Rev. Samuel Rutherford (1659-?) Extract Per Davey, 1957

Davey, 1955:7

The Second Rev. Samuel Rutherford

''In the early history of the Rutherfords there is said to ahve been a Rev. Samuel somewhere in every generations. This story is of the second one in our line. The relationship between the eminent Divine, The Rev. Samuel Rutherford (1600-1661), and the second Rev. Samuel among our ancestors has not been determined. it Seems the latter must have been a grandson, or possibly a newphew, as it isi said no son survived the first Samuel Rutherford.  The seond Samuel was a Presbyterian Minister who preached a more liberal doctrine and one that displeased the Bishops of the Church. In 1689 he was banaished from Scotland to ireland. Two brothers went with him. Samuel Rutherford settled in Monoghan Co, one brother in Down Co, and the other in Tyrone Co. All these brothers married in Ireland.  The rev. Smauel Rutherford and wife had three sons; Samuel Jr., Robert, and John. It seems probable that the Rutherfords who went with the Queen's Bush Emigration to Canada and came from Monaghan Co., Ireland, were descendants of either Samuel Jr., or Robert. Thus, they would be, as we are, members of the Rev. Smauel Rutherford line.  The story of John, the youngest son of the Rev. Smauel Rutherford, is told under "American Pioneers".  (A comment by E.R.D.- Hoping to learn the parentage of the two Rev. Samuel Rutherfords, and not doing so, I am left with these bits of tantalizing cclews (Sinc): "The seem to have descended from the Rutherfor's of Huntshill.  'Longer than 300 years in the Rutherford fmily' wrote Baron Robert.  One son of Sir Robert, who married Jane Douglas was John, ancestor to Rutherford of Huntshill...."  The author of the Book:  "Riutherfords of that Ilk" was Sir Robert Dublas, frined ofthe family....:) ''