Taunton, Mass., in 1652, to build iron-works
in company with the brothers James and
Henry Leonard. It has been stated that Ralph
later went to Dartmouth and started a forge
at Russell's Mills, and was the ancestor of the
Russells of that town. "On this point," says
Barrett Beard Russell, in his article on the
descendants of John Russell of Dartmouth, in
the New England Historic and Genealogical
Register of October, 1904, "I have been unable
to find any proof that he was the father of
John, or that he built the aforesaid forge."

John Russell is thought to have been born
in 1608. He died 13th of 2d month, 1694-95.
His wife, Dorothy, died 13th of 12th month,
1687. Their children were: John, Martha,
Dorothy (died or was buried in Marshfield
Jan. 13, 1657-58) and Joseph (born May 6,
1650).

(II) Joseph Russell, born May 6, 1650,
probably in Marshfield, died Dec. 11, 1739.
His wife, Elizabeth, born March 6, 1657, died
Sept. 25, 1737. Their children were: Joseph
(twin), born Nov. 29, 1679; John (twin),
born Nov. 29, 1679; William, born May 6,
1681; Mary, born July 10, 1683; Joshua, born
Jan. 26, 1686; Rebecca, born Jan. 3, 1688;
Benjamin, born Mav 17, 1691; Seth, born
April 7, 1696: and Sarah.

(III) Joseph Russell (2), son of Joseph,
born Nov. 29, 1679, in the fort house at Rus-
sell's Orchard, Dartmouth, where the citizens
had assembled for protection from the Indians,
was twice married, the name of his first wife
being Sarah. He married (second) (permis-
sion of the Friends' Meeting 19th of 5th
month, 1703) Mary, daughter of Abrahpm
Tucker, and granddaughter of Henry Tucker.
One child, Sarah, born May 24, 1702, blessed
the first marriage, and the following children
the second: Mary, born June 1, 1704; Abra-
ham, March 19, 1705-06; William, Dec. 20,
1708; Abigail, March 19, 1711; Caleb, Aug.
9, 1713 ; Martha, June 24, 1716 ; Joseph, Oct.
8, 1719; Mary, Dec. 20, 1723; and Patience,
Oct. 8, 1727.

(IV) Abraham Russell, son of Joseph (2),
born March 19, 1705-06, in Dartmouth, Mass.,
married Nov. 28, 1728, Dinah Allen, born Dec.
8, 1703-04, who died in 1784. He died July
4, 1770. Children, all born in Dartmouth,
Mass.: Abigail, born Jan. 26, 1730-31, died
Nov. 27, 1815-16; Seth, born Sept. 2, 1732,
died in 1820; Abraham, born Dec. 23, 1733,



married Hannah Devoll; David, born Dec. 6,
1735, married Susannah Soul, and died in,
1814; Thomas, born May 25, 1738, married
Edith Sherman; Rachel, born July 28, 1741,
married Edmund Maxfield; William, born
Aug. 5, 1743, married Hepzibeth Mosher, and
died March 17, 1825; Allen was born March
2, 1745.

(V) Allen Russell, son of Abraham, born
March 2, 1745, in Dartmouth, Mass., died Feb.
13, 1835. He married Sept. 27, 1781, Abagail,
daughter of Gideon and Elizabeth Allen. Mrs.
Russell died Nov. 11, 1815. Children: Meri-
bah, born Nov. 30, 1782, died in Fairhaven,
Mass., unmarried, Nov. 2, 1851 ; Gideon, bom
April 25, 1784, died when about twenty-one;
Elizabeth, born Sept. 24, 1785, died when
about eighteen; David, born Oct. 22, 1786,
married (first) Betsey Blackmer and (second)
Mrs. Mary F. (Parker) Blackmer, and died
July 3, 1869; Meriah, born April 5, 1788, mar-
ried John Taber; Lemuel was born April 20,
1791; Susan, born May 6, 1793, married
Gamaliel Lincoln, and died April 26, 1878.

(VI) Lemuel Russell, son of Allen, born
April 20, 1791, in Dartmouth, Mass., married
March 21. 1810, Mercy W. Taber, of Acushnet,
born April 24, 1794. Mr. Russell, when a boy
of fourteen years, accompanied his parents on
their removal to what is now the town of
Acushnet. He died April 15, 1854. His wife
survived him and died March 18, 1863. Their
children were: George T., born June 8, 1811;
Elizabeth, born March 28, 1813, who died
young; Betsey B., born March 11, 1815, who
died unmarried March 17, 1879; Allen, born
March 16, 1817, who married Rhoda R. Gif-
ford, and died Jan. 26, 1888; and Nye T.,
born Aug. 16, 1819, who died when young.

(VII) George Taber Russell, son of Lemuel
and Mercy W. (Taber) Russell, was born June
8, 1811, in what was then New Bedford, later
became Fairhaven, and is now Acushnet. He
acquired a common school education. As time
passed he became interested with his brother
Allen in real estate transactions and from time
to time they bought and sold considerable
property, dealing especially in woodland. He
developed shrewdness in his real estate trans-
actions and in time, by carefully looking after
his business and the practice of economy,
a7nassed considerable wealth. He became one
of the heaviest land owners in the town of
Acushnet, and was considered an expert in
the value of such lands as he handled.

Mr. Russell was always to the front, active
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for the town. Possessed of a remarkable mem-
ory, in his last days he narrated with much in-
terest to those who met and conversed with him
events of the past, remembering as he did
much of the history of his section. Mr. Eus-
sell died May 16, 1899.

On Oct. 29, 18;57, Mr. Eussell married
Eubey B. Doty, born April 10, 1816, in Roch-
ester (now Mattapoisett), Mass., a direct de-
scendant of (I) Edward Doty or Doten, a
London youth who came over in the "May-
flower," 1620, as an apprentice of Stephen
Hopkins, and the first account of whom is in
Cape Code harbor, where he signed the cabin
contract. Hopkins was a tanner of London,
and joined the Pilgrims at Southampton. Doty
was made a freeman in 1633, etc. From tliis
Edward Doty, who married Faith Clarke,
Eubey B. (Doty) Eussell's descent is through

(II) Joseph Doty, born April 29, 1631, in
Plymouth, married there Sept. 5. 1654, Eliza-
beth Warren, who was born in Plymouth,
daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah (Walker)
Warren, and granddaughter of Richard War-
ren, a passenger in the "Mayflower," 1620.
Joseph Doty married (second) Deborah Hatch.
He also had a third wife, but Deborah was the
mother of his son Ellis, of the line here con-
sidered. Joseph Doty died in Eochester, Mass.,
as did his wife Deborah.

(III) Ellis Doty was born in 1681, prob-
ably in Sandwich, Mass. His wife's name was
Ellinor, and they resided in Eochester, Massa-
chusetts.

(IV) Edward Doty, born May 7, 1705, in
Eochester, Mass., married there Nov. 19, 1726,
Mary Andrews. He was a farmer in Eochester ;
may have removed later to Hardwick, Massa-

(V) Capt. John Doty, born Aug. 7, 1734, in
Eochester, Mass., married there Dec. 28, 1758,
Elizabeth Clark, and lived the greater part of
his life in Eochester, but died at Montpelier,
Vt., as did his wife.

(VI) Thomas Doty, born Oct. 8, 1759, in
Eochester, Mass., married there April 5, 1780,
Asenath Bassett. He was a shoemaker by
trade. They removed in 1799 to Montpelier,
Vermont.

(VII) Thomas Doty (2), born in Eoch-
ester, Mass., was reared by his grandfather
Bassett. He married there, probably in June,
1807, Bathsheba Blankenship; both lived and
died in Eochester, Massachusetts.

(VIII) Eubey Blankenship Doty, bom April
10, 1816, married George Taber Russell, and
died Dec. 28. 1891.

The following were the children bom to Mr.



and Mrs. Russell: Abby, born Nov. 3, 1838,
died Jan. 31, 1841; George Taber, Jr., was
born Jan. 8, 1840; Charles Lemuel, born Oct.
13, 1841, married Feb. 25, 1875, Mary E. Pot-
ter, and died Oct. 18, 1899, leaving one daugh-
ter, Elizabeth L. ; Elizabeth Ann, born April

10, 1845, married Feb. 21, 1867, Israel D.
Washburn, and died Dec. 14, 1868; Abby Lou-
isa, born May 11, 1847, died Dec. 27, 1847;
Sylvia Harlow, born April 10, 1849, died Sept.
16, 1850; Rubie Doty, born Feb. 13, 1851, re-
sides at the homestead in Acushnet, with her
brother Henry T. ; Henry Thomas, born July

11, 1854, died July 15, 1854; Henry Thomas
(2) was born June 19, 1855.

(VIII) George Taber Russell, Jr., son of
George Taber and Rubey Blankenship (Doty)
Russell was born Jan. 8, 1840, in Fairhaven
(now Acushnet), Mass. After acquiring the
usual training in the public schools of his na-
tive town and in those of New Bedford he
furthered his studies in the line of preparation
for business at a commercial college of Provi-
dence, R. I. When eighteen years of age he
began to teach school' and for the long period
of twenty-two years continued in the profes-
sion with marked success, his field of labor
being in the schools of his native town and
those of Fairhaven and New Bedford.. Dur-
ing one of the years as a teacher in Acushnet
the town report of that place paid Mr. Russell
the following well-deserved compliment: "Mr.
Russell enjoys an enviable reputation as a suc-
cessful teacher, exhibiting at all times those
qualities so essential to success, namely, firm-
ness, patience and self-possession."

Mr. Russell was also for a time an in-
structor at Scholfield's commercial college in
Providence. He was for some three years a
valuable member of the Acushnet school com-
mittee. Since the middle seventies of the last
century he has been employed in the New Bed-
ford Institution for Savings. He is a member
of Middlfeboro Lodge, No. 135, I. 0. 0. F.,
and of Annawan Encampment, No. 8, of New
Bedford.

(VIII) Henrt Thomas Russell, son of
George Taber and Rubey Blankenship (Doty)
Russell, was born June 19, 1855, in what is
now Acushnet, Mass. He acquired his educa-
tion in the public schools of his native town,
those of New Bedford and the Friends' Acad-
emy, also of New Bedford. He has been vari-
ously occupied, and for years has been together
with his brother George T. employed in the
management of the estate of his father. Mr.
Russell is well and favorably known in his sec-
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nate circumstances which made him doubly
charitable and kindly toward many whom he
befriended in various ways.

His home life was ideal. On April 18, 1851,
he married Nancy B. Wheaton, who was born
in Eehoboth March 10, 1824, daughter of Wil-
liam and Nancy Burr Wheaton, and grand-
daughter of Isaac Burr. The married life of
Mr. and Mrs. Short covered a period of over
fifty-two years, during which time their mu-
tual devotion brought a degree of happiness
and contentment known to few. Both were
domestic in their tastes and lovers of home,
and they took great pride in the home on Bank
street which Mr. Short erected. Mrs. Short
has been a member of the M. B. Church for
the past forty-five years, and for twenty-five
years was a member of the Congregational
Church at Eehoboth, Mass. She has always
shared the high esteem in which Mr. Short
was held, and is well known for her kindliness
and benevolence. Mr. Short was a member of
Ezekiel Bates Lodge, A. F. & A. M., at Attle-
boro. In politics he was a Democrat of the
old school.

FEANCIS E. WHITE. The Brock-ton fam-
ily of Whites here treated, the head of which
is the present Francis E. White, who has long
been one of the cit/s most successful and
highly honored business men, and as well an
enterprising and progressive citizen, while not
an old-time family in the community is one —
with its connections through marriage — an-
cient and historic in the Commonwealth, de-
scending from one of the "Mayflower" Pil-
grims. The progenitor of this branch of the
White family was Thomas White, who was ad-
mitted a freeman of Weymouth, Mass., in
1635-36, from whom Francis E. White is the
seventh generation removed. Among the White
connection in and about Weymouth may be
mentioned such Colonial families as Loud,
Burrell and Tirrell, names associated with
early New England history. Ma j. John Tirrell
will be recalled as the drum major who served
with General Winslow at Annapolis Eoyal in
1755, during the French war, and at Fort
William Henry at the time of the massacre
there in 1757; he was one of the few who
made their escape to Fort Edward. It was
either John Burrell, the Weymouth settler, or
his son John, who was a member of the com-
pany commanded by Capt. Isaac Johnson, in
December, 1675, and was probably in the
deadly assault with the Indians when his cap-
tain was killed. It is a matter of history that
Francis Loud, said to have come from Scot-



land, appeared at Sagadahoc, Maine, on the
Kennebec river, as early as 1675, and that his
son Francis, who was a resident of Weymouth,
by his marriage to a daughter -of . Isaac and
Mary (Turner) Prince connects his posterity
with the blood of William Brewster, of the
"Mayflower."

The history of this branch of the White fam-
ily follows, the generations being given in
chronological order, beginning with the emi-
grant ancestor.

(I) Thomas White was admitted a free-
man of the Massachusetts Colony March 3,
1635-36, being then and previously an inhabi-
tant of Weymouth and a member of the church
there. Neither the place of his nativity in
England nor the year of his coming to this
country is certainly known. His age is stated
in a deposition taken in 1659 at about sixty
years. He was, therefore, born in 1599. His
name appears on the earliest records of Wey-
mouth, and if not one of the first settlers he
must have been nearly so. His place of resi-
dence is said to have been near the present
turnpike leading from Quincy to Hingham in
Weymouth, what has long been known as "Old
Spain." He was many years one of the select-
men of Weymouth, and was often chosen on
important committees. He commanded a mili-
tary company, then a post of distinguished
honor and responsibility, and was representa-
tive to the General Court in 1637, 1649, 1657
and 1671. His will, dated July 5, 1679, was
proved Aug. 28, 1679. His death, at the age
of eighty years, must have occurred in the in-
terval. He was the ancestor of a numerous
posterity, many of whom have been persons of
distinction and education and worth. His
wife, not being mentioned in the will, prob-
ably died before him, and neither her Chris-
tian name nor her surname has been ascer-
tained. His children living at the date of the
will, and probably born in Weymouth, were as
follows: Thomas, who married Mary Pratt;
Joseph, who married Lydia Eogers; Hannah
or Anna, who married Capt. John Baxter;
Samuel, who married Mary Dyer; and Eben-
ezer, who married Hannah Phillips.

(II) Capt. Ebenezer White, youngest son of
Thomas White, was born in 1648, and married
Hannah Phillips, born Dec. 4, 1651, daughter
of Nicholas and Abigail Phillips. Their chil-
dren were : Ebenezer, who married Hannah
Pierson; Thomas, who married Mary White;
Samuel, who married Anna Pratt; Joseph,
who married (first) Sarah and (second) Cath-
arine Andrews ; Hannah, who married John
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Benjamin, who married (first) Rutli Reed and
(second) Ann Bicknell ; Experience, who mar-
ried Joseph Pool ; and Elizabeth, who mar-
ried David Pierson.

(III) Deacon Samuel White, son of Capt.
Ebenezer White, was born in 1676, and mar-
ried Anna Pratt, daughter of Matthew Pratt,
Jr., and Sarah (Hunt), his wife. He died
Aug. 18, 1760, aged eighty-four years; his wife
was born Sept. 14, 1682, and died Sept. 14,
1757, aged seventy-five years. Their children,
all born in Weymouth, were : Ebenezer, who
married Anna Short; Elisha, who died in in-
fancy; Matthew, who married Martha Vinson;
Samuel, who settled in Ashford, Conn. ; Elisha
(2), who married Silence Whitman; Jeremiah,
who married (first) Hannah Cantebury, (sec-
ond) Sarah Thayer and (third) Esther King-
man; Anna, who married David Gannett; Ne-
hemiah, who married Ruth King; and Ezekiel,
who married Abigail Blanchard. The father
of the above children was deacon of the Con-
gregational Church at South Weymouth for a
number of years.

(IV) Deacon Matthew White, son of Deacon
Samuel White, was born April 17, 1704, in
Weymouth, Mass., and married Aug. 9, 1727,
Martha Vinson, daughter of Samnef and Han-
nah (Bicknell) Vinson. He was chosen dea-
con of the church of the Second precinct.
South Weymouth, in November, 1743. His
children, all born at South Weymouth, were:
Martha, who married John Pratt; Daniel, who
married Sarah Turner; Hezekiah, who mar-
ried Hannah Butt; Sarah, who married Eben-
ezer Noyes; Hannah, who died young; Char-
ity, who married Micah Allen; Experience;
Matthew, who married Esther Bayley; Eliza-
beth ; Benjamin, who married Anna White ;
Azubah ; and Hannah, who married Jesse
Dunbar.

(V) Deacon Benjamin White, son of Deacon
Matthew White, was born in April, 1747, in
South Weymouth, and died Oct. 30, 1815, aged
nearly seventy years. He married (published
May 31, 1766) Anna White, of Abington,
daughter of Ebenezer and Anna (Short)
White, his cousin. He was also deacon of the
church at South Weymouth. His children,
born in Weymouth, were: Charity, who mar-
ried Daniel Loud; Lydia, who probably mar-
ried David Whitman; Benjamin; Jonathan,
who married Polly Loud ; Jeremiah, who mar-
ried Ruth Derby ; Vinson ; Anna, and Jacob.
Deacon Benjamin White served in Massachu-
setts and Rhode Island in the Revolutionary
war, and is listed both as a drummer and as
a private.



(VI) Jonathan White, son of Deacon Ben-
jamin White, was baptized in March, 1774, in
South Weymoufh, and married Oct. 25, 1795,
Polly Loud, daughter of William and Lucy
(Vining) Loud, and a descendant of Elder
William Brewster (who was born in 1590, in
England, "the excellent elder of Plymouth,"
who came to America in the "Mayflower" in
1620). Mr. White was one of the substantial
farmers of Weymouth, where he was a member
of the old Congregational Church. To him
and his wife were born in Weymouth children
as follows: George Washington, born Dec. 12,
1797; Mary Ann, Dec. 1, 1799; Jonathan
Major, Jan. 16, 1801 ; Boylston Adams, Nov.
7, 1803; Lucy Eldridge, April 9, 1806; and
William Loud, Jan. 27, 1811.

(VII) George Washington White, son of
Jonathan and Polly (Loud) White, was born
Dec. 12, 1797, in Weymouth, and married
Betsey Burrell, daughter of Samuel, Jr., and
Ruth (Tirrell) Burrell, of South Weymouth,
and a descendant in the sixth generation of
John Burrell, who was one of the early settlers
of Weymouth, and as well a descendant of Wil-
liam Tirrell, who was one of the early settlers
of Boston. Mr. White was engaged in farming
in his native town during his active years, and
died in South Weymouth in 1879, at the ad-
vanced age of eighty-two. He was a quiet,
unpretentious man, devoted to his home and
family. He was musically inclined, and for
pastime frequently played in the amateur or-
chestras of his neighborhood. He and his
wife were members of the old South Congre-
gational Church of South Weymouth. To Mr.
and Mrs. White were bom children as follows:
George W., Jr., who lived and died in Wey-
mouth, where he was deputy sheriff for a
period of forty-five years; Sanford, who was a
shoemaker and died in Weymouth ; William, a
shoemaker, who died in Quincy, Mass. ; Henry,
who was a turnkey at the House of Correction
in Waltham for a number of years, and died at
Dedham, Mass. ; Loring, a shoemaker, ^vho
died in Brockton ; Augustavus, who died in
South Weymouth, .where he was engaged in the
clothing business; Francis E., who is men-
tioned below; Elizabeth, who was engaged in
teaching in San Francisco for a number of
years, where she died unmarried ; Mary, who
died unmarried in Richmond, Va. ; Emeline,
who married Abraham Randall, and died in
Abington, Mass. ; Harriet, who married Ste-
phen Randall, and died in Abington; and Mal-
vina, who married Francis Bush, and is now a
widow and residing in South Weymouth.

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George Washington and Betsey (Burrell)
White, was born Aug. 8, 1837,, in South Wey-
mouth, Mass., and in the common schools of
his native village and at the first high school
of the town acquired the rudiments of his
education, which he furthered at the South
Weymouth high school, which lie attended one
year. At the age of seventeen (1854) he went
to Boston, wliere he entered the counting room
of Daniel Deshon & Son, at No. 5 Long wharf,
who were engaged in the South American and
West Indies trade, and there acquired a good
business training. When twenty-one years of
age he went to New York and there was simi-
larly occupied until the breaking out of the
Civil war, in 1861. Answering the call of his
country, he left the counting room for the
tented field, enlisting Sept. 2, 1861, in Com-
pany G, 4th New York Cavalry, and for up-
ward of three years shared the fortunes of war
with his command, which during his service
formed a part of the Army of the Potomac.
For meritorious service at the battle of Fred-
ericksburg, Va., in December, 1868, he was
promoted to first lieutenant. He was mus-
tered out with his regiment Oct. 28, 1864, at
Winchester, Virginia.

Returning to his native State at the close
of the war with an honorable army record,
Lieutenant White located in the town of North
Bridgewater, now the city of Brockton, Mass.,
where he began a business career which has
proved one of marked success, and where as
a citizen he has won and held the confidence,
esteem and respect of his fellow citizens. He
became associated with the late Daniel S. How-
ard in the manufacture of boots and shoes,
and they operated under the firm style of Dan-
iel S. Howard & Co., the senior member of the
firm having the reputation of being one of the
most successful and leading manufacturers in
Massachusetts. Withdrawing from this firm
in 1879 Mr. White established a business of
the same kind on his own account, under the
firm name of F. E. White & Co., in which
from the very start he greatly prospered, until
he became one of the wealthy men of his
adopted city. He continued actively engaged
in the manufacture of shoes until 1906, in
which year he retired, since then devoting him-
self to the care of various real estate holdings
and invested interests.

A man of large and keen business ability
and foresight, and one of force, the interest
Mr. White has always manifested in the ad-
vancement of the city has not been without
profit to the community. He was an early ad-
vocate of the proposed change of the name



from North Bridgewater to one more dis-
tinctive in character and favored the name of
Brockton, which was finally adopted. He early
advocated the change from the town to the
city form of government, and since the change
he has most intelligently served two terms,
1887 and 1888, as a member of the board of
aldermen, being president of the board the
latter year. He was also one of the comraiS'
sioners of the Sinking Fund for a number of
years. For years Mr. White was a director of
the Brockton National Bank and the Boylston
National Bank of Boston. He is a Mason,
holding membership in Paul Revere Lodge, A.
F. & A. M.; Satucket Chapter, R.' A. M.;
Brockton Council, R. & S. M. ; and Bay State
Commandery, K. T. — of Brockton. He is a
member of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion, of Fletcher Webster Post, No. 13, G.
A. R., and of the Commercial Club. Mr.
White is an active member of the Church of
the New Jerusalem, and has served on the-
standing committee of the church for a num-
ber of years, being liberal in his support of
all worthy religious and charitable move-
ments.

It is worthy to note here that this White
family to which Lieutenant White belongs is
truly a military and patriotic one. His father
was a soldier in the war of 1812, and two of
his more remote ancestors were patriots of the
Revolution, both serving as soldiers, while the
first five of the seven sons of his father were
participants in the war for the preservation
of the Union, 1861-65, all performing faithful
and honorable service.

Mr. White has traveled quite extensively,
both in this country and abroad. His political
affiliations have been with the Republican
party. He is a temperance man, believing it
for the good of the community.

On May 2, 1866, Mr. White married Ada-
line Frances, born Feb. 17, 1844, daughter of
Charles Little and Betsey (Morton) Hauth-
away, of Brockton, Mass. She died May 24,
1884, and in October, 1885, he married (sec-
ond) Fanny Carlton, only daughter of Rufus
Carlton and Mary (Tobey) Kimball, of Brock-
ton, and widow of George F. Gurney, of Brock-
ton. One child, Henry Preston, was born to-
the first marriage. He has been liberally edu-
cated, graduating from Harvard University in
1899, and is now an architect in Boston, being
the junior member of the firm of Pray, Hub-