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             Husband: David HUMPHREYS (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8)
                Born: 10 JUL 1752 in Derby, New Haven, CT (9 10 11)
             Married:
                Died: 21 FEB 1818 in New Haven, CT (12 13)
              Father: Daniel HUMPHREYS
              Mother: Sarah RIGGS
             Spouses: 
                Wife: Ann Francis BULKELEY (14)
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Footnotes

  1. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, 24, 59 - 67, 103.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/hp24.htm
    http://www.oxfordpast.net/hp59.html
    http://www.oxfordpast.net/hp103.html.]
  2. Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), 105 - 107.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/105.html.]
  3. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 592 - 599.
    ... On the staff of General Washington ...
  4. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Images of America, Oxford (Charleston, Arcadia Publishing, 2004), 12.
    ... aide to General Washington ...
    [Available at http://www.oxford-historical-society.org/books-for-sale.htm.]
  5. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 788.
    Soldiers in the Revolution ...
    Gen. David Humphreys served nobly throughout the war.
  6. Derby Historical Society.
    [http://www.derbyhistorical.org/david_humphreys_words.htm.]
  7. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 233-4.
    He resided more than a year with Washington after his retirement to Virginia ... He accompanied Jefferson to Europe ... was elected to the legislature in Connecticut ... imported from Spain 100 merino sheep, and engaged in manufacture of woolens ...
  8. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 26-27.
    As a boy he was passionately fond of books.
  9. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 736.
  10. 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), 248.
  11. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 26.
  12. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, 62.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/hp62.html.]
  13. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 234.
  14. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, 61.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/hp61.html.]

Revised: 19-Oct-08
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