Ancestry of
John Kerry

68th U.S. Secretary of State

Rebecca Briggs

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• • 9th Great-grandmother of John Kerry — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3151 
  • Father:
  • Henry Briggs 
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  • Christening Date:
  • 25 Oct 1600 
  • Christening Location:
  • St. James Clerkenwell, London, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 8 Feb 1673 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Thomas Cornell
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 30 Mar 1623 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Sarah Cornell

  William Cornell

  Thomas Cornell

  Rebecca Cornell (Ahnentafel No:1575 )

  Kelame Cornell

  Richard Cornell

  John Cornell

  Elizabeth Cornell

  • Notes: 

  • On the day that Rebecca Briggs died, she is said to have been sitting by the fire smoking a pipe when a coal appears to have fallen from the fire or her pipe. She was burned to death in the resulting fire. Her brother John Briggs claimed to have had a vision in which she appeared to him and said, “See how I was burned with fire.” The inference was that someone set fire to her and subsequently her son Thomas was tried and convicted on this evidence.

• Sources for Rebecca Briggs

  • ¹ The American Genealogist, 1982, Vol. 58, p. 78.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1959, Vol. 35, p. 107.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. I, A-B, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1999), 44.
  • ⁴ Brenneman, Richard E., "Notable Kin - New England in Hollywood, Part Three: The Possible Rhode Island Ancestry of Marilyn Monroe", www.americanancestors.org/notable-kin-the-possible-rhode-island-ancestry-of-marilyn-monroe, (accessed 10/09/2014).
  • ⁵ Carter, Jeff, Ancestors of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, Inc. (2012), 53-54.
  • ⁶ 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), 17-24.
  • ⁷ Cornell, Thomas C., Adam and Anne Mott: Their Ancestors and Their Descendants, Poughkeepsie, New York: A.V. Haight, Printer (1890), 330, 334.
  • ⁸ De Rapaljé, Joris Janssen, Historic Families of America: William Almy, of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, 1630, Chicago: Published by Charles Kingsbury Miller (1897), 17.
  • ⁹ Quinby, Henry Cole, Genealogical History of the Quinby (Quimby) Family In England and America, Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company (1915), 120.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 147.