Thomas Rutter and Rebecca Staples

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Husband Thomas Rutter ¹

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       Marriage: 10 Jan 1685 1

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Wife Rebecca Staples ¹

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1 F Anna Rutter ¹

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2 F Rebecca Rutter ¹

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3 M Thomas Rutter ²

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           Born: 26 Oct 1690 - Philadelphia Co, PA 1
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         Buried: 3 Jul 1738 - Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA 3

         Spouse: Sarah [Unk] (      -Bef 1728) 3

         Spouse: Mary Catherine Gheslin (      -      ) 3
           Marr: 10 Aug 1728 3

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4 M John Rutter ¹

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           Born: 1693 1
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5 F Mary Rutter ¹

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         Spouse: Edward Rees (      -      ) 1

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6 F Martha Rutter ¹

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         Spouse: [Unk] Doughty (      -      ) 1

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7 F Hester Rutter ¹

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         Spouse: Henry Hockley (      -      ) 1

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8 M Joseph Rutter ¹

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9 M [Unk] Rutter

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General Notes: Husband - Thomas Rutter

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While the Rutter family was originally of Germany, the Pennsylvania branch descends from Thomas Rutter, born in England and one of the early colonists of Pennsylvania. He was a blacksmith, and it is possible that he came in the employ of William Penn, as he was married at Penn's Manor House and received from him a grant of two hundred acres of land for "smith's service." He began prospecting for iron ore, and interested others with him as Thomas Rutter & Company. He persevered until he found ore in paying quantities, then erected a smelting furnace and began making iron, being the first man in Pennsylvania to make iron from the native ore. His plant was located in then Philadelphia, but later set off as Berks County. In 1713-14-27-28 he was a member of the Provincial Assembly. He was a member in early life of the Society of Friends, belonging to the Philadelphia meeting, also to the Abington meeting, on the records of which the births of his three eldest children are entered. Later he renounced his faith and became a Baptist, and for a time was pastor of a small congregation of that sect in Philadelphia. He died in Philadelphia, March, 1730. It is from his sons Thomas, John and Joseph that most of the name in Pennsylvania descend, in fact, all who claim Rutter descend from the colonial period.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 16.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 16, 17.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 17.