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This is our eighth-great-uncle James Russell, son of
William and Hannah Adams
Russell and older brother of our 7th great grandmother
Hannah Russell, who married Jonathan
Wheeler, the father of our 6GGF
Oliver Wheeler I.
James’ first wife Susannah
Farrer lies next to him in the Old Hill Burying Ground in
Concord.
We are given to understand that James inherited and he and
Susannah farmed the ancestral
spread in later Carlisle. Their Minute Man son
Lieutenant James Russell
led Carlisle’s contingent to Concord Bridge, two years
after the death of this James.
His big brother William married Philadelphia Shepard (the
records usually spell her forename something like
“ffiladelffia”), and the births of their sons John
and Jason are recorded in Concord in 1716 and 1718,
respectively.
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