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of Le Rozel, from the place of that name In Lower Normandy, reaches 

 back into the eleventh century. In England the Ilussells have been 

 among the prominent families since the middle of the twelfth century. 

 The name, given as Rushell, Rozol, Rosel, Rousselle, frequently occurs 

 In the Walloon records at Canterbury. Russell and Rousell, Rouselle and 

 Boussel were in the list of " Foreigners resident in England in 1618-1688." 

 The Russells were also on the original passenger Usts to America in the 

 seventeenth century, at least a dozen entries of them bound for New 

 England. In the New World as in the Old, the family has won distinc- 

 tion. The late Governor Russell of Massachusetts belonged to the best 

 type of American citizenship. 



Vasse. Colonel Joseph Vasse, or Vose, who commanded the First 

 Massachusetts Bay Regiment in the Revolutionary War, was a direct de- 

 scendant of Robert Vose, or Vasse, who came from England to America 

 in 1654 and bought 174 acres of land in Milton, including a portion of the 

 famous Brush Hill. In England the name was spelled Vaux, retaining 

 the Norman origin. It is not unlikely that the name Foss comes from 

 the same source. 



8t. Clair. General Arthur St. Clair had Norman blood in his veins. 

 He was born in Scotland in 1736, died in Pennsylvania in 1818. He was a 

 general in the Revolutionary War. He married in Boston Phoebe 

 Bayard, daughter of a Boston Huguenot, Balthazar Bayard. His wife's 

 mother was a half-sister of Governor James Bowdoin. The St. Clairs or 

 Sinclairs of Scotland were of Norman descent from Walderne, Count de 

 Santo Claro, whose wife was daughter of the Duke of Normandy. 



Warren. General Joseph Warren, whose name will live as long as 

 Bunker Hill is remembered, was born in Roxbury, Mass., June 11, 1741. 

 The origin of his Boston ancestor, Peter Warren, is obscure. He mar- 

 ried Sarah Tucker, and Tucker is a Huguenot name, corrupted from 

 Tuttiett or Touchet. The father of General Warren married in 1710 

 Mary Stevens, daughter of Doctor Samuel Stevens, who first produced 

 the russet apple. The name of Stevens is found as Stiffens, Steffens, 

 Stephens, in Huguenot annals. So also the name Warren, Warene and 

 Werene, is common in Walloon records. Very probably Peter Warren, 

 ancestor of General Warren, was Pierre Warrene, a Huguenot. He was 

 first known in Boston in 1659. 



Reverdy. Peter Reverdy and his son Benoni came to New York from 

 London with Pastor Peiret on the ship Robert in 1687. Peter was the 

 reputed author of certain Memoirs of Sir Edmund Andros. He was 

 chosen coroner of Newcastle, Delaware, in 1603. Reverdy was a Poitou 

 family. Huguenot. 



Johnson. Reverdy Johnson, of Maryland, the son of John Johnson and 

 Ghiselin, daughter of Reverdy Ghiselin, of Maryland, was a Hugue- 

 not, his mother being a descendant of Jan Ghiselin, a Huguenot refugee 

 to England in 1566. 



