Philadelphia County PA Archives Military Records.....Russell, Phillip M. 
Revwar - Pension 
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PHILLIP M. RUSSELL 
Of Pennsylvania

    Phillip M. Russell applied for revolutionary pension while living in
Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, in 1717. He entered the service November 14,
1777 and was attached to the 2nd Virginia Regiment. He was discharged October 8,
1778, on account of deafness resulting from camp fever. He married Esther ___ in
Philadelphia, Penn., November 1, 1776. After the revolution they moved to
Richmond, Virginia, to reside. Phillip M. Russell died August 11, 1830 when he
was ninety years of age. His widow, Esther Russell, drew a pension. She died
July 26, 1846, aged 89 years. They had thirteen Children, the names given in the
pension statements being: Samuel, born August 16, 1780; Moses Milton who served
as an officer in the War of 1812 and had one son. Edmund J.; Rachel, born about
1797; Sarah, born about 1804; and Rebecca, born about 1795, who married David
Nathans and in 1825 was a widow with two children. There was a grandson, Waring
Russell, whose parents' names are not given.


Additional Comments:
From:

SOME TENNESSEE HEROES
OF THE
REVOLUTION
Compiled From Pension Statements
PAMPHLET NO. III

by Zella Armstrong

This was in the section marked:

RECORDS OF SOME REVOLUTIONARY PENSIONERS WHO DID NOT LIVE IN TENNESSEE BUT WHO
HAVE TENNESSEE DESCENDENTS OR SOME OTHER TENNESSEE INTEREST 

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