Person:William Russell (197)

In the St. John's Lutheran Cemetery at Hayfield in Frederick County, Virginia, is a memorial stone (see image below) to the Russell family. The stone, which indicates that the Russells arrived in 1745, was erected in 1885 at the direction of James Alexander Russell, a grandson of William Russell of Duck Run. William may have been the "1745 settler". See the 1749 survey entry below.

William Russell of Duck Run made his will on May 29 1777 (he signed with a "X"); it was admitted to probate in Frederick County on September 9, 1777; the Will named wife Mary, and children Moses, Susannah Disponet, James, William and Joseph. [Source: Frederick County, Virginia Will Book 4, pp. 364-366; transcription of Will in Note 1]. The Will identified William's land as his plantation on or near Duck Run and the Dyer Place. The plantation was to be split between son James (the 100 acres where he then lived, on which stood the fulling mill) and the remainder where William and his wife and son Moses then lived. Son Joseph was given Dyer's Place. The executors were William's wife and son Joseph.

Duck Run is a drainage leading to Cedar Creek. Cedar Creek empties into the North Fork of the Shenandoah River (called the Sherrando, among other things, in the early days) about one mile east of today's City of Strasburg in Shenandoah County. Cedar Creek is the NW boundary of Shenandoah County/SE boundary of Frederick County. [Dunmore County (renamed Shenandoah in 1778) was formed from Frederick County in 1772. Frederick County was formed in 1743 from Augusta County, and the latter was formed in 1738 from Orange County.] See: Duck Run (Frederick Co., VA) Research Guide.

About 1750 - By tradition William Russell married Mary Alexander. This may be based on the fact that William and Mary had a grandson (a son of Moses) whose name was James Alexander Russell. No record of such a marriage has ever been located. The marriage to Mary Alexander may be a "myth."

1760 - "Ordered that William Russell of the Company Commanded by Capt. Joseph McDowell (on his Motion) be discharged from further Duty at Muster." [Source: Deed Book summaries for DB 17 & 18 by Gilreath.] The quote was in a section called "From Early Troop Record of Frederick County, Virginia for 1755-1761" which included delinquency and fines lists, lists of court martials and muster rolls, and in a subsection "at a Court Martial on October 31, 1760". Other names from Capt. McDowell's company were: John Nieswanger, John Larrick, Wm Evans, James Vance, Michael Humble, Isaac McCains and James Hogg. This was the period of the Seven Years War/French & Indian War. [Note: There is no way to prove that this is William Russell of Duck Run, but it could be the case.]

There are several land and "road order" records appertaining to William Russell of Duck Run:

• 1749, March 1 - "William Russell, no war't, surv'd 1 Mar 1749 279 a wherein he lives on brs of Ceder Crk, adj John Dyer, Adam Hunter, waste land where Robert Marney lives. cc Henry Fry & John Dyer. Surv. John Baylis." [Source: p. 135, vol. 1 & 2, "Abstracts of Virginia's Northern Neck Warrants & Surveys (Portsmouth, Va.: P. S. Joyner, 1985).]

• 1750, July 15 - Lord Fairfax (Northern Neck proprietor), for "Compensation to me paid. And for the Annual Rent hereafter returned" (yearly on the Feast Day of St. Michael the Archangel, rent of one shilling sterling for every fifty acres) granted to William Russell of the County of Frederick a 297 acre "tract of waste and ungranted Land . . . on the branches of Cedar Creek. Joining John Dyers entry and Adam Hunters late survey as is bounded by a Survey thereof made by Mr. John Baylis" described by metes and bounds. One line ran to a point on Duck Run; another on the line of Adam Hunter; one line appears to have been on a hillside and another on a ridge. [This must be the "plantation" referred to in the 1777 Will.][John Dyers entry must be the 100 acres where Dyer "now lives" granted him by Lord Fairfax on January 8, 1752 with a metes and bounds description showing one line on Duck Run and several references to William Russell's line.] [Adam Hunter's grant was on July 23, 1750 "on a branch of Cedar Creek"; the metes and bounds refers to a path, a steep valley, the fork of a small run, and a hillside.]

• 1750, November 5 - survey for 271 acres for land of Jacob Frye (Fry, Frey) adjoining his father Benjamin on the west and Paul Froman on the east on Cedar Creek a branch of the North River of Shannandoa. William Russell and Henry Fry chain carriers. John Baylis surveyor. [Source: Frey Family Association Journal, Spring 2011, p. 29.]

• 1752, June 2 - the following persons petitioned the county for the building of a road from Disponets Gap to Lewis Stephen's Mill: Martin Crider, Adam Hunter, Jam's Sears, Michael Poker, John Fauhelm, Jacob Disponet, Barnet Disponet, Jacob Breakley Jun'r, Jacob Breakley sen'r, John Dyer, Jacob Cooper, William Dyer, Christopher Disponet, Rodolph Wiseman, Philip Cross, John Bachelder, Robt Marney, William Russel and Nicholas Counts. The county court ordered that Lewis Stephens, Martin Crider and William Russell "Mark the said road & make report to the next court". [Source: FOB 4, p. 140.]

• 1759 - William Russell, 297 acres, 1 year in arrears, appears in the rental records of Lord Fairfax. [Source: microfilm reel 4624 of Library of Virginia.]

• 1761, March 4 - the county court ordered that Abraham Fry, Joseph Fry, Barnet Disponet and William Russell or any three of them "do View the Road from Winchester to the South Branch at the County Line on the North Mountain and Report the Conveniancy and Inconveniancy thereof to the Court." [Source: FOB 9, p. 268.]

• 1762 - a deed shows that a William Russell (probably he of Duck Run) was at that time a trustee or elder of the Cedar Creek Presbyterian congregation near Marlboro (located near Cedar Creek several miles below the mouth of Duck Run).

• 1763, January 27, 28 - John Dyer and his wife Elizabeth (of the parish and county of Frederick, Colony of Virginia) sold by Lease and Release to William Russell (also of Frederick parish and county) 100 acres that had been granted to Dyer on January 8, 1752, land on which he and his wife had lived from at least 1749. The land was described as "beginning at a Red Oak and two white Oaks in William Russell's line thence N 69 W 124 poles [2,046 feet] to a Hickory and black Walnut on the E side of an hill thence S 21 W 130 poles [2,145 feet] to a large white Oak and white Oak saplin (sic) on the N side of Duck Run then S 69 E 124 poles [2,046 feet] to two white Oaks in William Russell's line thence with Russell's line N 21 E 130 poles [2,145 feet] to the beginning." Signed by the marks of John and Elizabeth Dyer. Witnessed by Joseph Fawcett, John Blair and Michal Bocker. Recorded March 1, 1763. [Source: Fred. Co. Deed Book 8, pp.218-222; summary in Vol. 2, Gilreath, at. p. 130.] Cecil O'Dell (in "Pioneers of Old Frederick County, Virginia") stated that this land is located on what is now route 600. Note that the fulling mill thesis by Cassandra Richard analyzed old mill ruins just west of route 600 on the north side of Duck Run. In William Russell's 1777 Will he called this land "Dyer's Place".

• 1763, May 4 - the county court ordered that "William Russell is appointed Overseer of the Road Leading from Barnet Desponet's to Stephens Mill" and that "that the usual Tithables work thereon under him." [Source: FOB 11, p. 82.]

• 1772, Dec. 17 - 1773, Nov. 11 - Joseph Russell, assignee of William Russell, survey by Richard Rigg (chain men Michael Poker and Joseph Russell) of 39 acres near Duck Run adjoining William's own land and also Michael Poker and Adam Shriver. [Source: p. 135, ibid., Abstracts, by Joyner.]

• 1777, May 3 - "I request a deed may issue to my son Joseph Russell." Signed by William (X) Russell. [Source: p. 135, ibid., Abstracts, by Joyner.]

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For detailed information on Duck Run area land transactions from 1735 to 1789, including transactions by the Richards family originally from Dorset in England, see: Duck Run (Frederick Co., VA) Research Guide.

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"The Russell family, once so prominently known in the northwest section, have disappeared. We have mentioned James A. Russell and family elsewhere. His cousin William Russell lived in that section. They married sisters, the Misses Baker, of Hardy County. William was the father of Mrs. James Cover, Mrs. Zepp and one son John. Mr. James A. Russell lived to be an old man. His father was one of the Minute Men, as shown elsewhere. Mr. Russell's gallant son, Stanley, was killed during the early part of the Civil War,-a brave Confederate, well-known to the writer. His sister Mrs. Annie Hack and her brothers, have been previously mentioned." [Source: p. 500, Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and their Descendants, by Thomas Kemp Cartmell, 1909.] [Note: Duck Run and Cedar Creek are in the northwest section of Frederick County. James A. Russell is believed to be a grandson of William of Duck Run by William's son Moses. The 1934 death certificate (Hampshire County, West Virginia) of James A. Russell's son William M. Russell states that his father was James Alexander Russell of Mountain Falls, Virginia. Could James' father Moses have used his mother's maiden name for his son's second given name? In any event, it appears that Cartmell's mention at p. 500 is to the family begun by William and Mary (Alexander) Russell of Duck Run.]

"At an early period many immigrants settled on Capon . . . also on Lost river. Along Back creek, Cedar creek, and Opequon, pretty numerous settlements were made. The two great branches of the Shenandoah, from its forks upwards, were among our earliest settlements." [Source: "History of the Valley of Virginia", by Samuel Kercheval, published 1833, Winchester, Samuel H. Davis, pp. 67, 68.] ". . . extending from the neighborhood of Stephensburg for a considerable distance into the county of Rockingham, [the territory] was almost exclusively settled by Germans." [ibid, p. 79.] "Among our early settlers, a number of Irish Presbyterians removed from Pennsylvania, and settled along Back Creek, the North Mountain and Opequon. A few Scotch and English families were among them. . . . The ancestors of the Whites, Russells, etc. settled near the North Mountain." [ibid., p. 81.]

The first two settlements nearest to the Duck Run area were on the upper Opequon Creek and "are simply called the German and the Quaker settlements, or the Hite and Ross-Bryan settlements". [Source: Wilmer L. Kerns, from his book "Frederick County, Virginia: Settlement and Some Families in Back Creek Valley, 1730-1830", copyright 1995.] John, and his son Isaac, Van Meter applied for land grants from the colonial Virginia government in 1730, as did Alexander Ross and Morgan Bryan the same year; the Van Meters assigned their land grants to Jost Hite, who brought families in to settle in 1732, and by 1734 had settled 16 families. Hite's settlers were generally south and east of the Opequon. Ross and Bryan also obtained land grants; these were "to the north and west of the Opequon, up to North Mountain and the Potomac River." [ibid.] Many families of Germanic origin settled on the Hite land, but so also did Irish (Vance, Wilson, Glass). William Hoge, a Scot and a Presbyterian, settled in the Ross-Bryan area, as did quite a number of Quakers. [ibid.] A 1904 Presbyterian history refers to the "colonies of Hite and Hoge" being the earliest in the Opequon area. [Source: p. 17, The Planting of the Presbyterian Church in Northern Virginia (Prior to the Organization of Winchester Presbytery, December 4, 1794), by James R. Graham, D.D., Winchester, VA.: The Geo. F. Norton Publishing Co., 1904).]

Opequon and Cedar Creek Presbyterian congregations shared ministers and the congregations sometimes seem to be collectively called Opequon. It was here that the younger John Hoge served as minister. [Source: A History of the Presbytery of Winchester (Synod of Virginia) by Robert Bell Woodworth, 1947.] In 1730, the Governor and Council of Virginia granted land on the Opequon and Cedar Creek to John and Isaac Van Meter; their agent was Hans Yost Heydt (aka Hite). Hite moved to Pack Horse Ford (across the Potomac about one mile south of present day Shepherdstown, which back then appears to have been called Pokomoke) in 1731 and then with twenty families to the Opequon in 1732. There were 54 families in the area by late 1735. [Source: ibid.] The early Cedar Creek congregation met near where Marlboro is now located. A deed made in 1736 (to establish a two acre church burying ground) and recorded at Winchester in 1745 refers to a boundary at "the south end of the meeting house property near the Big Spring". Marlboro Furnace (which became Isaac Zane's Marlboro Iron Works) was later established fairly close to the church meeting house. The church trustees identified by the 1736 deed were: David Vance, Joseph Colville, William Chambers, Thomas Marquis, Robert Willson, Robert Allan, William Reid, John Wilson, James Vance, Robert Smith, James Hogg Jr., Samuel Glass and David Glass. [Source: ibid.]

1.   Will of William Russell, May 29, 1777 - Transcription of original from Frederick County, Virginia Will Book 4, pp. 364-366 (microfilm copy from Library of Virginia):
   In the Name of God Amen I William Russell of Frederick County in the Colony of Virginia being very sick and weak in body but of perfect Mind & Memory thanks be given unto God calling unto mind the mortality of my body & knowing that it is appointed for all Men once to die do make & ordain this my last will & testament: That is to say principally & first of all I give & recommend my Soul into the hands of Almighty God that gave it, and my body I recommend to the earth to be buried in Christian decent burial at the discresion of my Executors nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God. And as touching such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life, I give Demise & dispose of the same in the following manner & form
   First I give & bequeath to Mary my beloved wife A good sufficient Maintenance during her natural Life with my Son Moses to whome I have given A portion of my Estate Equivalent to the troble & expence he may be at [into?] Maintenance or if she shall chuse A seperate Maintenance I order that he shall provide for her A good sufficient neat warm Dwelling House on A convenient part of the plantation that I shall bequeath unto him & shall lay in for her A sufficient quantity of provision Viz. Fifteen Bushels of wheat & five bushels of rye & five bushels of Indian corn, and one hundred pounds of beef and one hundred and fifty pounds of pork he is also to keep her Acon & to supply her with A horse & saddle when she shall have occasion to ride & to furnish her with a bed & bed cloaths & decent wearing apparel & such other Household goods as she shall stand in need of and I likewise allow her to have the Negro wench Agg during her life It is to be observed that the quantity of provisions mentioned above is to be given to her yearly & every year during her Life but if their be an overplus she may not sell nor give it away from Moses. Also I give & bequeath to my beloved Daughter Susanna Disponet the sum of five shillings. Also I give & bequeath to my beloved Son James One hundred acres of land it being at the present surveyed & deeds of lease & release written for the same describing the situation & lines thereof it being the land whereon he now liveth situated on Duck run together with the fulling mill and all the appertenances thereof to him his Heirs and assigns for ever. Also I give to my beloved Son William A horse worth twenty pounds. Also I give & bequeath to my Beloved son Joseph his Heirs & assigns for ever that tract of Land known by the name of dyers place together with all the appertenances thereof. Also I give & bequeath to my beloved son Moses his Heirs & assigns for ever all that tract of land whereon I now dweel (except the hundred acres above mentioned given to my son James) and all the appurtenances thereof & likewise all my personal Estate good chattles & stock provided nevertheless that he maintain his Mother as above directed which he is punctually to perform yielding & paying every thing as there above directed to his Mother & he is not to sell the s'd plantation while she live without her Consent he is likewise to pay all the legacies mentioned in this my last will & testament I also allow him to have the Negro wench Agg on the disease of his Mother provided that he pay the sum of Eight pounds to my Son James Eight pounds to Son William Eight pounds to Son Joseph & Eight pounds to Daughter Susanna Disponet. But if Moses should die without Children I allow all the moveable goods & chattles Bequeated to him to be eqully divided among my surviving Children (except those necassaries abovementioned with which he is to furnish his Mother which things I allow her to dispose of at her death as she please if Moses should die without issue) And if Moses die without Issue I allow his Estate of Land which I bequeath to him to devolve to my son Joseph his Heirs and assigns forever provided that he maintain his mother after the same decent in sufficient manner as was above Ordered to Moses, and also that he pay the sum of thirty three pounds to my Son James thirty three pounds to William & thirty three pounds to Susanna Disponet to them or each of their Heirs & also that he keep the Negro wench Agg at his Mothers death provided he pay the sum of ten pounds to each of my surviving Children or Heirs. I likewise constitute make & ordain my well beloved wife Mary and my beloved son Joseph Executors of this my last will & Testament. And I do utterly disalow Brooke & disannul all & every other Testaments Wills, Legacies & Executors by me in anywise before named Willed & bequeathed Ratafiing & confirming this & no other to be my last Will & testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this twenty ninth day of may in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & seventy seven. Signed Sealed Published Pronounced & Declared by [the said] William Russell as his last will & testament in the presence of us and his presence & in the presence of each have hereunto subscribed our names. [William (his mark) Russell][Seal]
   s Joseph Longacre
   s Elias Cackley
   s Peter Hurbough
   Joseph Wesens
   Peter Poker
   At a Court held for Frederick County the 9th day of September 1777 This last Will & testament of William Russell dec'd was approved by the oaths of Joseph Longacre Elias Cackley and Peter Hembough witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded and at A Court held for the said County the 8th day of October in the year aforesaid. On the motion of Mary Russell the Executrisc therein mentioned who made Oath thereto according to Law A certificate is granted her for attaining A probate thereof in due form she with security having entered into & acknowledged bond & Conditions as law directs. By the Court Jas. Keith CofCt
   
   Inventory of William Russell, June 2, 1778 - Transcription of original from Frederick County, Virginia Will Book 4, pp. 388-390 (microfilm copy from Library of Virginia):
   We the under Subscribers first duly sworn to approve the late Estate of William Russell dec'd as follows viz.
   Horse saddle bridle and wearing apparel 28-8-0; 1 cow 10-0-0; 1 heifer 5-0-0; 1 steer 4-0-0; 1 team? 5-10-0; 1 Cow 5-0-0; 1 steer 3-10-0; 1 heifer 3-10-0; 1 cow bell and bell collar 4-0-0; 3 calves 3-0-0; 3 colts 43-10-0; 1 mare 15-0-0; 1 mare 17-10-0; 10 sheep 10-0-0; 2 forks and cutting knife 0-7-0; Rye 3-0-0; Wheat 9-0-0; Oats and spelts in sheave 8-0-0; hemp 0-8-0; 2 bells 0-8-0; 1 tub 0-4-0; Bedstead 0-8-0; gears and chains and an ole saddle 2-10-0; 2 tubs and a box of salt 3-0-0; bed cord and coller 0-2-6; an old cart 2-10-0; a waggon 15-0-0; Cloathe Bress? 6-0-0; Chest and old boxes 1-10-0; looking glass 0-15-0; Hillards? 0-6-0; Bedsted bed and Cloath 8-0-0; Table and dough trough 1-10-0; To sundrys 0-5-0; 7 Chairs 1-5-0; an iron bot and sundrys 1-4-0; gun shot pouch and horn 1-0-0; 3 sheives 0-5-0 a small chest 0-6-0; Negro girl 80-0-0; womans saddle 3-2-6; ax mall rings & sundrys 0-13-0; Grindstone 0-6-0; Blow & plow irons 1-12-0; 8 Geese 1-0-0; Harrow 1-3-0; Size and hanging 0-7-0; log chain 0-10-0; 4 barrels 1-12-0; Dresser and pewter? 9-8-1; 2 iron pots (can't read value); half a bushel (cant' read value); Pot rack and tongs 0-9-0; To sundrys 0-9-6; Books 0-13-0; Pair of smooting iron 0-8-0; drawing knife 0-5-0; old hand saw 0-1-0; allspice morter 0-3-6; To cash 11-5-0; Hogs 1-10-0; Curry comb? 0-1-3
   Signed by Samuel Vance, Elias Cackley & Adam (mark AS) Shriver
   At a Court held for Frederick County the 2nd day of June 1778 This appraisement was Returned into Court and Ordered to be Recorded. By the Court, JaKeith CofCourt
2.   The Charles Marion Russell biography by Ramon Taliaferro and another person does not give any detailed information about C.M.R.'s ancestors, but does state (p. 13) that the Russell "line was English". Charles Marion Russell was a descendant of William Russell of Duck Run. The late George Ely Russell concluded in his summary of what he knew about William Russell: "Alleged to have come to America in 1714 from England via Ireland. [DARMagazine 45:105; no evidence cited.]" The DAR item cited by Russell is dated August-September 1914; the item was an inquiry by P.R.M., who wrote that William landed in "Phila." as a young man and soon married Mary Alexander, "sister of two Quaker merchants of that city; came to Va. abt. 1714". The wording implies that Mary was a Quaker and that the marriage was in Philadelphia. There is no evidence of a Quaker marriage of Russell and Alexander in the Falls MM or Philadelphia MM or anywhere else. P.R.M. was probably repeating a Russell family story. One problem with the story is that the key evidence of William and Mary having a family is in William's 1777 Will, which (with other evidence) names children who appear to have been born after 1750. Could this be correct if William and Mary were already fifty years or more old? The story (without the Quaker reference) appears in several entries in The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy (Chicago: A. N. Marquis & Company) - see p. 538 (Julia Gustine Russell), p. 539 (Silas Bent Russell) and p. 949 (John Bent Russell) in Vol. 1 (published 1925), and p. 442 (Julia Adele Sanford Vandivort) in Vol.7 (published 1942). There are many references to William Russell of Orange, later Culpeper County and to his son William (wife Tabitha) in the early land and other records of Frederick County. These Russells were of the gentry and speculated in land. The elder William was one of the early attorneys registered with the Frederick County Court. There is no indication that William Russell of Duck Run was kin to these Russells, and it seems unlikely because he of Duck Run was a farmer who signed a deed and his Will with his mark. Legal cases naming William Russell (Frederick County Court cases indexed for 1750 and 1751) involved the attorney and land speculator Russell and not William Russell of Duck Run. Images of the case files are on microfilm at the Library of the U. of Virginia. There is no information about William Russell of Duck Run in Cecil O'Dell's "Pioneers of Old Frederick County".
3.   "The village of Mountain Falls . . . near the eastern base of the Big North, has much local history. A central point, where good farms, good flouring mills, a Fuller's Mill - type of the first settler, now, like a spinning wheel - stands silently watching progressive events . . . This is and has been a famous voting place, now known as Russell's Precinct . . . ." [Source: pp. 237, 238, Cartmell.]
4.   In a USGENWEB document for Frederick County, Virginia entitled "Fairfax and Jost Hite Land Surveys, Shenandoah River, 1734-1735", James Russell (birth, marriage, death details unknown) was listed in connection with surveys numbered 9, 10, 11. Others listed in connection with one or more of the same three surveys were: George, John Augustine and Warner Washington; David Castleman; John Maccarmack; Isaac Larue; and Abraham, Edmund jr., Jacob and Thomas Lindsey. Being on the lists means that the persons had claimed land grants in those surveys from the proprietor Lord Fairfax or from Jost Hite.
   
   No copy of surveys 9, 10 or 11 has been found in the Hite v Fairfax Legal Papers 1734-1787; ms 76-90342 (Library of Congress microfilm) or the early Frederick County surveys filmed by the LDS in 1952, as to which the first sixteen pages were said to be missing (LDS microfilm #31415). No land grant to James Russell has been located in the online images available from the Library of Virginia, and no deed from Jost Hite to James Russell has been located in the many online resources devoted to the early settlement of the lower Shenandoah Valley. Additionally, there is no James Russell or any other Russell in the rental records of Lord Fairfax, for the years 1746 or 1750 for Frederick County, available on Library of Virginia microfilm reel 4624; there is a Capt. Wm. Russell listed in 1750 for Augusta County, but he is not William Russell of Duck Run.
   
   It is clear from the available online resources for most of the other persons with land grant claims in surveys 9, 10 and 11 that the surveys were located, generally, in the watersheds of Bullskin Run and Long Marsh Run. These two runs are in today's Jefferson County, West Virginia. As the crow flies Long Marsh Run, from where it enters the Shenandoah River, is about thirty-five miles east of Duck Run in Frederick County. It is slightly farther to Bullskin Run, where it enters the Shenandoah. Between 1772 and 1801, Long Marsh and Bullskin Runs were in Berkeley County, Virginia, and before 1772 in Frederick County, Virginia.
   
   See the National Register of Historic Places registration form dated Sept. 9, 1996 for "Long Marsh Run Rural Historic District" for a good history of the area and information on Isaac Larue and others; and also see William Thorndale's research on the Lindsey's of Long Marsh (letter of 28 July 1975 addressed to Genealogical Society, LDS Church, Salt Lake City, Ut; copy online at mimpickles.com); this Lindsey family patriarch came from Cecil County, MD. ]
   
   On October 10, 1749 Jost Hite and Robert McCoy "exhibited their Bill of Complaint" against Lord Fairfax before the Court of Chancery in Williamsburg, Virginia. The Bill sought to quiet title of the land purchased from the plaintiffs. All of the purchasers who were deserving of this confirmation of their rights were listed in the Bill. Those who had paid the purchase price, taken possession and received deeds from Lord Fairfax were named, including Larue and the various Lindsey's and Warner Washington (with Long Marsh mentioned). Those who were deserving of confirmation also included persons who were in possession and received deeds from Lord Fairfax but had not completed payment were also named, and these persons included George Washington and James Russell. The date of these deeds was not given in the Bill of Complaint. [Source: pages 20-24, Pioneers of Old Frederick Country, Virginia, by Cecil O'dell.] [Note: No grant or deed to James Russell has been found in Gertrude Gray's "Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants" (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1987-1993) or in Peggy Joyner's "Abstracts of Virginia's Northern Neck Warrants & Surveys (Portsmouth, Va.: P. S. Joyner, 1985).]