On 22 May 2022 Marguerite Core wrote on Bright-858:
Hello friends,
I think that we should review the conclusions that were drawn earlier as to the actual first name of the wife of Captain Samuel Ruggles Sr. I am a descendent of that line through my mother Marilou Ruggles Core. I have been looking very closely at this genealogy and have found quite a richness of source material on the Ruggles family, and also of the Bright family.
My research indicates that the actual first name of the wife of Captain Samuel Ruggles Sr. is "Anna".
I am relying on these sources:
1. The Brights of Suffolk, England; represented in America by the descendants of Henry Bright, jun., who came to New England in 1630, and settled in Watertown, Mass by Bright, Jonathan Brown, 1800-1879, Publication date 1858 https://archive.org/details/brightsofsuffolk00brig/page/n15/mode/2up
2. A genealogical dictionary of the first settlers of New England : showing three generations of those who came before May 1692, on the basis of Farmer's Register https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/443432-a-genealogical-dictionary-of-the-first-settlers-of-new-england-showing-three-generations-of-those-who-came-before-may-1692-on-the-basis-of-farmer-s-register-vol-01
3. Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts Volume 3 1908 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Historic_Homes_and_Places_and_Genealogic/b6AhB-PTzMYC?hl=en&gbpv=0
4. Genealogy of Thomas Ruggles of Roxbury, 1637, to Thomas Ruggles of Pomfret Connecticut ...; The genealogy of Alitheah Smith ... and Samuel Ladd of Haverhill, Mass by Bailey, Franklin Ladd https://archive.org/details/genealogyofthoma00bail/page/n6/mode/2up
5. A genealogy and history of the Hute [i.e. Chute] family in America [electronic resource] : with some account of the family in Great Britain and Ireland, with an account of forty allied families gathered from the most authentic sources / by Wm. E. Chute. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100250168
6. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Including Waltham and Weston To which is Appended the Early History of the Town By Henry Bond, Horatio Gates Jones ยท 1860 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Genealogies_of_the_Families_and_Descenda/_oc6AQAAIAAJ?hl=en (Which along with other supporting information includes the will of Henry Bright naming one of his daughters "Anna Ruggles")
7. Lastly, I examined the very source on which Cheryl (Aldrich) Skordahl relied to form her conclusions; that is New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635 Great Migration Begins, Vol 1, A-F page 240
This page also references the will of Henry Bright with Anna Ruggles so named, leading me to conclude that Anderson made an error in his own earlier entry (perhaps conflating Miss Anna Bright with Captain Ruggles 1st wife Miss Hannah Fowle).
There are other sources, the U.S., Find a Grave Index, Anna Ruggles in the Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, Ann(a) Ruggles in the U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700, a U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Application written by Daniel Ruggles in 1893, Anna Bright in the Massachusetts, U.S., Compiled Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1700-1850 and more.
Please advise as to if I may edit this profile based on my findings.
Many thanks to all involved or even mildly interested!
Warmest Regards, Marguerite Core
