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Abt 1713 - Bef 1754 (< 41 years)
Generation: 1
1. | Miles RIGGS was born about 1713; died before 1754 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. Miles married Elizabeth WHITNEY on 25 Jun 1735 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of Joseph WHITNEY and Hannah HOYT) was born in 1717 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died in Aug 1815 in Norfolk, Litchfield County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 2. Josiah RIGGS was born on 18 May 1736 in Stamford, Fairfield County Connecticut.
- 3. Joseph RIGGS was born on 18 May 1738 in New Canaan, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 15 Jun 1805 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.
- 4. Sarah RIGGS was born on 22 Oct 1740 in Stamford, Fairfield County Connecticut.
- 5. Elizabeth RIGGS was born on 17 Dec 1742 in Stamford, Fairfield County Connecticut.
- 6. Polly RIGGS died in Ohio.
- 7. Miles RIGGS was born on 20 May 1748 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 20 Sep 1836 in Norfolk, Connecticut; was buried in South End Cemetery, Norfolk, Connecticut.
- 8. Prudence RIGGS died in Ridgebury, Connecticut.
- 9. Esther RIGGS was born in Nov 1752.
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Generation: 2
3. | Joseph RIGGS (1.Miles1) was born on 18 May 1738 in New Canaan, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 15 Jun 1805 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. Joseph married Mary KEELER on 04 Aug 1761 in New Canaan, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. Mary (daughter of Daniel KEELER and Hannah WHITNEY) was born about 1742 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; was christened on 16 May 1742 in New Canaan, Connecticut; died before 1 May 1763. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Joseph married Margaret RESSEGUIE on 18 Sep 1764 in Wilton, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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4. | Sarah RIGGS (1.Miles1) was born on 22 Oct 1740 in Stamford, Fairfield County Connecticut. |
7. | Miles RIGGS (1.Miles1) was born on 20 May 1748 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 20 Sep 1836 in Norfolk, Connecticut; was buried in South End Cemetery, Norfolk, Connecticut. Notes:
Name:
"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.
Miles married Patty BULL on 28 Feb 1775. Patty was born in 1750 in Connecticut, USA; died on 9 Sep 1778. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Miles married Abigail COWLES on 20 Apr 1779 in Norfolk, Connecticut. Abigail (daughter of Samuel COWLES and Martha BROOKS) was born on 6 May 1753; was christened on 17 Jun 1753 in Torrington, Connecticut; died in 12 or 14 Nov 1833 in Norfolk, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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