Walter Rutherfurd

Walter Rutherfurd (29 December 1723 – 10 January 1804) was a Scottish-American soldier and merchant who served as the president of the Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York.

Early life Rutherfurd was born on 29 December 1723, in Edgerston, Roxburghshire, Scotland. He was the sixth son of nineteen children born to Sir John Rutherfurd and Elizabeth (née Cairncross) Rutherfurd, who married in 1710. Among his siblings was elder brother John Rutherfurd, who commanded an attack on the French at Fort Niagara in 1748 and was killed at Fort Ticonderoga on 8 July 1758, during the Battle of Carillon.

His paternal grandparents were Thomas Rutherfurd of Teviotdale and Susannah (née Riddell) Rutherfurd, He served until 1746 when he joined the Army of the Kingdom of Great Britain as an officer in the Royal Scots Regiment, serving as paymaster during the Flanders and German campaigns.

Post-Revolutionary War After the War ended, Rutherfurd returned to New York and entered the importing business and at Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Among her siblings were William Alexander, Lord Stirling, Mary Alexander (wife of Peter Van Brugh Livingston), Elizabeth Alexander (wife of John Stevens) and Susannah Alexander (Wife of British Army Officer John Reid). Together, they were the parents of: Mary Rutherfurd (1761–1786), who married Maj. Gen. Matthew Clarkson. and Louisa Morris Rutherfurd (1792–1857).

Through his daughter Mary, he was a grandfather of Mary Rutherfurd Clarkson (1786–1838), who married her cousin Peter Augustus Jay, the eldest son of Chief Justice John Jay and Sarah Van Brugh (née Livingston) Jay, in 1807.