[Ancestor] Rutherford

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Husband [Ancestor] Rutherford

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1 M Thomas Rutherford ^{1 2}

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           Born: 24 Jun 1707 - Cookton, County Tyrone, Ireland 2
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         Buried:  - Paxtang Church Cemetery, Paxtang, Dauphin Co, PA

         Spouse: Jean Murdoch (1712-1789) 2
           Marr: 7 Sep 1730 - Pennsylvania 2

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General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Rutherford

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The Rutherfords are descended from an old Scottish family of that name, one of whom David, whose portrait hangs in the dining hall at Abbotsford, was an ancestor of Sir Walter Scott. It is interesting to note in passing that Sir Walter's step-grandmother was a Nesbit. Two of the Rutherford brothers were officers in the army of William III and fought at the Boyne. They received for their services lands in Tyrone and in Down. A third brother, a clergyman, settled in Monaghan, Ireland. Between 1720 and 1730 a number of sons of these brothers came to New Jersey, where John Rutherford built Edgerton Manor, at Boiling Springs, later Rutherford Station.

1 William Henry Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1894), Pg 121.

2 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 1011.

3 William Henry Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1894), Pg 122.