George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography

Jonathan Edwards: Graduated Yale 1720. Ultra-Calvinist theologian, president of Princeton
University (called then ``College of New Jersey'').

Rev. Nodiah Russell: Graduated Yale 1750.

Pierpont Edwards (1750-1826): Made Master of Connecticut Masons by the British Army
occupying New York in 1783; he administered the estate of the traitor Benedict Arnold.

Aaron Burr, Sr.: Graduated yale 1735. President of Princeton University (``College of New
Jersey'').

Matthew Talcott Russell: Graduated Yale 1769. DMiddletown, Ct. for 30 years. Lawyer for the Middletown Russell family. Died ca. 1817. eacon of First Congregational Church,

Captain John Russell. Died 1801 or 1802.

Henry W. Edwards: Governor of Conneopium-financed enterprises, patron of William Huntington Russell's new secret society, Skull andcticut 1833, 1835-38. Protector of Samuel Russell's (^)
Bones.

Aaron Burr, Jr.: U.S. Vice President 1801-08. Killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel in 1804.
Secession conspirator. Acquitted of treason in 1807, butReturned to U.S.A. in 1812. Wall Street lawyer, 1812-36. H wanted for murder, he fled to England.ero of imperial Anglo-Americans.

Theodore Dwight (1764-1846): Law partner of his cousin Aaron Burr, Jr. Secretary of the
secessionist Hartford Convention, 1815. He united the Connecticut pro-British party with
Massachusetts ``Essex Junto.''

Timothy Dwight: Secessionist. President of Yale, 1795-1817.

William Huntington Russell (1809-85): Graduated Yale 1833. Founder of Skull and Bones
Society (or Rusboys, 1836. His secret organization spread in the 1870s to Phillips Academy, the Andover,sell Trust Association), which came to dominate Yale. Founded prep school for
Massachusetts prep school.

Samuel Russell: Born in 1789 in the main ancestral house of the Russell family of Middletown.
This house had been owned by the co-founde(3) and his wife Mary, sister-in-law to Jonathan Edwards. r of Yale, Nodiah Russell (1), and by William Russell
He became head of the Middletown Russells. He established Russell and Co. in 1823, which by the
1830s superseded Perkins syndicate as largest American opium smuggling organization. His
partners included leading Boston families.
He founded the Russell Manufacturing Company, Middletown, in 1837; he was president of
Middlesex County Bank. During the formative years of Skull and Bones, the fabulously wealthy
Samuel Russell was undisputed king of Middletown.
Note to Reader:
For the sake of clarity, we have omitted from this chart the ancestral line from Rev. James Pierpont
(2) to his great grandson Rev. John Pierpont. Rev. John Pierpont wrote poetry for the pro-British
secessionists; he denounced President Thomas Jefferson for saying that Pierpont's New England
relatives were ``under the influence of the whore of England.'' Rev. John was an employee of Aaron