John Ruggles Genealogy

John⁶ Ruggles (John⁵, Thomas⁴), was the oldest son of John⁵ and Abigail (Craft) Ruggles; b. Jan. 22, 1653. He lived in Roxbury, was a yeoman, as it was written in the settlement of his estate. He married Sept. 2, 1674, Martha Devotion of Muddy River, (now Brookline). She was baptized at Roxbury, March 13, 1653. She was the third child of Deacon Edward and Mary Devotion.

John, Martha's husband, died Dec. 16, 1694, age 40. It is not known when Martha died. She married 2d time, April 21, 1704, John Payne of Dedham, a grand-son of Thomas of Salem, Mass., an emigrant settler-1637. John Payne's 1st wife was Mary Day, daughter of Ralph and Susan (Fairbanks) Day, of Dedham. Susan, wife, dying, Ralph Day married 2d. widow, Abigail (Craft) Ruggles, the mother of Martha's husband, John⁵.

The children of John and Martha were:

1. ABIGAIL, b. June 5, 1675, m. about 1697, Thomas³ Richardson a farmer of Billerica, b. Dec. 30, 1675. He was a grand-son of Thomas¹ Richardson, one of three brothers, emigrants, who settled in Woburn, Mass. Thomas and Abigail had ten children. He died 1717, aged 42; she died June 4, 1758. Upon his marriage or before, his father gave him a "large farm" in Billerica, which was confirmed to the widow and children by the will of his father who died 1719, who doubled the quantity of land to the children upon their agreeing to support their mother, widow Abigail Richardson, during her life. The children were Martha, wife of Thomas Horsley; Ruth, wife of Wm. Tarbell; Sarah, wife of Francis Crosby; Susanna, unmarried; Abigail Hill, widow; Anna, wife of Samuel Bayley of Lancaster (son of James and Elizabeth (Ruggles) Bayley).
2. JOHN.
3. EDWARD , b. Nov. 16, 1683; d. y.
4. MARTHA, b. Dec. 21, 1686.
5. EDWARD.

Martha Devotion married John⁶, grand-son of Thomas⁴ Hannah, her sister, married John⁶ the grand-son of John⁴ and Barbara. These Johns were 2d cousins. Sarah Devotion, sister of Martha and Hannah, married Joseph Griffin, whose grand-daughter, Ann Sumner, married Edwards Ruggles, the grand-son of Martha; son of her son Edward

Because of these marriages and other relationships, a brief genealogy of Devotion's family, Griffin and Sumner, is given here.

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