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Notes for Timothy Ruggles: Graduated from Harvard College 1710 and was ordained pastor of the church in Rochester 22 November 1710. Timothy the father held a high rank in the ministry, and was preeminently a man of business. He was a apparently more active and efficient than any other individual in promoting the settlement of Hardwick. Through his influence and exertions, six sons and a daughter of his own family, five sons and a daughter of his sister Patience, wife of James Robinson (also their father and mother, late in life), and many members of his parish, were among the early settlers. On behalf of the proprietors he personally visited the town several times, both arranging the financial affairs of the people and ministering to their spiritual wants. He died in office as the sole pastor of the church 26 October 1768, aged nearly 83. In the epitaph on his head-stone he is described as "an Able Divine, and a Faithful Minister. Having a peculiar talent at composing Differences and healing Divisions in Churches, he was much improved in Ecclesiastical Councils." (Paige, p. 481) (Samuel Ruggles') son, the Rev. Timothy Ruggles, was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, November 3, 1685, and married Mary White, the daughter of Benjamin and Susanna White. He graduated from Harvard College in 1707, and was ordained pastor of the Rochester church in 1710, which office he held until his death which occurred October 26, 1768. He was a great worker in the community and much beloved. (The Loyalists of Massachusetts, p. 225) More About Timothy Ruggles and Mary White: Marriage: December 27, 1710, Rochester, Plymouth, Mass.
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Rev. Timothy Ruggles, who was graduated from Harvard College in 1702, and ordained pastor of the church at Rochester, November 22, 1710, was the father of General Timothy Ruggles (known as the brigadier), a noted military officer in the services of the crown. He was a loyalist and his property in Hardwick having been confiseated during the revolutionary war he went to Wilmot, Nova Scotia. (A more extended account of General Timothy Ruggles will be found in a sketch of J. R. Robinson, which appears elsewhere in this work.)
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Birth	3 Nov 1685	Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Marriage	27 Dec 1710	Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts - Mary White
Death	26 Oct 1768	Rochester, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Burial		Center Cemetery, Rochester, Plymouth County, Massachusetts

Spouse	Mary White (1688 - 1749)
Child	Gen. Timothy Dwight Ruggles (1711 - 1795)

Father	Capt. Samuel Ruggles Jr. (1658 - 1716)
Mother	Martha Woodbridge (1658 - 1738)
Sibling	Rev. Samuel Ruggles III (1681 - 1748)
Sibling	Lucy Ruggles (1683 - 1750)
Sibling	Hannah Ruggles (1688 - 1745)
Sibling	Patience Ruggles (1689 - 1766)
Sibling	Martha Ruggles (1692 - 1740)
Sibling	Sarah Ruggles (1694 - )
Sibling	Capt. Joseph Ruggles (1696 - 1742)
Sibling	Mary Ruggles (1698 - 1717)
Sibling	Rev. Benjamin Ruggles (1700 - 1782)

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