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Abraham RUTTAN
b.10 Jun 1658 Metz, Dutchy of Lorraine. Moselle, France
d.19 May 1713 New Barbadoes, Bergen Cty, NJ
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m. 1680
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[gedcom.ged] Abraham came to America in 1675 via Germany, Amsterdam, & England. He was a Huguenot. A member of the Hasbrouck Party that came to Boston and then sailed on to New York and travellled on, reaching Ulster County in July 1675. They moved on to Esopus, the area around Kingston in Ulster County on the west bank of the Hudson River, where, in 1677, New Paltz was founded. On September 1, 1689, Abraham took the Oath of Allegiance to the English Crown. By indenture date October 26, 1699, Abraham bought a parcel of land and meadow in New Barbadoes in the County of Essex in the Province of East New Jersey from Thomas Noell of the City of New York, merchant, and Hannah, his wife. There he and Marie and likely some of their children live and it seems prospered until he died. References
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