Russell Heritage The history of this line of Russell's begins with David Russell who was born about 1750, possibly coming to South Carolina from another county aboard a ship. Which county is unknow at the present but DNA seems to point to the United Kingdom somewhere between Scotland and England. We can't be sure because exact records have not been found although one record seems to fit showing a male around 17 years of age arriving in Charleston, South Carolina named David Russell. O c t o b e r 1 8 , 2 0 2 1 · On this day in 1735, a group of Scottish Highlanders sailed from Inverness, Scotland aboard the Prince of Wales, bound for Georgia. They disembarked on the northern bank of the Altamaha River, where they founded New Inverness—later named Darien—60 miles south of Savannah. The Scots were among the finest soldiers in the world and had been recruited by General James Oglethorpe to provide a buffer between the English Colony and the Spanish in Florida. The