Ancestry of
Tennessee Williams

Author of A Streetcar Named Desire

John Briggs

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Tennessee Williams — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1572 
  • Father:
  • Henry Briggs 
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1609 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. York, Yorkshire, England 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 19 Apr 1690 to 16 Nov 1690 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Commons Burial Ground, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Cornell
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  • Children:
  
  

  Thomas Briggs (Ahnentafel No:786 )

  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.

• Additional marriages for John Briggs

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  • Spouse:
  • Constant Mitchell
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1662

• 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.