Lucy Riggs (1787 - 1862)

Born 17 Jan 1787 in Oxford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Roswell Candee — married 12 Mar 1806 in Oxford Congregational Church, Oxford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Lucy RIGGS ^[1] was born ^[2][3][4][5] 17 Jan 1787 in Oxford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States. She died 1862. Lucy married ^[6][7] Roswell CANDEE on 12 Mar 1806 in Oxford Congregational Church.

Disputed Origins

Lucy Riggs is repeatedly shown in other databases (i.e. Ancestry) as being married to Russell Parley Candee when she is married to Roswell Candee. Russell and Roswell have similar birth years 1791 vs 1781 and were both born in Oxford, CT.^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery, 1935 (Congregational Cemetery), p. 6. http://www.oxfordpast.com/cgcemscan6.html.
2. ↑ W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 68. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/068.html.
3. ↑ Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850., General Editor, Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000, p. 66.
4. ↑ Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 537.
5. ↑ John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family, New York, John H. Wallace, 1901, p. 19.
6. ↑ W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford, p. 37. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/037.html.
7. ↑ Baldwin, Charles Candee, The Candee Genealogy : with notices of allied families of Allyn, Catlin, Cooke, Mallery, Newell, Norton, Pynchon, and Wadsworth (Cleveland, Ohio, Leader Printing Company, 1882), p. 52.
8. ↑ Baldwin, Charles Candee, The Candee Genealogy, p. 52.