James
Rigby
Born in Pennsylvania
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Hannah Brown
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Died
at age 63
in Upper Chichester Township, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 12 Sep 2014
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Biography
- TAX RECORD - Aston James Rigby CONT Aston Rate September & October
- 1780 Land Cattle Sheep CONT James Rigby 4/6 (pds, shgs) 4 10 - :1783 CONT 7 3/10 2 6 CONT Direct Tax of 1798 CONT Aston CONT Rigby, James CONT 1 dwelling house 2 acres 110 value 165 value
- 1790 US Census -- James Rigby Middletown: CONT 1fwm+16 CONT 1fwm-16 CONT 2fwf including head CONT
- 1800 US Census - Aston James Rigby CONT Aston Rate September & October
- Taught school in Chichester and Aston townships. "James Rigby settled about a quarter mile from a place then called Seven Stars Tavern, now Village Green, and lived there and taught school until a short time before his death. He was a clerk in Hook Episcopal Church, below Media.
- This information on James & Hannah (nee Brown) 's children comes from William Graham Burke's diary. William G. Burke got this information from "an interview of Henry Rigby, a son of James's only living child, who was living in Tipton Co. Indiana Nov. 4, 1879. (son of John, Rodney or Seth)
- Seth, James and Eli are names used over and over in the Rigby family.
Sources
- Cope, Gilbert, 1840-1928, and Samuel Lightfoot 1732-1894. [from old catalog] Smedley. GENEALOGY OF THE SMEDLEY FAMILY. Lancaster, Pa.: Wickersham printing company, 1901. --- book available on Hathitrust, pg 139, 345, 346;
- William Graham Burke's Diary;
- Tax Record;
- 1790 Census;
- Source: S08403 Title: 1800 US Census
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with James by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with James:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with James by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with James:
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~1.56%
James Powers
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AncestryDNA, Ancestry member jpowers7_1
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~0.78%
Ron Foster :
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch KC8788152 [compare], FTDNA kit #825394
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~0.78%
A Scott :
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~0.78%
April Post :
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~0.39%
Anne Flounders :
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