- Named in Hugh Thompson's will, 1757.
Killed by Indians (in 1778?). Lucile W. Bates wrote Leora Atkinson Parsons: "This is given this way by some descendants. There were at least two George Russells in East Tenn. at the same time. I do not know whether both George & Hugh [Russell] were killed at the same time or at different times."
Note that the letter from Col. William Christian to Col. William Preston, October 22, 1779, does not mention that any of Bryce Russell's family were killed when Jane Thompson Russell was scalped and the two daughters were taken by the Indian Logan. Yet it does mention six people killed on the Clinch River about that time, and it seems likely that if George (and Hugh?) had been killed when his mother was scalped and his sisters abducted, Christian would have said so.
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