ANCESTRY OF VERN ELIJAH ROGERS

RUGGLES BRANCH: EMELINE ELIZABETH RUGGLES (GEN. 4) TO THOMAS RUGGLES (GEN. 13)

 

Gen. 13: Thomas Ruggles, d. 1547 (Sudbury, Suffolk).

 

Gen. 12: Nicholas Ruggles, b. 1522 (Sudbury, Suffolk), d. 1617 (Sudbury, Suffolk).

 

Gen. 11: Thomas Ruggles, b. 1556 (Suffolk, England), d. 1647 (Sudbury, Suffolk); m. about 1582 (Sudbury, Suffolk), Margery Dandridge, b. 1562 (Sudbury, Suffolk), d. 1603 (Sudbury, Suffolk).

 

Gen. 10: John Ruggles, b. 1591 (Sudbury, Suffolk), d. 1663 (Roxbury, MA); m. by 1633, Barbara Bridges, b. about 1603 (Nazeing, Essex), d. 1636 (Roxbury, MA). John Ruggles and Barbara Bridges arrived in Boston from London aboard the ship “Hopewell” in 1635 as part of the Puritan migration to New England.

 

Gen. 9: John Ruggles, b. 1633 (Nazeing, Essex), 1713; m. 1674/5 (Roxbury, MA), Sarah Dyer, b. 1649, d. 1687 (Roxbury, MA).

 

Gen 8: Rev. Benjamin Ruggles, b. 1676 (Roxbury, MA), d. 1708 (Suffield, CT), bur., Old Center Cemetery (Suffield, CT); m., 1696 (Hartford, CT), Mercy Woodbridge, b. 1672 (Killingworth, CT), d. 1707 (Suffield, CT).

 

Gen 7: Joseph Ruggles I, b. 1701 (Simsbury, CT), d. 1791 (Brookfield, CT); m. 1722, Rachel Tolles, b. 1702 (Old Saybrook, CT), d. 1746 (New Milford, CT).

 

Gen. 6: Joseph Ruggles II, b. 1729, d. 1802; m., Sarah Dunning, b. 1741 (Newtown, CT), d. 1817.

 

Gen. 5: Martin Ruggles, b. 1774 (Brookfield, CT), d. 1840 (Caledonia, MO); m. 1807, Lodema Starr, b. 1778 (Brookfield, CT), d. 1848 (Caledonia, MO). Martin Ruggles is one of the pioneer settlers of Missouri and played a key role in the creation of a number of institutions in and around Caledonia, MO, including the first Presbyterian Church and first Masonic Lodge west of the Mississippi River. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives but died before serving.

 

Gen. 4: Emeline Elizabeth Ruggles, b. 1809 (Washington Co., MO), d. 1876 (Washington Co., MO), bur. prob. in an unmarked grave in Bellevue Presbyterian Cemetery (Caledonia, MO); m2. 1838 (Washington Co. MO), Joseph Rogers, b. (Virginia), d. estimated 1849. Joseph Rogers is the first known member of the immediate Rogers line.

 

Principal Sources

Gen. 11 to Gen. 13: The Ruggles Family in England and America (1893).

 

Gen. 10: Great Migration 1634-1635; The Ruggles Family in England and America (1893).

 

Gen. 9: The Ruggles Family in England and America (1893).

 

Gen. 8: Adlard, The Sutton-Dudleys of England and the Dudleys of Massachusetts in New England (1862), p. 97; The Family of William Leete, One of the First Settlers of Guilford, Conn., and Governor of New Haven and Connecticut Colonies (1884), p. 1; Mitchell, The Woodbridge Record: Being an Account of the Descendants of the Rev. John Woodbridge of Newbury, Mass. (1883); The Ruggles Family in England and America (1893); Talcott, Genealogy of the Woodbridge Family (1878), p. 1.

 

Gen. 6 and Gen. 7: Adlard, The Sutton-Dudleys of England and the Dudleys of Massachusetts in New England (1862), p. 97; Bellevue—Beautiful View: The History of the Bellevue Valley and Surrounding Area (1983), pp. 258-9; Mitchell, The Woodbridge Record: Being an Account of the Descendants of the Rev. John Woodbridge of Newbury, Mass. (1883); The Ruggles Family in England and America (1893).

 

Gen. 5: Bellevue—Beautiful View: The History of the Bellevue Valley and Surrounding Area (1983), pp. 258-9; A History of the Starr Family of New England (1879).

 

Gen. 4: Bellevue—Beautiful View: The History of the Bellevue Valley and Surrounding Area (1983), pp. 258-9; “Joseph Rogers and Emeline Hunt, 26 Jun 1838,” Missouri Marriages, 1750-1920 (familysearch.org).