son Jonathan, who grad. at Y. C. 1708, succeeded his father in the ministry, 29 Oct. 1712. John Russell, H. C. 1704, a physician of Barnstable, was probably another son. Lothrop and John Russell, graduates of H. C. in 1743 and 1751, were of Barnstable. NOADIAH, minister of Middletown, Conn., grad. at H. C. in 1681, was ordained 24 Oct. 1688, and died 3 Dec. 1713, aged 55. He was a schoolmaster in Ipswich before he settled at Middletown. RALPH, New-Haven, d. 1679. Dodd, 146, 162. ??º*RICHARD, Charlestown, came from Herefordshire, England, with Maud, his wife, a. 1640. He was elected representative 1642, 12 years, and speaker of the house in 1654, 1656, and 1658; member of the ar. co. 1644; assistant from 1659 to 1675, 16 years, and many years treasurer of the colony. He d. 14 May, 1676, ‘. 65. Hon. Chambers Russell, judge of the supreme court of Massachusetts, son of Hon. Daniel Russell, was one of his descendants. He grad. at H. C. 1731, and d. 24 Nov. 1767, ‘. 54. Hon. Thomas Russell, of Boston, who d. 1796, was also a descendant. ROBERT Andover, d. 1710, ‘. 80, WHALLEY, EDWARD, one of Cromwell's lieutenant-generals, and one of the judges who sentenced to death Charles I, came to N. E. in July, 1660, and resided in various places. Stiles, Hist. of the Judges. Hutchinson. Holmes. Worcester Magazine. |
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