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             Husband: Moses RIGGS (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17)
                Born: 10 APR 1760 in Seymour, New Haven, CT (18 19 20 21)
             Married: 26 SEP 1780 in Oxford Congregational Church (64 65 66)
                Died: 15 APR 1838 (22)
              Buried: in Pines Bridge Cemetery, Beacon Falls, New Haven, CT (23)
              Father: Edward RIGGS
              Mother: Lois OSBORN
             Spouses: Eunice CLARK; Betsey
                Wife: Susanna TUCKER (24 25 26 27)
                Born: 06 NOV 1761 (28)
                Died:
              Father: Samuel TUCKER
              Mother: Sarah Riggs CHATFIELD
             Spouses:
Children
01               (M): Sheldon RIGGS
                Born: l 1781 (29 30)
                Died:
             Spouses: Rebecca LINGHAM
02               (M): Lyman RIGGS (31 32 33 34 35 36 37)
                Born: l 1783 (38)
                Died:
             Spouses: Patty CLARK
03               (M): Moses RIGGS
                Born: l 1785 (39)
          Christened: 09 DEC 1787 in Oxford Congregational Church (40)
                Died:
             Spouses: 
04               (M): Moses RIGGS (41 42 43)
                Born:
                Died:
             Spouses: Betsey Grace HOLBROOK
05               (F): Susan RIGGS (44 45)
                Born: 1789 (46)
                Died:
             Spouses: Ezra L. BASSETT
06               (M): Simon RIGGS (47)
                Born: 1791 (48)
          Christened: 20 NOV 1800 in Oxford Congregational Church (49)
                Died:
             Spouses: 
07               (M): Thomas RIGGS
                Born: 1793 (50)
                Died:
             Spouses: Wattie G. SMITH
08               (F): Clara RIGGS (51)
                Born: l 1793 (52)
                Died:
             Spouses: David JOHNSON
09               (F): Eliza RIGGS
                Born: l 1795 (53 54)
                Died:
             Spouses: Levi JOHNSON
10               (F): Harriet M. RIGGS (55 56 57 58 59 60 61)
                Born: 08 SEP 1795 (62)
                Died: 11 DEC 1893 (63)
             Spouses: Daniel HOLBROOK

Footnotes

  1. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 98.
    £ 27.
    [1792 - Tax List - Oxford
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/098.html.]
  2. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, 77 - 78, 80.
    ... He enlisted in May, 1777 and signed on for three years, being discharged on May 25, 1780. ...
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/hp77.html.]
  3. 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.]
  4. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 101.
    ... of Oxford ...
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/101.html.]
  5. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 49.
    ... while in his teens he entered the Revolutionary army and saw active service in the field ...
  6. 1790 Derby Census.
  7. 1800 Oxford Census.
  8. 1810 Oxford Census.
  9. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 22.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/022.html.]
  10. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 66.
  11. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 789.
    Soldiers in the Revolution ...
  12. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 29.
  13. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 9.
    Admissions to Church Fellowship ... 1787 wife of Maho(?) Riggs.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/009.html.]
  14. 1790 Derby Census.
  15. 1800 Oxford Census.
  16. 1810 Oxford Census.
  17. 1830 Derby Census.
  18. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 49.
  19. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 756.
  20. 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.
  21. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 542.
  22. David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #21.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/pbcemscan21.html.]
  23. Ibid., #21.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/pbcemscan21.html.]
  24. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 23, 49.
  25. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 22.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/022.html.]
  26. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 29.
  27. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 9.
    Admissions to Church Fellowship ... 1787 wife of Maho(?) Riggs.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/009.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), 305.
  29. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 49.
  30. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 543.
  31. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 179.
    [Freemason in Oxford - 1826
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/179.html.]
  32. Ibid., 181.
    [Member of Masonic Morning Star Lodge, No. 47 - Oxford
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/181.html.]
  33. Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), 144.
    Oxford Masonic Societies.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/144.html.]
  34. 1810 Oxford Census.
  35. 1820 Oxford Census.
  36. 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 420.
  37. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 543.
    Leman.
  38. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 49.
  39. Ibid., 49.
  40. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 22.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/022.html.]
  41. Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Methodist Cemetery, 85.
  42. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 17.
  43. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 543.
  44. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Episcopal Cemetery (St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery), 16.
    Bassett, Marvin, son of Ezra L. & Susan, died Sept. 20, 1825, age 11 yrs. 10 mos. 20 das.
    Bassett, Harriss, son of Ezra L & Mrs. Susan, died Oct. 15, 1813, age 4 yrs.
    Bassett, Jonathan Miles, died Apr. 1, 1813 age 49 yrs.
    Bassett, Mrs. Marima, wife of Mr. Jonathan M., died Apr. 27, 1812, age 47 yrs.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/epcemscan16.html.]
  45. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 458.
  46. Ibid., 543.
  47. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 49.
  48. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 543.
  49. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 27.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/027.html.]
  50. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 543.
  51. Ibid., 543.
  52. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 49.
  53. Ibid., 49.
  54. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 543.
  55. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, 78.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/hp78.html.]
  56. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 49.
  57. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 18.
  58. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 543.
  59. 1850 Seymour Census.
  60. 1870 Seymour Census.
    [At the home of son Willis and family.]
  61. 1880 Seymour Census.
    [Living w/ son Willis and family.]
  62. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 29.
  63. Ibid., 29.
  64. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 32.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/032.html.]
  65. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 49.
  66. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 542.

Revised: 04-Dec-08
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