Capt. Samuel⁶ Ruggles (Capt. Samuel⁵, Thomas⁴) born June 1, 1658. He was the eldest son of Samuel³ & Hannah (Fowle) Ruggles He married July 8, 1680, Martha Woodbridge, the tenth child of Rev. John & Mercy (Dudley) Woodbridge, who was the fifth child of Gov. Thomas Dudley. Martha was born in England about 1660, where her father and family were then residing. She spent her school days in Newbury, Mass., and her married life in Roxbury. She died in Billerica, Mass., at the residence of her son, Rev. Samuel Ruggles, in 1738, aged 78; twenty-three years after the death of her first and only husband.

The children of Samuel and Martha were : -

1. SAMUEL, b. Dec. 3, 1681, d. March 1, 1749, m. 1st, Elizabeth Whiting, m. 2d, Elizabeth Williams.
2. LUCY, b. Sept. 8, 1683, m. Joseph Stevens..
3. TIMOTHY, b. Nov. 3, 1685, m. 1st, Mary White, m. 2d, Anna Woodworth.
4. HANNAH, b. April 10, 1685, m. William Noyes.
5. PATIENCE, b. Nov. 9, 1689, m. James Robinson, son of (Thomas s, of Scituate, Mass.).
6. MARTHA, b. Feb. 1, 1691, m. Job Lane.
7. SARAH, b. June 18, 1694, m. John Holbrook.
8. JOSEPH, b. July 21, 1696, m. Joanna White.
9. MARY, b. Sept. 20, 1698, d. u. before 1716.
10. BENJAMIN, b. July 4, 1700, m. Dorcas Whiting, of Billerica.

Samuel Ruggles the husband died Feb. 15, 1715 at Roxbury. Samuel Sewall says in his diary, " Capt. Saml. Ruggles was buried with Arms the same Third day of the Week, at Roxbury. Was not full 53 years old. Has left 9 Children, Four Sons and Five daughters. Daughters all married, the Eldest but about a Week before her Father's death. He was before me with his Sisters, Morris and Bayly, Widows, with their Inventories : and now, March the first, these sisters are here with deacon Mayo, to prove their Brother's Nuncupative Will. He is much Lamented at Roxbury."

Judge Samuel Sewall, celebrated and remembered among other things by his diary of the events of the colony, socially, of this period, went to Boston from Newbury, Mass., where he was born March 28, 1652; and spent a part of his school days. He married three wives. He became a suitor for widow Martha's hand in the interval after the death of his second wife. We find written in his diary. July, 4, 1721, "I carry my daughter Hannah in the Coach to Brooklin; call'd at Deacon Mayo's Rebekah Morris came out to her. Then I call'd at Mrs. Ruggles', who came out to her, and Hanah thank'd her for her Kindness when she lodg'd at her House.

Saturday July 15 is written:-" Visited my Sons and daters at Brooklin ; Mr. Cooper preaches there tomorrow. Call, and sit a while with Madam Ruggles. She tells me, they had been up all night, her dater, Joseph Ruggle's wife, was brought to bed of a dater. I shew'd my Willingness to renew my old acquaintance (as a suitor); She express'd her inability to be Serviceable. Gave me Cider to drink. I came home."

1721 Thursday Aug. 3d. "Went in the Coach and visited Mrs. Ruggles after Lecture. She seems resolv'd not to move out of that house. Maybe of some use there; None at Boston-till she be carried out; made some Difficulty to accept an Election Sermon, lest it should be an obligation on her. The Coach staying long (going to Boston for a new Fare), I made some excuse for my stay : she said she would be glad to wait on me till midnight, provided I should solicit her no more; or to that effect. I said she was willing to get rid of me. She answr'd That was too sharp. I gave her Mr. Moodey's Election Sermon, Marbled, with her Name written in it. Visited her daughter Ruggles, wished her joy of her little daughter in her Lap ; and left a 2' Bill with Mrs. Ruggles, which she gave to Mrs. Pierpont, the present Nurse, who thank'd me heartily for it just as I came away."

In a letter written some weeks previously to her brother, Rev. Timothy Woodbridge of Hartford, Conn., is written : . " I remember when I was going from school at Newbury, I have sometime met your Sisters Martha and Mary, at the end of Mrs. Noyes's Lane, coming from their Schoole at Chandler's Lane, in their Hanging Sleeves ; and have had the pleasure of Speaking with them : And I 'could find in my heart to speak with Mrs. Martha again, now I my self am reduc'd to my Hanging Sleeves. The truth is, I have little Occasion for a Wife, but for the sake of Modesty, and to cherish me in my advanced years ( I was born March 25, 1652) Methinks I could venture' to lay my Weary head in her Lap, if it might be brought to pass upon Honest Conditions, you know your Sister's Age. and Disposition, and Circumstances better than I doe. I should be glad of your Advice in my Fluctuations."