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RUSSELL, Capt. John Sr.

RUSSELL, Capt. John Sr.

Male 1758 - 1838  (80 years)   Has 2 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.


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  • Name RUSSELL, John  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] 
    Prefix Capt. 
    Suffix Sr. 
    Story Abt 1066  England, UK Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    Russell Surname Origin 
    • "The Russell family, in England, is of great antiquity. It was originally of Normandy, where the name was Du Raze'. Wiffin in his Memoir of the House of Russell, says: 'It derives its distinctive appellation from one of the fiefs which the first chieftain of that name possessed, anterior to the Conquest of England by William the Conqueror, in Lower Normandy, in the ancient Barony of Briquebec. In 1066, they occupied the castle and territory of Du Rozel, which a portion of their appendage, as a younger branch of the Bertrands, Barons of Briquebec; a house, the head of which took the title of Sire, being accounted second only in rank to the Barons of St. Sauveur, who were styled Vis-cout es of 1,a Manche.'

      "Hugh Du Rozel, who appears to have been the first of the name, was born about 1021. Soon after the Norman Conquest, the Du Rozels crossed the channel into England, where they had lands assigned them in Northumberland, and where the name became anglicized into Russell."

      - Early Settlers of Lee County, Virginia and Adjacent Counties, Volume II, p 690
    Birth 13 Apr 1758  Fownhope, Herefordshire, England, UK Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10] 
    Gender Male 
    FindaGrave Memorial ID 175596142 
    Military Service Between 1775 and 1783  Guilford County, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8, 11] 
    the Revolutionary War as a Captain in a North Carolina unit, and he furnished supplies to the Militias of North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia 
    Story 6-9 Apr 1794  Lee County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [12, 13] 
    Chief Bob Benge's Livingston Raid 
    • "At the first light of false dawn, April 6th 1794, found Chief Bob Benge of the Chickamauga Cherokee and six warriors resting behind the brow of a little hill to the rear of the home of William Todd Livingston. Actually, William Todd had died in 1776, and the plantation was occupied by his widow, Sarah, and two of their sons, Peter and Henry, and their families. Peter and Henry (Harry) were lieutenants in the Holston [VA] Militia.

      "A little before ten in the morning Peter and Henry left their house to go to a barn that was at some distance away. Sarah was working in her garden. Henry's new wife of only three weeks, Susannah, who was called 'Sukey', was in an out building with some of Peter and Elizabeth's children. Also, within the farm yard were Elizabeth's sister Sukey, a 'wench' with her child, a Negro man belonging to Edward Callihan, and a Negro boy aged eight. Elizabeth, along with her children aged ten and two and a suckling infant were in the house.

      "Elizabeth was alarmed by a dog's barking and saw seven frightfully painted Indians come running through the farm yard, and she barred the door to the cabin shut. The Indians tried unsuccessfully to knock the door down, and failing that Benge demanded that she open it. When she did not do so, they fired twice at it, with one ball piercing the door, but doing no damage. Elizabeth then took her husband's double triggered rifle down, and for a time fumbled with the mechanism before she, too, fired blindly through the door. The Indians backed off a little, and then sat fire to an adjoining old house. After enduring the smoke as long as she and the children could, Elizabeth opened the door and came out. The Indians thought that a man had fired the shot from within the house and were afraid to enter it, and let it burn down instead. Elzabeth was glad to see her possessions go up in smoke rather than to see the Indians have them.

      "Benge and his war party tomahawked Sarah in her garden. She took four days to die. Also tomahawked were one white child and two colored; one of whom was killed but the other recovered. The Indians rounded up the remainder, which were Elizabeth, the three children who had been with her in the house, Susannah, two Negro men, and one colored woman.

      "Elizabeth handed her infant to her ten year old, and whispered for her to take it and her two year old to their nearest neighbors, John and Rachel Russell. Rachel was the sister of Vincent Hobbs, Jr. It seems that the Indians were content to allow the children to slip off.

      "When Henry and Peter Livingston saw the smoke from their burning home, they hurried back and discovered the disaster. The plan to mousetrap Benge that had been organized by Vincent Hoobs, Jr. after Benge's raid of the year before was set in motion.

      "Either late on the seventh or early on the eighth [of April 1794], Vincent Hobbs, Jr. and a party of militia consisting of men from both the Benham's Fort party and from the Lee County Militia left Yoakum's Station and started for the two passes in Cumberland Mountain that he had found the year before. The party consisted of Vincent Hobbs, Jr. and his brothers Job and Absolom, James Huff, John Benbever, Adam Ely, Samuel Livingston, George Yokum, _____ Dotson, and five others.

      [On the morning of 9 April, 1794.] "The militia party soon saw the Indian party struggling up the spur of Little Stone Mountain, climbing up out of Hoot Owl Hollow toward Little Stone Gap, burdened by their plunder. Sure enough Benge was in front, preceded only by Susannah Livingston. The two parties came exactly opposite each other, when John Benbever raised his head to see if it was time for him to shoot. Benge spotted him, not forty yards away, and threw off his pack and turned to run back down the trail. Benbever fired at him and missed. Hobbs leveled his twenty pound bear rifle at a break in the trees where Benge must pass, and swinging his flintlock with his quarry and allowing for the two second delay in firing between the time he squeezed the trigger and the time it fired, he shot at the cross in Benge's suspenders as he flashed past the opening. At the moment of the shot, Benge stepped into a hole created by the roots of a tree that had fallen down, and Hobbs' one ounce lead ball passed through his head."

      - Selections from BENGE!, Fleenor, Lawrence J. Jr., p 66-89.

      "An account of the captivity of Mrs. Elizabeth Levingstone, of Washington County, Virginia, put down in writing in her presence, and nearly in her own words:

      "We were all hurryed a short distance, where the Indians were very busy dividing & and putting up in packs for each to carry his part of the booty taken. I observed them careless about the children, & most of the Indians being some distance off in front, I called with a low voice to my eldest daughter, give her my youngest child, and told them all to run towards neighbor John Russell's. They with reluctance left me, sometimes halting, sometimes looking back. I beckoned them to go on, altho' I inwardly felt pangs not to be expressed on account of our doleful separation. They two Indians in the rear either did not notice this scene, or they were willing the children might run back.

      "Certified this 15th day of April, 1794. A. CAMPBELL."

      - Selections from the Calendar of Virginia State Papers, Vol. 7, p 111-112.

      "Beginning in 1774, Chief Benge led a part of the Shawnee from the Ohio River on raids along the frontier. Benge, who was part white and part Cherokee, frequently captured slaves and then resold them; he also seized white women and children who were then adopted by various Indian groups. On 6 Apr. 1794, Benge attacked the Henry and Peter Livingston farm on the Holston River, took several residents prisoner, and marched them northeast. Three days later, when they entered the Powell Mountain gap just south, Lt. Vincent Hobbs and eleven Lee County militiamen ambushed them, killed Benge with the first volley, and freed the captives."

      - Virginia Historical Highway Marker X-22, "Benge's Gap", location in current Wise County, 36°54'46" N, 082°42'07" W.
    VA Historical Marker X-22, Benge's Gap    		 VA Historical Marker X-22, Benge's Gap
    Land 20 May 1794  Lee County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    received via a land warrant recorded 
    • He later sold this to land on 20 February 1797 to John ALSUP.

      "John Russell assignee of Abraham Fulkerson &c entered ten acres of land in Lee County by virtue of a Land Warrant No. 18754, lying on the South side of the Stone Mountain near the Stone Gap rather above the board Camp [present day Big Stone Gap, VA in Wise County] at the Three forks of Powell River about half a mile below the Indian "Trale" beginning at a small branch below the large Salt petre cave running up along the side of the mountain and down including the cave for complement."
      - Lee County, VA Entry Book 1, p 30
    Land 2 Oct 1794  Lee County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [14, 15] 
    he purchased from Samuel and Jean NEWELL, 426 acres on both sides of Cain [Cane] Creek on the Poor Valley Ridge, 
    • Cane Creek runs east (from 36°43'55"N, 83°07'17"W to 36°44'12"N, 83°05'38"W) along the top of Poor Valley Ridge just south of VA 621, where this land is located. Cane creek then runs SE to Ben Hur, Va, and then NE to Pennington Gap, VA where it enters the North Fork of the Powell River. This land was originally granted by the Commonwealth of Virginia to Samuel NEWELL on 19 March 1788.
    Land 20 Aug 1801  Lee County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [16] 
    purchased from Peter FISHER, 270 acres, 
    Land 25 Mar 1806  Lee County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [17] 
    that he purchased, 193 acres on Cane Creek, from David and Peggy YEARY 
    • He sold this land on 27 January 1818, half to Benjamin DENT and half to Edward PENNINGTON, for a total of $800.
    Land 1814  Lee County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [18] 
    according to the Land Tax Assessment, totaling 889 acres on Cane Creek, 
    Land 1 Apr 1815  Lee County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [19] 
    on Cane Creek, 843 acres, per the tax assessment 
    • This included 4 dwellings and 5 outhouses, for a total assed value of $1,900.
    Land 27 Mar 1838  Lee County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [20] 
    lying on both sides of Cane Creek totaling 224 acres, that he gave to his son, Ransom, 
    Death 3 Aug 1838  Lee County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 7, 8, 21, 22] 
    Individual Event 7 Aug 1838  Lee County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [23] 
    After John's death, his furniture and 100 acres on both sides of Cane Creek were transfered to his 3 daughters, Peggy, Ruth and Faith, as recorded in the Deed Book 
    Age 80 years 
    Burial Riverside Cemetery, Pennington Gap, Lee, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Address:
    Riverside Cemetery
    Pennington Gap, Virginia
    USA 
    Person ID I4199  Cochrane Genealogy
    Last Modified 17 Aug 2025 

    Father RUSSELL, William   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Mother CROSS, Eleanor   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F2258  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 HOBBS, Rachel,   b. 24 Nov 1767, Province of Maryland, UK Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Feb 1830, Lee County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years) 
    Marriage 13 Sep 1783  [2, 6, 8, 10, 24, 25, 26, 27] 
    • Married in either North Carolina or Virginia.
    Age at Marriage He : 25 years and 5 months - She : 15 years and 10 months. 
    Marriage Status Ended with Wife's death 
    Residence 1790  Guilford County, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 26, 27, 28] 
    in the Salisbury District 
    • They had 4 boys under the age of 16 at the time of the 1790 Federal Census: William, James, John Jr. and Vincent.
    Residence Abt 1793  Washington County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 26] 
    on the North Fork of the Holston River 
    • They had moved from Guilford County, NC sometime in 1793 or 1794, after the birth of their daughter, Margaret, in June 1793 in NC. The North Fork of the Holston River starts in Washington County where present day highway US 19 crosses Clinch Mountain, and runs southwest along the southeast side of Clinch Mountain, passing through Scott County before entering Tennessee just west of Kingsport, TN, a total of approximately 40 miles. The area in Scott County was in Washington County until 1814 when Scott County was formed.
    Residence 1794  Lee County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 4, 5, 26] 
    on Cane Creek, near where the present day town of Ben Hur is located, 
    • They lived here until their deaths in the 1830s. This location is in extreme southwest Virginia, about 40 miles from the Cumberland Gap. It is on the old Wilderness Road that people took in the 1700s and 1800s when they migrated west from Virginia through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky and beyond.
    Children 
       1. Male RUSSELL, William,   b. 28 Feb 1785   d. Yes, date unknown
    +  2. Male RUSSELL, James,   b. 30 Dec 1786, Guilford County, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Sep 1852, Jackson County, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 65 years)
    +  3. Male RUSSELL, John Jr.,   b. 21 Sep 1788, Guilford County, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Mar 1859, Lee County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years)
    +  4. Male RUSSELL, Vincent,   b. 29 Sep 1790, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    >  5. Female RUSSELL, Margaret,   b. 4 Jun 1793, Guilford County, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bartholomew County, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    +  6. Female RUSSELL, Ruth,   b. 8 Jan 1796, Lee County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Apr or May 1889 (Age 93 years)
    +  7. Male RUSSELL, Robert,   b. 3 Nov 1798, Lee County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1878, Izard County, Arkansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)
    +  8. Male RUSSELL, Alexander,   b. 10 Nov 1800, Lee County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Sep 1864, Union County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 63 years)
    +  9. Female RUSSELL, Faith,   b. 15 Jul 1802, Lee County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Nov 1878 (Age 76 years)
    +10. Male RUSSELL, Isaac,   b. 22 Feb 1805, Lee County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1863 (Age 57 years)
    +11. Male RUSSELL, Rev. Ransom Roscoe,   b. 4 Sep 1807, Lee County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Aug 1877, Andrew County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years)
    +12. Male RUSSELL, Alfred King,   b. 5 Jan 1813, Lee County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Jul 1862, Lee County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 49 years)
    Family ID F1705  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 19 Apr 2025 

    Family 2 HIX, Frances,   b. 26 Nov 1778, Washington County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Apr 1861, Lee County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years) 
    Marriage 5 Jun 1831  Lee County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 7, 22, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34] 
    • Frances had been previously married to Joseph Ely. [1]
    Age at Marriage He : 73 years and 2 months - She : 52 years and 7 months. 
    Marriage Status Ended with Husband's death 
    Family ID F1706  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 18 Jan 2021 

  • Notes 
    • (Research):John Russell Sr. may have been the son of William Russell and Eleanor Cross. (Charlies Drue Russell, NSDAR 513313)

      Potential brother: Andrew ijn same 1790 census in NC with John. Has 2 boys under 16 and 2 girls, plus wife.

      Potential brother:  A David Russell was listed in the 1799 and 1814 Land Tax Assessment for Lee County, VA. In 1814, he had 115 acres on Cane Creek.

      Potential Brother:  Joseph Russell, will of 20 Nov 1816 in Hawkins Co., TN, Bk 1, p 417 (copy in Russell file) His Children: Joseph, William, Alexander, Benjamin, James, Betsy Myers (Jacob), Moses and Polly. [35]

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsStory - Russell Surname Origin - Abt 1066 - England, UK Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 13 Apr 1758 - Fownhope, Herefordshire, England, UK Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMilitary Service - the Revolutionary War as a Captain in a North Carolina unit, and he furnished supplies to the Militias of North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia - Between 1775 and 1783 - Guilford County, North Carolina, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - in the Salisbury District - 1790 - Guilford County, North Carolina, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - on the North Fork of the Holston River - Abt 1793 - Washington County, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - on Cane Creek, near where the present day town of Ben Hur is located, - 1794 - Lee County, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsStory - Chief Bob Benge's Livingston Raid - 6-9 Apr 1794 - Lee County, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsLand - received via a land warrant recorded - 20 May 1794 - Lee County, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsLand - he purchased from Samuel and Jean NEWELL, 426 acres on both sides of Cain [Cane] Creek on the Poor Valley Ridge, - 2 Oct 1794 - Lee County, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsLand - purchased from Peter FISHER, 270 acres, - 20 Aug 1801 - Lee County, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsLand - that he purchased, 193 acres on Cane Creek, from David and Peggy YEARY - 25 Mar 1806 - Lee County, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsLand - according to the Land Tax Assessment, totaling 889 acres on Cane Creek, - 1814 - Lee County, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsLand - on Cane Creek, 843 acres, per the tax assessment - 1 Apr 1815 - Lee County, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 5 Jun 1831 - Lee County, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsLand - lying on both sides of Cane Creek totaling 224 acres, that he gave to his son, Ransom, - 27 Mar 1838 - Lee County, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 3 Aug 1838 - Lee County, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsIndividual Event - After John's death, his furniture and 100 acres on both sides of Cane Creek were transfered to his 3 daughters, Peggy, Ruth and Faith, as recorded in the Deed Book - 7 Aug 1838 - Lee County, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - Address:
    Riverside Cemetery
    Pennington Gap, Virginia
    USA - - Riverside Cemetery, Pennington Gap, Lee, Virginia, USA    		 Link to Google Earth
     = Link to Google Earth 

  • Sources 
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      Census - 1820 - Lee County, VA - Russells      		 Census - 1820 - Lee County, VA - Russells


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      Census - 1830 - Lee County, VA - Russells      		 Census - 1830 - Lee County, VA - Russells


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      Life Sketch of Cpt. Joshua Hobbs      		 Life Sketch of Cpt. Joshua Hobbs


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      Marriage Record - John Russell Sr. & Rachel Hobbs      		 Marriage Record - John Russell Sr. & Rachel Hobbs


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      Livingston Raid - Calendar of VA State Papers      		 Livingston Raid - Calendar of VA State Papers


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      Original Russell Homestead - Lee County, VA      		 Original Russell Homestead - Lee County, VA


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      Lee County, Virginia Deed Book 1, page 264.
      Deed - Lee Co., VA - John Russell, Sr.      		 Deed - Lee Co., VA - John Russell, Sr.


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      Citing:  Lee County, VA Deed Book 7, p 430, 27 March 1838.

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      Death Record - John Russell, Sr.      		 Death Record - John Russell, Sr.


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      Windows Into Our Past, Vol 1      		 Windows Into Our Past, Vol 1


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      Citing:  A Russell Family Bible.

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      Census - 1790 - Guilford County, NC - Capt. John Russell      		 Census - 1790 - Guilford County, NC - Capt. John Russell


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      Marriage Record - John Russell Sr. & Fanny Hix Ely      		 Marriage Record - John Russell Sr. & Fanny Hix Ely


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      Marriage Record - John Russell Sr. & Fanny Ely      		 Marriage Record - John Russell Sr. & Fanny Ely


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      Census - 1840 - Lee County, VA - Frances Russell      		 Census - 1840 - Lee County, VA - Frances Russell


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      Marriage Record - John Russell, Sr. & Frances (Hix) Ely      		 Marriage Record - John Russell, Sr. & Frances (Hix) Ely


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