1746 Col Am Doc>TIMOTHY RUGGLES SIG! (Brig Gen-Loyalist Official) BANISHED-MASS

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This Super Nice & Authentic Colonial American Document 1746 is on Hand Laid Paper and Has 2  BRIG GEN Timothy Ruggles Rare Signatures. Timothy Ruggles Graduated Harvard in 1732 & Settled & Started his Practice in Rochester Served With Distinction as a Brigadier General in The 7 Year War Appointed Associate Justice of The Court of Common Pleas and was in the Colonial Legislature. He Proposed a Loyalist Association To Unite Those loyal To The Crown but met with Little success at Boston and Then to New York and Tried to Raise a Loyalist Force The Kings Light Dragoons & Was Banished from Massachusetts To Nova Scotia with The British Fleet in 1776 Where He Was Given a Hugh Amount of Land. Ruggles Personality was Distinctive and Forceful and was Known as The Other Man Who Could have been Father of Our Country.  Bristol; At Taunton At Inferior Court of Common Pleas Held At Bristol Within & For The County of Bristol On The 2nd Tuesday of September   AD 1746 Peleg Sanford & His Wife Plaintiffs James Russell  IN A PLEA OF EJECTMENT UPON WRIT OF FILE & Said James & Job CAME & DEFENDED & SAY THAT YE AFORESAID WRIT IS BAD & DEFECTIVE FOR THAT BY YE PLAINTIFF'S OWN SHEWING THE ESTATE DEMANDED THE PROVINCE BY LAW DECENDED TO THE MOTHER OF YE ANN(viz) SUSANNA DENNIS & & JOHN DENNIS & COMFORT BROWNING THE PLTS ANN  SARAH & ELIZABETH LYDIA  PALMER DEBRAH BROWNING SABITHA DENNIS & MARY DENNIS BY YE SAME UNITY OF RIGHT & THEREFORE THEY SHOULD ALL BY LAW HAVE SIGNED IN THIS SUIT IN WHICH THEY HAVE DONE WHEREFORE YE SD JAMES & JOB PRAY YE JUDGEMENT OF YE AFORESAID PLEA THAT YE AFORESAID WRIT BE ABATED SIGHNED TIM RUGGLES. SAVING WHICH IF OVERULED THE SD JOB SAYS HE HOLDS YE AFORESAID LAND AND PREMISES FOR A TERM NOT YET EXPIRED BY A DEED DULY EXECUTED UNDER JOHN DENNIS & PRAYS YE AFORESAID ACTION MAY BE CONTINUED TO YE NEXT TERM THAT HE MAY VOUCH IN YE SD JOHN TO DEFEND THIS SUIT TIM RUGGELS AGAIN SIGNS WITH HIS BRIGHT & BOLD SIGNATURE    THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS 2 TIMOTHY RUGGLES BRIGHT & BOLD SIGNATURES!     On Verso Blank   71/2 X 7 1/2"  .40 1st Class Mail Satisfaction Always Guaranteed.