Ancestry of
Samantha Vail
(1826–1905)
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- 5th Great-grandfather of Samantha Vail — 8th Generation
- Ahnentafel No:
- 144
- Father:
- Henry Briggs
- Mother:
- Birth Date:
- ABT 1609
- Birth Location:
- prob. York, Yorkshire, England
- Christening Date:
- Christening Location:
- Death Date:
- from 19 Apr 1690 to 16 Nov 1690
- Death Location:
- Burial Date:
- Burial Location:
- Old Commons Burial Ground, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island
- Spouse Name:
- Sarah Cornell
- Marriage Date:
- Marriage Location:
- Children:
Thomas Briggs (Ahnentafel No:72 )
Enoch Briggs
Susanna Briggs
- Notes:
John Briggs birth year is based on John giving his age as 64 at the trial of Thomas Cornell 20 FEB 1673.
John Briggs
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Additional marriages for John Briggs
- Spouse:
- Constant Mitchell
- Marriage Date:
- ABT 1662
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Sources for John Briggs
- 1 Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Vol. 2, p. 694.
- 2 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1982, Vol. 136, p. 100.
- 3 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1971, Vol. 125, p. 77.
- 4 The American Genealogist, 1948, Vol. 24, p. 7.
- 5 Aldridge, Bertha Bortle Beal, The Briggs Genealogy: Including the Ancestors and Descendants of Ichabod White Briggs 1609-1953 . . ., Victor, New York: Unknown (1953), 11-12.
- 6 Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 41.
- 7 Austin, John Osborne, The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island: Comprising Three Generations of Settlers Who Came Before 1690, Albany, New York: Joel Munsells Sons (1887), 25-26.
- 8 Cornell, Rev. John, Genealogy of the Cornell Family: Being an Account of the Descendants of Thomas Cornell of Portsmouth, R.I., New York: Press of T.A. Wright (1902), 17-18, 24.
- 9 Emery, William M., The Howland Heirs: Being the Story of a Family and a Fortune and the Inheritance of a Trust Established . . ., New Bedford, Massachusetts: E. Anthony and Sons, Inc. (1919), 36-37.
- 10 Evans, Richard K., The Ancestry of Diana, Princess of Wales, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2007), 216.
- 11 Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission, Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission Gravestone Database, Tombstone listing John Brigg's birth and death year, (accessed 07/01/2020).
- 12 Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 30.