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Persoonlijke gegevens William Briggs 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1736 in Taunton, Bristol, MA.Bron 3
• Woonachtig:
• MA, United States.Bron 4
• in het jaar 1800: Augusta, Kennebec, Maine.Bron 1
• in het jaar 1810: Winthrop, Kennebec, Maine, United States.Bron 5
• Hij is overleden in het jaar 1819 in Augusta, Kennebec, ME, hij was toen 83 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Lt. Nathaniel Briggs en Judath Guild

Gezin van William Briggs

Hij is getrouwd met Mary Fisher.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 5 november 1761 te Walpole, Bristol, MA, hij was toen 25 jaar oud.Bron 7

Kind(eren):

1. John Briggs  
2. Irene Briggs  > 1754-1830 
3. Sarah Briggs  1760-????
4. Mary Briggs  ± 1762-????
5. William Briggs  1769-1853
6. Enos Briggs  1775-1836

Notities over William Briggs

William Briggs of Taunton, Massachusetts and Augusta, Maine
Added by EricBJones39 on 22 Jul 2008

From the New England Historical and Genealogical Society Quarterly, Sons of John Briggs of Taunton, Mass., April 1972, p.211

"WILLIAM BRIGGS (Nathaniel, William, John), born in Taunton in 1736, died in Kennebec Co., Maine, in 1819.

He married Mary ______ (Note: Evidence from the graves registers of the Sons of the American Revolution indicate that Mary's name was FISHER. EBJ)

William Briggs of Taunton, age 20 years, served at Crown Point from 20 March to 5 December 1756 (Massachusetts Archives, Vol. 95:206). He served under Capt. Joseph Hodges in Richard Gridley's Regt. (ibid., 94:176): was serving as a drummer, 27 April 1757.

Children born in Augusta, Me.:

i. John
ii. Irene, mar. ____ Morse
iii. Mary, mar. ____ Goldwaite
iv. Sarah, mar. ____ Smith
v. William; mar. in 1792, Abigail Fuller. (According to Nash's "The History of Augusta", this marriage did not take place even though banns were published and an official intention was filed.)

«b»Note:«/b» Publishing the banns of marriage
Added by EricBJones39 on 15 Oct 2008

The banns of marriage, commonly known simply as "the banns", (from an Old English word meaning "to summon") are the public announcement in a parish church that a marriage is going to take place between two specified persons.

The purpose of banns is to enable anyone to raise any legal impediment to it, so as to prevent marriages that are legally invalid, either under canon law or under civil law. Impediments vary between legal jurisdictions, but would normally include a pre-existing marriage (having been neither dissolved nor annulled), a vow of celibacy, lack of consent, or the couple's being related within the prohibited degrees of kinship.

In England, under the provisions of Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act, a marriage is only legally valid if the reading of the banns has taken place or a marriage licence has been obtained. By this 1753 statute, 26 Geo. II, c. xxxviij, the banns are required to be read aloud in church over a period of three Sundays prior to the actual wedding ceremony. Banns must be read in the home parish churches of both parties to the marriage, as well as in the church where the marriage ceremony is to take place (where this is different). Omission of this formality renders the marriage void.

Martha Ballard notes in her diary that William (Jr.) Briggs published his intention to marry Abigail Fuller for the second time in Meeting on July 15, 1792:

"at meeting. Wm Briggs & Nabby Fuller Publisht ye 2nd Time."

However, the marriage did not take place according to Charles Elventon Nash's History of Augusta, p 565:

"William Briggs of Hallowell, and Abigail Fuller of Pittston, int. m. July 2, 1792. Fell through.

William Briggs, Jr., and Polly King, both of Hallowell, int. m. December 25, 1793, cert. iss. January 18, 1794."

Elventon's information explains why William Briggs, Jr., appears twice in the Maine marriage index, for Abigail Fuller in 1792 and Polly King in 1793. The Maine marriage index comprises records of intentions to marry (banns), while Elverton notes that a marriage certificate was issued for William and Polly. There is no record of a certificate being issued for William and Abigail. Consequently, I believe that our third great grandmother is actually Polly King, not Abigail Fuller as stated in the 1972 NEHGS series "Richard, William and Hugh, Sons of John Briggs of Taunton, Massachusetts."

?vi. Enos, b. 1775; d. 1836. We are not sure that Enos belongs here. Nathaniel had a son, Enos, and the name was in both families." (Enos was probably William's son, as he appears on the Hallowell tax rolls in 1797. He had to be at least 21 to own property, so he was born at least as early as 1776, which corresponds closely with his reported birth date of 1775. He was enumerated in the 1820, 1840 and 1850 censuses. The NEHGS article is believed to have confused the death date of this Enos with that of a cousin, who died in Rhode Island in 1836)

This account is disappointingly brief, and makes no mention of William's life from the end of the French and Indian War (1757) until about 1788 -- thirty years. William's involvement in the Revolution isn't mentioned, although it is unlikely that a Massachusetts man with military experience didn't play some part in that war. William's French and Indian War experience could make him sought as an officer in the generally inexperienced Continental Army. There were several William Briggses, including two captains, who fought in the Revolution. There was a Captain William Briggs living in Hallowell, Kennebec County, Maine who received a Revolutionary War pension in 1818, and died at the age of 83 in 1819. The reported age matches William Briggs of Taunton (or nearby Stoughton?) and the death year matches the NEHGS article referred to here.

There is circumstantial evidence that the Hallowell veteran Captain William Briggs is William of Taunton: there is only one William Briggs in the 1790 Maine census, and the 1810 census shows only two William Briggs households in all of Maine, William and his son William 4 (Jr.); the 1820 census shows five, including William, Jr., but not including William Sr., so he could have been the William Briggs who died in 1819 (The Vital Records of Augusta to 1892 record William's death as 11 Aug 1819). (Note: Recent discovery of William Briggs's commission as a captain in the army of the United Colonies and associated correspondence to obtain his Revolutionary War pension confirms that these are, in fact, the same person. EBJ 2009)

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