AnaccountofsomethedescendantsJohnRussell,emigrantfromIpswich,England GurdonWadsworthRussell AN A CCOUNT OF SOMEF O THE DESCENDANTS JOHN R USSELL The E migrant FROM I PSWICH, ENGLAND, WHO CAME TO BOSTON, NEW E NGLAND, OCTOBER 3, 1635. TOGETHER WITH S OME SKETCHES OF THE ALLIED F AMILIES OF WADSWORTH, T UTTLE, AND BERESFORD ST THE L ATE GURDON WADSWORTH RUSSELL, M.D., LL.D. EDITEDT B EDWIN S TANLEY WELLES HARTFORD, C ONN. 1910 10 Two H undred Copies Printed Number s * THE C ASE, LOCKWOOD * BKAIMARD CO. DESCENDANTS O F JOHN RUSSELL Cambridge, 1 635 3 • c t c- CONTENTS PASB SKETCH O F GORDON WADSWORTH RUSSELL, M.D., LL.D., by SAMUEL H ART, D.D., . 17 TUB R USSELL FAMILY IN ENGLAND, . 23 ABSTRACTS F ROM Parish R egisters, . 27 Marriage L icenses, . 33 Ipswich A dministrations, etc., ... 34 Churchwardens' A ccounts, .... 36 Ipswich G reat Court Books, ... 37 Ipswich P etty Sessions Book, . 39 Ipswich P etty Court Books, . 43 Ipswich D ogget Rolls, . 47 Chancery P roceedings, .... 52 Ipswich A ssemblies' Book, . 55 Ipswich C oal Meters' Accounts, ... 56 Ipswich a nd Suffolk County Wills, . 57 Essex C ounty and London Wills, ... 93 EXTENTF O SEARCH, ...... 99 TOT R USSELL FAMILY IN AMERICA, . 105 LINE F ROM JOHN RUSSELL, THE EMIGRANT, WHO CAME TO BOSTON, M ASS., IN 1635, . .109 THE W ADBWORTH LINE OF GCHDON WADSWORTH RUSSELL, . 233 THE T UTTLE LINE OF SARAH ELIZABETH TUTTLE, FIRST WIFE OF G UKDON WADSWORTH RUSSELL, . .263 THE B ERESFORD LINE OF MARY ISABELLA BEHESFORD, SECOND WlFKF O GUHDON WADSWORTH RUSSELL, . 271 OINDEX T ENGLISH MATERIAL, .... 283 INDEXO T AMERICAN FAMILIES, . .291 "AND0 8 THE LORD GAVE US A SPEEDY VOT- AOB FROM THENCE TO IPSWICH, IN OLD ENGLAND, WHITHER I CAME IN A DISGUISED MANNER, WITH MT WIFE AND CHILD AND MAID ; AND STATED A WHILE AT MR. HCSBELL's HOUSE." . — R et. Tfumuu 8/urparil. ILLUSTRATIONS G'URDON W ADSWORTH RUSSELL, M.D., LL.D., . Frontispiece CHURCH OF ST. MARY LE TOWER, IPSWICH, ENGLAND, . F acing p. 30 THELD O CHURCH AT UBBESTON, SUFFOLK COUNTY, E NGLAND, . " p. 58 A P ORTION OF THE WILL OF PHILIP EUSSELL OF H ATFIELD, MASS., . " p. 158 THE I SRAEL RUSSELL HOMESTEAD, SUNDERLAND, MASS., . p . 172 THE W ADSWORTH COAT OF ARMS, . " p. 235 DR. G URDON W. RUSSELL AT " CEDARCROFT," NEWINGTON, C ONN., . " p. 261 THE T UTTLE COAT OF ARMS, . " p. 265 THE B ERESFORD COAT OF ARMS, . " p. 273 PREFACE A s core of years, perhaps, before his death, Dr. Russell began quietly to accumulate material for a history of his own family. Up to that time he had not ascertained his line of descent from John Russell of Cambridge, Wethersfield, and Hadley. With t hat discovery, he at once began to investigate the lives and times of his early ancestors in New England, taking up the study of them during his intervals of leisure. Whene h had sufficiently cleared the path to John the Emigrant, he grew eager to track him across the seas, and in November, 1905, he entered into correspondence with Mr. J. R. Hutchinson, a distinguished English genealogist, for the purpose of having him ascertain, if possible, his English ancestry. Mr. H utchinson, after some months of patient research, became convinced that he had established the English line of Dr. Russell, and the chart he made is printed in this volume. Dr. R ussell, too, was convinced, and on receipt of Mr. Hutchinson's statement, wrote the editor to that effect. While t here is much to commend the view of Mr. Hutchin son, the failure to discover any son of John Russell of Ipswich, England, by the name of Philip, the one necessary link in the chain to connect the Russells over sea with Dr. Russell's Amer ican pedigree, must leave the matter still in doubt with the care ful genealogist. This b ook does not pretend to be a Russell Genealogy. As the title, written by Dr. Russell himself, indicates, it is rather 12 P REFACE a h istory of some of the descendants of John Russell, who came to Cambridge in October, 1635. At t he time of his lamented death, February 3, 1909, Dr. Russell was still corresponding with relatives and others, and the materials collected by him had not been put together for a consecutive history. Not until this had been accomplished, could it be determined what gaps needed to be filled. As far as possible, the editor has allowed Dr. Russell's story of his ancestry to be told as he wrote it, only correcting palpable errors, and ampliflying where he believed Dr. Russell would desire it. Dr. Russell had only sketched in full, the lives of John Russell the Emigrant, and of his son, the Rev. John Russell. The o ther sketches, save the one of himself by the Doctor, the editor must hold himself responsible for. The W adsworth Family is entirely the work of the editor, supplemented by some private memoranda, kindly furnished by Mrs. Russell, who has also placed at his disposal all the matter relating to the Beresford Family. For the recent data incorporated into the brief sketch of the Tuttle Family, his thanks are due Miss Alice G. Tuttle of Hartford, and Mr. Ruel C. Tuttle, the artist, of Hartford, who has also been most gener ous of his time in adding to the value of the work by his Russell researches, and by making the sketch of the old Russell home stead at Sunderland, Mass. The editor is sure, were Dr. Russell alive, he would mention his indebtedness to his old friend, Mr. George E. Hoadley, on whom he so often called for genealogical help, and whose transcripts of records, well nigh inaccessible, have been gladly pressed into service. No one, too, who knew Dr. Russell can fail to be grateful to the Rev. Dr. Samuel Hart for his discriminating review of a justly honored life. And n ow in bringing to a close his pleasant labors on the book, here offered as a slight memorial to Dr. Russell, the \ * / PKEFACE 1 3 editor w ould express his many obligations to Mr. Albert C. Bates, librarian of the Connecticut Historical Society, and to has two friends, laborers in the same field of study, Miss Alice M. Gay of Hartford and Mr. Jamee Allen Kibbe of Warehouse Point. .E. S W. HAKTFORD, C ONN., March 21, 1910. GURDON W ADS WORTH RUSSELL M.D,. LL.D. 1815-1909 BY SAMUEL H ART, D.D. GURDON W ADSWORTH RUSSELL Dr. R ussell's long life was spent in the city of his birth, except that for three years in term-time, while he was studying medicine, he sojourned in New Haven, and for a year after receiving his degree he practised his profession in Wethersfield. He was always interested in that which took place about him, and he remembered all in which he was interested, so that he knew the history of his native place in much detail, as to both persons and events, for some fourscore and ten years. And from time to time he wrote out the record of the past from his memory of it, as in " Up-Neck in 1825," " The Old Stone Jug " (which was the Centre District School on what is now Market Street), "Physicians in Hartford in 1820 and 1837," the notes with which he enlivened the " History of Christ Church," and many communications to the local papers which ought to be collected and published. Well known to the com munity and knowing it well, he was indeed a part of all that he recorded and of much besides in Hartford's history which will not be readily forgotten by those who knew him. His p aternal grandfather was John Russell, who served in the Revolutionary army at Boston, on Long Island, and at White Plains ; his father, bearing the same name, was a printer, who was born in Litchfield in 1790 and came to Hartford about 1810. His first home in the city was on Church Street, a little west of Christ Church, where his son was born on the 10th of April 1815; later he removed to the 2 ( 17) 18 G URDON WADSWORTH RUSSELL " U p-Neck " region. The mother was Martha, daughter of Gurdon Wadsworth, a lineal descendant of William Wads- worth, one of the company who came with Thomas Hooker and settled Newtown, afterwards named Hartford. Gurdon Wadsworth Russell as a youth went to school in the " Stone Jug " and the Hopkins Grammar School — now merged in the Public High School — and at Manchester under the care of the Rev. \7an R. Osborne. Entering Washington (now Trinity) College in 1830, at the age of fifteen, he took his bachelor's degree in 1834. Immediately after graduation he began the study of medicine with Dr. Amariah Brigham of Hartford, and then entered the Medical department of Yale College, from which he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1837. A year later, after a brief professional residence in Wethersfield, he returned to his native city ; there he continued in the active and successful practice of medicine, until the approach of physical infirmity obliged him to limit his labors to those of an advisory nature. His ofiice was for many years on North Main Street, as it was called, just above the turn ; in 1884, he built for himself a home at Number 207 Farmington Avenue, with which, after a quarter century's experience, he wrote that he was " perfectly satisfied." Dr. R ussell married 12 September 1838 Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Hotchkiss) Tuttle, of Hart ford, who was born 11 May 1816 and died 16 July 1871 ; their children were Edward, born 13 June 1839, died 17 April 1877; Elizabeth Hotchkiss, born 5 January 1853, died 15 December 1855; and Gurdon Tuttle, born 6 December 1856, died 6 May 1858.