"3. William2 Briggs (John1) was born about 1649; he died in Taunton, 3 Jan. 1728, aged 83 [g.s.], and was buried in the Oakland Cemetery. He married, 6 Nov. 1666, Sarah Macumber, daughter of William2 and Ursula (Mathew) Macumber of Dorchester and Marshfield. … He probably married, secondly, in Dedham, 2 July 1680, Abigail Mason (Don Gleason Hill, ed., Births, Marriages and Deaths … Town of Dedham (1888), p. 17)."