Miles RIGGS

1748 - 1836  (88 years)

• Name	Miles RIGGS  [1, 2]
  	"Whitney Family of Connecticut": b. in Norwalk, Conn., 20 May 1748; a carpenter and joiner, and later, a farmer; married Patty Bull, of Harwinton, Conn., who was born in 1750. They settled in 1772, in the south-east corner of the town of Norfolk, Litchfield Co. Conn., on a farm which is still, in 1875, owned and occupied by his descendants. He was, at three different times, in the service of his country, in the Revolutionary War, and each time honorably discharged. The family tradition says that once, on coming home from the army, he found two of his three children lying dead in the house, and his wife so ill that she died before the next morning; but the tradition has failed to preserve the date, or the names of the children. He married (2nd) Abigail Cowles, widow of Eden Mills. She died at their home in Norfolk, 12 Nov. 1833. He died there, 20 Sept. 1836. They were buried in the South End Cemetery, in Norfolk. He was a White Plains, and also at the capture of Burgoyne. [1]
  Birth	20 May 1748	Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	20 Sep 1836	Norfolk, Connecticut   [1, 2]
  Burial	South End Cemetery, Norfolk, Connecticut   [1]
  Person ID	I69549	Main Tree
  Last Modified	27 Sep 2020

  
  

  Father	Miles RIGGS,   b. Abt 1713   d. Bef 1754, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA (Age < 41 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Elizabeth WHITNEY,   b. 1717, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA d. Aug 1815, Norfolk, Litchfield County, Connecticut (Age 98 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	25 Jun 1735	Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA   [1, 3, 4]
  Family ID	F13835	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Patty BULL,   b. 1750, Connecticut, USA d. 9 Sep 1778 (Age 28 years)
  Marriage	28 Feb 1775  [2]
  Family ID	F28038	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Sep 2020

  
  

  Family 2	Abigail COWLES,   b. 6 May 1753   d. 12 or 14 Nov 1833, Norfolk, Connecticut (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	20 Apr 1779	Norfolk, Connecticut   [2]
  Family ID	F28039	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Sep 2020

  
  

• Sources

  [S00094] S. Whitney Phoenix, "The Whitney Family of Connecticut and its Affiliations; being an Attempt to trace the Descendants, as well in the Female as the Male Lines, of Henry Whitney, from 1649 to 1878" , (Privately Printed, New York - 1878). [S12064] Colonel Calvin Duvall Cowles, Genealogy of the Cowles Families in America Vol.I . [S03262] RootsWeb: World Connect - Stamford, CT Familes (1641-1935) by Barbara Kaye. [S03428] The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records: Stamford.