John Russell1
#1643, b. 24 January 1686/87, d. 7 July 1757
BMDB
John
Russell was born at
Branford, New Haven, Conn, on 24 January 1686/87.
2
He married in
Branford, New Haven, Conn, on 17 December 1707
Sarah Trowbridge, daughter of
Thomas Trowbridge and
Mary Winston.
3 He died at
Branford, New Haven, Conn, on 7 July 1757 at age 70; Per grave marker.
4 He was buried at
Branford Center Cemetery Branford, New Haven, Conn, on 9 July 1757.
5,6Other Events
John graduated from Yale, class of 1704.
7 John and
Sarah were great great grandparents of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 1822-1893, the 19th president of the US.
8Citations
- Gurdon Wadsworth Russell, An Account of Some of the Descendants of John Russell the Emigrant (Hartford: The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1910), 132.
- Barbour Collection, citing Vital Records of Branford, 2:345.
- Barbour Collection, citing Vital Records of Branford, 3:33.
- Barbour Collection, citing Vital Records of Branford, 3:147.
- "Charles R. Hale Collection [of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices of Marriages and Deaths]", (1933-34) at the Connecticut State Library, Old Branford Center, 204-1.
- Find A Grave Memorial.
- Conrad Edick Wright, Colonial Collegians: Biographies of Those Who Attended American Colleges before the War for Independence, CD_ROM (Boston: NEGHS and Massachusetts Historical Society, 2005).
- Gary Boyd Roberts, Ancestors of American Presidents (Santa Clarita, CA: Carl Boyer, 3rd, 1989), 19:18, 19.
- Barbour Collection, citing Vital Records of Brabford, 3:33.
- Barbour Collection, citing Vital Records of Branford, 3:111.