Bathsheba (Bourne) Newcomb m. (2) Brig. Gen. Timothy Ruggles (her 1st marriage was to William Newcomb). By her marriage to Timothy, she had a daughter Bathsheba Ruggles. Bathsheba m. Joshua Spooner. Bathsheba along with accomplices WILLIAM BROOKS, James Buchanan, and Ezra Ross, murdered her husband Joshua in March 1778 in Brookfield (Worcester), MA, she and her 3 accomplices were hung for the murder on 7/2/1778, she was pregnant at the time, believed to be the child of Ezra Ross, her younger lover. (The book "Murdered By His Wife" by Deborah Navas has more info and is supposed to have genealogical information-this isn't my source for info, it is a combo. of sources, mostly "Reminiscences of Worcester: from the earliest period: historical and genealogical, with... . Wall, Caleb A.. ....). Does anyone know who this William Brooks is? Thank you in advance, Maura J. Amrich, genam1620@comcast.org Tyngsborough, MA