Isaac Rutledge and ? | William Rutledge and Chloe Johnson | James Rutledge Sr. & Frances Skaggs | George Rutledge and Rose Boyer | James Bernard Rutledge and Nancy Estes | James William Rutledge and Rubina Wright | Wilson Alvin, Sr. and Jessie Mae Wright (Wilson's WWII page)
Daughters of the Revolutionary War lineage:
Nancy Estes's parents (John D. Estes and Catherine Jane Kirkpatrick) (John's parents unknown)
Catherine Kirkpatrick's parents (Joseph Marion Kirkpatrick and Martha Patsy Ross)
Martha Patsy Ross's parents William Ross and Eliza Jane Allen | William Hugh Ross, Jr. and Mary Griffin
Other Ancestors:
Frances Skaggs parents: James Skaggs and Frances Beeler |
Joseph Kirkpatrick's parents ( David Sevier Kirkpatrick and Catherine White) | John Hugh Kirkpatrick and Margaret "Jane" Wilkins (possible Revoluntary War; there are 2 John Hugh Kirkpatricks)
Catherine White's parents (Joseph White and Janet Mebane)
Colonial Rutledges:
Edward Thomas Rutledge and Elizabeth Graem (Son Andrew)| John Rutledge and Elizabeth Grimké | John Rutledge and Sarah Hext |
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Rutledge DNA Connection: Edward Gent Rutledge | James Enos Rutledge | William Richard Rutledge | Richard William Rutledge | Harry Milton Rutledge | Edgar Rutledge Taylor | (This line is connected by DNA, but we have not yet put together the puzzle pieces)
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john Rutledge was a prominent South Carolina Founding Father. Among many other accomplishments, he was a delegate to the first Continental Congress, first Governor of South Carolina, and a Supreme Court Justice. He wrote the majority of the Constitution of the United States and signed the same.
John Rutledge was born 1739 in Charleston, South Carolina to John Rutledge and Sarah Boone Hext Rutledge.
Elizabeth Grimké was born 1741 to ___
Studied law under his uncle Andrew Rutledge and later at the Middle Temple in London
John and Elizabeth were married May 1, 1763, and had 10 children.
Martha Henrietta
Gen. John Jr. (1766–1819) a US Representative.
Edward James
Frederick
Charles Wilson
Thomas Littleberry
William Spencer
Elizabeth
Elizabeth died in 1792.
John died on July 18, 1800, in Charleston, South Carolina and is buried at St. Michael's Episcopal Church, Charleston, South Carolina.
I visited the John Rutledge House Inn in 2025 and you can see that video tour and website page.