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State of Service: MA
Qualifying Service: Private
Birth: abt 1750 / / MA Death: aft 1790 liv / / NH
Qualifying Service Description:
Capt Timothy Walker's Co, Colonel Green's Regt
Additional References:
MA Soldiers & Sailors of the Rev War Vol 13, pg 697
Author: Dr. David Eugene Schrader
There were a number of people named ‘Nathaniel Russell’ at the time of the American Revolution, seven just in Massachusetts. I have not yet been able to discover the birth or death dates and places of the Nathaniel Russell from whom I am descended. There is substantial information about his life between 1775 and 1790. He was likely born in Middlesex County, MA, possibly in either Lexington or Woburn, around 1750. By the time the Revolution started he was living in Wilmington, MA. On April 19, 1775, he answered the alarm to respond to the Regulars’ march on Lexington and Concord. He was a Private in Captain Timothy Walker’s Company, Col. Greene’s Regiment of the Wilmington (MA) Militia. His service in the Revolution lasted 4½ days. On December 6 of that same year Nathaniel married Sarah Stewart, also of Wilmington. Over the next decade they had children: Sarah (1776), Hannah (1780), Nathaniel (1780), Edward (1783), and Patty (1785). By 1790 the family had moved north to Lyndeborough, NH, where he appears on the 1790 census. On November 29, 1796, Sarah (Sally) married Eliphalet Spofford, son of patriot Eldad Spofford, in neighboring Temple, NH. They are ancestors of the author. I find no clear and unambiguous record of this Nathaniel Russell after this date. At least two of his children, Sarah (Sally) Russell Spofford and Nathaniel Russell, Jr., had moved to Vermont, where the can be found on several censuses in the first decades of the 1800s.
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