William BRIGGS

ABT 1650 - 12 May 1716

• BIRTH: ABT 1650, Little Compton, Newport, RI
• DEATH: 12 May 1716, Little Compton, Newport, RI

• MARRIAGE: ABT 1678, Little Compton, Newport, RI

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[4606] "Vital Record of Rhode, Island, 1636-1850"
http://www.newenglandancestors.org/
New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002),
Originally "Vital Records of Rhode Island 1636-1850"
James N. Arnold
Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., Providence, RI., 1891
"BRIGGS William, and Elizabeth -----, ---, 1680; v28, p164; Marriage, Little Compton"
(this marraige record appears to have been entered after the fact)
"BRIGGS William, 1650, died May --, 1716; Death, Little Compton"
"BRIGGS Elizabeth (---), his wife, 1653, died Aug. --, 1716; Death, Little Compton"

"Abstracts of Bristol County, Massachusetts Probate Records"
H.L. Peter Rounds, in:
Massachusetts Town, Probate and Vital Records CD-ROM
Broderbund, 1999,Vol. 3, p. 70
"Will of WILLIAM BRIGGS of Lit. Comp., Yeoman, dtd. 3 Apr. 1716, prob.
2 July 1716. Wife mentioned but not named. Sons Job & William. Daus:
Susanah Dennis, Deborah Head & Elizabeth Woodman. 2 mulatto girls
Hope & Mercy. My servant lad Jerema Springer (under 21). Robert Dennis,
John Woodman & Benjamin Head, Overseers. Witns: Edward Pelham, Jonathan
Davenport, Jr. & Joseph Wilbur. Notation that the widow was not content
with the Will & asks what the law allows [3:278/9/80]."
"Order of Inv. of Est. of WILLIAM BRIGGS of Lit. Comp., dtd. 2 July 1716
[3:281]."
"Inv. of Est. of WILLIAM BRIGGS of Lit. Comp. who died 12 May 1716, dtd.
17 May 1716, pres. by Job Briggs, his son & Exec. Apprs: William Wilbore
& Job Briggs [3:281/2/3]."

"Thomas Cooke of Rhode Island"
Jane Fletcher Fiske
Boxford, MA, 1987;
p39: "ELIZABETH, b. ca. 1653; m. William Briggs."
p67: "son of John and probably Susanna Briggs"

"The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island"
John Osborne Austin
Joel Munsell's Sons, Albany, NY: 1887; pp. 282-285

"New England Marriages Prior To 1700"
Clarence A. Torrey,
(as found on NEHGS CD-ROM, Boston, 2001)
"BRIGGS, William (1650-1716) & Elizabeth [COOKE]/Elizabeth (COOKE)
BORDEN? (1653-1716+); by 1681; Portsmouth, RI/Little Compton, RI"