Maria Hutchins married Thomas Jefferson Ruger; one passage gives the marriage only to the year 1830.

The evidence

• “Maria Hutchins, daughter of Benjamin, was born in East Haven, Conn., October 31, 1804, and married Thomas Jefferson Ruger, September 5, 1830. They had nine children, viz. : Cornelia Maria, Thomas Howard, Edward, William, Henry Hobart, Frances Eliza, Bradley Morgan, Ellen Augusta and Morris.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34b-biographical-2.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 407 / book p. 899

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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