He graduated from
Harvard College in 1681 and was
ordained while teaching at Hadley, Massachusetts. On 12 September 1687, he was elected pastor of the church at
Branford, Connecticut, where he officiated for the remainder of his life. The founders of
Yale University met in his study in Branford to contribute their books to the founding of the University. The doors of the Samuel Russell house in Branford are preserved in the 1742 Room of
Sterling Memorial Library at
Yale.[5]
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^Kelley, B. M. (1974). "Yale", Yale University Press.
^Russell, Gurdon Wadsworth (1910). Welles, Edwin Stanley (ed.).
An Account of Some of the Descendants of John Russell. Hartford, Connecticut: Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co. pp.
131-133. Retrieved 5 April 2018. gurdon wadsworth russell.