Capt. Edward Riggs

Edward is on the 1774 Militia List of Surry Co., NC. DAR Ancestor #: A201166

Edward Riggs

Marriage Wife: Prewitt, Wealthy (1740 - 1820) Children Prewitt, Archibald (10 FEB 1767 - 1866)

Notes CHILD: research by John Clinard, treebyjohn@charter.net Jan 2011 "I have attached Robert Carter Austin's line in a GED file. You will see that I have attached him as a 4th ggson of Edward Riggs & Welthy Pruett. Archibald was born out-of-wedlock. Before we had all assumed he was a 4th ggson of Joseph Austin and Welthy. Robert's 67 marker Y-DNA has been submitted to the Austin and the Riggs DNA studies.

The Austin DNA for John Austin, SW VA, Joseph Austin's father, when compared to Robert Carter Austin, Jr. is ...a dreadful mismatch. Robert matches John Austin on only 2 of the 1st 12 markers.

Robert, and all Austin ancestors up through Archibald Austin, are not Austins! This is a Riggs line. If you have access to the Riggs Y-DNA study (http://alvyray.com/Riggs/) you will see the close match to the Riggs family.

I have ...(reached) the conclusion that Archibald Austin is a son of Edward Riggs and Welthy Pruett."

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FROM DESCENDANT DEBBIE GAMBRELL I began looking into this because I am having Riggs cousins DNA matches, which would otherwise not be the case if Archibald Pruit-Austin weren't a biological Riggs as indicated.

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Father* Samuel Riggs b. 1681, d. 1770 Mother* Kegeah Baldwin b. 1681

Birth* 7 February 1720 Edward was born on 7 February 1720 in Morris County, New Jersey.1

	He was the son of Samuel Riggs and Kegeah Baldwin. 

Marriage* say 1745 Edward Riggs married Jane Buckley say 1745.

Death* 17 January 1820 Edward died on 17 January 1820 in Jefferson County, Tennessee, at age 99.1

Family: Jane Buckley

Citations:

[S935] World Family Tree Volume 18, tree 1755.

[S1800] Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints, Pedigree Resource File.

GEDCOM Source

@R-1143873227@ Ancestry Family Trees Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.

GEDCOM Source

Ancestry Family Tree http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=87738672&pid...

GEDCOM Note

Chronology of Edward RIGGS (1720--1820) Originally compiled by Carolyn Reeves Ericson [First two entries added by Bobby G. Carwile from his records] 1720 7 Feb - Edward RIGGS born to Samuel RIGGS, Sr. and Keziah BALDWIN in Newark, Essex Co, NJ 1749 7 Feb - married Jane BUCKLEY in Morristown, Morris Co, NJ 1762 Appointed overseer on road from Shallow Ford on Yadkin River to Elkin Ford on the Yadkin River [Rowan Co, NC] 1765 Rowan County Tax List 1767-1770 On Yadkin River in North Carolina 1768 Rowan County NC Tax List 1769 Feb. Edward RIGGS, Esq. [Justice of Surry Co, NC] 1769 Acted as Bondsman in Rowan Co, NC for marriage of Reuben RIGGS and Mary Crawford 1770 Rowan Co, NC Jury List 1771 Surry Co, NC Tax List 1772 Surry Co, NC Tax List 1772 Surry Co, NC - September Court - claim against county for services 1774 Surry Co, NC Tax List - Edward and son Jesse 1774 Surry Co, NC Militia "Captain" [Colonial Soldiers of the South, pg. 833] 1775 Surry Co, NC - 10 May Lawsuit Edward RIGGS vs. William SHEPPARD 1782 NC Revolutionary War Army Accounts #230 - Auditors for Countys of Washington and Sullivan [Tennessee] State of North Carolina @230-- The Auditors for the Counties of Washington & Sullivan [Tennessee] do Certify that Edward RIGGS is allowed eight pounds, Sixteen Shillings Specie as payment Voucher Given under our hands he 22nd of June 1882. Anthony Bledsoe NOTE: Specie Certificates were issued to persons having claims against the state. Certificates were issued for both military service and supplies furnished. The state redeemed these certificates by several methods - one of which was the opening of western land [now Tennessee]. An entry fee of ten pounds per 100 acres was required and is was through this fee that the state redeemed the certificates. 1784 Greene Co, TN County Court Minutes - Edward RIGGS vs. John NEWMAN, Samuel LYLE and Shadraach MORRIS 1785 Surry Co, NC - 13 May: Edward RIGGS gave bail for John SIMPSON [Last mention of Edward RIGGS in Surry Co, NC] 1787 Warrants for land in Green Co, TN [For Revolutionary War Service] #428 for 1,000 acres on south side of Holston River adjoining Gideon MORRIS, Joseph GILBREATH - Swelten's Creek #502 for 445 acres between French Broad and Holston River #660 for 200 acres on south side of Holston River on Dry Fork 1789 Green Co, TN - Deed to Jesse [son] RIGGS in December 1790 Hawkins Co, TN - Deed Records 1793 Jefferson Co, TN - Deed to Gideon MORRIS 1797 Jefferson Co, TN - Deed to Jesse RIGGS 1800 Jefferson Co, TN - Tax List 1800 Jefferson Co, TN - May 31: Bondsman when granddaughter Mahulda ELLIS married John NEECE 1801 Jefferson Co, TN - Deed 1811 Jefferson Co, TN - Deed to son Clisbe RIGGS 1819 Jefferson Co, TN - June 19, 1819 deed to son Clisbe RIGGS 1820 Jefferson Co, TN - Edward shown as Deceased by 17 January on Land Deed History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania by William Watts Hart Davis, Warren Smedley Ely, John Woolf Jordan Published by The Lewis Pub. Co., 1905 Original from the New York Public Library RIGGS FAMILY Edward Riggs, Puritan, settled at Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1630, and was made a freeman. He was a member of the Anglican Church when in England (Anglo-Saxon origin). He was married, in 1618, to a Miss Holmes, born before 1590, in Nanzing Parish, Waltham Abbey, Essex County, England. The Riggs family have their coat of arms. Edward Riggs had one son, Edward Riggs, who fought against the Pequod Indians in 1637, and was made a sergeant on the field of battle for bravery and for saving the lives of his captain and companions from an Indian ambuscade. Sergeant Edward Riggs went from Roxbury to New Milford, Connecticut, where he purchased land and built a palisade house near the present town of Derby, and therein hid Generals Goff and Whally, known as the "Regicides." He had one daughter, Mary, and sons Joseph, Edward, and Samuel, who was known as Ensign Riggs. Sergeant Edward Riggs with his wife Elizabeth went to Neward, New Jersey, about 1666, and settled it, thereafter being known as the founder of Neward, New Jersey. His daughter Mary and sons Joseph and Edward aided in the settlement thereof. His wife Elizabeth was the only woman who stayed over the winter, and for her bravery she was voted a double portion of land. Sergeant Riggs kept a wolf pit for his own amusement. Ensign Samuel Riggs did not accompany his parents upon their removal to New Jersey. His daughter married the Rev Humphrey, whose son was General Washington's bosom friend during the Revolutionary War, his private secretary before and after it, who carried the colors by special orders from Yorktown to Philadelphia to Congress and was voted an elegant sword by them for bravery. He was minister to Spain and Portugal, and introduced the culture of Merino sheep into this country. He was a noted literary man in his time, and his portrait by Trumbull is at Yale, and another by Gilbert Stuart is in the state house at New Haven or Hartford. His mother, formerly Sarah Riggs, was a very elegant woman in her time, and was always known among her contemporaries as Lady Humphreys, and the Chapter of Daughters of the Revolution at Derby, Connecticut, was named in her honor. Joseph Riggs, of Newark, New Jersey, took an active part in the beginning of the Revolution, and his writings may be found in a number of places in Force's "American Archives." He left Newark, New Jersey, and took up his residence in New York. Benjamin Myer, great-grandfather of Henry W. Birkey and Isaac Myer Birkey, M.D., married Sarah Riggs, daughter of Joseph Riggs. ................................. Sergeant Edward Riggs, who belonged to one of the thirty families of all whom, save two, were of strictly Puritan stock, from England who moved from Branford, Connecticut, to New Jersey, in 1644, and founded New Work, now the city of Newark. Edward Riggs was one of the builders and strong supporters of the first church in that city the First Congregational, now the First Presbyterian of which, from 1736 to 1755, Rev. Aaron Burr was the distinguished pastor. This is the oldest fully organized church of any denomination within the state of New Jersey. The character of the thirty families, above referred to, is thus spoken of by Rev. Jonathan F. Stearns, D. D., in a historical discourse delivered in Newark, in 1851: "The settlers of Newark, were an eminently industrious, enterprising, public-spirited race; firm, without bigotry; gentle and affectionate, without weakness; very kind and loving people; and yet bold defenders of their rights. * * * All traces of them that remain show that they were men who united strong practical common sense with the purest morals and devoted piety." ........................................... Narratives of Newark Records of the town of Newark, New Jersey