Born in Port Tobacco, Charles, Maryland
Ancestors 
Daughter of Samuel Adams
and Charity (Courts) Moore
Sister of
John Courts Wade [half], Celia Adams, Athaleah (Adams) Hopewell, Chloe Adams, Henley Adams and William Grant Moore [half]
Wife of
William Russell Sr.
— married
1755 in Culpeper, Virginia
Descendants 
Mother of
Henry Russell, William Russell, Mary Henley (Russell) Bowen, Robert Spotswood Russell, Tabitha Adams (Russell) Campbell, Arthelia Russell, Katherine Russell, John Coates Russell, Samuel Adams Russell, Celah Russell, Henley Russell and Chloe Ann (Russell) Saunders
Died
at age 35
in Clinch, Tazewell, Virginia
Profile last modified
| Created 5 May 2011
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Biography
Tabitha Coates Adams was born January 8, 1740, in Coventry Parrish, Somerset County, Maryland, and died 1776, in Clinch, Tazewell County, Virginia. [1] [2]
Tabitha is the daughter of Samuel Adams and Charity (Coates) Adams. In 1755, in Clinch, Tazewell County, Virginia, Tabitha married Brigadier General William Russell, a Continentail Army soldier of the Revolutionary War.
Samuel Adams daughters are mentioned in Old Virginia records as having deeded tracts of land to Gen. George Washington. [3]
Children of Tabitha and William Russell are:
- Henry Russell
- William Russell
- Mary Henly Russell
- Robert Spotswood Russell
- Tabitha Adams Russell
- Arthelia Russell
- Katherine Russell
- John Coates Russell
- Sidney Jane Russell
- Samuel Russell
- Celah Russell
- Henley Russell
- Chloe Russell
Research Notes
DEATH: THE DRAPER MANUSCRIPT, 6C page 178-179. "Gen Russell's wife died 17th Apr '76-his oldest daughter (3rd child) born in Nov 60. -Gen Russell died 17th January, 1793, in christian hope at Col. Thos. Allen's, Shenandoah Co., Va., in abt his fifty fith year. Col. William H. Moore who has distinguished himself in the Texican war of Independence, is a grandson of Capt. Wm. Bowen- In '70 when he first emigrated to the county, he stopped one year at Castleswoods, on Copper Creek {where run?} into Clinch, & there lived until his wife died in April (17th) '76 when soon after the Rev war was breaking out removed his family to New River - sojourned temporarily for a time, then near Gen. Campbell's - who protected his family in his (Russell's) absence in the army.
Sources
- ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 04 January 2022), memorial page for Tabitha Adams Russell (12 Apr 1741–Dec 1776), Find A Grave: Memorial #221198487; maintained by Anonymous (contributor 50618993) Burial Details Unknown, who reports a Not yet known but resided in Culpepper, Virginia.
- ↑ Genealogies of Virginia Families, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 5, page 769
- ↑ A History of the Mills and Related Families, 54, 55 The Adams Family of Maryland. Compiled by John Lawrence Mills (1881-1956)
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Tabitha by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Tabitha:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Tabitha by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Tabitha:
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~3.12%
Laura (Guthrie) Saunders
:
23andMe
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AncestryDNA, Ancestry member laurasaunders4301
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~0.78%
~6.25%
Gail Ennis :
23andMe, GEDmatch JJ8790506 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A799307 [compare], Ancestry member getocaus
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~0.78%
J Christensen :
AncestryDNA
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~0.39%
Douglas Green :
23andMe, GEDmatch M735651 [compare]
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~0.39%
Geoffrey (Peters) Earendil-Peters :
23andMe, GEDmatch QY7750580 [compare], yourDNAportal GEOf484d5ee
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~0.39%
~6.25%
Robert Baumann :
23andMe, GEDmatch FR3402715 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A938671 [compare], Ancestry member ggbob1
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MyHeritage DNA
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~0.39%
~3.12%
Elise (Haynes) Power :
23andMe, GEDmatch UQ8707042 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch HK5053767 [compare], Ancestry member ecpower1
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~0.39%
Jackie (Thornton) Drake :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member jackiedrake25
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~0.39%
Brenda (Frazier) Flood :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch T089275 [compare]
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder
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~0.39%
~0.78%
Patricia Belcher :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A986005 [compare], Ancestry member psimpkins1
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~0.39%
Bill Ancell :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #894187
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"Colonel Courts was of the family of Courts or Courte, of Stoke-Gregory, in Somerset. The founder of the Maryland branch was "the Honorable Captain John Courte, gent.," who was Burgess and member of the Maryland Assembly, and member of the Governor's Council till his death in 1697. His son, colonel John Courts, gent., was, in 1699, granted the manor of Clean Drinking (now owned by his descendant, Colonel Jones', and after serving in many public Charles county offices, died 1702, having issue the aforesaid Colonel John Courts, who died 1747. Some of his descendants in the South write their surname as it is pronounced, COATES."