Ruth Main

• Not the same as Ruth Brown
• birth date seen as 02/25/1682

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THE DESCENDANTS OF EZEKIEL MAINE, by Algernon Aikin Aspinwall, pp 5.

Jeremiah married Ruth on 11 Oct 1696 in Stonington, New London Co., Connecticut. Ruth was born about 1682 [SiC] and was christened 16 Jul 1699 in Stonington, New London Co., Connecticut. She died in Stonington, New London Co., Connecticut.

Research failed to disclose her maiden name or name of her first husband. When the First Church was formed in what is now North Stonington. Jeremiah and Ruth were amoung its first members.

In his will dated February 24, 1726, Jeremiah names his three youngest sons, Nathaniel, John and Peter; his three eldest daughters not named, he names his youngest daughter, Hepzibah, and names his wife, Ruth as sole executor. He also gives five shillings to Ruth, wife of John Butler. She was Ruth Brown, daughter, of his wife by her first marriage.

Ruth married second, on October 11, 1699 at Stonington, Connecticut to Jeremiah Main b. 1678, d. November 11, 1727; 11 children:

1. Thomas, born July 19, 1700
2. Hannah, baptized May 17, I702
3. Elizabeth, born February 22, I703
4. Lydia, April 19, 1705
5. Sarah, May 19, 1706
6. Jeremiah, April 10, 1708
7. Hepzibah, March 24, 1710
8. Nathaniel, August 4, 1714
9. Anna, August 21, 1715
10. John, May 20, 1716
11. Peter, August 5, 1718

Marriage Date: 11 Oct 1699

HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF STONINGTON, County of New London, Connecticut, from its first settlement in 1649 to 1900, by Richard Anson Wheeler, New London, CT, 1900, p. 449