ABSTRACT
In comparison to Lucy’s and Roosevelt’s forebears, the Rutherfurds were newcomers. Winthrop’s paternal ancestor Walter Rutherfurd, the son of Sir John Rutherfurd, left his Scottish homeland in 1756 to fight in the French and Indian War, which had begun two years earlier. Walter was a career army soldier who came from a long line of Celtic warriors.* The Rutherfurds had lived on the border of Scotland and England and fought with both William Wallace and Robert the Bruce against the English. Now in the New World, Walter Rutherfurd fought to secure British control of North America east of the Mississippi. Like many who came to this country with the intention of returning home, he decided to stay. Although the war did not end until 1763, Major Rutherfurd with twenty years of military service retired to New York City in 1760 with his wife Catherine Parker.
