Capt Walter Russell

A Patriot of the American Revolution for MASSACHUSETTS with the rank of PRIVATE. DAR Ancestor #: A098680

per memoirs of Howard Fraser Russell: Great-great-great grandfather, Walter Russel was in Captain Parker's Company at the Battle of the Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts, April 19, 1775

Per Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation: V) Walter, son of Joseph and Mary (Robbins) Russell, was born January 24. 1737. and died March 5, 1782, at Metrotomy, on the Charlestown side. Like his father, he too acquired many parcels of land and evidently was an extensive dealer, having many separate tracts at the time of his death. His estate was administered by his widow, with power of guardianship of all their children. Walter Russell married (first), December 14. 1758. Mary Wyman, who died December 1, 1760, at the age of twenty-three years according to the marks on her gravestone at Arlington. He married (second), December 17, 1761, Hannah Adams, and she alter his death married Enos Jones. The children of Waller were: James, Walter, Thomas, Hannah, Nathaniel, John, Joseph and others