Person:Benjamin Ruggles (2)

Name^[3]	Rev. Benjamin Ruggles
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	4 Jul 1700	Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage	30 Dec 1725	Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Dorcas Whiting
Death^[2]	12 May 1782	New Braintree, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

References

↑ Births, in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1925-1926)
Vol. 1, p.300.

RUGGLES, Benjamin, s. Samuel and Martha, [born] July 4, 1700.
↑ New Braintree, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Vital records of New Braintree, Massachusetts, to the year 1850. (Boston, Mass: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1904)
p. 152.

RUGGLES, Benj[ami]n, Rev. [dup. Rugles], "first setled Minister in Newbraintree", [died] May 12, 1782, a. 81 y. 10 m. 8 d.
[Note: birth calculates to about 4 Jul 1700.]
↑ Paige, Lucius R. History of Hardwick, Massachusetts: with a genealogical register. (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1990)
p. 481.

Benjamin Ruggles [#8], s/o Samuel Ruggles [#4] and Martha Woodbridge, b. 4 Jul 1700, d. 12 May 1782, m. 30 Dec 1725 Dorcas Whiting. A.M. at Yale 1721, A.M at Harvard 1724. "ordained pastor of the second church (then newly formed) at Middleborouogh, about 1724, where he remained until the church was organized in New Braintree 1754, of which he became the first pastor, and remained in office during the remainder of his life."