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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ Baldwin, Thomas W. Vital Records of Framingham, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1911)
175.
Rugg, Jonathan, s. of Jonathan and Hannah, [born] Nov. 27, 1716.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Baldwin, Thomas W. Vital Records of Framingham, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1911)
463.
Rugg, Jonathan, [died] Mar. 6, 1776, in his 55th y. G.R.1.
[Age 54, so birth about 1722]
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The discrepancy between the recorded birth date and the age at death is great enough that many genealogies show two sons named Jonathan born to Jonathan Rugg and Hannah Singletary, assuming the first one died young and that there was a second one who lived to marry Hannah Walkup. There is no death of the first one recorded in Framingham, nor is there a birth of the second one, so this places a lot of trust in the age at death being correct, since it implies two errors of omission, presumably including the church as well as the town clerk. It seems also possible that the person informing the monument maker of Jonathan's information could err in reporting his age, this information being essentially second- and third-hand, or, that the tombstone was misread, say interpreting 59th year, which wouldn't be so troublesome, for 55th year, which is. Sort of a toss-up. Of course, what is most significant, is that one son Jonathan survived out of this family, regardless of the exact year of his birth, and married Hannah Walkup.
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