Chronology of Records for Thomas Ruck (1590-1668)

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Surname/tag: Ruck, Rucke

[Still need to add Cranbrook Parish Chest Records, and Charlestown Town Records]

Chronology of Records

• 1590. Thomas Rucke, son of John, was baptised at Cranbrook, Kent on 25 Oct 1590.^[1] ("Thomas Rucke filius Johannis" in copy of register on findmypast.com.)
• 1616. Thomas Rucke and Elizabeth Kitchell were married in Cranbrook on 3 October 1616^[2]
• 1617. Joane Rucke, daughter of Thomas, was baptized in Cranbrook on 5 October 1617^[3]
• 1618. Thomas' daughter, Joane, was buried on 30 January 1617/8 in Cranbrook.^[4] ("Joane Ruck puer" in copy of register on findmypast.com.)
• 1619. Elizabeth Rucke, daughter of Thomas, was baptized on 6 January 1618/9 in Cranbrook,^[5]
• 1621. Joan Rucke, daughter of Thomas, was baptized on 11 March 1620/1 in Cranbrook^[6]
• 1623. Thomas Rucke, son of Thomas, was baptized on 13 July 1623 in Cranbrook,^[7]
• 1625. John Rucke, son of Thomas, was baptized on 23 October 1625 in Cranbrook,^[8]
• 1627. James Rucke, son of Thomas, was baptized on 23 September 1627 in Cranbrook,^[9]
• 1630. On December 6, 1630, Thomas Ruck and his son Peter were admitted to burgess-ship of Maldon, Essex by purchase (admission-fine £8). Thomas Ruck, a woollen-draper, born in Cranbrooke in Kent, took the oath of burgess; Peter Ruck's oath was respited till he came of age. Thomas's younger children at the time of his admission were sons Thomas, John and James and daughters Elizabeth and Joan.^[10]
• 1630. On December 6, 1630, Thomas Ruck was elected a head-burgess of Maldon (i.e., one of 18, corresponding to the modern Town-council).^[10]
• 1631. On December 5, 1631, Thomas Ruck was elected Alderman of Maldon.^[10]
• 1632. Pharn Ruke, child of Thomas and Elizabeth, was baptized on 13 June 1632 at All Saints & St Peter, Maldon, Esssex^[11]
• 1636. Sarah Rucke, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Rucke, was baptized on 30 March 1636 at All Saints & St Peter, Maldon, Essex^[12]
• 1637. Andrew Rucke, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Rucke, was baptized on 30 May 1637 at All Saints & St Peter, Maldon, Essex^[13]
• 1638. On 29 March 1638, in Maldon, Essex, Thomas Ruck, gentleman, and _______ Hawkyns (his servant), and Joseph Hills, and ______ Wayte (his servant), tooke, everie of them, the oaths of supremacy and allegiance to his majestie before the bailiffs and Mr. Thomas Plume (on of his highness' Justices of his Peace within this burrough), in the moote-hall of the same, the said persons being bound for the plantations in America called newe-England.^[10] (Note that Thomas Ruck's servant was no doubt Abraham Hawkins of Charlestown, who gave a deposition in 1639 stating that he was a servant of Thomas Rucke of same.^[14])
• 1638. A listing of land possessions in the Charlestown limits shows that Thomas Ruck possessed (1) 5 acres in the east field bordering Nicolas Stower and George Hutchinson on the northeast, Samuel Richardson and the highway on the southeast, and William Frothingham and Abraham Palmer on the northwest, (2) 1 acre in the east field bounded on the southeast by Edward Convers, on the northwest by James Pemberton, and on the southwest by John Goulde, (3) 3 acres of meadow at Wilson Point, butting east on the north river, west upon the ferm, bounded on one side by Joseph Hiles, and (4) 20 acres in mistick field bounded on the north by the common, on the west by Joseph Hiles, and on the southeast by a swamp and meade.^[15]
• 1639. At a Salem town meeting on February 11, 1638/9, Mr Ruck requested "accomodation of land."^[16]
• 1639. On 19 July 1639, Thomas Rucke of Charlestown in New England, planter, aged about 48 years, testified that diverse goods and chattels of his that were delivered at Malden in Essex [England] into an Ipswich Hye, were all shipt into the good ship Castle of London in April 1638 at London and were thereafter safely transported in said ship to New England and were delivered to Rucke in July 1638.^[17]
• 1639. On July 20, 1639, Edward Gibones, Thomas Rucke, James Brocke and Joseph Bacheler, arbitrators, issued their decision in a dispute between for Henry Paramor gent and Joseph Bacheler of Salem planter.^[18]
• 1639. On July 20, 1639, Thomas Lechford received a dish of 4 perches from Mr. Rucke.^[19]
• 1639. By a letter of attorney dated July 30, 1639, Thomas Rucke of Charlestowne in New England, planter, appointed Thomas Rucke of London, haberdasher, and Thomas Plum of Malden, Essex, gent. as his attorneys to act to collect debts owed to him.^[20]
• 1639. By complaint delivered on August 26, 1639, Thomas Rucke of Charlestown planter, aged about 48, sued William Hatch of Scituate planter for improperly accounting for charges and expenses in connection with acting as steward of Rucke's voyage on the ship Castle of London which arrived in the port of Charlestowne in July 1638.^[21]
• 1639. At a Salem town meeting on November 18, 1639, Mr Ruck requested a house lot in Cat Cove and was granted one acre at that place, to be laid out by the town.^[22]
• 1639. On December 1, 1639, Thomas Ruck, sometime living in Charlestown, sold to Abraham Palmer of Charlestown 6 acres of land in the east field, together with a dwelling house and other appurtenances about it, and 3 acres of meadow at Wilson Point.^[23]
• 1640. At a Salem town meeting on February 21, 1639/40, Mr. Ruck requested a farm.^[24]
• 1640. Mr. Thomas Ruck was included in a list dated May 13, 1640 of men who desired to be made freemen.^[25]
• 1640. At a Court held at Salem on September 29, 1640: (1) Thomas Ruck, William Brown, Benjamin Felton and Thomas Dixie sued Henry Skerry, Thomas Oliver and other for not making a fence on the Darbie fort side. Mr. Humphreys promised to find posts and rails and begin to place them this winter.^[26] and (2) Thomas Ruck sued John Abbie for trespass.^[27]
• 1641. At a Court held at Salem on June 29, 1641, Thomas Ruck, Thomas Dixie, John Robinson and Miles Ward sued John Humphreys, Thomas Oliver, John Marston and others for not making a fence on the Darbie fort side.^[28]
• 1642. At a Court held at Salem on February 1, 1641/2, Mr Ruck was presented by Mr. Edmund Batter for baking of white bread contrary to order of court and for allowing tippling at his house. Ruck was to be admonished, fined 20s and cautioned concerning leaving the ordinary.^[29]
• 1642. Steephen Ruck, son of Thomas Ruck, was baptized on 17 April 1642 in Salem^[30]
• 1642. At a Court held at Salem on July 12, 1642, Walter Knight acknowledged judment of £10 in favor of Thomas Ruck.^[31]
• 1643. At a Court held at Salem on June 27, 1643, Thomas Ruck sued John Coggan of Boston, merchant.^[32]
• 1643. At a Court of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay held on October 17, 1643, it was voted that £5.15 be allowed to Mr Ruck for the charge of the committee which met at Salem.^[33]
• 1643. By deed dated November 2, 1643, Thomas Ruck of Salem sold to Isaac Sterne of Watertown, for £10, 70 acres of land in Watertown that Ruck had purchased from Captain Jennison.^[34]
• 1644. At a Court held at Salem on August 28, 1644, John Pride, petitioner, was ordered, with consent of Mr. Adam Ottley, about delivery of 50 dozen of earthen ware to Mr. Ruck, and that a bond from him to Mr. Humphreys be delivered to Ra. Fogg to be cancelled.^[35]
• 1645. At a Court held at Salem on December 10, 1645, Thomas Ruck, Thomas Dixie, Frances Perry, Abram Whitheire and Mr. Charles Gott sued John Gatchell for trespass.^[36]
• 1647. At a Court held at Salem on July 6, 1647, Mr. Thomas Ruck was paid 45 shillings by the marshall.^[37]
• 1648. By a deed dated November 27, 1648, Christian Lawson of Boston, in consideration of £120, sold to Thomas Ruck of Boston, planter, a dwelling house near the ferry in Boston, with a parcel of land about the house containing 3/4 of an acre.^[38]
• 1649. On July 30, 1649, Thomas Rucke constituted Mr. Seimar of Mevis, merchant, as his attorney to aks Mr. Roger Grice, merchant for an accounting of sums due to Rucke.^[39]
• 1649. On December 24, 1649, Ensign Roger Gryce gave an accounting of the good received from Mr. Thomas Ruck for the adventure in the ship John of Boston to the West Indies.^[39]
• 1649. On December 25, 1649, Thomas Ruck of Boston constituted John Ruck, his son, as his attorney for collection of debts due to him.^[40]
• 1650. At a Court held at Salem on December 31, 1650, William Hore confessed judgment to Mr. Walter Price of Salem and Mr. Thomas Rucke of Boston.^[41]
• 1650. At a Court of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay held on October 15, 1650, a list of debts to be collected by the Treasurer included a debt of £1.07.00 owed by Mr. Rucke.^[42]
• 1651. By deed dated October 1, 1651, Thomas Rucke of Boston, innkeeper, mortgaged his dwelling house in Boston where he lived called the Swan, together with all appurtenances, to Simon Bradstreet as security for a debt to Bradstreet of £88. On October 15, 1658, Mr. Thomas Rucke presented the original mortgage written canceled, with Mr. Symon Bradstreet's acknowledgment that the mortgage had been satisfied.^[43]
• 1652. By deed date January 9, 1651/2, Thomas Ruck of Boston, draper, sold to John Ruck of Boston, for £40, one dwelling house in Salem, with a parcel of land containing 9 acres, with the wharf, barns, stables, cowhouses, tenements, fences, etc. bounded by the sea on the east, the land of Mr. Emorye on the north, the common on the west and by John Pickering and the river on the south. Wit: Thomas Hingsells and Samuel Ruck.^[44][45]
• 1652. At a Court held at Salem on November 30, 1652, Mr. Thomas Ruck sued John Grillo and Jenkin David, regarding a debt assigned to the plaintiff by Joseph Armitage.^[46]
• 1654. By deed dated February 15, 1653/4, Joseph Armitrage of Lin, taylor, in consideration of £34, sold to Mr. Thomas Ruck of Boston a bay-colored mare colt, a hog, £6 owed him by the town of Lin, and £60 owed him by Mr. Adam Oatly.^[47]
• 1654. By a document dated March 10, 1653/4, Edward Colcott of Hampton assigned Thomas Rucke 1/3 of a saw mill on Exitor Falls.^[48]
• 1654. By a document dated April 11, 1654, Francis Smith assigned to Mr Thomas Ruch of Boston a promissory note issued by William Willoughby of Wapping, mariner, for £11.^[49]
• 1654. At a Salem town meeting on May 15, 1654, (1) Mr Thomas Rucke Senior, having formerly a grant of 100 acres of upland and the selectmen not finding it entered according to the grant, did enter it at the same place as was formerly measured out to him by Capt Traske, Jefferie Massey and Peter Palfre and (2) Mr Ruck was granted 5 acres of meadow land in the same place of Richard Bishops grant.^[50]
• 1654. At a Court held at Salem on June 27, 1654, Thomas Ruck sued Capt Hathorne and Mr. Henry Bartholomew, administrators of the estate of Richard Hollingworth, for breach of bond.^[51]
• 1654. At a Court held at Hampton on October 3, 1654, Mr. Thomas Ruck sued James Wall for taking away the geers of his saw mill and appropriating them to himself. Verdict for the plaintiff.^[52]
• 1654. By a deed dated October 26, 1654, John Crabtree of Boston, joyner, in consideration of £9.05.00, sold to Thomas Rucker of Boston, draper, the parcel of land lying on the backside of his house in Boston, provided that if Crabtree repaid the money by the following August, then the sale would have no effect.^[53]
• 1655. By a deed dated March 28, 1655, George Halsey/Halsall of Boston, blacksmith, for £500, sold to Thomas Rucke of Boston, planter, a dwelling house in which John Ailett lives, with the garden, storehouse, warf, tools and iron gear in the shop, and a parcel of iron coming from Lynn.^[54]
• 1655. By a document dated July 5, 1655, Thomas Rucke reassigned to George Halsall tools that had been assigned by Halsall to Rucke by the deed dated March 28, 1655.^[55]
• 1656. By a document dated May 6, 1656, Robert Pateshall and Leif Richard Cooke settled a suite against Mr Thomas Ruck regarding the estate possessed by Ruck that was formerly in the possession. of George Hallsell.^[56]
• 1656. At a Court of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay held on May 15, 1656, in a suit by Mr. Thomas Rucke against James Wale relating to the sale of 1/3 of a sawmill by Wale to Edward Colcord and by Colcord to Rucke, the found that the sales were illegal, dismissed the claims, and ordered Rucke to pay Court costs.^[57][58]
• 1657. At a Court held at Salem on November 24, 1657, Thomas Wheeler, assignee of Left. Marshall, sued Joseph Armytage and Thomas Ruck on a debt.^[59]
• 1658. By a deed dated September 30, 1658, Thomas Rucke of Boston, distiller, and Elizabeth his wife sold to John Ame of Boston, ship carpenter, a 50' by 31' strip of land in Boston.^[60]
• 1660. At a Court held at Salem on June 26, 1660, Mr. Thomas Ruck agreed to be surety for the appearance of Mr. John Ruck in a suit against John Ruck by Mr. Phillip Cromwell for withholding possession of 100 acres of land that Cromwell bought from Ruck.^[61]
• 1662. At a meeting of the Boston Selectmen on April 28, 1662, Mr. Thomas Rucke made a motion to the Selectmen for stilling strong waters and retailing, considering his age which disenables him from other employment and his opportunity to supply ferry passengers.^[62]
• 1662. Thomas Ruck of Boston made his will on December 7, 1662^[63]
• 1668. On May 1, 1668, Thomas's will was probated and adminstration of his estate was granted to Elizabeth Ruck, his relict.^[63] On the same date Elizabeth swore to the inventory of Thomas's estate, which had been taken by Richard Collicott and John Deakin and appraised at £186.08.^[64]
• 1670. At a Court held at Salem on June 28, 1670, Mr. John Ruck was appointed as administrator of all the estate of Mr. Thomas Ruck, his father, deceased, which remained after the death of Elizabeth, widow and administratrix of said Thomas.^[65]

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