Elizabeth (Unknown) Carwithie (bef. 1621 - aft. 1670)

Born before 1621 in England

Descendants

Died after 2 Jul 1670 after age 49 in Newark, New Jersey

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Biography

Elizabeth, the wife of Edward Riggs, is probably the individual mentioned as the "Widow Riggs" in the records of the Newark Town Meetings on 25 January 1670 and 2 July 1670. She was given a land grant recorded on or shortly after 12 December 1670: “Elizabeth Rigs hath for her home lot six acres & one acre given her for service on y place by staying the first sumer and added to y reare of her lot about halfe an acre.”

There was a Nathaniel Wheeler whose recorded lot stated that it abutted “George Day north widdow Elizabeth Rigs south.”

She later remarried to Caleb Carwithie, but there were no children of that marriage. Caleb was in Huntington, Long Island and was recognized as a freeman in Connecticut in 1664.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/bk1/334-344.htm

• The Riggs Genealogy Information about Edward Riggs marriage to Elizabeth and their family.
• The Genealogy of Edward Riggs of Roxbury, Massachusetts, Revisited pgs. 139-145 gives information about Edward Riggs and Elizabeth along with their family
• CM&B PRs for All Saints Church, Nazeing, Essex - on mfm ESS CRO ref T/R 179/1
• Ind tran of CM&B PRs for All Saints Church, Nazeing, Essex - copy examined at ESS CRO ref T/R 280/1
• Wallace, John H. Genealogy of the RIGGS FAMILY (described as Vol.1 but no further vol pub), FHLC with mfm available for loan

• "Savage's Dictionary" Full title:- A Gen Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations of Those who Came before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register by James Savage, former President Of The Mass. Historical Soc, Vol.III, K-R. Orig pub Boston, 1860-1862, repr GPC 1965, 1969, 1977, 1981, 1986, 1990 [SISBN 0-8063-0309-3]. Electronic version adapted under the direction of Robert Kraft © July 1994 - this is viewable on-line at www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/.
• Coldham, Peter Wilson. Complete Book of Emigrants 1607-1660, GPC 1988. Also on CD#350 The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1605-1776 & Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775 © 1996 Broderbund Software, Inc.- info orig suppl Lynn Riggs
• RIGGS-L message 26OCT1998 - posted by Bruce Woodworth
• TNA ref CO1/8/pp.99-101 - info on ref contained in Coldham, Complete Book of Emigrants
• Info suppl Sharon Asher from papers of Leo Riggs
• History of the Colony of New Haven to its Absorption into Connecticut by Edward E. Atwater: p639 Vol 2 concerning "Personnel of Milford (Wepowaug), 1636-1646" - info suppl Don Blauvelt.
• The History of Ancient Wethersfield by Sherman W. Adams and Henry R. Stiles (pub orig 1904), Vol. 1, pp27-29 & p72 (facsimile copy pub New Hampshire Publ Co., Somersworth, in collaboration with the Wethersfield Historical Soc, 1974) - info suppl Don Blauvelt.
• Info suppl Don Blauvelt.
• Riggs Surname Study, Edward of Roxbury, Charting the Immediate Descendants of Edward Riggs 1589-1672, of Roxbury, Suffolk County, MA. Edward of Roxbury.

• Smith, Alvy Ray. The Probable Genetic Signature of Edward¹ Riggs, Immigrant to Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1633, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 2010) Vol. 164, WN 654, Page 97.