Elizabeth Riggs

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At this time, no documentation can be found as to when Elizabeth Roosa was born or baptized. However, R. C. Anderson in his "Great Migration" says that based on the date of marriage, the birth can be placed at say 1615.[3]

Elizabeth migrated in 1634, probably from England. This year is based on her marriage at Roxbury in 1635.[3]

Elizabeth married Edward Riggs, his second marriage, on April 5, 1635 at Roxbury.[4]The couple had no children.[5]

Elizabeth (Roosa) Riggs died September 2, 1669 and was buried in Roxbury.[3][6]. Edward's will is dated exactly one year later, 2 Sept. 1670 and proved March 6, 1671/2.

From http://www.axtell-surname.org.uk/fam22949.html?LMCL=Xj1JvP

"The Riggs Family Genealogy" by John H. Wallace pub 1901 -

"Edward Riggs {son of Edward(1) the immigrant} was born in England about 1614, and came to this country along with his father and family; landing in Boston, MAss., in the early summer of 1633. He assisted his father in preparing a new habitation and in taking care of the sick until April 5, 1635, when he married Elizabeth Roosa, quite a young girl; a daughter of a family of that name who had come over from England and settled in Boston. In August, of the same year, his mother died, and how long he remained in assisting his father is not known, but it is known that he soon set about establishing a home of his own. ...

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Anderson says her family came from England to Roxbury MA. One source lists her parents as Heyman Roosa and Metja de Roos.

References

• "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910," Edward Riggs and Elizabeth Roosa, 05 Apr 1635; citing reference p 117; FHL microfilm 741,320. https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FHZ9-7JK
• http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p414.htm#i... cites
• [S14] Unknown author, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, by Clarence Almon Torrey., 3rd Supplement of Torrey which says he was born about 1593 and died in 1672. He was married (1) 16 September 1618 at Nazeing, Essex to Elizabeth Holmes (died in 1635), p. 221. His 2nd wife was Elizabeth Roosa (died in 1669) whom he married at Roxbury on 5 April 1635.
• [S11597] Ancestry.com, Submitted by bmachia14.
• [S14] Unknown author, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, by Clarence Almon Torrey., p. 761. Also see 3rd Supplement of Torrey which says she is the daughter of Edward, p. 259.
• http://trees.wmgs.org/getperson.php?personID=I42514&tree=Schirado cites
• [S11] Robert Charles Anderson, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1995).
• [S9] Joseph Savage, (Little Brown, Boston, 1860).
• http://www.axtell-surname.org.uk/fam22949.html
• http://alvyray.com/Riggs/printpapers/RiggsRevisited_finalTGversion.pdf
• https://gw.geneanet.org/tdowling?lang=en&n=roosa&oc=0&p=elizabeth
• Elizabeth Roosa, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (NEHGS, 1999-2011).
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Unknown-290195