Stephen Russell (1749 - 1820)

Born 22 Jan 1749 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Eleanor (Fowler) Russell — married 17 Oct 1771 in Westfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 18 Sep 1820 at age 71 in Lumberland, Sullivan, New York, United States

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Private Stephen Russell served with Capt. Silas Fowler's Company of Minutemen, Massachusetts Militia during the American Revolution.

Biography

In 1770 Stephen Russell purchased land in Westfield, MA from his future father-in-law, Samuel Fowler, in the area that later became Southwick. Marriage banns published 10 Sep 1771.

Stephen enlisted in the Revolutionary War as a Private in Capt. Silas Fowler's Southwick company of Minutemen 21 Apr 1775 under Col. Danielson's Regiment, with Lt Col Shepard of Westfield in command. They marched to Roxbury, in answer to the Lexington Alarm, and served 21 days before returning home. ^[1]

In Oct 1783 Stephen bought land in Colebrook, Litchfield Co, CT, and the family soon settled there. In 1795 his land was sold by the sheriff, and Stephen was ordered to Litchfield jail until he paid a debt of £33.15.8. The entire family then moved to Mamakating, Ulster Co, NY, which later became Lumberland, and then Liberty, in present Sullivan Co.

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts Soldiers Sailors Rev. War: Vol. 13, Page 670

• Russell, George Ely, Descendants of William Russell of Salem, Mass., 1674 (Middletown, MD: Catoctin Press, 1989).
• Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Massachusetts soldiers and sailors of the Revolutionary War : a compilation from the archives (Boston : Wright and Potter Print., 1896-1908. 17 vols.)
• Boltwood, Lucius, History and Genealogy of the Family of Thomas Noble, of Westfield, Massachusetts, with Genealogical Notes of Other Families by the Name of Noble (Hartford, Connecticut, 1878).
• 1800 Federal Census Ulster Co, NY.
• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed July 23, 2016), "Record of Stephen Russell", Ancestor # A203199.
• Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War (Wright & Potter Printing Co., Boston, 1896)