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een active in the work of the Relief
Corpv Mr. and Mrs. Cutter were the
parent^ of a daughter, Phyllis Russell,
born in 1899, graduated in [917 from Mrs.
Tewkesbury's School at White Plains.
The Russell family, of which Mrs. Cut-
ter is a scion, is one of the several bearing
that name earl) in New England. The
founder of this line in America was William
Russell, a native of England, who
was in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as
early as I'M.s, and he and his wife, Mar-
tha, were members of the church there.
He died February 14, [662, in Cambridge,
and his widow was twice married after-
ward. Their third son, John Russell,
horn September 11. 1645, in Cambridge,
was one of the original members of the
church organized at Cambridge Farms,
now Lexington, in 1696, and the largest
subscriber to the fund for the erection of
a meeting house. He resided in that sec-
tion at the organization of the town in
13, and was a man of considerahle
wealth for his time. He married, ahout
1674, Elizabeth Fisk, daughter of David
and Seaborn (Wilson) Fisk. granddaughter
of David Fisk, a pioneer of Water-
town. Their third son, Benjamin Russell,
born April 3. 1677, in Cambridge, settled
in Salem. Massachusetts, where his son,
Benjamin Russell, was born January 15,
1718, in that portion of the town known
now as Danvers. He was baptized Au-
gust 30, 1719, in the Second Church of
Salem, and was the father of John Rus-
sell, baptized November 5, 1738, in the
same church. He married, in Danvers,
June 13. 1771. Elizabeth Wilkins, born
April 1, 1744. in Middletown, Massachu-
setts, daughter of Solomon and Patience
(Lambert) Wilkins. They were the par-
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died tin-re October i
|. [837. Their on,
John Gardner Russell, born Octobei
17117, in that town, lived in Bradford,
Massachusetts. He married, January 9,
[820, Hannah Kimball, born March 17,
[801, died December i-\ [840, daughter
of Elijah and Hannah (Kimball) Kimball,
of that town. Their son, Augustine
K. Russell, born June 24, [821, in Brad-
ford, lived in Vndover. He married thi
June 5, [845, Abby Woodbury, and they
were the parents of Clara W. Russell, v
of S< ilomi >n M. Cutter. .
noted.
ents of John Russell, born June 13. 1775. after the death of his first wife, returned
in Danvers, died there November 5, 1S47. to England, served under Cromwell in the
He married, October 22, 1795. Elizabeth army of the Parliament, won distinction,
Hadley, born August 12, 1775. in Danvers, was wounded at Naseby, was nursed by
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HINCKLEY, Denison Chesebrough,
Retired Business Man,
Long established in the furniture busi-
ness in Westerly a- a member of the firm
of Hinckley & Mitchell, and then as head
of the- Westerly Furniture Company, Mr.
Hinckley, after a busy and active career,
has since 1917 lived retired from business
affairs. He is thoroughly identified with
the life of his city, well known fraternally
and socially, sharing his time between his
Highland avenue home and his place on
the Isle of Pines, in the West Indies.
Mr. Hinckley's paternal ancestry is of
the noted Hinckley family of Massachu-
setts, and he is also a descendant of
the prominent Denison and Chesebrough
lines. Among his possessions of family
and antiquarian interests is the saddle
used by an ancestor, Thomas Hinckley,
as a post rider, carrying mail between
Westerly and Norwich. This Thomas
Hinckley was also a well known surveyor,
and Mr. Hinckley has the compass he
used in his profession. In the Denison
line he is descended from Captain George
Denison, born in England in 161S. who,