Individual Details

Jacob Briggs

(20 Apr 1739 - 25 Dec 1821)

Jacob served in the Colonial Wars in the Reduction of Canada, 2 April 1757 to 11 Sept. 1758 (Massachusetts Archives Volume 95, p. 268 and p. 380) and in the Revolutionary War as a private in the Lexingtom Alarm. The will of Jacob Briggs was executed at MAnsfield on 20 Jun 1806 and probated 2 July 1822. The witnesses were John Williams, Jr., and Marcus Williams. Beneficiaries were: wife Esther; sons Jacob and Emerson; daughters Lusylda, wife of Obadiah Brintnall, Sally, wife of Abraham Crowley, and Esther, wife if Nathan Starkley (Bristol County Probates, 59:367)

Events

Birth20 Apr 1739Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
Milit-Beg16 May 17572nd County of Militia, Norton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage28 Mar 1765Norton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States - Esther L Skinner
Residence1790Mansfield, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
Residence1800Mansfield, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
Residence1810Mansfield, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
Residence1820Mansfield, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
Death25 Dec 1821Mansfield, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States

Families

SpouseEsther L Skinner (1741 - 1841)
ChildBriggs (1766 - )
ChildBriggs (1768 - )
ChildLusilda Briggs (1769 - 1861)
ChildSally Briggs (1772 - )
ChildJacob Briggs (1774 - 1852)
ChildEsther Briggs (1777 - )
ChildEmerson Briggs (1784 - 1873)
FatherSeth Briggs (1709 - )
MotherHannah Whitaker ( - )
SiblingHannah Briggs (1735 - 1806)
SiblingSolomon Briggs (1737 - 1812)
SiblingSarah Briggs (1741 - )
SiblingAbi Briggs (1744 - )
SiblingMehitable Briggs (1747 - )

Endnotes

1. Early Vital Records of Bristol County, Massachusetts to about 1850 (n.p: Search & ReSearch Publishing Corp., n.d), Attleborough, p 48.

2. Compiler: Holman, Winifred Lovering, Briggs family records; Briggs Family (n.p: The Rumford Press, Concord, N.H., 1931, n.d), p 15.

3. Ancestry.com, U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011), Volume: 140.

4. Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011).

5. Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011).

6. Ancestry.com, U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011), Volume: 140.

7. Compiler: Holman, Winifred Lovering, Briggs family records; Briggs Family (n.p: The Rumford Press, Concord, N.H., 1931, n.d), p 15.

8. Natalie R. Fernald, The genealogical exchange (n.p: s.n., 1904, n.d), 51.

9. Compiler: Holman, Winifred Lovering, Briggs family records; Briggs Family (n.p: The Rumford Press, Concord, N.H., 1931, n.d), p 15.

10. Early Vital Records of Bristol County, Massachusetts to about 1850 (n.p: Search & ReSearch Publishing Corp., n.d).

11. Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp, Massachusetts, Marriages, 1633-1850 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005).

12. Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp, Massachusetts, Marriages, 1633-1850 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005).

13. Ancestry.com, 1790 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010), Year: 1790; Census Place: Mansfield, Bristol, Massachusetts; Series: M637; Roll: 4; Page: 398; Image: 438; Family History Library Film: 0568144.

14. Ancestry.com, 1800 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010), Year: 1800; Census Place: Mansfield, Bristol, Massachusetts; Series: M32; Roll: 19; Page: 670; Image: 216; Family History Library Film: 205612.

15. Ancestry.com, 1810 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010), Year: 1810; Census Place: Mansfield, Bristol, Massachusetts; Roll: 17; Page: 483; Image: 00244; Family History Library Film: 0205625.

16. Ancestry.com, 1820 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010), 1820 U S Census; Census Place: Mansfield, Bristol, Massachusetts; Page: 313; NARA Roll: M33_47; Image: 177.

17. Early Vital Records of Bristol County, Massachusetts to about 1850 (n.p: Search & ReSearch Publishing Corp., n.d), Mansfield Deaths - 181.

18. Compiler: Holman, Winifred Lovering, Briggs family records; Briggs Family (n.p: The Rumford Press, Concord, N.H., 1931, n.d), p 15.

19. Ancestry.com, U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011), Volume: 140.

20. Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011).

21. Ancestry.com, U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011), Volume: 140.