Timothy Ruggles
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Timothy Ruggles (October 20, 1711 - August 4, 1795) was as an American military leader, jurist and politician. He was a delegate to the first Stamp Act congress of 1765.
Early life
He was the son of the Rev. Timothy Ruggles; grandson of Capt. Samuel Ruggles of Roxbury and Martha Woodbridge, his wife, who was a granddaughter of Governer Thomas Dudley.
He was graduated from Harvard in 1732; studied law, and established himself in practice in Rochester. In 1735 he married.
Stamp Act
He was a delegate to the first colonial (or Stamp Act) congress of 1765, which met in New York on October 7, and was elected its president, but refused to sanction the addresses sent by that body to Great Britain, for which he was publicly censured by the general court of Massachusetts.
Later life
In 1775, he left Boston for Nova Scotia with the British troops and accompanied Lord Howe to Staten Island. His estates were confiscated, and in 1779 he received a grant of 10,000 acres of land in Wilmot, Nova Scotia, where he settled.
His daughter, Bathsheba Ruggles, married Joshua Spooner, of whom she was convicted of murdering.
