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Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge.
Colonel in the Massachusetts militia, member of the Massachusetts legislature
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About Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge
Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge was an American medical doctor, lawyer, farmer, and military officer who served as a colonel in the Massachusetts militia during the American Revolutionary War. Woodbridge was a commander at the Battle of Bunker Hill, and also owned a rum still, a wood lot, a grazing meadow, and a mill, and came to be the wealthiest man in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Colonel Woodbridge was also a member of the Massachusetts legislature for many years.
Everything about Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge →- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- March 5, 1739
- Died
- March 8, 1819