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             Husband: Ebenezer RIGGS (1 2 3 4 5 6)
                Born: 15 OCT 1678 in Derby, New Haven, CT (7 8)
             Married:
                Died: 11 MAY 1712 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (9 10 11)
              Father: Samuel RIGGS
              Mother: Sarah BALDWIN
             Spouses: 
                Wife: Lois HAWKINS (12 13 14 15 16 17 18)
                Born: 06 NOV 1681 (19 20)
                Died: 11 SEP 1767 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (21 22 23 24 25)
              Buried: in Derby Colonial Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT (26 27 28)
              Father: Joseph HAWKINS
              Mother: Abigail HOLBROOK
             Spouses: Samuel WHEELER; John OBARTUS; Abraham TOMLINSON
Children
01               (M): Ebenezer RIGGS (29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38)
                Born: 15 APR 1707 in Derby, New Haven, CT (39 40)
                Died: 04 JUN 1785 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (41 42)
             Spouses: Rachel PECK
02               (F): Lois RIGGS (43 44 45 46)
                Born: 10 JUL 1709 (47 48 49 50)
                Died: 09 DEC 1755 (51)
             Spouses: Abiel FAIRCHILD
03               (M): John RIGGS (52 53 54)
                Born: 27 DEC 1712 (55 56 57)
                Died: 1803 (58)
             Spouses: Hannah JOHNSON

Footnotes

  1. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 2.
  2. 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), 44.
    [http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/044.html.]
  3. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 755.
    ... settled on the farm given him by his father ... near Rock Rimmon ..
  4. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 447.
  5. Ibid., 540.
    He resided on a farm given him by his father at Pinesbridge ...
  6. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 8.
    His father deeded to him before his death a well-improved and valuable farm of some two hundred acres at Oxford, where he made his home.
  7. Ibid., 6.
  8. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 536.
  9. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 755.
  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), 282.
  11. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 8.
  12. George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), 226.
  13. Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), 678.
    ... m. (3) 13 Mar. 1721/2, John Obartus, from whom she obtained a divorce ...
  14. 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), 43.
    [http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/043.html.]
  15. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 447.
  16. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 726.
  17. Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), 764.
  18. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 540.
  19. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 2.
  20. Ralph Clymer Hawkins, A Hawkins Genealogy 1635 - 1939, Record of the Descendants of Robert Hawkins of Charlestown, Massachusetts (The Hawkins Association, 1939), 244.
  21. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 45.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/045.html.]
  22. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 269.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/dccemscan269.html.]
  23. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 814.
  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), 301.
    TOMLINSON ...
    Lois, Mrs., mother of Capt. James WHE[E]LER, d. Sept. 11, 1767, in the 87th y. of her age.
  25. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 540.
  26. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 269.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/dccemscan269.html.]
  27. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 814.
    In memory of | Mrs Lowis Tomlinson | who died Sept 11 A D 1767 | in the 87 year of her age.
  28. Derby Colonial Cemetery Photograph - Derby, CT.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cem34.html.]
  29. 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.]
  30. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Oxford's Record: The First 175 Years (Oxford, CT, Oxford Record, Inc., 1973), 6.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/hp6.htm.]
  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 2, p 315.
  32. Oxford Land Records Vol. I, 19.
    Aprill 1727 ... the lot of Eben: Riggs ... near the highway by Tobies Rocks ... Riggs Meadow ...
  33. 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.]
  34. 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.]
  35. 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.
  36. 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.
  37. 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.]
  38. 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.]
  39. 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.
  40. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 540.
  41. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 48.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/048.html.]
  42. 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.
  43. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 10.
    ... Communicants received by ye Revd Mr. Lyman ...
    Abiel Fairchild and his wife received to communion from ye Pastor and Chh of Christ in Stratford bairing Date Octr 28th, 1745.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/010.html.]
  44. 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 496.
  45. Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), vol 1, p 197.
  46. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 447.
  47. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 755.
  48. 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.
  49. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 540.
  50. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 8.
  51. 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), 222.
  52. 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), 470.
    Church Records.
    [http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/470.html.]
  53. 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 ...
  54. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 11.
    Silence ye Wife of John Lumm, Elizabeth ye Wife, and Elizabeth ye Daughter of John Chatfield, Hannah ye Wife of John Riggs, Sarah ye Wife of James Wheler, Mary ye Wife of Timothy Russel, Abigail, Sibillia, and Mary Russels, all received to Communion from ye Pastor and Chh of Christ in Darby, bairing Date Janr 7th, 1746.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/011.html.]
  55. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 755.
  56. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 540.
  57. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 8.
  58. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 542.

Revised: 17-Dec-08
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