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Our Russell Heritage
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Here’s just a sampling of the New England
historical connections
that we have through the pioneering
Russell family.
Our direct line of descent from English immigrant 10GGP
William and Martha Russell of Cambridge shows in
pink. From 9GGF
Benjamin Russell through
5GGF Oliver Wheeler II,
they all lived in the area now called Carlisle.
The records are not altogether clear, but there seems to be
a fair consensus that William and Martha had
eleven children, of whom our Benjamin of Concord was
the second.
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Stories keep surfacing about their remarkable descendants
who are our forebears, cousins, and connections in various
degrees. I’ve already encountered interesting memories
of the families of
Benjamin’s big
brother Joseph, as
well as those of his younger brothers
Philip and
Jason.
In this series, we’ll follow a few of them around
some places with honorable and evocative names, such as
Concord, Lexington, Menotomy, Cambridge, and, eventually,
Carlisle.
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