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             Husband: Ranford RIGGS (1)
                Born: 12 JAN 1784 in Derby, New Haven, CT (2 3)
          Christened: 25 APR 1784 in First Congregational Church Of Derby (4)
             Married:
                Died: 16 APR 1832 (5 6)
              Buried: in Derby Colonial Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT (7 8)
              Father: Joseph RIGGS
              Mother: Elizabeth JOHNSON
             Spouses: 
                Wife: Deborah BALDWIN (9 10 11 12)
                Born: 22 AUG 1782 in Derby, New Haven, CT (13 14)
          Christened: 22 DEC 1782 in First Congregational Church Of Derby (15)
                Died: 26 JAN 1868 (16)
              Buried: in Derby Colonial Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT (17 18)
              Father: Silas BALDWIN
              Mother: Mary PLUMB
             Spouses:
Children
01               (M): John Sidney RIGGS (19 20 21 22 23)
                Born: 1805
                Died: APR 1870 (24 25)
             Spouses: Polly Maria PARDEE
02               (M): William Edgar RIGGS (26 27 28)
                Born: l 1810 (29)
                Died:
             Spouses: Harriet

Footnotes

  1. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 52.
    ... killed by lightening ...
  2. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 539.
  3. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 18.
  4. 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), 484.
    Church Records.
    [http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/484.html.]
  5. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 274.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan274.html.]
  6. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 540.
    Ranford was killed by lightening April 10, 1832.
  7. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 274.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan274.html.]
  8. Derby Colonial Cemetery Photograph - Derby, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem3796.html.]
  9. 1850 Derby Census.
    [Living alone next to Wm. E. Riggs and family.]
  10. 1860 Derby Census.
    [Living at the home of Joseph and Julia Clark.]
  11. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 540.
  12. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 18.
  13. 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), 184.
  14. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 694.
  15. 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), 483.
    Church Records.
    [http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/483.html.]
  16. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 274.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan274.html.]
  17. Ibid., 274.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan274.html.]
  18. Derby Colonial Cemetery Photograph - Derby, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem3797.html.]
  19. Compiled and edited by Jacqyelyn Ladd Ricker, The Ricker Compilation of Vital Records of Early Connecticut (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2006), 10680.
    ... of Woodbridge ...
  20. 1850 Derby Census.
    Laborer.
  21. 1860 Derby Census.
    Farmer.
    [Living w/ daughter Julia and family.]
  22. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 540.
  23. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 52.
    Sidnet.
  24. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 274.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan274.html.]
  25. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 540.
  26. Ibid., 540.
  27. 1850 Derby Census.
    Joiner.
    [Living beside his mother. John J. Lines and wife Eliza Riggs & family are living w/ him.]
  28. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 52.
    Edgar.
  29. 1850 Derby Census.

Revised: 19-Oct-08
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