Family Tree Briggs » Rebecca Briggs (1665-1752)
Personal data Rebecca Briggs
Source 1Sources 2, 3, 4, 5, 6- She was born on August 16, 1665 in Taunton, Bristol, MA.Sources 2, 4, 5, 6
- She died in the year 1752 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA, she was 86 years old.
- A child of Richard Briggs and Elizabeth Rebeckah Hoskins
Household of Rebecca Briggs
She is married to Nathaniel Thayer.
They got married on February 11, 1690 at Taunton, Bristol, MA, she was 24 years old.Sources 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10
Child(ren):
- Nathaniel Thayer 1693-1777
- Rebecca Thayer 1704-> 1754
- Hannah Thayer 1710-1788
Notes about Rebecca Briggs
«b»Abstracts of Bristol County, Massachusetts Probate Records, 1687-1745
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Agreement between Rebecca Briggs, William Briggs (eldest son), John Briggs & Nathaniel Thayer* about the division of the estate of Richard Briggs of Taunton. Mentions widow, not named. Dated 13 Dec 1692. Witnessed by Jonah Linkon and James Woodward. (1:60).
«b»*Researcher's Note:«/b»
Nathaniel Thayer was Richard Briggs' son-in-law, married to Richard's daughter, Rebecca. Nathaniel was the son of Nathaniel Thayer, a nephew of Richard Briggs' father's (John, Sr.) wife, Agnes Thayer.
«b»Abstracts of Bristol County, Massachusetts Probate Records, 1687-1745«/b»
Inventory of estate of Richard Briggs, of Taunton, dated 8 July, 1696, presented by Rebecca Briggs, his widow. Appraisers, Henry Hodges, Richard Stephens and Samuel Dean (1:173).
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Sources
- Ancestry Family Trees, Ancestry Family Tree
http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=70558271&pid=79
/ Ancestry.com - Millennium File, Heritage Consulting / Ancestry.com
- Massachusetts, Town Marriage Records, 1620-1850, New England Historic Genealogical Society / Ancestry.com
- American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI), Godfrey Memorial Library, comp. / Ancestry.com
- Family Data Collection - Individual Records, Edmund West, comp., Birth year: 1665; Birth city: Taunton; Birth state: MA / Ancestry.com
- Massachusetts, Town Birth Records, 1620-1850, New England Historic Genealogical Society / Ancestry.com
- The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- Massachusetts, Marriages, 1633-1850, Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp / Ancestry.com
- Family Data Collection - Individual Records, Edmund West, comp., Birth year: 1668; Birth city: Taunton; Birth state: MA / Ancestry.com
- U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
Historical events
Birthday August 16, 1665
- This page is only available in Dutch.Van 1650 tot 1672 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Eerste Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
- In the year 1665: Source: Wikipedia
- March 6 » The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, Henry Oldenburg, publishes the first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the world's longest-running scientific journal.
- April 8 » English colonial patents are granted for the establishment of the Monmouth Tract, for what would eventually become Monmouth County in northeastern New Jersey.
- June 3 » James Stuart, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England), defeats the Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft.
- June 12 » Thomas Willett is appointed the first mayor of New York City.
- June 17 » Battle of Montes Claros: Portugal definitively secured independence from Spain in the last battle of the Portuguese Restoration War.
- October 29 » Portuguese forces defeat the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitate King António I of Kongo, also known as Nvita a Nkanga.
Day of marriage February 11, 1690
- Stadhouder Prins Willem III (Huis van Oranje) was from 1672 till 1702 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
- In the year 1690: Source: Wikipedia
- February 3 » The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in the Americas.
- February 15 » Constantin Cantemir, Prince of Moldavia, and the Holy Roman Empire sign a secret treaty in Sibiu, stipulating that Moldavia would support the actions led by the House of Habsburg against the Ottoman Empire.
- June 14 » King William III of England (William of Orange) lands in Ireland to confront the former King James II.
- July 1 » Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne in Ireland (as reckoned under the Julian calendar).
- August 24 » Job Charnock of the East India Company establishes a factory in Calcutta, an event formerly considered the founding of the city (in 2003 the Calcutta High Court ruled that the city's foundation date is unknown).
- September 25 » Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.
Same birth/death day
- 1573 » Anne of Austria, Queen of Poland († 1598)
- 1637 » Countess Emilie Juliane of Barby-Mühlingen († 1706)
- 1645 » Jean de La Bruyère, French philosopher and author († 1696)
- 1650 » Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian monk, cosmographer, and cartographer († 1718)
- 1682 » Louis, Duke of Burgundy († 1712)
- 1744 » Pierre Méchain, French astronomer and surveyor († 1804)
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