Edward RIGGS, I
John H. Wallace, "Genealogy of the Riggs Family," Vol I, New York, 1901. Edward was probably born in Lincolnshire or Yorkshire, England. He was the first of our Riggs family to come to America. Landing in Boston early in the summer of 1633. They settled near Boston, at Roxbury, Essex, Massachusetts. As many immigrants of that time, they had many sorrows. Within three years, he had buried his wife, a son, and two daughters. The first death in the old books Roxbury was his daughter, Lydia in August 1833. In May, 1634, another daughter, Elizabeth, and then in October the same year, his son John. In August of 1635, his wife, Elizabeth, died. Edward took a second wife, whose name was also Elizabeth. There were no children of that union. She died in 1669. He was a puritan in belief. In 1634, he was made a freeman, which means a voter. The first step to that privilege was to be a member of the church. His will was dated 1 Sep. 1670, and he died in 1672. At the time of his death, it appears that only one daughter, Mary Twitchell, survived him.
RECORDS OF CHERI LEMMOND.
Notes from "Genealogy of the Riggs Family", Vol l, by John H. Wallace, 1901. Idward II was born in England and came to this country along with family, landing in Boston, Mass., in the early summer of 1633. He assisted his father in preparing a new habitation and in taking care of the sick until 5 Apr 1635, when he married quite a young girl, daughter of a family who had come from England and settled in Boston. In August of the same year, his mother died. He soon set about establishing a home of his own. In 1637 he was a sergeant in the Pequot war. He greatly distinguished himself by rescuing a body of his companions from an ambuscade into which they had been led by the Indians, and in which they all would have been cut off. By this notable act of bravery and skill the name of "Sergeant Riggs" became his well known designation as long as he lived. About 1640 he became a settler at Milford, Conn., and had land assigned to him. In 1655, associated with Edward Wooster, Richard Baldwin, John Browne, Robert Dennison, John Burnett and perhaps others, they purchased from Indians the part of land on the Naugatuck, then known as Paugusset, about ten or twelve miles from Milford, and established a plantation which was later called Derby. The location of Sergeant Riggs is still known as "Riggs Hill." He built his home at this location, as well as a strong stockade as a protection against the Indians. In this he secreted and protected Whaley and Goff, two of the English Parliament that condemned and executed Charles I, while the emissaries of Charles II were searching diligently for them along the Connecticut coast, in 1661. While Edward was not a member of the church and consequently not a voter, this brave act, in the face of the vengeance of the re-established English throne, establishes two points in his character; that he was governed by his convictions in considering human rights, and that his sympathies were wholly with the Puritans in their struggle for liberty from the mother country. It is understandable that he would rebel against laws which excluded the right of citizenship and vote unless one was first a member of the church. This may have been a motive for the change of his location in the advanced years of his life. The Province of New Jersey was named as a grant from the Crown in 1664. In 1665 Edward, with some of his associates of Derby, visited there and were well pleased. They determined to found a new plantation on the Passaic that would be accessible to the sailing craft of the day. The site of Newark was chosen. The next year he spent most of the summer there preparing for the advent of the proposed colony. His wife was with him, the first white woman to spend a summer in Newark. The agreement was executed 24 Jun 1667. His two sons Edward and Joseph were designated as "Planters," that is, original proprietors, but no home lot was assigned to Joseph as he was a bachelor. Son Samuel was provided for at Derby. In 1669 the colony was fully organized, and Edward died. His widow, Elizabeth, still a healthy and well-preserved woman, sometime previous to 1671 married Caleb Carwithie. Previous to her marriage she conveyed to her son Joseph one-half of her home lot.
RECORD OF CHERI LEMMOND.
Records of Cheri Lemmond, Corpus Christi, TX. Married Mr. Allen, had daughter Elizabeth.
RECORDS OF CHERI LEMMOND.
RECORDS OF CHERI LEMMOND.
He married Elizabeth Holmes 1618 at Nazing, Essex, England . Elizabeth Holmes was born at England 1590 .
They were the parents of 6
children:
Edward Riggs
born Abt 1619.
Lydia Riggs
born Abt 1621.
Ada W. Riggs
born 1622.
John Riggs
born 1624.
Elizabeth Riggs
born 1625.
Mary Riggs
born 1626.
Edward Riggs, I died 6 Mar 1672 at Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts .
Elizabeth Holmes died Aug 1635 at Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts .