The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
It is considered a research aid and is intended to assist in locating sources that can be used as proof.
ABRAHAM RUTAN: Born c1734, New Jersey near Elizabethtown. Son of Peter Abraham Rutan. About 1750 he married Anna ……., born c1729. They were the parents of 13 children, 5 sons and 8 daughters. ((C/N - Anna may have died c1761 and Abraham married 2nd Elizabeth …… who died c1788. However, I have no ‘hard’ evidence to confirm this))
Abraham, the father of Patriot Ancestor, Samuel Rutan listed above, served as an Ensign (2nd Lt), in Captain Peter Layton’s Company, NJ Eastern Regiment, commanded by Brig. Gen. Winds. Abraham was in command of a detachment of 22 men in June of 1778 at Elizabethtown NJ. He died in 1792 in Morris County NJ. Place of burial unknown.
(((Military information from NJ State Archives Rev. War Index and Rev War Payroll Service Slips. DAR membership record 522850-A718))
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