Ancestry of Colonel
Robert Gould Shaw

U.S. Civil War leader of film “Glory” fame

Jonathan Russell

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Robert Gould Shaw — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 98 
  • Father:
  • John Russell Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Rebecca Newberry   
  • Birth Date:
  • 18 Sep 1655 
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  • Death Date:
  • 20 Feb 1710/1711 
  • Death Location:
  • Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Martha Moody
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  Abigail Russell

  Martha Russell (Ahnentafel No:49 )

  Samuel Russell

• Sources for Jonathan Russell

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Barnstable, Vol. 1, p59, Death record for Revd Mr Russell.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Barnstable, Vol. 1, pp. 58-59, Births for children of Jonathan Russell and Martha Moody.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1906, Vol. 60, pp. 383-384.
  • ⁴ Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 6, 3rd ed., Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 44.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 37.
  • ⁶ Russell, Gurdon Wadsworth, An Account of Some of the Descendants of John Russell, The Emigrant from Ipswich, England, Who . . ., Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Co. (1910), 122-124.
  • ⁷ Sturgis, Francis Shaw, The Descendants of Nath'l Russell Sturgis: With a Brief Introductory Sketch of His Ancestors in England and . . ., Boston: Printed by G. H. Ellis (1925), Introduction prior to page 1.