Ancestry of
Asa Briggs

(1755–c1834)

Asa Briggs

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Silas Briggs 
  • Mother:
  • Esther Soper   
  • Birth Date:
  • 22 Jun 1755 
  • Birth Location:
  • Berkley, Bristol, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1834 
  • Death Location:
  • Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., Michigan 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Gourdneck Prairie Cemetery, Vicksburg, Kalamazoo Co., Michigan 
  • Notes: 
  • Sources disagree on the birthplace for Asa. Some records state he was born in Barchlay, Rhode Island.

• Marriages for Asa Briggs

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth Paul
  • Marriage Date:
  • 27 Dec 1777
  • Marriage Location:
  • Berkley, Bristol, Massachusetts

• Sources for Asa Briggs

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #014324.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 21 AUG 2012).
  • ³ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Birth record for Asa Briggs.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1977, Vol. 53, p. 67.
  • ⁵ Briggs, Samuel, The Archives of the Briggs Family, Cleveland, Ohio: Theodore C. Schenck and Co. (1880), 39.
  • ⁶ Paul, Edward Joy, The Ancestry of Katharine Choate Paul: now Mrs. William J. Young, Jr., Milwaukee: Burdick and Allen (1914), 18.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 39.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 432, 466, 469.