Ancestry of
Norman Rockwell

American Artist

Miles Riggs

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Norman Rockwell — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 66 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Riggs 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1705 
  • Birth Location:
  • Essex County, New Jersey 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Whitney
  • Marriage Date:
  • 26 Jun 1735 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Esther Riggs (Ahnentafel No:33 )

  • Notes: 

  • Miles Riggs may have been the son of Joseph Riggs who died 11 SEP 1744 at age 69 in Orange, New Jersey.

• Sources for Miles Riggs

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2010, Vol. 164, pp. 97-98.
  • ² Boughton, James, Genealogy of the Families of John Rockwell, of Stamford, Conn., 1641, and Ralph Keeler, of Hartford, Conn., 1639, New York: William F. Jones, Publisher (1903), 14, 21.
  • ³ Phoenix, S. Whitney, The Whitney Family of Connecticut, and its Affiliations . . . of Henry Whitney, from 1649 to 1878, Vol. 1, New York: Privately Printed (1878), 23-24, 72.