Born in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Ancestors 
Daughter of James Briggs
and Hannah (Stowell) Briggs
Sister of
Elizabeth Briggs [half], John Briggs, John Briggs, James Briggs, Seth Briggs, Job Briggs, Elisha Briggs, Hannah (Briggs) Holmes, Cornelius Briggs and William Briggs Sr.
Wife of
Samuel Curtis
— married
after 26 Oct 1745 (to 24 Jan 1756) in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay
Wife of
Jonathan Hatch
— married
25 Nov 1761 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Descendants 
Died
at age 81
in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 17 Oct 2011
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Biography
Rachel Briggs was born in 1726 at Scituate, Massachusetts Bay, to James and Hannah Briggs. She married Samuel Curtis in 1745; following his death in 1756, she became the second wife of Jonathan Hatch, in the late fall of 1761. She outlived her second husband by more than three decades, dying in 1808; this was recorded as her 80th year, but she was in fact several months into her 82nd.
Sources
- Birth: Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016); https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/7798/48/141401036 (subscription required)
- Marriage (1) (to Samuel Curtis; intentions, 26 October 1745): Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016); https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/7799/41/141408601 (subscription required)
- Marriage (2) (as Mrs. Rachel Curtis, to Jonathan Hatch): Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016); https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/7799/142/141410876 (subscription required). Alt. transcript (free): Massachusetts Vital Records Project, John Slaughter, Owner/Administrator, "Scituate - Marriages", image of page 142; https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Plymouth/Scituate/Images/Scituate_M142.shtml
- Death: Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016); https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/11932/412/141943616 (subscription required)
- Briggs, Samuel. The Archives of the Briggs Family (Theodore C. Schenek & Co., Ohio, 1880) Page 60.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Rachel by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Rachel:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Rachel by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Rachel:
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~0.39%
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