The town of Roxbury: its memorable persons and places, its history and antiquities, with numerous illustrations of its old landmarks and noted personages . He kept, not far from where the NorfolkHouse stands, the •• Flower de Luce tavern, where in 1698 3GG MAJOR NATHANIEL RUGGLES. a meeting was held >- to settle about the Muddy River peopleworshipping at their house. His son Samuel succeeded hisfather in the several offices named. Brigadier Timothy Gug-gles, of Ilardwick, a noted loyalist, was a grandson of tin?Samuel. His son Joseph, hmholder, who died here in was the father o
The town of Roxbury: its memorable persons and places, its history and antiquities, with numerous illustrations of its old landmarks and noted personages . He kept, not far from where the NorfolkHouse stands, the •• Flower de Luce tavern, where in 1698 3GG MAJOR NATHANIEL RUGGLES. a meeting was held >- to settle about the Muddy River peopleworshipping at their house. His son Samuel succeeded hisfather in the several offices named. Brigadier Timothy Gug-gles, of Ilardwick, a noted loyalist, was a grandson of tin?Samuel. His son Joseph, hmholder, who died here in was the father of Capt. Joseph and Major NathanielRuggles. This family, now nearly or quite extinct in Rox-bury, formerly pla\-ed no inconsiderable part in its a century and a half it was rarely without a represcnta-tive either in the General Court or the board of selectmen,holding some position of responsibilty or trust either in churchor State. Capt. John Ruggles commanded a company fromRoxbury in the Louisburg expedition in At the corner of Eliot Square and Highland Street is theold house once the residence of Major Nathaniel Ruggles, who. KUGGLES HOMESTEAD A>TJ IT/KITER HOUSE died in 1780. Old Dutch tiles still adorn the fireplace of theprincipal room, the building itself being quite ordinary. Din-ing the siege it furnished quarters for some American Ruggles was a man of solid judgment and great benev-olence, and filled many important public stations with con-spicuous integrity and ability. He was especially serviceableto the cause of liberty by his attention to the wants of thesoldiers of Roxbury. In September, 1772, he was coimnis- THE ELIOT CHURCH. 367 sioned major of the Suffolk regiment. His daughter Marthabecame the wife of Rev. Dr. Porter. Old residents of Roxbury will remember ** Aunt Major,as his widow was called, and Sister Nanny, who livedhere many years, and who from this eligible post of observa-tion kept themselves well informed of wha
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