Born about in Kings Towne, Washington, Rhode Island
Daughter of Edward Higby
and Abigail (Smith) Higby
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Daniel Briggs
— married
1718 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America
Descendants 
Mother of
Hannah (Briggs) Gardner, Sarah (Briggs) Burlingame, Benjamin Briggs Sr, Hannah Briggs, Deliverance (Briggs) Jones, Martha (Briggs) Spencer and Mercy (Briggs) Card
Died
at about age 58
in Newport, Rhode Island
Profile last modified
| Created 2 Dec 2017
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Contents |
Biography
Lydia was born in 1669. She passed away in 1727.
Name
- Lydia
Couldn't find any valid last name at birth.
Lydia's Last Name at Birth (maiden surname) is UNKNOWN.
Death
- About 1727
- Place: Newport, RI
Sources
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/177136404/lydia-briggs
- https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/11608232/person/-432178795/facts
- Source: #S74
- Page: Lydia Unknown
- Event: Smart Matching
- Role: 1003649
- Date: 25 FEB 2009
- Text: Added by confirming a Smart Match
- Quality or Certainty of Data: 3
- Source S74
- Record ID Number: MH:S74
- User ID: AFC5BA41-E9AE-4897-A9F9-9FABE9AE5E35
- Author: Jeannette Masear
- Title: Masear Web Site
- Text: MyHeritage.com family tree
- Family site: Masear Web Site
- Family tree: 6049999-1
- Media: 304553-1
- Type: Smart Matching
Acknowledgements
- WikiTree profile UNKNOWN-85683 created through the import of Terrass Family Tree.ged on Jul 7, 2011 by Richard Terrass. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Richard and others.
This profile was adopted and edited. Ramsey-1224 22:52, 24 December 2014 (EST)
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Lydia 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 Lydia:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Lydia 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 Lydia:
-
~0.39%
~3.12%
Verne Cowles 
:
23andMe
+
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member vcowles1
-
~0.39%
Joan (Stone) Jakubowski :
AncestryDNA
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~0.39%
Fran Jensen :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member bkc1828
-
~0.39%
Howard Reynolds :
AncestryDNA
+
Family Tree DNA Family Finder
-
~0.39%
Jan (Breault) Cartmill :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch KZ1243267 [compare], yourDNAportal JANedf78dbd, Ancestry member CartsJ43
+
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #939079
-
~0.39%
Will Shockey :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T820558 [compare], FTDNA kit #467027
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~0.39%
Herb Shockey :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T670600 [compare], FTDNA kit #489896
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~0.39%
Bonnie (Shockey) Tennant :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T548299 [compare], FTDNA kit #410069
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~0.39%
Rodman Ensminger :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T373094 [compare], FTDNA kit #330156
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~0.39%
Teri (Green) McIntire :
MyHeritage DNA
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Barbara (Williams) Ryan
Cindy (Ramsey) Barnett
Barbara (Williams) Ryan
Ancestry has her listed as Lydia Higby Phinney Briggs. Daughter of John Phinney and Mary Rogers. Can anyone, especially Mayflower specialized, help sort this out. I see no real sources for either set of parents.
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by Barbara (Williams) Ryan
Ellen Gustafson
UNKNOWN-45401 and Higby-172 appear to represent the same person because: Same person
posted
by Ellen Gustafson
Cindy (Ramsey) Barnett
UNKNOWN-85683 and UNKNOWN-45401 appear to represent the same person because: This is a duplicate.
posted
on UNKNOWN-45401 (merged)
by Cindy (Ramsey) Barnett
Lydia is 12 degrees from Maria Mitchell, 23 degrees from Carl Sagan, 19 degrees from Tycho Brahe, 27 degrees from Nicholaus Copernicus, 22 degrees from Eise Eisinga, 19 degrees from Caroline Lucretia Herschel, 24 degrees from Thomas Maclear, 13 degrees from Simon Newcomb, 16 degrees from Isaac Newton, 24 degrees from Pierre Henri Puiseux, 22 degrees from Beatrice Tinsley and 15 degrees from Edith Woodward on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.