Saturday, September 6, 2014

Surname Saturday - RUSSELL (England to colonial Massachusetts)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.  


I am in the 8th great-grandmothers and I'm up to Ancestor #1039 who is Martha RUSSELL (1647-1684) 
[Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 8th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through two generations in this RUSSELL family line is:


1. Randall J. Seaver

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)

4. Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942)
5. Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962)

8. Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922)
9. Hattie Louise Hildreth (1857-1920)

16. Isaac Seaver (1823-1901)
17. Lucretia Townsend Smith (1827-1884)

32. Benjamin Seaver (1791-1825)
33. Abigail Gates (1797-1869)

64. Benjamin Seaver (1757-1816)
65. Martha Whitney (1764-1832)

128.  Norman Seaver (1734-1787)
129.  Sarah Read (1736-1809)


258.  Isaac Read (1704-1780)
259.  Experience Willis (1709-1787)


518.  Samuel Willis (1675-1758)
519.  Susannah Gleason (1676-1756)


1038.  Joseph Gleason, born before 19 November 1640 in Cockfield, Suffolk, England; died 20 May 1715 in Wayland, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 2076. Thomas Gleson and 2077. Susannah Page.  He married June 1667 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
1039.  Martha Russell, born 1647 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died 02 March 1684 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  

Children of Joseph Gleason and Martha Russell are:
*  Joseph Gleason (1668-1669).
*  Joseph Gleason (1670-1711), married 1705 Hannah Moore (1674-1730).
*  Martha Gleason (1673-1685).
*  Susannah Gleason (1676-1756), married 1703 Samuel Willis (1675-1758).
*  Joyce Gleason (1678-1724), married 1700 Jacob Newell (1658-1718).
*  Abigail Gleason (1680-1718), married 1714 Noah Morse (1681-1718).
*  Mary Gleason (1682-1752), married 1716 Samuel bigelow (1679-1734).
*  Isaac Gleason (1684-1758), married 1705 Martha Livermore (1684-1728).

2078.  William Russell, born about 1605 in England; died 14 February 1662 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  He married about 1633 in England.
2079.  Martha, born about 1610 in England; died 1694 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

Children of William Russell and Martha are:
*  Joseph Russell (1636-1694), married 1662 Mary Belcher (1638-1691).
*  Benjamin Russell (1638-1691), married 1665 Rebecca.
*  Phebe Russell (1642-1642).
*  John Russell (1645-1737), married Elizabeth Fiske (1654-1730).
*  Martha Russell (1647-1684), married 1667 Joseph Gleason (1640-1715).
*  Philip Russell (1650-1731), married (1) 1680 Joanna Cutler (1661-1703); (2) 1705 Sarah Brooks (1668-1748).
*  Thomas Russell (1653-1653).
*  William Russell (1655-1744), married 1683 Abigail Winship (1656-1727).
*  Jason Russell (1658-1736), married 1684 Mary Hubbard (1665-1738).
*  Joyce Russell (1660-1719), married 1680 Edmund Rice (1653-1719).

Information about this Russell family was obtained from:

*  Nora E. Snow, The Snow-Estes Ancestry (Hillburn, N.Y. : the author, 1939).

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