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             Husband: Joseph RIGGS (1 2 3 4 5 6)
                Born: 17 AUG 1753 (7 8 9)
          Christened: SEP 1753 in Oxford Congregational Church (10)
             Married: 13 NOV 1775 in Oxford Congregational Church (51 52 53)
                Died: 19 MAR 1791 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (11 12)
              Buried: in Rimmon Hill Cemetery, Beacon Falls, New Haven, CT (13)
              Father: Ebenezer RIGGS
              Mother: Rachel PECK
             Spouses: 
                Wife: Ann CANFIELD (14 15 16 17 18 19)
                Born: 17 OCT 1751 in Derby, New Haven, CT (20 21 22 23)
                Died: 01 DEC 1823 (24)
              Father: Joseph CANFIELD
              Mother: Sarah STILSON
             Spouses: Abner BRADLEY
Children
01               (F): Betsey RIGGS (25 26 27)
                Born: 26 JAN 1777 (28 29)
                Died:
             Spouses: Ethial LOUNSBURY
02               (F): Ann RIGGS
          Christened: 09 AUG 1778 (30)
                Died:
             Spouses: 
03               (M): David Johnson RIGGS
                Born: 23 MAY 1779 (31)
          Christened: 04 JUL 1779 in Oxford Congregational Church (32 33)
                Died: 25 MAR 1794 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (34)
              Buried: in Rimmon Hill Cemetery, Beacon Falls, New Haven, CT (35)
             Spouses: 
04               (M): Levi RIGGS (36 37 38 39 40 41 42)
                Born: l 1781 (43)
                Died: 22 OCT 1840 (44)
             Spouses: Nancy WASHBURN; Mary
05               (F): Asena RIGGS (45)
                Born: l 1785 in Oxford, New Haven, CT
                Died:
             Spouses: Samuel BRADLEY
06               (M): Joseph RIGGS (46)
          Christened: 01 APR 1787 in Oxford Congregational Church (47)
                Died: 22 MAR 1794 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (48)
              Buried: in Rimmon Hill Cemetery, Beacon Falls, New Haven, CT (49)
             Spouses: 
07               (F): Anne RIGGS
                Born:
                Died: 20 JAN 1845 (50)
             Spouses: Asa MORRIS

Footnotes

  1. 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 293.
  2. 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), 204.
    Joseph RIGGS, 3rd.
  3. 1790 Derby Census.
  4. 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 ...
  5. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 8.
    Admissions to Church Fellowship ... Joseph Riggs and Anne, his wife, May 11, 1777.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/008.html.]
  6. Ibid., 17.
    The Congregational Church.
    BAPTISMS ...
    ... 1777 ...
    May 11th, Betsey Daughter to Joseph Riggs and Anne his Wife.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/017.html.]
  7. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 755.
  8. 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.
  9. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 541.
  10. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 21.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/021.html.]
  11. Ibid., 49.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/049.html.]
  12. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 542.
    Joseph died March 9, 1791.
  13. William C. Sharpe, History of Seymour, Connecticut, with Biographies and Genealogies (Seymour, CT: Record Print, 1879), 128.
    Joseph Riggs, died Mar. 19, 1791, in the 38th year of his age, who was a pattern of industry, a friend to virtue, and a pillar of society.
  14. 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.]
  15. 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 293.
  16. 1800 Oxford Census.
  17. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 8.
    Admissions to Church Fellowship ... Joseph Riggs and Anne, his wife, May 11, 1777.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/008.html.]
  18. Ibid., 15.
    May 16th, 1802, Voted that Anne the wife of Abner Bradley be Recomended to the Chh in Woodbridge.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/015.html.]
  19. Ibid., 17.
    The Congregational Church.
    BAPTISMS ...
    ... 1777 ...
    May 11th, Betsey Daughter to Joseph Riggs and Anne his Wife.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/017.html.]
  20. 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 272.
  21. 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), 204.
  22. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 707.
  23. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 412.
  24. 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 272.
  25. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 41.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/041.html.]
  26. Ibid., 43.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/043.html.]
  27. Ibid., 14.
    ... 1797.
    Octr 15th, Walker Wilmot & MilleCent renewed their Covenant.
    Ethiel Lounsbury & Betsey his wife renewed their Covnt.
    Caleb Tomlinson & Nabby his wife renewed their Covent.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/014.html.]
  28. 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 5, p 1108.
  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.
  31. 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.
  32. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 18.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/018.html.]
  33. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 542.
  34. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 50.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/050.html.]
  35. William C. Sharpe, History of Seymour, Connecticut, with Biographies and Genealogies (Seymour, CT: Record Print, 1879), 128.
    In Memory of David Johnson Riggs, son of Mr. Joseph and Mistress Anna Riggs, who departed this life March 24th, 1794, in the 15th year of his life.
  36. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, 25.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/hp25.htm.]
  37. J. L. Rockey, History of New Haven County, Connecticut, 534.
    The registered freemen in the town at the time of its incorporation in 1798 and the next ten years following were: ...
  38. Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 3 p 604.
  39. 1800 Oxford Census.
  40. 1820 Oxford Census.
  41. 1840 Oxford Census.
  42. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 542.
  43. David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #21.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/pbcemscan21.html.]
  44. Ibid., #21.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/pbcemscan21.html.]
  45. 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 293.
  46. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 542.
  47. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 22.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/022.html.]
  48. Ibid., 50.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/050.html.]
  49. William C. Sharpe, History of Seymour, Connecticut, with Biographies and Genealogies (Seymour, CT: Record Print, 1879), 128.
    In memory of Joseph Riggs, son of Mr. Joseph and Mistress Anna Riggs, who departed this life, March 22, 1794, in the 8th year of his age.
  50. Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 2, p 553.
  51. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 31.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/031.html.]
  52. 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), 204.
  53. 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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