12 Facts About Timothy Ruggles

Timothy Dwight Ruggles was an American colonial military leader, jurist, and politician.

Timothy Ruggles was a delegate to the Stamp Act Congress of 1765 and later a Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War.

Samuel Ruggles of Roxbury and Martha Woodbridge, who was a granddaughter of Governor Thomas Dudley.

Timothy Ruggles graduated from Harvard in 1732; studied law, and established himself in practice in Rochester.

Timothy Ruggles was a military officer during the French and Indian War, rising to the rank of brigadier general in 1758.

Timothy Ruggles served multiple terms in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and was its speaker from 1762 to 1764.

Timothy Ruggles subsequently became one of the leading Tories of New England.

Timothy Ruggles commanded the Loyal American Association and was a Mandamus Councillor appointed by General Gage in Boston.

Timothy Ruggles's estates were confiscated, and he was named in the Massachusetts Banishment Act.

Timothy Ruggles was hanged while five months pregnant for the crime of plotting, with a 17-year-old Continental Army soldier with whom she was having an affair and whose child she can be presumed to have been carrying, and two British soldiers, who had deserted the British Army, after the death of her husband Joshua Spooner, who was savagely beaten and dumped in a well.

Timothy Ruggles was buried on the eastward side of the Old Trinity Church of which he had been a major financial contributor in Middleton, Nova Scotia.

Timothy Ruggles has been described as a vegetarian for most of his life.