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Myron H. Avery

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Lydia Briggs

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• • Great-grandmother of Myron H. Avery — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 15 
  • Father:
  • Ephraim Briggs Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Rachel Allen   
  • Birth Date:
  • 8 May 1796 
  • Birth Location:
  • Norway, Oxford, Maine 
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  • Death Date:
  • 27 Jul 1867 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Linneus Cemetery, Linneus, Aroostook, Maine 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Nathaniel Young
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Nov 1817 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Norway, Oxford, Maine 
  • Child:

  Eveline Young (Ahnentafel No:7 )

• Sources for Lydia Briggs

  • ¹ Federal Census, ME, Aroostook County, 1850, Linneus, Image 5 of 14.
  • ² Federal Census, ME, Aroostook County, 1860, Linneus, p. 47, Image 9 of 20.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/08/2024).
  • ⁴ Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900, FHL No 7595775, Image 12, Birth record for Lydia Briggs.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1973, Vol. 127, p. 63.
  • ⁶ Boyd, Janice, Bither-Byther Genealogy: Some Descendants of the Revolutionary War Soldier Peter Bither of Maine, n.p.: Typed manuscript (1957), 10.
  • ⁷ Lapham, William Berry, Centennial History of Norway, Oxford County, Maine, 1786-1886: Including an Account of the Early Grants and . . ., Portland, Maine: Brown Thurston and Co., Publishers (1886), 472.
  • ⁸ Little, George Thomas, ed., Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, Volume 4, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1909), 2198-2199.
  • ⁹ Spurr, William Samuel, A History of Otisfield, Cumberland County, Maine from the Original Grant to the Close of the Year 1944, n.p.: William Samuel Spurr (1944), 340.