Elizabeth, the mother of Capt. Nathan Briggs, was a daughter of Cornelius and Elizabeth (Young) Spooner. Cornelius S. was a soldier during the revolutionary war, enlisting first, April 21, 1775, in the company of Capt. Lucian Pope. He remained in the army and died in the service about the close of the war. Elizabeth S. was a granddaughter of Simpson and Sarah (Jenny) S., great granddaughter of Isaac and Alice S., and gr.-gr. granddaughter of William and Hannah (Pratt) Spooner, the progenitor of the family in America.
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