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Lieutenant James Russell (1723-1801)
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First cousin (1C8R) Lieutenant James Russell, son of Uncle (8GU)
James and Aunt
Susannah Farrer Russell,
is credited with commanding Carlisle’s contingent of
Minute Men at Concord Bridge.
Ruth Wilkins’ version1 of the
story:
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“…Reuben Brown and Deacon Parkman had spread the news,
and … the Minutemen were called together by the drum of
Timothy Wilkins (Jr.) and the horn of James Kemp, to
gather in front of the Meetinghouse. Then under an
old Indian fighter, James Russell, they marched
twenty-one strong over Estabrook Road to Concord.”
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James Sullivan Russell, a grandson of Lt. James Russell
and his wife Lydia Potter, “was born in Carlisle in 1807
on Russell Street in the old
house…"2 He taught mathematics for many
years in the Lowell High School. He was James, son of James, son of
James, son of James. The house would last another 96 years; James
Sullivan Russell, about the same.
1Ruth Chamberlin Wilkins, Carlisle, Its History
and Heritage. The Carlisle Historical Society, Inc.
(Carlisle:1976), pp. 68-9.
2ibid., p.143.