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             Husband: Joseph RIGGS (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8)
                Born: 13 FEB 1710 (9 10 11)
             Married: 20 FEB 1740 in Derby, New Haven, CT (88 89 90)
                Died: 31 MAR 1792 (12 13)
              Buried: in Derby Colonial Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT (14 15 16)
              Father: John RIGGS
              Mother: Elizabeth TOMLINSON
             Spouses: 
                Wife: Mabel JOHNSON (17 18 19 20 21 22)
                Born: 24 AUG 1719 in Derby, New Haven, CT (23 24 25)
                Died: 01 DEC 1806 (26)
              Father: Gideon JOHNSON
              Mother: Abigail CHATFIELD
             Spouses:
Children
01               (F): Hannah RIGGS (27 28)
                Born: 21 DEC 1740 in Derby, New Haven, CT (29 30 31 32)
                Died: 06 MAR 1813
             Spouses: Noah FRENCH; Eleazer HAWKINS
02               (M): John RIGGS (33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53)
                Born: 10 APR 1743 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (54 55 56 57 58)
                Died: 18 JUN 1814 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (59 60 61 62)
             Spouses: Elizabeth HAWKINS
03               (M): Joseph RIGGS (63 64 65 66 67 68)
                Born: 20 JUL 1746 (69 70 71 72)
                Died: 15 MAY 1822 (73 74)
             Spouses: Rachel CHATFIELD; Elizabeth JOHNSON
04               (M): Samuel RIGGS
                Born: 21 NOV 1750 (75 76 77)
                Died: 21 SEP 1766 (78 79 80 81)
              Buried: in Derby Colonial Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT (82 83 84)
             Spouses: 
05               (F): Mabel RIGGS (85)
                Born: 05 MAY 1759 (86)
                Died: 12 MAY 1801 (87)
             Spouses: Isaac WATEROUS

Footnotes

  1. Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), 55.
    ..Dec. 11, 1775...Committee of Inspection..
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/055.html.]
  2. Ibid., 59.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/059.html.]
  3. 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), 472.
    Church Records.
    [http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/472.html.]
  4. Ibid., 479.
    Church Records ...
    ... Sept 13, 1772, Then was baptized Richard, , a negro child of Capt. Joseph Riggs & Mahitable his wife.
    [http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/479.html.]
  5. 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 3, p 624.
  6. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 65.
  7. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 739.
  8. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 536.
    Resided in Oxford, Ct.
  9. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 755.
  10. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 536.
  11. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 8.
    b. February 13, 1709.
  12. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 254.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/dccemscan254.html.]
  13. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 812.
  14. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 254.
    Here leis Buried the Body
    of Capt
    Joseph Riggs
    who Departed this Life
    March 31st 1792 in the
    83d Year of his age.
    A Soul Prepared needs no Delay
    The Summons Comes the Saint obeys
    Swift was his flight and Short the Road
    He Closed his Eyes and Sees his God.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/dccemscan254.html.]
  15. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 812.
    Here lies buried the body | of Capt Joseph Riggs | who departed this life | March 31 1792 in the 83d year of his age.
    A soul prepared needs no delay
    The summons comes the saint obeys
    He closed his eyes and sees his God.
  16. Derby Colonial Cemetery Photograph - Derby, CT.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cem4.html.]
  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), 472.
    Church Records.
    [http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/472.html.]
  18. Ibid., 479.
    Church Records ...
    ... Sept 13, 1772, Then was baptized Richard, , a negro child of Capt. Joseph Riggs & Mahitable his wife.
    [http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/479.html.]
  19. Ibid., 481.
    Church Records ...
    July 9, 1775, Then was baptized, Cato the servant child of Capt Riggs & Mehitable his wife.
    [http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/481.html.]
  20. 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 3, p 624.
  21. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 65.
  22. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 536.
    ... of Chusetown.
  23. 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 5, p 1032.
  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), 255.
  25. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 739.
  26. 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 5, p 1032.
  27. 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), 471, 472, 474, 476, 478, 479, 480, 481, 482.
    Church Records.
    [http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/471.html.]
  28. Ralph Clymer Hawkins, A Hawkins Genealogy 1635 - 1939, Record of the Descendants of Robert Hawkins of Charlestown, Massachusetts (The Hawkins Association, 1939), 248.
  29. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 755.
  30. 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), 282.
  31. 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 3, p 624.
  32. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 537.
  33. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 177.
    [Oxford Legislature - 1799
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/177.html.]
  34. 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.]
  35. Ibid., 98.
    £ 27.
    [1792 - Tax List - Oxford
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/098.html.]
  36. 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.]
  37. 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.]
  38. Ibid., 70.
    ... men having holdings of over 100 Lbs ...
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/070.html.]
  39. 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.]
  40. 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.]
  41. 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.]
  42. 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.
  43. Ibid., vol 1, p 179.
  44. 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: ...
  45. 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.
  46. 1790 Derby Census.
  47. 1800 Oxford Census.
  48. 1810 Oxford Census.
  49. 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.]
  50. 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 ...
  51. 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.
  52. 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.]
  53. Ibid., 17.
    The Congregational Church.
    BAPTISMS ...
    ____ Son to John Riggs Jnr & Elisabeth his Wife.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/017.html.]
  54. Ibid., 68.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/068.html.]
  55. 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.
  56. 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.
  57. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 6.
    ... born Apr. 10, 1743 ...
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan6.html.]
  58. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 537.
  59. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 76.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/076.html.]
  60. Ibid., 55.
    Aged 72.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/055.html.]
  61. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 6.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan6.html.]
  62. Compiled By Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850, 66.
    ae. 71.
  63. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 50.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/050.html.]
  64. 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 843.
  65. Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 1, p 314.
    ... Rachel, wife Capt. Joseph Riggs ...
  66. 1790 Derby Census.
  67. 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), 476, 477, 478, 481, 484.
    Church Records.
    [http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/476.html.]
  68. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 17.
  69. Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 1, p 314.
  70. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 755.
  71. 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.
  72. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 537.
    May 20, 1746.
  73. Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 1, p 314.
  74. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 266.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan266.html.]
  75. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 755.
  76. 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), 284.
  77. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 537.
  78. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 254.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan254.html.]
  79. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 755.
  80. 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), 284.
  81. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 812.
  82. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 254.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan254.html.]
  83. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 812.
    Here lyes ye body of | Samuel Riggs son of | Capt Joseph and Mrs. Mabel | Riggs who departed this | life Sept ye 21 1766 in ye | 16 year of his age.
    Job. xx. 9. The eye also which saw
    Him shall see him no more neither shall
    His place any more behold him.
  84. Derby Colonial Cemetery Photograph - Derby, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem44.html.]
  85. 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 8, p 1956.
  86. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 755.
  87. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 537.
  88. 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. 5 - Page1032.
  89. 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), 255.
  90. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 8.

Revised: 19-Oct-08
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