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Samuel Russell Trevett

TREVETT, Samuel Russell, soldier, born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, in 1751 ; died there, 19 January, 1832. He served with coolness and courage at the battle of Bunker Hill, where he commanded a company of artillery, and again in the Rhode Island expedition in August, 1778. In 1812 he was captured by a British vessel as he was returning to this country from Sweden, where he had been engaged for four years in trade. From July, 1814, till his death he commanded a United States revenue-cutter at Boston.--His son, Samuel Russell, surgeon, born in Marblehead, 20 August, 1783; died in Norfolk, Virginia, 4 November, 1822, was graduated at Harvard in 1804, and began practice in Boston, but was soon afterward appointed to the navy. He served in the frigate " United States" when she captured the " Macedonian," and was in the "President" when that vessel was taken by the British in 1815. He distinguished himself by his bravery on the burning steamboat "Phoenix" on Lake Champlain in September, 1819. After the war he was appointed surgeon of the navy-yard at Charleston, and in 1822 he was detailed as surgeon on board the sloop-of-war "Peacock." For some time previous to his death he had been engaged in collecting materials for a biography of American physicians.--His son, Russell, educator, born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, 30 December, 1817 ; died in North Salem, Westchester County, New York, 8 March, 1865, was graduated at Columbia in 1835, and entered the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church. He was professor of classics and history at St. James's college, Maryland, in 1844-'55, and of ancient languages at St. John's college, Annapolis, Maryland, in 1855-'61, and was rector of St. James's church, North Salem, New York, from 1861 till his death. A volume of his :sermons, with a sketch of the author by John B. Kerfoot, was published (New York, 1869).

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