The Russell House is a historic house in

Andover, Massachusetts Andover is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. It was Settler, settled in 1642 and incorporated in 1646."Andover" in ''Encyclopedia Britannica, The New Encyclopædia Britannica''. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 15th ed. ...

. The weatherboarded

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home was built in 1805. It was added to the

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in 1982. The farm encompasses some . The house and farm were owned by Deacon Joseph Russell, a descendant of Robert Russell, a

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, who emigrated to Massachusetts in the seventeenth century and was the first person buried in Andover's newly created South Parish 'Burying-Yard,' as it was called, in 1710 at age 80. Russell's descendants intermarried with the Holt, Abbott, Marshall, Chandler, Dane and other early Andover settler families. The 'Scotland District' name for that section of Andover derives from Robert Russell's Scottish birthplace, and his subsequent name for his landholding which he called 'Scotland farm.'

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* ''Burke's American Families with British Ancestry: The Lineages of 1,600 Families of British Origin Now Resident in the United States of America'', Bernard Burke, Republished by Genealogical Publishing Company, 1975,

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Deacon Joseph Russell House and Farm, 28 Rocky Hill Road, Andover, Massachusetts, Andover Historic Preservation
Houses completed in 1805 Houses in Andover, Massachusetts Scottish-American culture in Massachusetts National Register of Historic Places in Andover, Massachusetts 1805 establishments in Massachusetts Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Essex County, Massachusetts {{EssexCountyMA-NRHP-stub

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