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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Record of births, marriages, and deaths to January 1, 1898. (Boston, Massachusetts: Wright and Potter Printing, 1898)
p. 198.
Russell.
Phillip's wf., [died] Dec. 19, 1767.
- ↑ Source: Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, from Its First Settlement to 1868, Vol. 2, p. 45 and p. 594, says Philip Russell m. Sarah Bowman, d/o Family:Francis Bowman and Lydia Stone (1). None of Francis Bowman's children have recorded births, so it is not clear that he had a daughter Sarah. It appears from the text that Hudson had access to the will of the father Francis Bowman, "dated 1744". Now, nothing relating to Sarah is mentioned in Hudson's brief comments about the will (which focus on Francis' disposition of his Negro slaves). Only wife Ruth and two grandchildren surnamed Bowman are noted by Hudson in his abstract. No probate file for the father seems to be in Source:Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Probate File Papers, 1648-1871 to verify this, nor does there appear to be a docket for him showing where his probate was recorded, nor does he appear in the indexes of the expected volume for his year at death. The comment about slaves is repeated in several sources, but neither Hudson, nor any of the other sources give any citation of where the will may be found, and none of the other sources seem to have any more information on the contents of the will than what is in Hudson, suggesting they relied on his abstract.
In opposition to this apparently phantom evidence of unknown nature, we have a very findable settlement of John Merriam's estate in 1728 which was assented to by "Phillip Rusell husband to Sarah", noted even by Hudson, Vol. 2, p. 423, though he doesn't seem to have carried this through to the reversed pairing.
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