Shirley, Looking at early RUSSELLs this JAMES RUSSELL and WILLIAM RUSSELL are located in your RUSSELL family area. Could this JAMES RUSSELL be the brother of DAVID RUSSELL and the son of RICHARD RUSSELL the dececendents of WILLIAM GREENWAY RUSSELL of Winchester? RICHARD RUSSELL, it was stated, had 7 sons. Could the following WILLIAM RUSSELL be one them? "Virginia Valley Records" by John W. Wayland Page 105 "Capt. JOSIAH HARRISON's Company, No. 9" Militia "Vochers" in 1788 ELIJAH RUSSEL, 1 tithable, 3 horses. Page 156 "The ALDERSONS" 1782 January 23, JOHN RUSSEL and SUSANAH DAY Page 316 ---------------A deed dated Nov. 17, 1767, made by FRANCIS KIRTLEY, attorney in fact for WILLIAM RUSSELL, containins the following words: "Lying and being on Mill Creek and athe branches thereof in the Parish of Augusta County in the colony of Virginia, being part of a larger tract of Five thousand acres of land formerly granted to JACOB STOVER, part whereof being lapsed and forfeited was granted to WILLIAM RUSSELL Gent. father of the said WILLIAM RUSSELL party hereto and contains two hundred and fifty acres, being the plantation whereon the said JOHN STEVENSON now lives." (Deed Book 14, page 29 et seq., Staunton, VA) This was the land now owned by the heirs of Dr. E. H HERRING, on Mill Creek. As shown elsewhere in these sketches, the 5000 acres granted really contained 6600 and the survey in RUSSELL vs FRANCISCO show that WILLIAM RUSSELL, Sr., received 1600 acres of STOVER'S upper grant. The case was tried in the Augusta Couty court in 1754. The land in the Mill Creek Valley, owned in modern times by the MILLER, LONG, KYGER and YOUNT FAMILIES, was evidntly embraced in the 3800 acre tract sold to CHRISTOPHER FRANCISCO, IN 1738. "Fairfax Land Suit" Transcribed by Hunter Branson McKay Page 46 (137) The Complainants then produce to your Commissioners the Copy of a Survey made by JAMES WOOD for JOST HITE November the 11th 1735 for 850 Acres lying on BULLSKIN as a part of the aforesaid Grant and demanded the same might be run out by the Surveyors that they might discover thereby who are at present in possession of the said Land------------------It appeared that GEORGE WASHINTON Esquire, JOHN AUGUSTINE WASHGTON, JAMES RUSSELL, OWEN THOMAS, DAVID CASTLEMAN and JOHN McCARMACK are in Possession of the same to which we refer------------(it goes on to state LEWIS THOMAS of SHANANDOAH in the County of Orange)-------------- Page 146 (219) RUSSELL, JAMES (on Expenses List, 1770) Page 7 (17) -------------At a Council held at the Capitol the 12th day of June 1734------------dispute between ROBERT McKAY, JOOST HYTE and others their Partners and WILLIAM RUSSELL touching the Right to certain Lands on SHERRUNDO RIVER claimed by the said RUSSELL and included within a Grant made to the said McKAY and HYTE for one houndred thousand acres. It is ordered that Mr. ROBERT BROOKE do survey the ten thousand acres of Land granted the RUSSELL in the FORK of SHERRUNDO so as the said Survey do not extend near to the said ROBERT McKAYs present Settlement than one mile nor above ten miles along the River------------------- Page 101 15 June 1732 JOOST HEID in behalf of himself and partners having entered a caveat to stop the granting a pat to WM. RUSSELL for land on the WESTERN SIDE OF THE RIVER SHERUNDO granted by order of this board in June 1730 to JOHN VANMETER, it is ordered that the pretensions of the parties be heard before the boardd the 2nd day of next gen'l court and that RUSSELL have leave to take dposition in WEST JERSEY giving notice to VANMETER and heid.------------------------------------------(this goes on to describe land as on the LOWER SIDE of the FIRST WESTERN BRANCH of SHERUNDO otherwise called CAPE LEANOCK and branchs thereof including the land below that and the mountains next to OPECKAN and extending from SHERUNDO RIVER along the line of the land taken up by ROB CARTER esq; dece'd to the said mountain-----------------------and that if RUSSELL will take up the quantity of land he pretends to claim-----------------beginning over against the mouth of HAPPY CREEK and running up the western side of the said western branch but not to cross the same------------On the pet. of WM. RUSSELL leave is granted him to survey 20,000 acres in lieu of the 19,000 formerly surveyed for himlying on BOTH SIDES OF SHERUNDO RIVER ABOVE HAPPY CREEK IN THE FORK OF THE SAID RIVER JOING UPON THE LAND OF HEYD AND OTHERS.-----------------------------this goes on and on and is dated 21 Jan 1734/35 and then into 1735.