John Briggs, of Portsmouth

John Briggs 1642 - 1713 of Little Compton (Mass/RI) m. Hannah Fisher in 1664.

He is often confused with John Briggs of North Kingston m. Frances Fisher.

Frances is the daughter of Thomas.

Hannah is the daughter of Edward and Judith,

John (m. Frances) ancestry not known by me (Janet)

John (m. Hannah) son of John Briggs and Sarah Cornell.

John was born about 1642. He is the son of John Briggs and Sarah Cornell.

John Briggs married Hannah Fisher "ca 1664, by Sept 19, 1665", at Portsmouth or Tiverton, Rhode Island.[1] Austin shows Hannah as the daughter of the parents shown on her profile, and that she and John Briggs were married, but gives no date of marriage.[2]

Children:[3][4]

1. Edward
2. John
3. (possibly) Job
4. (possibly) William
5. daughters (mentioned in deed)

John Briggs of Tiverton passed away 2 July 1713. Inventory of his estate was presented on 30 July.[5] On the same day his widow Hannah was given letters of administration on his estate.[6] Fellow bondsmen were John Briggs of [Boston?] in Suffolk County and William Briggs of [Little Compton?].

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John Briggs (abt. 1642 - 1713)

John Briggs

Born about 1642 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island

Son of John Briggs and Sarah (Cornell) Briggs

Brother of Susannah (Briggs) Palmer, Thomas Briggs, Job Briggs, William Briggs and Enoch Briggs

Husband of Hannah (Fisher) Briggs — married before 19 Sep 1665 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island [uncertain]

Father of Edward Briggs, William Briggs and Susanna (Briggs) Cook

Died 2 Jul 1713 in Tiverton, Bristol County, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Briggs-6013 created 24 Dec 2017 | Last modified 6 Mar 2020

Research Notes

We learn quite a bit about John's family group from some land records. From a deed dated 14 October 1679:[7] John Briggs Sr. of Portsmouth, yeoman, grants unto his eldest son John Briggs land in Dartmouth and land adjoining that of the widow Fancy at the place formerly known as Ponagansett. If John passes before his wife Hannah, then land shall remain for the use of Hannah as long as she remains a widow. Otherwise, the land should descend to his grandson John, second son of his son John. And barring that, it should pass to his grandson Edward, eldest son of John.

Briggs gives a more direct transcription and states that following all of these contingencies, the land should pass to his nearest male heir and that that man should pay a fixed sum of twenty pounds to the daughters of his son John.

And from a slightly earlier deed, dated 24 May 1677:[8] Edward Fisher Sr. of Portsmouth grants to Hannah Briggs, wife of John Briggs, thirty acres of land near the Circuitt being land which John Briggs has already in his possession, bounded by lands of Francis Brighton and Thomas Waytes and bounded on the east and south sides by the Common.

Sources

↑ New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. Reference Volume 1, page 204. Subscription
↑ Austin, John Osborne The genealogical dictionary of Rhode Island : comprising three generations of settlers who came before 1690 : with many families carried to the fourth generation, published 1887. Reference page 79
↑ Briggs (1778), Page 14
↑ Briggs (1880), Page 140
↑ Bristol County, Mass., probate records, Volume 3 Page 159, image available through Family Search
↑ Bristol County, Mass., probate file papers, image online at American Ancestors
↑ RI Land Evidences: Page 140
↑ RI Land Evidences: Page 157
Aldridge, Bertha Bortle Beal The Briggs genealogy, including the ancestors and descendants of Ichabod White Briggs 1609-1953; also other line descendants of his immigrant ancestor John Briggs, b. 1609, York, England and some of the descendants of Ichabod White, published 1953. Reference page 12
Briggs, Samuel. A partial record of the descendants of Walter Briggs of Westchester, N.Y.: to which is added some account of his ancestry, collateral branches, origin of the family name, ancient pedigrees, wills, etc, etc., Fairbanks, Briggs & Co., Cleveland, OH, 1878.
Briggs, Samuel. The Archives of the Briggs Family (Theodore C. Schenek & Co., Ohio, 1880)
Wilbour, Benjamin Franklin. Little Compton Families (Genealogical Publishing Co., 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003)
Worthington. Rhode Island Land Evidences, Volume 1, 1648-1696, abstracts (Providence, RI 1921)
Bristol County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1686-1880. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized mages provided by FamilySearch.org)