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Timothy Dwight Ruggles
Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
In office
1762–1764
Preceded byJames Otis, Sr.
Succeeded bySamuel White
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
for Hardwick[1]
In office
1754, 1757, 1761 – 1755, 1759, 1770
Chief Justice of the
Court of Common Pleas[3]
of the Province of Massachusetts Bay
In office
January 21,[2] 1762[3] – 1774[2]
Judge of the
Court of Common Pleas[3]
of the Province of Massachusetts Bay
In office
April 19, 1757[3][2] – 1774[2]
Personal details
BornOctober 20, 1711
Rochester, Massachusetts[4]
DiedAugust 4, 1795 (1795-08-05) (aged 83)
Resting placeWilmot, Nova Scotia[5]
SpouseBathsheba Newcomb née Bourne
ChildrenMartha Ruggles (b. August 10, 1736),[6]
Timthy Ruggles (b. January 7, 1738–39),[6]
Bathsheba Ruggles (1746–1778),[6]
John Ruggles,[5]
Timothy Ruggles,[5]
Richard Ruggles.[5]
ResidenceWilmot, Nova Scotia[7]
Alma materHarvard
OccupationLawyer
Military service
AllegianceProvince of Massachusetts Bay
Branch/serviceMassachusetts militia

Timothy Dwight Ruggles[8] (October 20, 1711 – August 4, 1795) was an American colonial military leader, jurist, and politician. He was a delegate to the Stamp Act Congress of 1765 and later a Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War.

  1. ^ Paige, Lucius Robinson (1883), History of Hardwick, Massachusetts: With a Genealogical Register, Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, p. 312
  2. ^ a b c d Paige, Lucius Robinson (1883), History of Hardwick, Massachusetts: With a Genealogical Register, Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, p. 313
  3. ^ a b c d Stark, James Henry (1910), The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution, Boston, MA: James H. Stark, p. 226
  4. ^ Stark, James Henry (1910), The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution, Boston, MA: James H. Stark), p. 226
  5. ^ a b c d Stark, James Henry (1910), The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution, Boston, MA: James H. Stark, p. 229
  6. ^ a b c Calnek, William Arthur (1897), History of the county of Annapolis: Including old Port Royal and Acadia including: with memoirs of its representatives in the provincial parliament, and biographical and genealogical sketches of its early English settlers and their families, Toronto, ON: William Briggs, p. 592
  7. ^ Calnek, William Arthur (1897), History of the county of Annapolis: Including old Port Royal and Acadia including: with memoirs of its representatives in the provincial parliament, and biographical and genealogical sketches of its early English settlers and their families, Toronto, ON: William Briggs, p. 590
  8. ^ Wetmore, Donald (1983), Loyalists in Nova Scotia, Hantsport, Nova Scotia: Lancelot Press, p. 38

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