Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England

RUGGLES, GEORGE, was admitted freeman 1634. His son Samuel was born at Braintree, 1648. JEFFREY, came from Sudbury to N. E. in 1630, and died the same year. Winthrop, i. Hist. N. E. 47, 379. JOHN, Boston, came to N. E. 1630, admitted freeman 1632, had a daughter, who d. in Jan. 1631. Prince, ii. Annals, 17, 69. ºJOHN, Roxbury freeman 1637, member of the ar. co. 1646, died about 1658, leaving sons, John, freeman 1663; Thomas; Samuel, a captain, who died 15 Aug. 1692, and who had sons, Samuel, Joseph, Thomas, and others. *JOHN, Roxbury, freeman 1656, representative 1658, 1660, and 1661, had sons, John, b. 1651; John, 2d, 1653; Thomas, 1655; Samuel, 1657. SAMUEL, Charlestown 1647. THOMAS, Roxbury, freeman 1639, d. 16 Nov. 1644. 211

THE PIONEERS OF MASSACHUSETTS,

RUGGLES, RUGGLE, George, Boston, adm. to chh. (9) 1633; wife Elizabeth adm. chh. 2 (12) 1633; both dism. to chh. of Braintree 16 (12) 1639-40. Had house-plot in Bo. in 1636, and lands at Br. in 1639. Frm. March 4, 1633-4. Sold land at Br. to the Iron Works Co. in Sept. 29, 1645. Ch. Elizabeth hapS. 8 (10) 1633, (m. 24 (2) 1655, Wm. Browne,) Mary bapt. 3 (1D 1635, John bapt. 31 (10) 1637, George b. 5 (3) 1640, d. 1641, Rachel b. 15 (12) 1642, Samuel b. 3 (11) 1648, a dau. b. 16 (12) [ ], Sarah b. 29 (7) [ ], Mehetabel b. 16 (5) 1650. 394 His widow petitioned, July 27, 1669, that her youngest son Samuel might have one half of the house, as her husband desired. [Reg. XXXI, 321.] Jeffery, Boston, came from Sudbury, Eng.; had help from Mr. John Rogers in time of famine. He d. soon. [W.] Wife Margaret memb. chh. 1630. John, Sen., Boston, frm. July 3, 1632; built at Deer Island before 1641. Herdsman, 1643. Wife Frances memb. chh. 1630. He was memb. chh. in 1631. Ch. ae. 11, d. in Jan. 1631. [Du.] John, shoemaker, ae. 44, with wife Barbara, ae. 30, and child John, ae. 2, came in the Hopewell in April, 1635, from Nazing, co. Essex, Eng. Settled at Roxbury. Propr. His wife d. (11) 1636; he m. Margery Hammond, q. V. He d. 15 (7) 1658. Will prob. 30 Jan. 1663-4, names wife Margery, son John, bro.-in-law Edward Bridge, and servant Samuel Perry. [Reg. XII, 343.] Thomas, elder bro. to John; children of a godly father; one of the Nazeing christians; came in the yeare 1637; his brought two other children with him, Sarah and Samuel; Mary his wire approved herself a godly christian by a holy and blameless conversation. [E.] Settled at Roxbury. Propr. He d. Nov. 15, 1044. Will, dated 9 (9) 1644, gave to wife, sons John and Samuel, and dau. Sarah. [Reg. III, 265.] His son John, Called John R., Jr., d. in 1658. [Reg. IX, 139.] See Lyon. His widow m. -- Roote, and d. 14 (12) 1674-5, in her 89th year.
George Ruggles,512 Boston, 1633; m. 1633, Elizabeth.513 Removed to Braintree, 1638ñ, and returned to Boston, 1670. Freeman, 1634. By trade a weaver. 212

GEORGE RUGGLES
ORIGIN: Unknown MIGRATION: 1633 FIRST RESIDENCE: Boston REMOVES: Braintree 1639, Boston by 1662 OCCUPATION: Weaver [SLR 8:45]. CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: "George Ruggell" was admitted to Boston church in November 1633 [BChR 17]. On 16 February 1639/40 "George Ruggle and Elizabeth his wife" were recommended to "the Church of Christ at Mount Wollystone [Braintree]" [BChR 27]. FREEMAN: 4 March 1633/4 [MBCR 1:368]. ESTATE: Granted "a houseplot and gardenstead to be laid out near unto the new mill," 12 June 1637 [BTR 1:19]. On 5 November 1638 James Hawkins sold to Henry Garrold "one dwelling house in the town, wherein George Ruggle lived, and which he formerly bought of Mr. Brenton, together with a garden plot joining to it" [BTR 1:37]. On 25 January 1640/1 John Button was authorized to sell land to Martin Saunders or George Ruggles. They purchased twenty-two acres, but as late as 26 May 1645 had not paid for the land; at that time four acres were added to the twenty-two, because of the rockiness of the land [BTR 1:58, 59, 71, 82]. On 29 September 1645 George Ruggles of Braintree sold to the Undertakers of the Ironworks twenty acres in Braintree [SLR 1:62]. On 23 April 1662 George Ruggles entered a claim for one acre in the New Field in Boston "which land hath been & is detained long since" [SLR 3:526]. On 13 March 1661/2 George Ruggles of Boston, yeoman, in respect to the fact that "within some short time" his son John Ruggles was to "marry and take to wife Rebecca Farnworth one of the daughters of Joseph Farnworth late of Dorchester, deceased," and the fact that she brought a considerable estate with her, George gave them a dwelling house with a barn, yards, orchards and homelot, containing three acres in Braintree, also four acres of land in Braintree, also twenty-one acres of woodland near the sawmill in Braintree [SLR 13:184]. On 10 March 1667/8 Thomas Hill of Boston and his wife confirmed the 1662 sale by Thomas Munt and his wife (later the wife of Thomas Hill) to George Ruggles of Boston, weaver, of twenty-six rods of land in Boston [SLR 5:485]. On 11 April 1668 George Ruggalls of Boston, weaver, "in consideration of the fatherly love and affection which I have and bear unto my daughter Rachel, the wife of Phillip Squier of Boston, aforesaid, distiller...," deeded a parcel of land adjoining the land on which Squier built his house [SLR 7:78-79]. Elizabeth his wife acknowledged this deed and made one of her own 30 August 1669 conveying this land to the Squiers [SLR 7:80-81]. On 27 July 1669 administration on the estate of George Ruggles was granted to Elizabeth Ruggles "his relict in behalf of herself and seven children" [SPR 5:162]. The inventory of the estate of George Ruggles was taken 18 June 1669 and totalled £372 19s. 7d., including £250 in real estate: "the house, land and shop here in Boston," £200; and "ten acres of land or thereabouts in Braintry," £50 [SPR 5:161]. On 19 April 1670 "Elizabeth Rugalls of Boston ... widow, the relict of Georg[e] Rugalls of Boston aforesaid late deceased, weaver," sold to "Sarah one of his [George Ruggles's] daughters, late wife of John Wilmott, mariner, deceased," land which George Ruggles had bought of Thomas and Elinor Hill, the land to go to Sarah's son John Wilmot at Sarah's death [SLR 6:253-54]. On 16 July 1673 "Elizabeth Ruggles of Boston ... widow, relict and administratrix of the estate of George Ruggles her late husband deceased ... with the free consent of my sons John Ruggles & Samuel Ruggles" sold to Phillip Squire of Boston, distiller, all that piece and parcel of land scituate lying and being between the said Phillip Squire's now dwelling house and an highway or street that leads from the water mill in Boston towards Charlestown ferry" [SLR 8:219-20]. On 10 June 1673 Elizabeth Ruggles and Samuel Ruggles agreed that she would give "her son Samuel Ruggles a parcel of land adjoining to the house & ground of the said Samuel" that had been hired for five years by "Phillip Squire" from "his mother Ruggles" and that Samuel was to pay his mother 5s. per year "if god continue his mother's life" and at the end of five years he was to pay her 15s. a year. His mother was to pay her son Samuel £12 by 1674 [SLR 8:219, 11:120]. On 3 May 1681, "John Rugle and Samuel Rugle sons of George Rugle of Boston, deceased," agreed to a division of the estate of "their father and mother deceased" which gave John two-thirds and Samuel one-third in the common rights [SLR 13:223-24].
BIRTH: By about 1608 based on estimated date of marriage.
DEATH: Boston shortly before 18 June 1669 [SPR 5:161].
MARRIAGE: By 1633 Elizabeth _____; on 2 February 1633/4 "Elizabeth Ruggell the wife of our brother George Ruggell" was admitted to Boston church [BChR 17]. She died probably at Boston, shortly before 3 May 1681 (when her sons John and Samuel called her deceased) [SLR 13:223-24].
CHILDREN:
i ELIZABETH, bp. Boston 8 December 1633 [BChR 278]; m. Boston 24 April 1655 William Browne [BVR 52].
ii MARY, bp. Boston 3 January 1635/6 [BChR 280]; presumably one of the seven children living at her father's death, but no further record.
iii JOHN, bp. Boston 31 December 1637 [BChR 282]; on 9 June 1657 John Harbert the elder and John Harbert the younger of Braintree sold to "John Ruggles son of George Ruggles of the same town" an acre and a half [SLR 3:279]; m. Braintree 18 March 166[1/]2 Rebecca Farnsworth [BrVR 717].
iv GEORGE, b. Braintree 5 May 1640 [NEHGR 3:247]; d. there July 1641 [NEHGR 3:247].
v RACHEL, b. Braintree 15 February 1642[/3] [NEHGR 3:247]; m. by 1665 Philip Squire (eldest known child b. Boston 5 January 1665 [BVR 97]).
vi Daughter, b. Braintree 16 February [blank] (probably 1644/5) [BrVR 631]; no further record.
vii SARAH, b. Braintree 29 September [blank] (probably 1646) [BrVR 631]; m. (1) by about 1669 John Wilmot (in deed of 19 April 1670 John and Sarah (Ruggles) Wilmot have son John [SLR 6:253-54]); m. (2) by 1671 John Smith (about July or August 1671 John and Sarah Smith presented the inventory of the estate of John Wilmot, deceased [SPR 7:132]).
viii SAMUEL, b. Braintree 3 January 1648[/9] [BrVR 628]; m. by 1673 Sarah _____ (eldest child b. Boston 1 October 1673 [BVR 129]). (Sarah's surname is given as Howard, but there is no evidence for this. Howard and Hayward families in early Braintree and vicinity do not have an appropriate Sarah.)
ix MEHETABEL, b. Braintree 16 July 1650 [BrVR 631]; m. say 1666/7 Humphrey Richards.
ASSOCIATIONS: George Ruggles may have been closely related to JOHN RUGGLES. In 1914 Edward Joy Paul published some records of various Ruggles families in Sudbury, Suffolk, and vicinity, and proposed that he had found the English origin of George and JEFFREY RUGGLES, but this material constitutes only clues and speculation [The Ancestry of Katharine Choate Paul ... (Milwaukee 1914), pp. 185-86].
COMMENTS: His widow petitioned, 27 July 1669, that her youngest son Samuel might have one half of the house, as her husband desired; on the same day Elizabeth Ellis deposed to the same effect [NEHGR 31:321, citing SPR Case #194]. That same day, John Nutin, aged about twenty-four years, deposed that "he living in the house with George Ruggels heard him often times say that he did intend the giving of his son Samuell the new end of the house joining to his old house that he lived in and further ... adds that what he heard as above was in the time of the building of the new house and diverse times since and never heard him speak of his disposing it otherwise" [SPR NS 3:279]. She formally transferred the land to Samuel on 5 October 1670 [SLR 8:45].105