Dorothy
Russell
formerly [surname unknown]
Born before in England
[uncertain]
[uncertain]Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
John Russell
— married
before 1645 in Massachusetts Bay Colony [uncertain]
Descendants [uncertain] 
Died
after age 62
in Dartmouth, Bristol, Plymouth Colony
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Biography
It is estimated, by her presence as the spouse of John Russell in 1642/3, that Dorothy (___) was born about 1615-25, probably in England.
Dorothy (___) was the wife of John Russell of Marshfield, Massachusetts. They were of Marshfiedl as early as 1642/3. In 1661, her husband John bought land at Dartmouth, Massachusetts from Miles Standish, where they remained until there deaths. [1] [2]
Dorothy Russell, wife of John died at Dartmouth on December 18, 1687. [3] [4]
Her husband John died there on February 13, 1695. [4]
His will was dated on January 19, 1687/8 and named:
- sons John, Jonathan and Joseph
- grandson Jonathan, son of Jonathan
- grandson John, son of Joseph [5]
On April 2, 1695, John Russell posted bond, and was ordered by the court to present and inventory of John Russell's seniors estate by April, 1696. [6]
Marriage and Children
Married John Russell by 1645.[7]
- Mary born c1645; married John Cornell c1669. [1]
- Joseph born on May 6, 1650; died on December 11, 1739 [4]; married Elizabeth Fobes. [1] [2]
- John Jr. born c1653; married Mehitable Smith on July 17, 1685 [1] [8]; John Jr. died at Dartmouth on March 20, 1695/6. [4]
- Jonathan born 1655; died on December 5, 1727 [4]; married Hassadiah Smith on February 5, 1678. [8] [1] [2]
- Dorothy born ___; buried at Marshfield on January 13, 1657. [9] [2]
Research Notes
Disputed Parents and Last Name: A previous version of this profile claimed, without source, that Dorothy was the daughter of Roland Cotton and Mary Hurlbert, whose children are documented and include no daughter Dorothy.[citation needed]
Last name Crowder: An earlier version of this profile also claimed a maiden name of Crowder, citing a Bishops transcript that needs checking: 29 August 1637 Saint Peter's Church, Staffordshire, England[10] This couple had a son John in 1638[11] More evidence would be needed to connect this record with the immigrants.
Confused Death Dates Many of the cited articles have confused the death dates in this family, particularly husband John and John jr. I believe this may be from conversion of dates using [2:13:16xx] format, so I have used what is in the Dartmouth VR
Daughter Mary. Some articles suggest that the Mary, the wife of John Cornell was the daughter of John and Dorothy See: TAG24 and Austin's Genealogical Dictionary or RI. p.55 while NEHGR58 does not list her as their child. John Russell Sr only mentioned sons in his will
Unsourced birth date: 14 Nov 1611 was removed as her date of birth ad her origins are unknown.
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Peckham, Mary. Concerning John Lapham and Some of His Descendants: Russell Line in: The American Genealogist, Volume 24, D. L. Jacobus, New Haven, Connecticut, 1948, p. 7-8 (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Russell, Barrett Beard. The Descendants of John Russell of Dartmouth, Mass. in: New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 58, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 1904, p. 364-71
- ↑ Deaths in Dartmouth in: New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 21, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 1867, p. 267
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Vital Records of Dartmouth, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Volume III: Deaths, NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts, 1930, p. 59-60
- ↑ Rounds, H. L. Peter, compiler. Abstracts of Bristol County, Massachusetts Probate Records, 1687-1745, Genealogical Pulbishing Co., Baltimore, Maryland, 2987, p. 10
- ↑ Case 22122:p. 1-2 Bristol County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1686-1880, Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized mages provided by FamilySearch.org)
- ↑ "New England Marriages to 1700." ($) (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. Vol. 2 p. 1313 RUSSELL, John1 (1608-1695) & Dorothy ____ (-1687, Dartmouth); by 1645; Marshfield/Dartmouth {Briggs (1953) 12; TAG 24:7; Reg. 57:281; 58:364, 63:77, 95:172; Sanborn Anc. 74; MD 2:5; Cornell 393; Crapo 156+, 847; Winthrop-Babcock 426; Howland (1919) 14}
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Vital Records of Dartmouth, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Volume II: Marriages, NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts, 1930, p. 403
- ↑ Deaths and Burials in Marshfield in: New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 8, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 1854, p. 192
- ↑ Bishop's Transcript, SLC # 873645 item 2, indicates the following: John RUSSELL & Dorothea CROWDER : 11 SEP 1637. However, the actual parish register records both christian names in latin : Johannes & Dorothea. The english equivalents are John & Dorothy. Furthermore, the actual date of marriage taken from the register is 29 AUG 1637. The name of the church is called Saint Peter's Church. This information was furnished by letter from the Staffordshire Record Office on 9 JUL 1991 (see letter attached to family group record).
- ↑ Staffordshire : Stoke-upon-Trent : St Peter ad Vincula : Register of unspecified type : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/5817e3f3e93790eca3156dd0 : viewed 2 Nov 2023) baptism John Russell 01 Apr 1638
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CORRECTION: Unknown-7644 appears to have married a different John Russell.
edited by Jillaine Smith
I'm aware that there is another Dorothy who married another (?) John Russell. See the link to Dorothy Unknown Near top of narrative.
Before we change her LNAB I'd like someone to review the Bishops transcript record for the 1637 marriage between John Russell and Dorothy Crowder.
Then we need to find their earliest record in New England.
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Dorothy (Cotton) Smith was born in New Hampshire and died there. Her parents were not those attached.
There is no proof that Rowland Cotton and Mary Hurlbert had a daughter named Dorothy.
There is a claim of a marriage record for Dorothy Crowder and John Russell in Staffordshire, England but there is no proof that it relates to this couple.
The sources all appear to be Ancestry.com links, which is to say, nothing. Including a dozen rows and lat-longs just makes more false-specificity. Either we have actual primary sources, or we have nothing...
The implication of the profile as it stands today is that we're 100% sure she's a Cotton (because she's Cotton-662) at birth; and we're implying she MUST have married a Crowder AND a Russell, or that we're sure Crowder is a typo for Cotton. None of this makes sense, enough, to me, to leave it as-is. She should probably be detached from the Cottons unless there is a source, and "belong" to Russell as some kind of NN wife.
Thoughts?