Frances
Briggs
formerly [surname unknown] aka Rogers
Born about in London, England
[uncertain]
[uncertain]Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
John Rogers
— married
1632 in England
Wife of
Walter Briggs
— married
after 1661 in Massachusetts
Descendants 
Mother of
John Rogers II, Ann (Rogers) Hudson, Mary (Rogers) Fox, Joseph Rogers Sr., Timothy Rogers and Abigail (Rogers) White
Died before
before about age 75
in Scituate, Plymouth County, Plymouth Colony
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Disputed Origins
She has, by some online trees, been attached as daughter of Robert Watson and Elizabeth Pye, but there is no substantiation for this information. The maiden name of Frances, wife of first John Rogers, and second, of Walter Briggs, remains UNKNOWN. She has been detached from Robert Watson and Elizabeth Pye.
Biography
Frances Unknown ... She passed away in 1687.
Frances [Rogers] survived her husband,[ John Rogers,] and married Walter Briggs of Scituate. In his will d. Jan'y 16, 1676/7, p. June 4, 1684, Walter Briggs mentions, among others, his wife, Frances. [Deeds, Vol. VI, p. 9.]
Administration on the estate of Frances Briggs, widow, of Scituate, was granted Oct. 14, 1687, to her sons, John and Joseph Rogers. Probate, Vol. I, p. 11. [1] Her inventory was taken on 24 October 1687.[2]
Frances Briggs was a slaveholder. She inherited an African named Mariah, who was likely in her teens or early twenties at the time. Although African slavery was established in Plymouth Colony in the 1650s, Mariah is the first enslaved African in Plymouth Colony that can be identified by name.[3]
Sources
- ↑ John Rogers of Marshfield AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS BY JOSIAH H. DRUMMOND Page 7
- ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-897D-J8KC?cc=2018320&wc=M6BX-33D%3A337797601 : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1686-1702 and 1849-1867 vol 1-1F > image 12 of 490; State Archives, Boston.
- ↑ Tucker, W. 2023. Mariah Negro vs. Cornelius Briggs (Pt. 1). Eleven Names Project: Open Notebook. Substack.com
See also:
- Plymouth County Probate Records, The Genealogical Advertiser (Lucy Hall Greenlaw, Cambridge, Mass., March, 1898) Vol. 1, No. 1, Page 19
- Briggs, L. Vernon (Lloyd Vernon), 1863-1941. History And Genealogy of the Briggs Family, 1254-1937... Boston: Priv. print., C. E. Goodspeed & co., 1938. WALTER BRIGGS THE EMIGRANT 71
- Pane-Joyce Genealogy, p 219
- Find A Grave: Memorial #147671736 No burial, No stone, No value
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I can not correct Watson -784 or the children attached. When all references to Watson family [false genealogy] are removed, let me know. Adrian Stanley ... Same for husband, John Rogers attached to Watson-784, for same reasons
Frances first married John Rogers, second Walter Briggs. It is sometimes said that Frances was the daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Watson of Plymouth, MA, and Windsor, CT. Heres what Anderson says about Robert Watson in The Great Migration Begins:16 Various secondary sources claim a Robert Watson, immigrant of 1632 to Plymouth, as brother of JOHN WATSON of Roxbury and father of GEORGE WATSON of Plymouth and of several other later immigrants [ Windsor Hist 2:776; Bassett-Preston 311; Snow-Estes 1:162]. This family construct should be rejected totally, as there is no evidence in Plymouth or elsewhere in New England for such a Robert, or for any connection between John Watson and George Watson. ..." Pane-Joyce Genealogy
No documentation for a father, Robert Watson.
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No documentation for a father, Robert Watson
"The family name of his wife, Frances, has not been discovered, nor the date of their marriage. Their son, John, was born in 1632 or 1633, in all human probability before they left England. ...." page 6; John Rogers of Marshfield... John Rogers of Marshfield AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS BY JOSIAH H. DRUMMOND