Peter Rugg is a New England literary character who figures in several American short stories and poems . Rugg is a stubborn and angry man , born about 1730 . He rides out into a thunderstorm in the year of the Boston Massacre ( 1770 ) , and is cursed to drive his carriage till the end of time . Travelers claim to have sighted him along one road or another , driving a carriage with a child at his side , and declaring that he will reach Boston by nightfall
Boston Massacre
Boston Massacre
Peter Rugg