Ruggles Genealogy

The following genealogy, so far as the Ruggles name goes, is intended primarily to be that of Thomas⁴ Ruggles, by his son John⁵, grandson John⁶, and his son Edward⁷, thus far in Roxbury, and of Edward⁸ and Thomas⁹ in Pomfret, Conn., ending with Thomas⁹ and his daughter Elethear Bailey in Rutland, Vermont. But the family of Samuel⁵ Ruggles brother of John⁵, is given in general terms, because of its interesting situation in Roxbury and elsewhere considering the early period in which its history occurred.

John⁴ Ruggles, the younger brother of Thomas⁴, and his only son John⁵, is given because of the part the latter took in the affairs of Roxbury and Connecticut, and the coincidence of his children and grandchildren in marriage and other relations with those of Thomas⁴ and son John⁵ Ruggles.

The second part of this genealogy is designed to trace the ancestry, in part, of Alitheah Smith, whom Thomas⁹ Ruggles of Pomfret married. Selection being made of those connections the most predominant -as the Prestons, and has led back in time and place to Andover, Newbury, Haverhill and other places in Essex Co., Mass., to their first settlement, and ending in the family of Jonathan Haines in Haverhill.

The third part of this genealogy commences with Samuel² Ladd (Daniel¹ Ladd), who was an associate and neighbor of Haines in Haverhill, and Ladd's descendants, in part, traced, ending in the family of Elethear¹⁰ Bailey, daughter of Thomas' Ruggles of Pomfret and Rutland, Vt.