Individual Details
Benjamin Russell
(13 Sep 1762 - 4 Jan 1845)
Events
| Birth | 13 Sep 1762 | Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts |  | ||
| Marriage | 21 Sep 1783 | Esther Rice | | ||
| Occupation | newspaper proprietor and editor - Worcester, Washington, Vermont |  | | ||
| Bio Note | Benjamin Russell served several terms in the House of Representatives, as well as the Senate and Executive Council of Massachusetts | | |||
| Bio Note | From 1814-1816, Benjamin was Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. | | |||
| Death | 4 Jan 1845 | Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts | |
Families
| Spouse | Esther Rice (1766 - 1798) |
| Child | Henry Russell ( - ) |
| Child | George Russell ( - ) |
| Child | Abigail Russell ( - ) |
Notes
Occupation
Benjamin started in the employment of Isaiah Thomas, Esq., the proprietor and printer of Massachusetts Spy, the first newspaper printed in the County of Worcester, Massachusetts. After the Revolutionary War, Benjamin established the Columbian Centinel, being its editor and proprietor, a politically toned newspaper popular from the Thomas Jefferson's presidency in 1801 to Andrew Jackson's in 1829.Endnotes
1. Andrew Henshaw Ward, A Genealogical History of the Rice Family: Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice, Who Came From Berkhamstead, England, and Settled at Sudbury, Massachusetts, in 1688 or 9 (Boston, Massachusetts: C. Benjamin Richardson, 1858), 268; digital images, Google Books, books.google.com ( : accessed 2 December 2017.
2. Andrew Henshaw Ward, A Genealogical History of the Rice Family: Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice, Who Came From Berkhamstead, England, and Settled at Sudbury, Massachusetts, in 1688 or 9 (Boston, Massachusetts: C. Benjamin Richardson, 1858), 268; digital images, Google Books, books.google.com ( : accessed 2 December 2017.
3. Andrew Henshaw Ward, A Genealogical History of the Rice Family: Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice, Who Came From Berkhamstead, England, and Settled at Sudbury, Massachusetts, in 1688 or 9 (Boston, Massachusetts: C. Benjamin Richardson, 1858), 268; digital images, Google Books, books.google.com ( : accessed 2 December 2017.
4. Andrew Henshaw Ward, A Genealogical History of the Rice Family: Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice, Who Came From Berkhamstead, England, and Settled at Sudbury, Massachusetts, in 1688 or 9 (Boston, Massachusetts: C. Benjamin Richardson, 1858), 268; digital images, Google Books, books.google.com ( : accessed 2 December 2017.
5. Andrew Henshaw Ward, A Genealogical History of the Rice Family: Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice, Who Came From Berkhamstead, England, and Settled at Sudbury, Massachusetts, in 1688 or 9 (Boston, Massachusetts: C. Benjamin Richardson, 1858), 268; digital images, Google Books, books.google.com ( : accessed 2 December 2017.
6. Andrew Henshaw Ward, A Genealogical History of the Rice Family: Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice, Who Came From Berkhamstead, England, and Settled at Sudbury, Massachusetts, in 1688 or 9 (Boston, Massachusetts: C. Benjamin Richardson, 1858), 268; digital images, Google Books, books.google.com ( : accessed 2 December 2017.