Clement Briggs

No known relationship to William Briggs

Clement Briggs came over in the 55 ton ship "Fortune" in 1621 with 34 other passengers. Clement was sent to America to make the colony viable to send fur and timber back to England.

A fellmonger (hide dealer). In 1616 resided in Southwark, London, with Robert Hicks, fellow Fortune passenger. Single upon arrival and received one acre in the 1623 land division as “Clemente Brigges.” Member of the 1626 Purchaser investment group. In 1627 cattle division as “Clemont Briggs.”

Clement Briggs of Weymouth, Massachusetts [1]. In a deposition he made on 19 August 1638, Clement stated that he was living on Bardmundsey Street in Southwark, England in 1616 with Mr. "Samuell Lathame." By that time, he was already old enough to be an apprentice fellsmonger or tanner.

Clement Briggs, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995). (1-3:234-236) with clarifying comments in {brackets}: AncestryImage

ORIGIN: Southwark, Surrey {place of emigration but not confirmed as place of birth}
MIGRATION: 1621 in Fortune
FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth
REMOVES: Weymouth by 1630
OCCUPATION: Fellmonger.
BIRTH: By about 1600 (the deposition of 1638 implies that in 1616 Briggs had already been a servant of Mr. Samuel Latham for a few years).
DEATH: Weymouth by 23 February 1649[/9?] (date of inventory).
MARRIAGE: (1) By 1 March 1630/1 Joan Allen (1 March 1630/1: “Mr. Tho: Stoughton, constable of Dorchester, is fined L-5 for taking upon him to marry Clement Briggs & Joane Allen…” [MBCR 1:83])”
(2) By 1640 Elizabeth _____; she died between 11 November 1685 (date of codicil) and 11 August 1691 (probate of will), probably at Weymouth.
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BIBILIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1966 Edna Anne Hannibal, with the assistance of Claude W. Barlow, published a solid genealogy… Clement Briggs of Plymouth Colony and His Descendants, 1621-1965.

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Family

Children by 1st wife: Thomas, Jonathan

Children by 2nd wife: David, Clement, Remember, John

Edna Anne Hannibal, Clement Briggs of Plymouth Colony and His Descendants, 1621-1965 (1966) is available online at:

http://www.seekingmyroots.com/members/files/G000790A.pdf

Joan (Allen) Briggs is frequently but incorrectly identified as the daughter of George Allen. Per Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society; 1999) (I:643-5), George Allen had no daughter named Joan (or variants) by either one of his wives.

The parents and origins of Clement Briggs and Joan (Allen) Briggs remain unknown.

Birth seen as June 14, 1587 of Bridgewater, Somerset, England, United Kingdom without support,

References

• http://marginfamilytree.com/Briggs-Family.htm
• http://dunhamwilcox.net/source_files/briggs.htm
• Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony: Its History and People, 1620-1691 (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing, 1986), p. 252:
• http://dunhamwilcox.net/source_files/briggs.htm
• Find A Grave# 34834586 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34834586/clement-briggs#add-to-vc

Clement Briggs, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995). (1-3:234-236) AncestryImage

• CLEMENT BRIGGS of Plymouth Colony and His Descendanl's (1621 -1965) Compiled by Edna Anne Hannibal Palo Alto, California PDF