Ens. Thomas Briggs

- 1720

• Name	Ens. Thomas Briggs  [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate death	12 Jan 1720  [3]
  Death	12 Jun 1720	of Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts   [4]
  Person ID	I6264	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	15 May 2020

  
  

  Father	John Briggs   d. Nov 1690, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island
  Mother	Sarah Cornell
  Marriage	Bef 1642  [5]
  Family ID	F17	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Fisher   d. 1717
  Marriage	Bef 1671  [5]
  Children	+ 1. Mary Briggs,   b. 9 Aug 1671, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F3771	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 May 2020

  
  

• Notes

  "[A]dmitted as a freeman of Portsmouth in 1673. He was a member of Peleg Sanford's troop of horse in 1667 and doubtless engaged in Indian fighting. [...] Thomas Briggs died in 1720, leaving an estate inventoried at slightly in excess of a thousand pounds. In 1694 he was listed as one of the fifty-six Proprietors of Dartmouth." [The Howland Heirs, citation details below.]

  
  

• Sources

  [S771] Edwin G. Sanford, "'Judith at the Island': Judith (Smith) Fisher, the Wait Family of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and Their English Origins." The American Genealogist 67:193, October 1992. [S4160] The Frost Genealogy: Descendants of William Frost of Oyster Bay, New York by Josephine C. Frost. New York: Frederick H. Hitchcock, 1912. [S994] The Briggs Genealogy, Including the Ancestors and Descendants of Ichabod White Briggs by Bertha Bortle Beale Aldridge. Victor, New York: 1953. [S42] The Howland Heirs: Being the Story of a Family and a Fortune and the Inheritance of a Trust Established for Mrs. Hetty H. R. Green by William M. Emery. New Bedford, Massachusetts: E. Anthony and Sons, 1919., date only. [S2203] New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence A. Torrey. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.