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             Husband: John RIGGS (1 2 3 4 5)
                Born: 31 AUG 1735 in Derby, New Haven, CT (6 7 8)
             Married: 13 JUN 1757 in Oxford Congregational Church (35 36)
                Died: MAY 1823 in Turin, New York (9)
              Father: John RIGGS
              Mother: Hannah JOHNSON
             Spouses: 
                Wife: Abigail PEET (10 11 12)
                Born: l 1738 (13)
                Died: 1823 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (14 15)
              Father: Richard PEET
              Mother: Sarah CURTIS
             Spouses:
Children
01               (M): James RIGGS (16 17 18 19)
                Born: 09 NOV 1758 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (20 21)
                Died: 1839
             Spouses: Sarah CLARK
02               (M): Abner RIGGS (22 23 24)
                Born: 24 DEC 1760 (25)
                Died: 01 OCT 1818
             Spouses: Phebe ROWLAND
03               (M): John RIGGS (26)
                Born: l 1760 (27)
          Christened: 1763 (28)
                Died:
             Spouses: 
04               (F): Abigail RIGGS
                Born: 16 JUL 1765 (29 30)
                Died:
             Spouses: 
05               (F): Huldah RIGGS
                Born: 30 JAN 1769 (31)
          Christened: 30 MAY 1779 in Oxford Congregational Church (32)
                Died: 09 NOV 1802 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (33 34)
             Spouses:

Footnotes

  1. Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), 55.
    ... Dec. 11, 1775 ... Committee of Inspection ...
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/055.html.]
  2. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 542.
    ... Resided at Pinesbridge ...
  3. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 22.
    ... lived at Oxford, Conn., and owned a saw-mill at that place. There was a hill or mountain at the rear of his house, where it was supposed that precious metals were found. In the early years of this century he removed his family to Oneida County, N. Y., and about 1820-22 he took up residence with his son James at Turin, N. Y., where he died, May, 1823.
  4. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 11.
    March 18, 1759. John Riggs Junr and his Wife Abigail admitted to full Communion.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/011.html.]
  5. Ibid., 17.
    The Congregational Church.
    BAPTISMS ...
    ____ Daughter to John Riggs, & Abigail his wife.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/017.html.]
  6. 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.
  7. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 542.
  8. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 22.
  9. Ibid., 22.
  10. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 11.
    March 18, 1759. John Riggs Junr and his Wife Abigail admitted to full Communion.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/011.html.]
  11. Ibid., 17.
    The Congregational Church.
    BAPTISMS ...
    ___ Daughter to John Riggs, & Abigail his wife.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/017.html.]
  12. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 542.
    ... of Oxford ...
  13. Compiled By Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850, 66.
    RIGGS ... John, his w. [ ], d. [1823], ae. 85.
  14. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 79.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/079.html.]
  15. Compiled By Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850, 66.
    RIGGS ... John, his w. [ ], d. [1823], ae. 85.
  16. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 13.
    ... 1780 ...
    July 16, James Riggs & Sarah his wife owned ye covenant.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/013.html.]
  17. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 35.
    ... soldier in the Revolutionary War ...
  18. 1790 Derby Census.
  19. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 542.
    ... located Lee, Oneida Co., N. Y. ...
  20. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 22, 35.
  21. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 542.
  22. 1800 Oxford Census.
  23. 1810 Oxford Census.
  24. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 542.
    ... removed to Redding, Ct ...
  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), 281.
  26. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 542.
    ... went west ...
  27. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 22.
  28. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 542.
  29. 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), 281.
  30. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 542.
    bapt. July 16, 1765.
  31. Ibid., 542.
    bapt. Jan. 30, 1769.
  32. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 18.
    The Congregational Church ... 1779 ...
    -ay 16th Nabby, Daughter to Capt. John Riggs & Elizabeth his wife
    -ay 30th Huldah, Daughter to John Riggs & Abigail his Wife.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/018.html.]
  33. Ibid., 52.
    Deaths ... 1802 ...
    Novr 9th, Huldah, Dautr to John Riggs, died.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/052.html.]
  34. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 542.
  35. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 39.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/039.html.]
  36. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 542.

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