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             Husband: John RIGGS (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21)
                Born: 10 APR 1743 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (22 23 24 25 26)
             Married: 22 DEC 1767 in Oxford Congregational Church (178 179)
                Died: 18 JUN 1814 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (27 28 29 30)
              Buried: in Oxford Congregational Cemetery (31 32)
              Father: Joseph RIGGS
              Mother: Mabel JOHNSON
             Spouses: 
               Title: Esquire
                Wife: Elizabeth HAWKINS (33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41)
                Born: 10 JAN 1746 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (42 43 44 45 46 47)
          Christened: 16 FEB 1746 in Oxford Congregational Church (48)
                Died: 13 OCT 1815 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (49 50)
              Buried: in Oxford Congregational Cemetery (51 52)
              Father: Zachariah HAWKINS
              Mother: Mary TOMLINSON
             Spouses:
Children
01               (F): Betty RIGGS (53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60)
                Born: 15 AUG 1768 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (61 62 63 64)
                Died: 10 JUL 1845 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (65 66)
             Spouses: Joel PERRY
02               (M): Samuel RIGGS (67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81)
                Born: 07 AUG 1770 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (82 83 84 85)
                Died: 18 NOV 1835 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (86 87 88 89)
             Spouses: Charity RIGGS
03               (M): John RIGGS (90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101)
                Born: 22 DEC 1771 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (102 103 104 105)
                Died: 14 NOV 1855 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (106 107)
             Spouses: Mary BEECHER; Betsey HAWKINS
04               (F): Mary RIGGS (108 109 110)
                Born: 20 NOV 1773 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (111 112 113 114 115)
                Died: 20 SEP 1845 (116)
             Spouses: Philo BEECHER
05               (M): Joseph RIGGS (117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127)
                Born: 11 OCT 1775 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (128 129 130 131)
                Died: 10 FEB 1850 in Oxford, New Haven, CT
             Spouses: Lydia ALLING
06               (F): Abigail RIGGS (132 133 134 135)
                Born: 02 APR 1779 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (136 137 138 139)
                Died: 13 DEC 1862 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (140 141 142 143)
             Spouses: Timothy Russell NICHOLS
07               (M): Gideon RIGGS (144 145 146 147 148)
                Born: 30 JAN 1782 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (149 150 151)
                Died: 1860 in Franklin County, Iowa (152)
             Spouses: Susan PITCHER
08               (F): Anna RIGGS (153 154 155 156 157 158)
                Born: 20 JUN 1784 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (159 160 161)
                Died: 19 NOV 1867 (162)
             Spouses: Ebenezer UMBERFIELD
09               (F): Lucy RIGGS (163)
                Born: 17 JAN 1787 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (164 165 166 167)
                Died: 1862
             Spouses: Roswell CANDEE
10               (M): Leveritt RIGGS (168 169 170 171)
                Born: 16 JUL 1788 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (172 173 174)
                Died: 08 SEP 1849 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (175 176 177)
             Spouses: Betsey; Rachel CHATFIELD

Footnotes

  1. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 177.
    [Oxford Legislature - 1799
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/177.html.]
  2. Ibid., 175.
    ... built houses and settled his sons in a row with his own dwelling, so many that they named the street "Riggs Street."
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/175.html.]
  3. Ibid., 98.
    £ 27.
    [1792 - Tax List - Oxford
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/098.html.]
  4. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, 13, 21 - 22.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/hp13.htm
    http://www.oxfordpast.net/hp21.htm.]
  5. Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), 59, 67, 69, 70.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/059.html
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/067.html.]
  6. Ibid., 70.
    ... men having holdings of over 100 Lbs ...
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/070.html.]
  7. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Oxford's Record: The First 175 Years (Oxford, CT, Oxford Record, Inc., 1973), 16.
    The First Town Meeting ... John Riggs was named treasurer.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/p16.htm.]
  8. Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), 305.
    Oxford Tax List, 1792.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/305.html.]
  9. American Legion Cemetery List - 2003 (David S. Miles Post 174, American Legion, Oxford, Conn., 2003).
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/vets-graves/veteran-graves.html.]
  10. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 4, p 903.
  11. Ibid., vol 1, p 179.
  12. J. L. Rockey, History of New Haven County, Connecticut, 534.
    The registered freemen in the town at the time of its incorporation in 1798 and the next ten years following were: ...
  13. Compiled By Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850, 66.
    RIGGS ... John, Capt. of 1st Co. in Oxford, 1779.
  14. 1790 Derby Census.
  15. 1800 Oxford Census.
  16. 1810 Oxford Census.
  17. Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901), 477.
    Church Records.
    [http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/477.html.]
  18. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 46.
    ... John RIGGS, s. Joseph & Mabel, of Derby ...
  19. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 537.
    Resided in Oxford.
  20. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 12.
    ... 1771 ...
    Augst 1st, John Riggs & Elizabeth his wife Received by a Letter from Derby.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/012.html.]
  21. Ibid., 17.
    The Congregational Church.
    BAPTISMS ...
    ____ Son to John Riggs Jnr & Elisabeth his Wife.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/017.html.]
  22. Ibid., 68.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/068.html.]
  23. Compiled By Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850, 65.
    RIGGS ...
    John, b. Apr. 10, 1743 Vol.2 p.90.
  24. Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852 (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997), 283.
    RIGGS ...
    John, s. of Joseph & Mabel, b. Apr. 10, 1742 LR6 p.2
    John, s. of Joseph & Mabel, b. Apr. 10, 1742 TM1 p.225.
  25. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 6.
    ... born Apr. 10, 1743 ...
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan6.html.]
  26. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 537.
  27. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 76.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/076.html.]
  28. Ibid., 55.
    Aged 72.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/055.html.]
  29. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 6.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan6.html.]
  30. Compiled By Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850, 66.
    ae. 71.
  31. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 6.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan6.html.]
  32. Congregational Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cem2.html.]
  33. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, 21.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/hp21.htm.]
  34. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 4, p 903.
  35. Ibid., vol 1, p 179.
  36. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 126.
    S. H. M. H. Z. H. R. H.
    1771 1774 1806 1786

    By this stone are deposited the remains of Capt. Zachariah Hawkins, a worthy and respectable
    member of society, who in the 90th year of his age died in faith and hope, June 27th, MDCCCVI. He had 14 children who all survived him, 82 grandchildren & 95 great-grandchildren.
    Sarah his first wife is buried in Derby, by whom he had Sarah & Mercy.
    Mary his 2d wife is buried 12 feet on the left of this stone, by whom he had Mary, John, Elizabeth,
    Elijah, Anna, Gaylord, Ruth, Silas, Joseph, Moses & Isaac.
    Rachael his 3d wife lies close by this stone on the left, by whom he had Zachariah.
    Lydia his relict and his sons erect this monument, their tribute of gratitude, love and honor.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/126.html.]
  37. Compiled By Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850, 65.
  38. Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901), 477.
    Church Records.
    [http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/477.html.]
  39. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 46.
  40. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 12.
    ... 1771 ...
    Augst 1st, John Riggs & Elizabeth his wife Received by a Letter from Derby.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/012.html.]
  41. Ibid., 17.
    The Congregational Church.
    BAPTISMS ...
    ____ Son to John Riggs Jnr & Elisabeth his Wife.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/017.html.]
  42. Ibid., 68.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/068.html.]
  43. Compiled By Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850, 65.
  44. Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852 (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997), 234.
  45. Ralph Clymer Hawkins, A Hawkins Genealogy 1635 - 1939, Record of the Descendants of Robert Hawkins of Charlestown, Massachusetts (The Hawkins Association, 1939), 247.
  46. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 727.
  47. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 537.
  48. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 21.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/021.html.]
  49. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 6.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan6.html.]
  50. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 77.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/077.html.]
  51. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 6.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan6.html.]
  52. Congregational Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cem3.html.]
  53. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 41.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/041.html.]
  54. Ibid., 43.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/043.html.]
  55. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 6.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan6.html.]
  56. Historic House Committee of The Bicentennial Commission, Oxford, Connecticut, Early Houses of Oxford (Derby, CT, The Bacon Printing Company, 1976), #100.
    built in 1790 by Captain Joel Perry for his bride Elizabeth Riggs.
    [Governor's Hill Road, Oxford, CT
    http://www.oxford-historical-society.org/books-for-sale.htm.]
  57. Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), 102.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/102.html.]
  58. Emma Lounsbury, Oxford - A Historical Sketch (Seymour Record, 1914).
    "Uncle Joel Perry," as he was called by all the neighbors, was the grandfather of the present one of that name; built the house next to where the present Joel Perry lives. His wife was Betty Riggs. They raised a moderate family of ten children.
    Uncle Joel Perry's son, David Perry, built the house where the present Joel Perry lives in 1830, on the ground where his grandfather, James Perry, had lived.
    David Perry's brother, Bennet Perry, lived where Mr. Beecher now lives, who built the house in 1840, and is yet owned by the Perry family.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/short-stories/lounsbury-sketch.html.]
  59. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 63, 64.
  60. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 13.
    ... 1792 ...
    Novr 4th, Joel Perry & Betty his Wife renewed their Covenant.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/013.html.]
  61. Ibid., 68.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/068.html.]
  62. Compiled By Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850, 65.
  63. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 537.
  64. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 19.
  65. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 9.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan9.html.]
  66. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 19.
  67. Norman Litchfield, History of St. Peter's Church in Oxford, Connecticut (1955-56), 48, 50.
    saw mill.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Churches/history-of_saint_peters_church/sp_048.html
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Churches/history-of_saint_peters_church/sp_050.html.]
  68. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 6.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan6.html.]
  69. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 98.
    £ 27.
    [1792 - Tax List - Oxford
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/098.html.]
  70. Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), 144.
    Oxford Masonic Societies.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/144.html.]
  71. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 42, 43.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/042.html.]
  72. Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), 305.
    Oxford Tax List, 1792.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/305.html.]
  73. 1800 Oxford Census.
  74. 1810 Oxford Census.
  75. 1820 Oxford Census.
  76. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 65, 66.
  77. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 537.
    Resided in Oxford, CT. It is stated that this couple had twenty-one children.
  78. Ibid., 541.
  79. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 33.
    To this pair twenty-one children were born, many of them dying in infancy.
  80. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 10.
    1810.
    Charity, the wife of Samuel Riggs, recvd to full communion with this church.
    The wife of Joseph Riggs recvd to full communion with this church.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/010.html.]
  81. Ibid., 14.
    ... 1794.
    Aug. 24th, Samuel Riggs and Charry his wife renewed their Covenant.
    Aug. 24, Philo Beecher & Mary his Wife renewed their Covenant.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/014.html.]
  82. Ibid., 68.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/068.html.]
  83. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 66.
  84. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 537.
  85. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 19.
  86. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 75.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/075.html.]
  87. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 6.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan6.html.]
  88. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 66.
  89. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 19.
  90. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 25.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/025.html.]
  91. Ibid., 41.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/041.html.]
  92. Ibid., 43.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/043.html.]
  93. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 6.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan6.html.]
  94. 1850 Seymour Census.
    [Living with son Harpin and family.]
  95. 1840 Derby Census.
  96. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 432.
  97. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Great Hill Cemetery, 91.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/ghcemscan91.html.]
  98. Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852 (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997), 234.
  99. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 1, p 179.
  100. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 537.
    ... located on Bungay, on land given him by his father, in the town of Seymour.
  101. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 14.
    ... 1794 ...
    Septr 21st, John Riggs 3d & Mary his Wife Renewed their Covenant.
    Sept. 21, Wm Morriss & Elizabeth his wife Renewed thedir Covenant.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/014.html.]
  102. Ibid., 68.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/068.html.]
  103. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 66.
  104. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 537.
  105. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 19.
  106. Ibid., 33-4.
  107. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Trinity Cemetery, Seymour, 40.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/trcemscan40.html.]
  108. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 6.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan6.html.]
  109. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 1, p 179.
  110. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 14.
    ... 1794.
    Aug. 24th, Samuel Riggs and Charry his wife renewed their Covenant.
    Aug. 24, Philo Beecher & Mary his Wife renewed their Covenant.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/014.html.]
  111. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 1, p 179.
  112. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 68.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/068.html.]
  113. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 66.
  114. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 537.
  115. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 19.
  116. Ibid., 19.
  117. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 42.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/042.html.]
  118. Ibid., 43.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/043.html.]
  119. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 6.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan6.html.]
  120. J. L. Rockey, History of New Haven County, Connecticut, 534.
    The registered freemen in the town at the time of its incorporation in 1798 and the next ten years following were: ...
  121. 1790 Derby Census.
  122. 1800 Oxford Census.
  123. 1810 Oxford Census.
  124. 1820 Oxford Census.
  125. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 1, p 33.
    ... of Oxf ...
  126. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 10.
    1810.
    Charity, the wife of Samuel Riggs, recvd to full communion with this church.
    The wife of Joseph Riggs recvd to full communion with this church.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/010.html.]
  127. Ibid., 14.
    ... 1800.
    Septm 21, Joseph Riggs & Lyddia his wife renewed their Covenant.
    Septmr 21, John Fairchild & Mary his wife renewed their Covenant.
    Septmr 21, David Beecher & Polly his wife renewd their Covenant.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/014.html.]
  128. Ibid., 68.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/068.html.]
  129. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 66.
  130. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 537.
  131. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 19.
  132. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 6.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan6.html.]
  133. 1850 Oxford Census.
    [Living w/ son Benjamin.]
  134. 1860 Oxford Census.
    [Living w/ son Benjamin.]
  135. Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), 156.
    ... In Oxford, these funds were in the control of First Selectmen, Benjamin Nichols. He was born in Oxford, son of Russell and Nabby Riggs Nichols. He grew to manhood on the old family farm there ...
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/156.html.]
  136. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 68.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/068.html.]
  137. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 66.
  138. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 537.
  139. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 19.
  140. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 135.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/135.html.]
  141. Ibid., 136.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/136.html.]
  142. Ibid., 127.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/127.html.]
  143. Charles Elwell, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Hillside Cemetery, 36.
    Nichols, Lois, wife of Jonathan, died Mar. 29, 1847, age 73 yrs.
    Nichols, Jonathan L., died May 29, 1821, age 48 yrs.
    Nichols, Isaac, died Mar. 5, 1806, age 57 yrs.
    Nichols, Abigail, wife of Isaac, died Mar. 20, 1825, age 77 yrs.
    Nichols, Isaac, died Dec. 23, 1826, age 56 yrs.
    Nichols, Sarah, daughter of Jonathan L. & Lois, died Apr. 20, 1868, age 71 yrs.
    Nichols, Jane Caroline, daughter of Riggs & Sally, died July 30, 1835, age 8 yrs.
    Nichols, Riggs, died May 17, 1844, age 43 yrs.
    Nichols, Russel, died June 24, 1849, age 73 yrs.
    Nichols, Nabby, wife of Russell, died Dec. 13, 1862, age 84 yrs.
    Nichols, Isaac, died Aug. 1, 1862, age 53 yrs.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/hscemscan36.html.]
  144. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 6.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan6.html.]
  145. Compiled By Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850, 65.
    RIGGS ... Gideon, Capt. of 1st Co. in Oxford.
  146. 1810 Oxford Census.
  147. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 539.
    Removed to Kirtland, Ohio.
  148. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 35.
    In the war of 1812 he entered the military service in Command of a ceompany of infantry, and after two years he was promoted to the rank of major, which position he held till the close of the war. In 1816 he went to the New Connecticut, as the reserve in Ohio was then called, and purchased land at Kirtland in Geaugua County ...
  149. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 68.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/068.html.]
  150. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 537.
  151. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 19, 34.
  152. Ibid., 35.
  153. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 6.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan6.html.]
  154. Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Congregational Cemetery, 83.
  155. 1850 Seymour Census.
    [Living w/ daughter Catherine & family.]
  156. 1860 Humphreyville Census.
    [Living w/ daughter Catherine & family.]
  157. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 537.
  158. Ibid., 537.
  159. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 68.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/068.html.]
  160. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 65.
  161. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 19.
    19 Annie, b. June 30, 1784, m. E. Underfield.
  162. 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Union Cemetery, Seymour (Union Cemetery, Seymour), 12.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/uncemscan12.html.]
  163. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 6.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan6.html.]
  164. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 68.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/068.html.]
  165. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 66.
  166. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 537.
  167. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 19.
  168. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 6.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan6.html.]
  169. 1820 Oxford Census.
  170. Congregational Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem832.html.]
  171. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 537.
  172. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 68.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/068.html.]
  173. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 66.
    b. July 16, 1788.
  174. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 19, 34.
    ... born July 17, 1788.
  175. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 118.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/118.html.]
  176. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 7.
  177. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 34.
  178. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 29.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/029.html.]
  179. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 46, 65.

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