Elizabeth (Tomlinson) Riggs

Born [date unknown] in Derby, New Haven, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Wife of John Riggs Esq — married 23 Feb 1700 (to 1747) in Derby, New Haven, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died 17 Apr 1747 in Derby, New Haven, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

Elizabeth TOMLINSON was born calculated 1676. She died 17 Apr 1747 and was buried in Derby Colonial Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT. Elizabeth married Captain John RIGGS Esquire on 23 Feb 1700 in Derby, New Haven, CT.

Burial

Old Derby Uptown Burying Ground, Derby, New Haven, Connecticut

Sources

• Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), p. 6.

• 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 877.

• Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 592.
  • p. 812. "In memory of Elizabeth ye wife | of John Rig Esq | died April ye 17 1747."

• Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, p. 255. "Riggs, Elizabeth, wife of John, Esq., died April 17, 1747, age 71." http://www.oxfordpast.com/dccemscan255.html.

• Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), vol 1, p 610.

• Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 536.

• Derby Colonial Cemetery Photograph - Derby, CT. http://www.oxfordpast.com/cem7.html.

• Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 283.

• John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family, New York, John H. Wallace, 1901, p. 7.

• Find A Grave: Memorial #6203687
• Tomlinson, Richard G., Untangling the Knot in the Line of Henry Tomlinson of Stratford, CT, The Connecticut Nutmegger (Connecticut Society of Genealogists, Glastonbury, Connecticut, 2005) Vol. 38, Page 238.

• Pettibone Registry, The Humphreys Family in America 118. (see Sharp-661)