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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: 01 OCT 1799 in Quaker Farms, Oxford, New Haven, CT (50 51)
                Died: 15 APR 1838 (22)
              Buried: in Pines Bridge Cemetery, Beacon Falls, New Haven, CT (23)
              Father: Edward RIGGS
              Mother: Lois OSBORN
             Spouses: Susanna TUCKER; Betsey
                Wife: Eunice CLARK (24 25)
                Born: l 1765 (26)
                Died: 22 MAR 1819 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (27)
              Buried: in Pines Bridge Cemetery, Beacon Falls, New Haven, CT (28)
              Father: 
              Mother: 
             Spouses:
Children
01               (F): Eliza RIGGS
          Christened: 20 OCT 1800 in Oxford Congregational Church (29)
                Died:
             Spouses: 
02               (F): Susan RIGGS
          Christened: 20 OCT 1800 in Oxford Congregational Church (30)
                Died:
             Spouses: 
03               (M): Garry RIGGS (31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41)
                Born: 06 DEC 1800 (42)
                Died: 11 FEB 1892 in Ansonia, New Haven, CT (43)
             Spouses: Sally CLARK
04               (F): Eunice RIGGS
                Born: 1804
                Died:
             Spouses: 
05               (M): Ira RIGGS
                Born: l 1806 (44)
                Died: 12 MAR 1832 (45)
              Buried: in Pines Bridge Cemetery, Beacon Falls, New Haven, CT (46)
             Spouses: 
06               (M): Eli RIGGS
                Born: 1806
                Died:
             Spouses: 
07               (?): Merritt RIGGS
                Born: l JUN 1809 (47)
                Died: 12 DEC 1824 (48)
              Buried: in Pines Bridge Cemetery, Beacon Falls, New Haven, CT (49)
             Spouses:

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. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 101.
    ... of Oxford ...
  25. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 66.
  26. David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #21.
  27. Ibid., #21.
  28. Ibid., #21.
  29. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 27.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/027.html.]
  30. Ibid., 27.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/027.html.]
  31. Ibid., 178.
    [Oxford Legislature - 1852
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/178.html.]
  32. Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), 110.
    ... hattery ...
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/110.html.]
  33. Compiled By Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850, 38, 65.
    ... of Oxford ...
  34. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 156.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/156.html.]
  35. 1840 Oxford Census.
  36. 1850 Oxford Census.
    Manufacturer.
  37. 1860 Humphreyville Census.
    Clerk.
  38. 1870 Roxbury Census.
    Saloon Proprietor.
  39. 1880 Derby Census.
    [Living w/ daughter Mary and family.]
  40. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 49.
  41. Ibid., 65.
    He was a hat manufacturer at Seymour ...
  42. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 543.
  43. Ibid., 543.
  44. David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #21.
  45. Ibid., #21.
  46. Ibid., #21.
  47. Ibid., #21.
  48. Ibid., #21.
  49. Ibid., #21.
  50. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 101.
    ... David Tomlinson, Just. of Peace ...
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/101.html.]
  51. 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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