John Riggs I (1712 - abt. 1803)

Born 27 Dec 1712 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, British Colonial America

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Johnson) Riggs — married 29 Oct 1734 in Derby, New Haven Co., Connecticut

Descendants

Died about 1803 at about age 90 in Derby, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Biography

John RIGGS I was born 27 Dec 1712. He died 7 1803. John married Hannah JOHNSON on 29 Oct 1734 in Derby, New Haven Co., Connecticut.

Sources

See also:

• "United States Census, 1800", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHRS-SW1 : 10 June 2015), Jno Riggs, 1800.
• Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901.), p. 470. .
• "Church Records." http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/470.html.
• Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 542. " ... Resided in Oxford ..."
• W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 11. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html. "Silence ye Wife of John Lumm, Elizabeth ye Wife, and Elizabeth ye Daughter of John Chatfield, Hannah ye Wife of John Riggs, Sarah ye Wife of James Wheler, Mary ye Wife of Timothy Russel, Abigail, Sibillia, and Mary Russels, all received to Communion from ye Pastor and Chh of Christ in Darby, bairing Date Janr 7th, 1746." (Oxford Congregational) http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/011.html.
• Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 755.
• Sharpe, Seymour Past and Present, pgs. 540. 542.
• John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family, New York, John H. Wallace, 1901, p. 8.
• 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. 253. "29 Oct [ ]."
• Ancestors Of American Presidents, p233, comp Gary Boyd Roberts, pub Carl Boyer in cooperation with NEHGS, Boston, 1995, NEHGS - copy examined at SoG Lib, refce US/G37, JLY2002.
• "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F745-LJR : 3 December 2014), Jno Riggs in entry for John Riggs, 31 Aug 1735; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.
• "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F745-LJN : 3 December 2014), John Riggs in entry for Edward Riggs, 24 Apr 1737; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.
• "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F7W2-SFJ : 3 December 2014), Jno Riggs in entry for Hannah Riggs, 07 Nov 1738; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.
• "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F745-LVG : 3 December 2014), John Riggs in entry for Moses Riggs, 26 May 1740; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.
• "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F7W2-SF3 : 3 December 2014), John Riggs in entry for Ann Riggs, 14 Jun 1741; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.
• "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F745-LJG : 3 December 2014), John Riggs in entry for Jabish Riggs, 28 Jun 1744; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.

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