a 17-year-old Continental Army soldier with whom she was having an affair and whose child she can be presumed to have been carrying, and two British soldiers, who had deserted the British Army, after the death of her husband Joshua Spooner, who was savagely beaten and dumped in a well. Three of Ruggles' sons, Timothy, John, and Richard, followed him into exile and settled in Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, unlike his three daughters and his wife. A grandson, also named Timothy Ruggles, was a political figure in Nova Scotia. Ruggles was bothered by a hernia in later years and in August 1795, on the occasion of a visit by guests while he was taking them on a tour of his garden, he aggravated his poor health. Four days later, he died. He was buried on the eastward side of the Old Trinity Church of which he had been a major financial contributor in Middleton, Nova Scotia. A monument was later erected to his memory by his great grand-daughter, Eliza Bayard West. Ruggles has been described as a vegetarian for most of his life. It was noted that "he drank nothing stronger than a small beer & was almost a vegetarian in a society in which gluttony was the one universal excess." See also American Revolution Military history of Nova Scotia Notes Further reading Catherine Cottreau-Robins. Timothy Ruggles – A Loyalist Plantation in Nova Scotia, 1784–1800. Doctorate Thesis. Dalhousie University.2012 http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~dav4is/people/RUGG2087.htm (partial source) 1711 births 1795 deaths American Loyalists from Massachusetts Members of the colonial Massachusetts House of Representatives Harvard College Loyalists in the American Revolution Harvard University alumni British emigrants to pre-Confederation Nova Scotia Loyalists who settled Nova Scotia 18th-century American politicians Military personnel from colonial Massachusetts