Person:Peter Ruttan (2)

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Loyalist 3rd NJ Vol. Landed with original Adolfustown Settlers in 1784.

Name: Peter Ruttan 1

   Sex: M 
   Christening: 19 Apr 1742 Schraalenburgh, Bergen Co, NJ, USA 1 
   Death: 1 Jan 1829 in Adolphustown Twp, Lennox & Addington Co, ON, CAN 2 3 
   Burial: Adolphustown Twp, Lennox & Addington Co, ON, CAN 4 
   Note: 1 3 4

       United Empire Loyalist

       He joined General Howe's army in Dec 1776, and served a
       s a Captain in first the 4th, and later the 3rd, Battalion of the New Jersey Volunteers. In 1778 he accompanied Chief
       Joseph Brant on a tour of observation from New York to Canada, and they are said to have become friends. In 1783 he
       was appointed as second in command of a group of discharged soldiers and refugees who were about to leave New
       York. The group arrived in Quebec on 14 Aug 1783 on board the ship Hope. They proceeded up-river to Sorel, where
       they over-wintered. In the spring of 1784 they travelled on up the river, arriving at Adolphustown on 20 Mar 1784.

       "Loyalist Lineages" gives the death date as 1827 or 1829.

       Buried St. Alban's Cemetery.

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   Date of Import: May 26, 1999