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About Thomas Arnold Briggs
Briggs Thomas, b. 1644, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island , d. 12 Jan 1719 OR 12 Jan 1720, Nomquitt, Bristol, Massachusetts -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ref.: < http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ricktallm... > :
[From Lilla Briggs Sampson's 1930 manuscript "John Briggs of Newport and Portsmouth, Rhode Island, pp. Thomas 1-3.]
(2) Thomas Briggs (son of (1) John Briggs and Sarah Cornell), was said to have been one of the fifty-six Proprietors of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, in 1694. He lived in Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts in 1712 and possiblty held office in New Bedford County, Massachusetts in in 1679. New Bedford was set off from Dartmouth.
In 1667 he is mentioned by Hazard as one of a Troop of Horse of the Island of Aquidneck (later called Rhode Island). He is also mentioned as member of an early Colonial Company of Cavalry.
Mr. Briggs claimed one hundred and ninety-nine acres in Dartmouth in 1711 by deed from his father (1) John Briggs dated 1678. He also claimed one-sixteenth of a share of John Dunhams right, by virtue of adeed from his father-in-law Fisher dated 1668 which he gave to his son (3) Thomas Briggs. Mr. Briggs also claimed eight acres, and three acres of meadow, which he purchased of Thomas Eaton, and which he gave by deed in 1686 to his son-in-law John Akin.
Mr. Briggs married Mary Fisher, who died in 1717. She was the daughter of Samuel Fisher who in his will bequeathes to daughter Mary Briggs. A receipt for this was signed by Mary Briggs and husband Thomas Briggs.
Mr. Briggs made his will in 1717, and died in 1720. He bequeathed to wife Mary, to sons (3) John and (3) Thomas, to daughters (3) Susanna Wilcox, and Hannah Dyre, and to sons-in-law John Akin and Henry Howland.
[By John Osborne Austin in his "Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island; comprising three Generations of Settlers Who Came Before 1690" printed in Baltimore by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. in 1982, p. 26.]
1667, Aug. 10. He was a member of Capt. Peleg Sanford's horse troop.
1673, May 6. Freeman.
1685, Jun. 2. Dartmouth. GrandJury.
1717, Dec. 12. Will--proved 1720, Jul. 4. Executors, wife Mary and son John. To wife, half of homestead for life. To son John, rest of homestead, and at death of testator's wife, all the real estate to go to son John. To son Thomas, 5s., he having had his share. To daughter Susanna Wilcox 10 pounds. To daughter Hannah Dyer, 20 pounds. To son-in-law John Akin, 5s. To son-in-law Henry Howland, 5s. To grandson Thomas Briggs, son of John, 2 acres salt marsh. To wife Mary and son John, all the rest, equally.
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Thomas Arnold Briggs's Timeline
| 1643 |
1643
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Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island, Colonial America
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| 1671 |
August 9, 1671
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Portsmouth, Rhode Island
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| 1672 |
March 14, 1672
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Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts
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| 1674 |
October 16, 1674
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Dartmouth, Plymouth Colony
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1674
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| 1676 |
May 1, 1676
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Portsmouth, Newport, RI
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| 1678 |
October 2, 1678
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Dartmouth, MA, United States
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1678
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Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts
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April 27, 1684
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Dartmouth, Plymouth Colony
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