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Walter Briggs was in Scituate as early as 1643, when his name appears on the list of those able to bear arms.[1] According to Deane, In 1651, he bought a farm of Mr. Hatherly on the north side of Farm Necknad the cover there still bears the name of Brigg's Harbor."[2]
Walter Briggs was a slaveholder. In 1673 he purchased an enslaved African child named Mariah from Margret Cocke of Boston. Although the enslavement of Africans in Plymouth Colony can be traced to the 1650s, Mariah is the first enslaved African person that can be identified by name. Walter Briggs also enslaved a man named Jemmy.[3]
Children of Walter Briggs: [4]
Dated 16th January 1676[5] and recorded Court 4th June 1684 lists his wife Francis, mentions his "neger" Jemy and Mariah and living at Conihassett. Also sons John (eldest) & James and land in Scituate. Daughter Hannah Winslow. Also son Cornelius and land in Swansey.[6]
Secondary sources give Mary as the name of his first wife/mother of his children, but could not find birth record or other record of this. Briggs (1938) lists several land transactions. Possibly a church record?
"Walter Briggs was twice married. The surname of his first wife Mary, who was the mother of his children, is not known. We only know that she bore him a family of four sons and a daughter, and that she was living in 1558/9. She died not long after that date, for about 1602 Walter married, for a second wife, Frances, the widow of John Rogers of Marshfield." [citation needed]
Winsor doubts that he lived in Duxbury; more likely, he says, Walter lived in Scituate.[7]
Torrey NE Marriages entry: BRIGGS, Walter (-1684?) & Frances (?WATSON) [ROGERS] (-1687), w John; ca 1661?; Scituate {Hanover Hist. (1910) 332; Briggs (1878) 11; Sv. 1:252; Briggs (1880) 58, 86, 234; Litchfield 66; Pilgrim Notes 4:107; Gen. Adv. 1:19; Bartlett-Jenkins 100}
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