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             Husband: Joseph RIGGS (1 2 3 4 5 6)
                Born: 20 JUL 1746 (7 8 9 10)
             Married: MAY 1766 (41)
                Died: 15 MAY 1822 (11 12)
              Buried: in Derby Colonial Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT (13 14)
              Father: Joseph RIGGS
              Mother: Mabel JOHNSON
             Spouses: Elizabeth JOHNSON
                Wife: Rachel CHATFIELD (15 16 17)
                Born: l 1745 (18)
                Died: 11 MAY 1778 (19 20)
              Buried: in Derby Colonial Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT (21 22)
              Father: Solomon CHATFIELD
              Mother: Hannah PIERSON
             Spouses:
Children
01               (F): Hannah RIGGS
                Born: 06 MAR 1767 (23 24)
                Died: 11 JUN 1815
             Spouses: Josiah WHITNEY; Philo NORTHROP
02               (F): Elizabeth Ann RIGGS (25 26)
                Born: 23 APR 1769 (27 28 29)
                Died: 09 FEB 1801 (30 31)
             Spouses: Daniel HOLBROOK
03               (M): Samuel RIGGS (32)
                Born: 27 JAN 1771 (33 34)
                Died: APR 1851 (35)
             Spouses: Polly WILDMAN
04               (F): Betty RIGGS (36)
                Born: 11 JUN 1775 (37 38 39)
                Died: 01 JUN 1842 (40)
             Spouses: HUMPHREVILLE; John HOTCHKISS

Footnotes

  1. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 50.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/050.html.]
  2. 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 4, p 843.
  3. 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 1, p 314.
    ... Rachel, wife Capt. Joseph Riggs ...
  4. 1790 Derby Census.
  5. Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901), 476, 477, 478, 481, 484.
    Church Records.
    [http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/476.html.]
  6. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 17.
  7. 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 1, p 314.
  8. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 755.
  9. 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.
  10. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 537.
    May 20, 1746.
  11. 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 1, p 314.
  12. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 266.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan266.html.]
  13. Ibid., 266.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan266.html.]
  14. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 812.
    In memory of Capt. Joseph Riggs | who died May 15 1822 | aged 76 years.
  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 4, p 843.
  16. Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901), 476, 477, 478, 481, 484.
    Church Records.
    [http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/476.html
    http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/481.html.]
  17. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 17.
  18. 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 1, p 314.
  19. Ibid., vol 1, p 314.
  20. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 266.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan266.html.]
  21. Ibid., 266.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan266.html.]
  22. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 812.
    In memory of Mrs Rachel | Riggs wife of Joseph Riggs Jr who died May 11 A D | 1778 of the small pox | aged 33 years.
    In faith she Dyd in Dust she Lyes
    But faith foresees that Dust shall Rise
    The flesh Rests here till Jesus come
    And Claims the treasure from the tomb.
  23. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 539.
  24. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 18.
  25. George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), 22.
  26. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 12.
  27. Ibid., 17.
  28. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 539.
  29. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 18.
  30. Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Methodist Cemetery, 85.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/mecemscan85.html.]
  31. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 17.
  32. 1850 Orange Census.
  33. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 539.
  34. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 18.
  35. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 539.
  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 4, p 906.
  37. Ibid., vol 4, p 843.
  38. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 539.
  39. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 18.
  40. 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 4, p 843.
  41. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 539.

Revised: 19-Oct-08
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