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Elizabeth Briggs

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Bill Nye — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 65 
  • Father:
  • John Briggs 
  • Mother:
  • Ruth Barrow   
  • Birth Date:
  • 5 Jun 1718 
  • Birth Location:
  • Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 8 Sep 1777 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • David Nye
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Oct 1733 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Ward Nye (Ahnentafel No:32 )

  • Notes: 

  • Twin

• Sources for Elizabeth Briggs

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Rochester, Vol. 1, p. 226, Birth record for son Ward Nye.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Rochester, Vol. 2, p. 226, Marriage record for David Nye and Elizabeth Briggs.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Rochester, Vol. 1, p. 54, Birth record for Elizabeth Briggs.
  • ⁴ Hannibal, Edna Anne, John Briggs of Sandwich, Massachusetts and His Descendants, Unknown: Typed manuscript (1962), 5.
  • ⁵ Nye, George Hyatt and Frank E. Best, et. al., A Genealogy of the Nye Family, Cleveland, Ohio: The Nye Family of American Association (1907), 78-79.