Rhoda (Whitcomb) Briggs (1760 - 1844)

Born 22 Jul 1760 in Rochester, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Wife of Ephraim Briggs — married 18 Apr 1780 (to 18 Aug 1829) in Barnard Vermont

Descendants

Died 8 Sep 1844 at age 84 in Barnard, Vermont

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Biography

Rhoda was born Rochester Mass., to Asa Whitcomb a veteran of the Revolution and his wife, Joannah Raymond, descended from John, a first settler of Salem and later, Beverly Mass, with other "old planters" Balch, Conant, Raymond and Woodbury, farmers who had settled there before the arrival of the Puritans.

After the Revolution they with others migrated up to Vermont for new land, and settled at Barnard. This was before the Louisiana purchase, and they felt the country could only expand to the north; this would have been true, except Napoleon needed money, and he had all that land out west. Rhoda was married to Capt Epraim Briggs from Taunton, Mass, who had been in the Battle of Lexington at 18, and also had been a company commander at the Battle of Plattsburgh in 1812, on April 18, 1780, by her father Asa Whitcomb, J.P.

She died September 8, 1844 at Barnard, Vermont. ^[1]

Sources

• https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A124407
• https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A014347

1. ↑ Entered by Robert Palmer, July 27, 2012

• The Whitcomb Family in America 1904
• NEGR 68:63, 30:464
• Descendants of Thos Stoughton 1600-1661, Dorchester MA 1929
• Scott Genealogy, M.L.Holman 1919
• Anthony Coombs and his Descendants, Wm Carey Coombs 1913
• The Raymond Family of N England, Saml Raymond, 1886
• Briggs Association Minutes
• Family Papers
• Newton, William Monroe. History of Barnard, Vermont with Family Genealogies 1761-1927 (Montpelier: Vermont Historical Society, 1928).

Acknowledgements

• Robert Palmer, firsthand knowledge.