- Aaron Burr, Jr.: U.S. Vice President 1801-08. Killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel in
- Secession conspirator. Acquitted of treason in 1807, but wanted for murder, he fled
to England. Returned to U.S.A. in 1812. Wall Street lawyer, 1812-36. Hero 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 Russell Trust Association), which came to dominate Yale. Founded
prep school for boys, 1836. His secret organization spread in the 1870s to Phillips
Academy, the Andover, 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-founder of Yale, Nodiah Russell (1),
and by William Russell (3) and his wife Mary, sister-in-law to Jonathan Edwards.
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which by the 1830s superseded Perkins syndicate as largest American opium smuggling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 Burr's family during Burr's western conspiracy. Rev. John's daughter Juliet
married Connecticut-born British banker Junius Morgan and gave birth to U.S. financial kingpin
John Pierpont Morgan, named for his grandfather Rev. John.NOTES:
- Speech at Lewistown, Illinois, August 17, 1858; quoted in James Mellon (editor), The Face of Lincoln
(New York: Viking Press, 1979), p. 35. - Fitzhugh Green, George Bush: An Intimate Portrait (New York: Hippocrene Books, 1989), p. 41. 3.
Nicholas King, George Bush: A Biography (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1980), p. 38. - Green, op. cit., p. 47.
- Ibid., p. 48.
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