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             Husband: Joseph RIGGS (1 2 3 4 5 6)
                Born: 20 JUL 1746 (7 8 9 10)
             Married: 26 FEB 1783 in Derby, New Haven, CT (42)
                Died: 15 MAY 1822 (11 12)
              Buried: in Derby Colonial Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT (13 14)
              Father: Joseph RIGGS
              Mother: Mabel JOHNSON
             Spouses: Rachel CHATFIELD
                Wife: Elizabeth JOHNSON
                Born: l 1753 (15 16)
                Died: 14 JAN 1842 (17 18)
              Buried: in Derby Colonial Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT (19 20)
              Father: Samuel JOHNSON
              Mother: Mary DURAND
             Spouses:
Children
01               (M): Ranford RIGGS (21)
                Born: 12 JAN 1784 in Derby, New Haven, CT (22 23)
                Died: 16 APR 1832 (24 25)
             Spouses: Deborah BALDWIN
02               (F): Rachael RIGGS (26)
                Born: 20 JAN 1786 (27 28 29 30)
                Died: 25 DEC 1869 (31 32)
             Spouses: Lewis REMER
03               (M): Laurin RIGGS
                Born:
                Died: 10 MAY 1794 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (33)
             Spouses: 
04               (M): Joseph Harvey RIGGS (34 35 36 37)
                Born: 09 OCT 1793 (38 39)
                Died: 31 DEC 1879 (40 41)
             Spouses: Betsey BALDWIN

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. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 266.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan266.html.]
  16. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 812.
  17. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 266.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan266.html.]
  18. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 812.
  19. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 266.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan266.html.]
  20. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 812.
    Elizabeth | wife of | Joseph Riggs | died Jan 14 1842 | aged 89.
  21. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 52.
    ... killed by lightening ...
  22. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 539.
  23. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 18.
  24. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 274.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan274.html.]
  25. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 540.
    Ranford was killed by lightening April 10, 1832.
  26. Ibid., 539.
  27. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 259.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan259.html.]
  28. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 812.
  29. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 539.
  30. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 18.
  31. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 259.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan259.html.]
  32. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 812.
  33. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 50.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/050.html.]
  34. 1850 Derby Census.
    Farmer.
  35. 1860 Derby Census.
    Farmer.
  36. 1870 Derby Census.
    Farmer.
  37. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 540.
    He was a farmer, and at his death the old Riggs homestead passed out of the Riggs name.
  38. Ibid., 539.
  39. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 18.
  40. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 274.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan274.html.]
  41. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 540.
  42. Ibid., 539.

Revised: 20-Sep-08
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