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             Husband: Joseph Harvey RIGGS (1 2 3 4)
                Born: 09 OCT 1793 (5 6)
             Married: 08 JAN 1818 (47 48 49)
                Died: 31 DEC 1879 (7 8)
              Buried: in Derby Colonial Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT (9 10)
              Father: Joseph RIGGS
              Mother: Elizabeth JOHNSON
             Spouses: 
                Wife: Betsey BALDWIN (11 12 13 14 15 16)
                Born: 10 APR 1794 (17 18)
                Died: 10 MAY 1874 (19 20 21)
              Buried: in Derby Colonial Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT (22 23)
              Father: Hezekiah BALDWIN
              Mother: Elizabeth HINE
             Spouses:
Children
01               (F): Elizabeth RIGGS
                Born: 18 MAR 1819 (24 25 26 27)
                Died: 06 DEC 1839 (28 29 30 31)
              Buried: in Derby Colonial Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT (32 33 34)
             Spouses: 
02               (M): Hezekiah DeWitt RIGGS
                Born: 05 SEP 1824 (35 36)
                Died: 21 JUL 1844 (37 38 39)
              Buried: in Derby Colonial Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT (40 41)
             Spouses: 
03               (F): Charlotte C. RIGGS (42 43 44)
                Born: 21 OCT 1827 (45 46)
                Died:
             Spouses: Linson DEFOREST

Footnotes

  1. 1850 Derby Census.
    Farmer.
  2. 1860 Derby Census.
    Farmer.
  3. 1870 Derby Census.
    Farmer.
  4. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 540.
    He was a farmer, and at his death the old Riggs homestead passed out of the Riggs name.
  5. Ibid., 539.
  6. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 18.
  7. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 274.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan274.html.]
  8. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 540.
  9. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 274.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan274.html.]
  10. Derby Colonial Cemetery Photograph - Derby, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem6664.html.]
  11. 1850 Derby Census.
  12. 1860 Derby Census.
  13. 1870 Derby Census.
  14. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 540.
    ... of Woodbridge ...
  15. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 18.
  16. Ibid., 52.
    ... of Woodbridge ...
  17. 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 1, p 104.
  18. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 540.
  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 1, p 104.
  20. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 274.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan274.html.]
  21. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 540.
  22. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 274.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan274.html.]
  23. Derby Colonial Cemetery Photograph - Derby, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem6665.html.]
  24. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 274.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan274.html.]
  25. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 812.
  26. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 540.
  27. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 52.
  28. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 274.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan274.html.]
  29. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 812.
  30. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 540.
    ... died Dec. 5, 1840.
  31. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 52.
    d. December 5, 1840.
  32. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 274.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan274.html.]
  33. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 812.
    In | memory of | Elizabeth | daughter of Joseph | H and Betsey Riggs | who died Dec 6 1839 | aged 21 years.
    Like a lily fair her head reclined
    Peacefully to death resigned
    Without one murmuring look or sigh
    But calm and pure as the morning sky.
  34. Derby Colonial Cemetery Photograph - Derby, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem6666.html.]
  35. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 540.
  36. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 52.
  37. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 274.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan274.html.]
  38. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 540.
    ... died July 21, 1840.
  39. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 52.
  40. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 274.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan274.html.]
  41. Derby Colonial Cemetery Photograph - Derby, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem6667.html.]
  42. 1850 Derby Census.
    Charity C.
  43. 1860 Derby Census.
    Charlotte.
  44. 1870 Derby Census.
    Charlotte.
  45. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 540.
  46. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 52.
  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 1, p 104.
  48. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 540.
  49. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 52.

Revised: 23-Jun-08
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