Person:Samuel Rutherford (16)
Samuel Rutherford
b.1600 Nisbet, Roxburghshire, Scotland
d.20 Mar 1661 Scotland
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  • H.  Samuel Rutherford1600 - 1661
  • W.  Jean McMathAbt 1600 -
m. 1640
  1. John Rutherford1626 - Abt 1740
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Name Samuel Rutherford
Gender Male
Birth? 1600 Nisbet, Roxburghshire, Scotland
Marriage 1640 to Jean McMath
Death? 20 Mar 1661 Scotland

This information on Rev. Samuel Rutherford is correct in all regards for the uncle of John Rutherford not his father. John Rutherford's father [Rev. Samuel Rutherford
] was the nephew of Rev. Samuel Rutherford
 the author of the Westminster Confession.

Rev. Samuel Rutherford
 b. ca 1659 
Presbyterian minister banished to Ireland in 1689
 settled in co. Monaghan

Rev. Samuel Rutherford was a Presbyterian minister whose dissenter doctrine angered the "established church", the Church of England. In 1689 the Rev. Samuel Rutherford was banished from Scotland to Ireland where he settled in Monaghan County. ("A History of Congregations in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland 1610 - 1982" published by the Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland-1982)

The Gathering of the Clans - 
Part I – “The Rutherford Story”
 Compiled by Edna Rutherford Davey
 1955 – 1957
 - pages 5-7 & page 72

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