
Soldiers of Fortune
Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes
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The Politics of Marriage in the 1700s
Timothy Ruggles' daughter Bathsheba married Joshua Spooner. It's suspected that this was an arranged marriage, which would have been common in the 1700s. Historians theorize that Timothy Ruggles did this also as a political move because of the approaching war.
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