Samuel Russell and Margaret Thompson

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Husband Samuel Russell ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 1780 - Butler Co, PA 1 2
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         Father: David Russell (      -      ) 1 2 3
         Mother: Isabel Harper (      -      ) 1

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   Other Spouse: Rachel Haggerty (      -      ) 1

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   Other Spouse: Betsey McAfee (      -      ) 1

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Wife Margaret Thompson ¹

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Children

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1 M James Russell ¹

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2 F Christina Ann Russell ¹

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            AKA: Christie A. Russell 4
           Born: Abt 1801
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         Spouse: James J. McGinnis (Abt 1792-      ) 4 5

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3 F Isabella Russell ¹

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4 F Mary Russell ¹

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5 M David Russell ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Samuel Russell

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The Russell brothers - Samuel, David, James, John and Caleb - were among the first settlers of the southeast quarter of Cherry Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania. The Russells came to that region from Virginia. At the time of his settlement in Cherry Township, he purchased 500 acres of land for $30.
He was first lieuten-ant in a company from Butler County in the War of 1812. In 1824 he set-tled on a farm on the Allegheny river, one mile northeast of Emlenton, in Scrubgrass Township, Venango County, where his son David would later reside.

He was married three times, and raised a family of twelve children. When he died, at nearly ninety-four years of age, he had nearly two hundred descendants. [HBC 1883, 425]

1 Editor, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 975.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 336.

3 Editor, Book of Biographies, 37th Judicial District, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 469.

4 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 804.

5 Audrey Jean King Mattern, McGinnis Family Records (Carlsbad, CA: Self-Published, 1996.).