Dow, in Hisotry of Hampton, has Ruth as the d/of John Moulton and Anne Green. Noyes, et al, in Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire: Under Johnson: Peter Johnson married Ruth Moulton (John). Under Moulton: Ruth, d/of John, is said to have died bef 1649. NEHG Register 131:314 in 1977, in the treatment of the English ancestry of the Moultons, has Ruth as "unplaced". Can anyone shed new, more recent light on this? Thanks, Mariana Ruth MOULTON*, born Bef 7 March 1640/41 in Hampton Rockingham NH; died 27 February 1717/18 in Hampton Rockingham NH. She married (1) Peter JOHNSON* 3 April 1660 in Hampton Rockingham NH 1. He was the son of Edmund JOHNSON* and Mary (_____)*. Children of Ruth MOULTON* and Peter JOHNSON* are: i. Mary JOHNSON, born 7 February 1662/63 in Hampton Rockingham NH 2; died 8 January 1743/44 in Haverhill Essex MA 3; married Samuel AYER 14 December 1681 in Haverhill Essex MA 4. ii. Ruth JOHNSON, born 13 July 1666 in Hampton Rockingham NH 5; died 25 July 1751 in Haverhill Essex MA 6; married (1) Timothy AYER 24 November 1682 in Haverhill Essex MA 7; married (2) Samuel DOW 5 May 1691 in Haverhill Essex MA 8. iii. Edmund JOHNSON, born 3 July 1671 in Hampton Rockingham NH 9; died 11 November 1737 in Hampton Rockingham NH; married Abigail GREEN 25 September 1693 in Hampton Falls Rockingham NH 10. iv. Peter JOHNSON*, born 25 November 1674 in Hampton Rockingham NH 11; married Esther HOBBS* 1 April 1708 in Hampton Rockingham NH 12. Endnotes * indicates ancestor of Mariana Bean Ruggles 1-2. Dow, History of Hampton 3. Haverhill VR 2:350 4-5. Dow, History of Hampton 6. Haverhill VR 2:386 7. Haverhill VR 2:16 8. Haverhill VR 2:18 9-12. Dow, History of Hampton