General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1879 Original Publisher: Providence Pr. Subjects: Reference / Genealogy Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: JOHN HUSSELL, SENIOE. " John Russell, Seu'r, was one of the, earliest inhabitants of Woburn, Massachusetts, being a subscriber to the town orders drawn up for it at Charlestown, in 1640. He was one of the Selectmen several years in succession, and in 1644 was appointed on a highly respectable and important committee of seven for making distribution among the proprietors of the town ' of plow lands and swamps, and a particular division of the remote timber, according to justice and equity.' He is likewise named in the Town Records of the same year as a deacon of the church ; and1, at that time, was doubtless an Orthodox Congregationalist, both in practice and profession. But afterwards, embracing the peculiarities of the Baptists,, he was in the latter part of the year 1669, or, in the earlier part of 1670, admitted into the Baptist Churchr of Boston, which then met for worship at Noddle's Island. Of this church he was soon after chosen an elder. For, in a letter from Edward Drinker, (a leading member of that church, and one of its founders,) directed to Mr. Clarke and his Baptist Church at Newport, and dated Novemher 3", 1670, he takes the following notice of Mr. Russell : ' The Lord has given us another Elder, one John Russell, Sen'r, a gracious, wise and holy man, that lives at Woburn, where we have five brethren near that can meet with him ; and they meet together first days, when they cannot come to us, and 1 hear there are some there looking that way with them.' Before this, probably in consequence of the change in his religious v...
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