Saturday, May 7, 2016

Surname Saturday - BRIGGS (England to colonial New England)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.  


I am in the 8th great-grandmothers and I'm up to Ancestor #1417, who is Sarah BRIGGS (1637-1689) 
[Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 8th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through two generations of this BRIGGS family line is:


1. Randall J. Seaver

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)

4. Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942)
5. Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962)


10.  Thomas Richmond (1848-1917)
11.  Julia E. White (1848-1913)

22.  Henry Arnold White (1824-1885)
23.  Amy Frances Oatley (1826-1864)

44.  Jonathan White (1805-1850)
45.  Miranda Wade (1804-1850)

88.  Humphrey White (1758-1814)
89.  Sibel Kirby (1764-1848).

176.  Jonathan White (1732-1804)
177.  Abigail Wing (1736-1806)

354.  Benjamin Wing (1698-1776)
355.  Content tucker (1695-1738)

708.  Matthew Wing (1674-1724)
709.  Elizabeth Mott (1659-1723)

1416.  Stephen Wing, born about 1621 in Vlissingen, Zeeland, Netherlands; died 24 April 1710 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 2832. John Wing and 2833. Deborah Bachiler.  He married 07 January 1655 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.
1417.  Sarah Briggs, born about 1637 in probably England; died 26 March 1689 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.  

Children of Stephen Wing and Sarah Briggs are:
*  Stephen Wing (1656-1676).
*  Sarah Wing (1659-1720), married 1680 Robert Gifford (1660-1730).
*  John Wing (1661-1728), married (1) 1685 Mary Perry (1659-1714); (2) 1693 Miriam Deane (1632-1703); (3) 1715 Mary Bannister (1660-1720).
*  Abigail Wing (1664-1700).
*  Elisha Wing (1669-1757), married 1689 Mehitable Butler (1670-1731).
*  Ebenezer Wing (1671-1738), married 1699 Elizabeth Backhouse (1677-1758)
*  Matthew Wing (1674-1724), married 1694 Elizabeth Mott (1659-1723).

2834.  John Briggs, born about 1610 in England; died before 01 June 1641 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.  He married before 1638 in probably Massachusetts, United States.
2835.  Katherine, born about 1615 in England.

Children of John Briggs and Katherine are:
*  Sarah Briggs (1637-1689), married 1655 Stephen Wing (1621-1710).
*  Samuel Briggs (1640-1714), married 1664 Elizabeth Ellis (1643-1681).

Information about this Briggs family was obtained from:

*  Edna Anne Hannibal and Claude W. Barlow, John Briggs of Sandwich, Massachusetts and His Descendants (Palo Alto, Calif. : Hannibal, 1962).


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