Individual Details
Elizabeth Briggs
(12 Jan 1747 - 13 May 1831)
Events
Birth | 12 Jan 1747 | Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts | |||
Marriage | 22 May 1782 | Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts - Joseph Mosher | |||
Death | 13 May 1831 | Springport, Cayuga, New York |
Families
Spouse | Joseph Mosher (1732 - 1801) |
Child | Mary Mosher (1783 - 1864) |
Child | John Mosher (1785 - 1856) |
Child | Joseph Mosher (1787 - 1794) |
Child | Amy Mosher (1790 - 1858) |
Father | Benjamin Briggs ( - ) |
Mother | Mary ( - ) |
Notes
Marriage
What is reported to be an account by Joseph Mosher was taken from the manuscript notes found among the effects of the late Fred L. Hoyt of Hillsdale, Hillsdale, MI They were printed in the NEHGS Register: Year 1937, Vol 91; pp. 379-380."The 23d of the 5 Month 1782 I merried Elizabeth Briggs of Dartmouth Daughter of Benjamin Briggs Deceased and Mary his Wife Who was Born 12 of M-th 1747 and She Came With me to Uxbridge and in the [illegible] our Mother Briggs Came to Live With us at Uxbridge She Being a Woman of a broken Constitution Was often onwell tho a pleasent person and Well Respected in our family. She Was Confined for about three Weeks and Departed this Life the 16 day of the 2th month following about half an hour after Sunsett and seemed as tho She Went in peac and Was Buried the 19th of the Same in friends Buring Ground in Uxbridge."