WILLIAM RUSSELL ... He married, August 19, 1719, Mary, eldest daughter of the Rev. James Pierpont (Harv. Coll. 1681), of New Haven, by his third wife, Mary, daughter of the Rev. Samuel Hooker, of Farmington. ...
Their family consisted of four sons and five daughters.
Besides the Rev. William Russell (Y. C. 1745) and the Rev. Noadiah Russell (Y. C. 1750), one son and four daughters survived him. Descendants of the name in direct line (five generations in all) have been graduated at the College. ...