Robert A. Russell, †

- Abt 1840

• Name	Robert A. Russell  [1, 2]
  Suffix	†
  Nickname	!
  Gender	Male
  Death	Abt 1840  [1]
  	Cause: Right to his pew at the South Haven Presbyterian Church was sold by his estate in 1840.
  Person ID	I8849	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	30 Dec 2025

  
  

• Notes

  [This entry in the Hamlet People Database is because Robert A. Russell was recorded in the trustee records of the South Haven Presbyterian Church. He likely was not a resident of either Fire Place or South Haven Hamlets, and most likely was a resident of Yaphank. The only reference I've found for Russell is this enigmatic notation in the entry for Robert Hawkins Gerard (see), found in Yaphank as it is, and was, and will be ..., by L. Beecher Homan: "Coalesced in partnership with William Sidney Smith (see), Mr. Gerard established a woolen factory in combination with his milling business business*. A crisis in financial circles, and the abdication of Robert Russell, manager, caused a suspension. "Pulusory movements since originated to remodel it into a cotton factory, and why the project never matured the orginators solely know." * Gerard built and was the proprietor of mills on the Upper Yaphank Lake, that included a fulling mill.]

  
  

• Sources

  [S40] George Borthwick, The Church at the South: A History of the South Haven Church (Mattituck, N.Y. : Cutchogue Presbyterian Church, 1989.. Written c. 1940 in manuscript form.). [S1149] Homan, L. Beecher, Yaphank as it is, and was, and will be. .... (New York: J. Polhemus, printer, 1875), p. 32.