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             Husband: Ebenezer RIGGS (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10)
                Born: 15 APR 1707 in Derby, New Haven, CT (11 12)
             Married: 04 or 5 Jul 1733 in Derby, New Haven, CT (114 115 116)
                Died: 04 JUN 1785 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (13 14)
              Father: Ebenezer RIGGS
              Mother: Lois HAWKINS
             Spouses: 
                Wife: Rachel PECK (15 16 17 18)
                Born: 10 MAY 1709 in Waterbury, New Haven, CT (19 20)
                Died: 12 JUN 1785 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (21 22 23)
              Father: Jeremiah PECK
              Mother: Rachael RICHARDS
             Spouses:
Children
01               (F): Rachel RIGGS
                Born: 31 MAY 1734 (24 25 26)
                Died: 25 MAY 1740 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (27 28)
             Spouses: >>>
02               (F): Esther RIGGS (29)
                Born: 24 JUN 1736 (30 31 32)
                Died: 22 MAY 1766 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (33 34 35)
             Spouses: David JOHNSON
03               (M): Ebenezer RIGGS
                Born: 17 NOV 1738 (36 37 38)
                Died: 29 MAY 1740 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (39 40 41 42)
              Buried: in Derby Colonial Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT (43)
             Spouses: 
04               (F): Rachael RIGGS (44 45 46)
                Born: 23 JAN 1741 (47 48 49 50)
                Died: 1813 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (51 52 53)
             Spouses: Gad BRISTOL
05               (F): Lois RIGGS
                Born: 25 JUL 1743 (54 55 56)
                Died: AUG 1751 (57 58 59)
             Spouses: 
06               (F): Eunice RIGGS (60 61)
                Born: 14 OCT 1745 (62 63)
                Died: 22 JUN 1794 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (64 65)
             Spouses: Thomas CLARK
07               (M): Ebenezer RIGGS (66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83)
                Born: 22 JAN 1748 in Derby, New Haven, CT (84 85 86)
                Died: 28 MAR 1828 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (87 88)
             Spouses: Anna THOMPSON
08               (M): Jeremiah RIGGS (89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98)
                Born: 01 JUL 1750 (99 100 101)
                Died: 1820 in Livonia, New York (102)
             Spouses: Anne WOODRUFF
09               (M): Joseph RIGGS (103 104 105 106 107 108)
                Born: 17 AUG 1753 (109 110 111)
                Died: 19 MAR 1791 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (112 113)
             Spouses: Ann CANFIELD

Footnotes

  1. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 55.
    Nov. 24, 1765, Dea. Ebenezer Riggs was chosen messenger to go to Northbury for the confirmation of Mr. Storrs.
    [Oxford Congregational Meetings
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/055.html.]
  2. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Oxford's Record: The First 175 Years (Oxford, CT, Oxford Record, Inc., 1973), 6.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/hp6.htm.]
  3. 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 2, p 315.
  4. Oxford Land Records Vol. I, 19.
    Aprill 1727 ... the lot of Eben: Riggs ... near the highway by Tobies Rocks ... Riggs Meadow ...
  5. 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), 469.
    First Congregational Church - Derby
    Records of Reverend Daniel Humphreys.
    [http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/469.html.]
  6. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 162.
    ... appointed agent to the General Assembly ...
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/162.html.]
  7. Edited by Joseph Anderson, D. D., Town & City of Waterbury, Connecticut, From the Aboriginal Period to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Five. (New Haven, The Price & Lee Company, 1896), Ap100.
  8. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 540.
    Ebenezer's grandfather Samuel gave him a farm before he was one year of age. Lived at Pinesbridge.
  9. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 6-7.
    "Att a meetting of the Parrish or society of oxford, in the Colony of Connecticut, on the thirtieth Day of June, 1741, being Lawfully warned and held att the house of mr Samuel Twitchels. Isaac Trowbridge, of said Parrish, by a major vote was chosen Clerk of the same, and the oath by Law provided for a society Clerk was to him administered in said meeting pr Samll Bassit, Esquir, Justice of peace.
    Att said meeting mr Isaac Knowles by a major vote was chosen medderator for said meeting.
    Voted and Past in said meeting that mr Caleb Perry, mr Ebenezer Riggs, mr John Lumm to be a committe for said society to take care of the prudentials of sd society.
    Voted and past in said meeting to hier a minister for this Present year.
    Voted and Past in said meeting that mr John Towner, mr Abial Fairchild and mr Samll Twitchel to be a minister committee for this Present year and to hier a minister upon probation.
    Voted and Past in said meetting that thear shall be a rate made of five pence upon the pound upon the list in the year 1740, in order to Defray the Charges in heiring mr Birdsey. this vote the inhabitants of Rock house hill are exempted from paying and charges thereof.
    Voted and past in said meeting that mr Ephraim Washband shall be a Collector and Treasurer and to collect and gather sd five peney rate by the first day of September next ensuing.
    Voted and Past in said meeting that mr John Towner and mr Samll Woster shall be in with the first committee in order to take care of the prudentials of said society.
    test per me
    Isaac Trowbridge
    Society Clerk."
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/006.html.]
  10. Ibid., 7.
    Mr. Ebenezer Riggs was appointed agent for the society to present the matter to the General Assembly.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/007.html.]
  11. 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.
  12. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 540.
  13. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 48.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/048.html.]
  14. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 540.
    Ebenezer died June 27, 1785.
  15. 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 2, p 315.
  16. 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), 469.
    First Congregational Church - Derby
    Records of Reverend Daniel Humphreys.
    [http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/469.html.]
  17. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 540.
    ... of Waterbury ...
  18. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 8.
    ... of Waterbury ...
  19. 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 6, p 1385.
  20. Edited by Joseph Anderson, D. D., Town & City of Waterbury, Connecticut, From the Aboriginal Period to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Five. (New Haven, The Price & Lee Company, 1896), Ap100.
  21. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 48.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/048.html.]
  22. 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 6, p 1385.
  23. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 540.
    Rachel died March 19, 1791.
  24. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 755.
  25. 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.
  26. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 540.
    born May 24, 1734.
  27. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 269.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan269.html.]
  28. 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.
  29. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 11.
    Febr 29, 1756. David Johnson and Esther his Wife was admitted to full Communion.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/011.html.]
  30. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 755.
  31. 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.
  32. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 540.
    born July 24, 1736.
  33. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 45.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/045.html.]
  34. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 269.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan269.html.]
  35. 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), 253.
  36. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 755.
  37. 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.
  38. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 540.
  39. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 269.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan269.html.]
  40. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 755.
  41. 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.
  42. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 540.
  43. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 269.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan269.html.]
  44. Complied by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 40 - Southbury 1787-1830 (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 190.
  45. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 16.
    June 6th, 1802, Voted that Rachel Wife of Gad Bristol be Recomended to the Chh in Middlebury.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/016.html.]
  46. Ibid., 17-8.
    Baptisms ... 1777 ...
    Septr 3, Eunice Daughter to Gad Bristoll & Rachel his wife.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/018.html.]
  47. 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 2, p 315.
  48. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 755.
  49. 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.
  50. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 540.
  51. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 76.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/076.html.]
  52. 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 2, p 315.
  53. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 29.
  54. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 755.
  55. 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.
  56. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 540.
  57. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 755.
  58. 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.
  59. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 540.
  60. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 8.
    Admissions to Church Fellowship ... 1768. Eunice Riggs and Eunice Peck, Apr 3.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/008.html.]
  61. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, 15.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/hp5.htm.]
  62. 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.
  63. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 541.
  64. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 5.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan5.html.]
  65. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 50.
    ... Eunice, Wife to Thomas Clark, Esq ...
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/050.html.]
  66. Ibid., 177.
    [Oxford Legislature - 1800, 1801, 1805, 1806
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/177.html.]
  67. Ibid., 98.
    £ 27.
    [1792 - Tax List - Oxford
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/098.html.]
  68. Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), 65, 70.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/065.html
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/070.html.]
  69. Ibid., 305.
    Oxford Tax List, 1792.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/305.html.]
  70. 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: ...
  71. 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 481.
  72. Compiled By Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850, 65.
    RIGGS, Eben[eze]r, Capt. of 1st Co. in Oxford, 1781.
  73. 1790 Derby Census.
  74. 1800 Oxford Census.
  75. 1810 Oxford Census.
  76. 1820 Oxford Census.
  77. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 99.
    Tax lists ... would appear to have been made out in early 1795 ... Capt. Ebenr Riggs, Dea. Ebenr Riggs, James Riggs, John Riggs, Jr., Joseph Riggs, Lowis Riggs ... ."
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/099.html.]
  78. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 21.
  79. 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 7, p 1764.
  80. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 541.
    ... married, second, Ann Andrews.
  81. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 10.
    1808
    August 14th, Capt. Ebenezer Riggs & William Marris Recvd to Ful communion.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/010.html.]
  82. Ibid., 12.
    ... 1771 ...
    Septr 8th, Ebenezer Riggs Jnr & Anna his Wife owned ye Covenant.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/012.html.]
  83. Ibid., 17.
    The Congregational Church.
    BAPTISMS ...
    ... 1776 ...
    May 26th Charre Daughter to Ebenzr Riggs Jnr & Anne his Wife.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/017.html.]
  84. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 755.
  85. 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.
  86. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 541.
  87. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 4.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan4.html.]
  88. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 541.
  89. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 46.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/046.html.]
  90. Oxford Land Records Vol. I, 1798-1805, 140.
    ... Jeremiah Riggs of Oxford ... to Nathan Porter of Waterbury ... at Toby's Rocks ... east by Jabez Bacon's land ...
    [Apr 1801.]
  91. 1800 Oxford Census.
  92. Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), 809.
  93. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 541.
    He first located in Litchfield, Ct., 1774. In 1800 he removed to Livonia, New York.
  94. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 22.
    ... He was well educated and was probably intended for the ministry ...
  95. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 8.
    Admissions to Church Fellowship ... 1770 ... Jeremiah Riggs and Anna, his wife, July 1.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/008.html.]
  96. Ibid., 9.
    Admissions to Church Fellowship ... 1793 ... July 7th, Capt. Jeremiah Riggs and his wife Anne, by a letter from the Pastor & Chh South___.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/009.html.]
  97. Ibid., 14.
    1774, May 30th, Jeremiah Riggs and Anne his wife, recomended to the Church at Litchfield South Farms.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/014.html.]
  98. Ibid., 16.
    March 1, 1801, Voted that Capt Jeremiah Riggs & Anne his Wife be recomended to Christian Communion Wherever God in his Providence shall call them.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/016.html.]
  99. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 755.
  100. 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.
  101. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 541.
  102. Ibid., 541.
  103. 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 2, p 293.
  104. 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), 204.
    Joseph RIGGS, 3rd.
  105. 1790 Derby Census.
  106. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 542.
    ... Resided in Oxford ...
  107. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 8.
    Admissions to Church Fellowship ... Joseph Riggs and Anne, his wife, May 11, 1777.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/008.html.]
  108. Ibid., 17.
    The Congregational Church.
    BAPTISMS ...
    ... 1777 ...
    May 11th, Betsey Daughter to Joseph Riggs and Anne his Wife.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/017.html.]
  109. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 755.
  110. 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.
  111. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 541.
  112. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 49.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/049.html.]
  113. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 542.
    Joseph died March 9, 1791.
  114. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 755.
  115. 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), 275.
    PECK ...
    Rachel, m. Ebinezer RIGGS, July 4, [ ] LR3 p10
    Rachel, of Waterbury, m. Ebenezer RIGGS, of Derby, July 5, 1733 LR7 p256.
  116. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 540.
    July 4, 1733.

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