http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.blackmind.com/DaGhettoTymz/Depts./r -kyvz/Summer%2798/Articles/Skull%2526Bones/S%2526B1.html+taft+connecticut+ru ssell+trust&hl=en The background to S&B is a story of Opium and Empire, and a bitter struggle for political control over the new US republic. Samuel Russell, 2nd cousin to Bones founder William Russell, established Russell & Co. in 1823. Its business was to acquire opium from Turkey and smuggle it into China, where it was strictly prohibited, under armed protection of the Brithish Empire. What's deep is the gang of thugz who did this prior to S&B was created by Thomas Handasyd Perkins of Newburyport, Massachusetts, and they went by the name "Blue Bloods". Ring a coincidence that the negro version of gangz adopted both the color of "Blue" -- for crips; and "Blood" for the other gang that wears red?! .... Most members are from the eastern seaboard of the US. As late as 1950, only 3 members resided in LA, whereas a large number lived in the New Haven, Connecticut area. The family weed (not tree) of S&B is truly from the history of wickedness. Rev. Nodiah Russell was one of the first 10-12 men who founded Yale University in 1701 along with Rev. James Pierpont. Nodiah had a son, William, who married James daughter, Mary. James other daughter, Sarah then married Jonathan Edwards who was president of Princeton University (then called College of New Jersey). William and Mary had 2 sons, Nodiah and Samuel who both had sons, Matthew Talcott Russell and Captain John Russell. William Huntington Russell, founder of S&B was the son of Matthew; and Samuel Russell who founded Russell Manufacturing Company and president of Middlesex County Bank was the offspring of Capt. John. Sarah and Jonathan had 3 children, Pierpont, Esther and Mary. Pierpont was made master of Connecticut Masons by the British Army then occupying New York in 1783. He had a son, Henry, who was governor of Connecticut (1833, 1835-38) and protector of Samuel Russell's opium-financed enterprises. Esther married then president of Princeton, Aaron Burr, Sr. They had a son, Aaron Burr, Jr., who was vice president of the US (1801-05) and a Wall Street lawyer, who became known for killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel in 1804. He was acquitted of treason in 1807, but wanted for murder, so he fled to England until his return to the US in 1812. Mary married Major Timothy Dwight who had 2 sons named Theodore and Timothy. Theodore protected Russell's opium enterprise along with his cousin Aaron Burr, Jr. Timothy became president of Yale from 1795-1817. Developed & maintained by DGT Communicashunz PO Box 71, New York, NY 10159-0071 (718)602-2379 Contact webmaster, Da Machete at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with your comments. Copyright © 2000 - All Rights Reserved Forced out of the lucrative Afrikan slave trade by US law and Caribbean slave revolts, leaders of the Cabot, Lowell, Higginson, Forbes, Cushing and Sturgis families had married Perkins' siblings and children. The Perkins opium business had made a fortune and established power over these families. By the 1830s, the Russell's bought out the Perkins and made Connecticut the primary center of the US opium racket. Massachusetts families (Coolidge, Sturgis, Forbes and Delano) joined Connecticut (Alsop) and New York (Low) smuggler-millionaires under Russell Trust. By 1856, Russell Trust Incorporated their open pirte emblem -- the skull and cross bones.
