William Ruggles Family from Walpole As It Was and As It Is (1880)

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Surname: RUGGLES
Source: Walpole As It Was and As It Is by George Aldrich, 
        The Claremont Manufacturing Co., Claremont, N.H., 1880, pages 348-349

RUGGLES, WILLIAM, came to Walpole from Reading, Mass., it is said, about 1818 or 20, and 
married Betsey Lawrence, Oct. 7, 1821. He had no children, but adopted a daughter of one of his 
sisters., whose name was Elizabeth G. Stratton; she married George H. Cole, of Westmoreland, Jan. 1, 
l853. Mr. Ruggles was Town Clerk for twenty-one years, and is remembered as very quaint in his 
manners and mode of speaking. He and his wife both died in Ludlow, Vt., but were buried in this town.
William had a brother, Samuel T., who lived in town a number of years, in the Valley, and had the 
following children.
I. Ira White, b. July 3,1817.
II. Cornelia, b. Mar. 4, 1820; m. Samuel Prentiss, whose former name was Hogg, and moved to 
Reading, Mass.
III. Sumner Stratton, b. Nov. 26, 1821.
IV. Caroline Orpha, b. at Dorchester, Mass., Aug. 6, 1824.
V. Emily, b. July 16, 1827, at Dorchester.
VI. Otis Taft, b. Nov. 26, 1829.
VII. Walter Wilson, b. Nov. 6, 1831, at Reading, Mass.
VIII. Helen, b. at Reading, Nov. 17, 1833.
IX. Gould Grant, b. at Dorchester, June 6, 1836.
X. Laura, b. at Reading, June 4, 1839.
This family all moved to Reading, Mass.