Buried: Forest Lawn, Buffalo, Erie County, New York, USA
Colonel Samuel Andrew Russell (1759 - 1834) served as a private in the revolutionary war in Connecticut under Captain Peter Vail and Colonel Canfield in the militia.
The following sketch of Samuel Russel is excerpted from Franklin B. Dexter's Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College: with Annals of the College History:
SAMUEL RUSSELL, second son and child of the Rev. William Russell (Yale 1745), of Windsor, Connecticut, was baptized (as Samuel Andrew Russell) on December 30, 1759.
On September 21, 1783, he married Lucy, the eldest child of Stephen Munson (Yale 1751), of New Haven, who died on September 24, 1785, in her 29th year, leaving one daughter.
He next married, in New Haven, on November 11, 1790, Sarah (or Sally), daughter of Richard and Susan (De Luce) Woodward.
Soon after this date he removed to New York City, where he embarked in the West India trade, and was successfully engaged until the interruption caused by the war of 1812.
After this he was employed in the United States Navy, as Deputy Commissary of Purchase, with the rank of Colonel. He was elected to the State Assembly in 1806, 1807, and 1816.
In 1816 or 1817 he removed to Buffalo, New York, of which he became a distinguished citizen. He was a member of the State Constitutional Convention in 1821, and in 1824 a Presidential Elector. He was long a Judge in Niagara County, being first appointed in April, 1817; and in April, 1831, he was appointed Post-Master of Buffalo, which office he held until his death there, on July 2, 1834, in his 75th year, "loved, esteemed, and respected by all who knew, him."
His second wife died suddenly in New York on August 8, 1807, and about 1809 he married her sister Susan, who died on September 7, 1819, in her 63d year.
Besides the daughter by his first marriage, he had four sons and a daughter by his second wife." Biography and sources by Roland Henry Baker, III
Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/151223452/samuel-andrew-russell : accessed 12 May 2022), memorial page for Col Samuel Andrew Russell (30 Dec 1759–2 Jul 1834), Find a Grave Memorial ID 151223452, citing Forest Lawn, Buffalo, Erie County, New York, USA ; Maintained by Roland Henry Baker, III (contributor 48390486) .
"New York, Church Records, 1660-1954," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGRH-6G99 : 10 October 2019), Samuel Rufsel in entry for Samuel Law Rufsel, 6 May 1797; citing Birth, New York City, New York County, New York, United States, multiple churches, New York.
"Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPS3-77WY : 15 April 2022), Samuel in entry for Lucy Munson Russel, ; citing Birth, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, Compiled by Lucius A. and Lucius B. Barbour, housed at State Library, Hartford, Connecticut; FHL microfilm 008272244.
"New York, Church Records, 1660-1954," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPZK-2TJQ : 10 October 2019), Samuel Russel in entry for Samuel Law Russel, 6 May 1797; citing Birth, New York City, New York County, New York, United States, multiple churches, New York.
"New York, Church Records, 1660-1954," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGLL-3J6B : 10 October 2019), Samuel Russel in entry for Harriot Wadsworth Russel, 1 Mar 1793; citing Birth, New York City, New York County, New York, United States, multiple churches, New York.
"New York, Church Records, 1660-1954," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPH1-WXPD : 10 October 2019), Samuel Russel in entry for William Andrew Russel, 23 Aug 1791; citing Birth, New York City, New York County, New York, United States, multiple churches, New York.
"New York, Church Records, 1660-1954," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGP6-QKPG : 10 October 2019), Samuel Russell in entry for Henry Pierpont Russell, 28 Aug 1801; citing Birth, New York City, New York County, New York, United States, multiple churches, New York.
Franklin B. Dexter, Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College : with Annals of the College History, Vol. IV, July 1778--June 1792, (Henry Hold & Co., New York: 1907), pages 163-164 [https://books.google.com/books?
Henry Reed Stiles and Sherman W Adams, Families of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut, Consisting of Volume II of the History of Ancient Wethersfield, Comprising the Present Towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington; and of Glastonbury Prior to its Incorporation in 1693, From Date of Earliest Settlement Until the Present Time, With Extensive Genealogies and Genealogical Notes on Their Families: The Russelll Family VOLUME 2 p 602
Frederic W. Bailey, Early Connecticut marriages as found on ancient church records prior to 1800 edited by Frederic W. Bailey; a reprint with additions, corrections and introduction by Donald Lines Jacobus, and with integrated errata (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1968) Vol 1
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