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m. Abt 1640
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from Walt Brockway ... William and Mary ___ Briggs .... came to the Colonies from England. They lived in the Boston area and in the Lyme CT area and then returned to Boston. ... Hannah was a very young widow when she married Wolston Brockway. Wolston later married a Sarah Briggs who probably was Hannah's sister-in-law. From the New England Historic Genealogical Society Register, Vol. 151 (January 1997) William and Mary Briggs of Boston and the Connecticut Valley With Notes on their Sons-in-Law John Harris and Wolston Brockway [Footnotes omitted] by Gale Ion Harris William and Mary Briggs are first mentioned in a curious double entry of their daughter Hannah's birth in Boston. The first entry informs us that "Hannah of Wm Briggs [was] born and buried 28 day (6th) month [August]" 1642, but on the next page we find, as an apparent correction, that "Hannah of William and Mary Briggs [was] born 6th month," 1642. Some years later, in 1648, her father bought from Henry Pease, Sr. a house and lot located at the junction of lanes that eventually became Hanover and Portland streets. William Briggs of Boston, tailor, and his wife Mary sold that property on 23 June 1665 to a Boston mariner, Joseph Soper. At that time, it was in the "tenure and possession of said Briggs" and adjoined property of Thomas Matson and the Lane (Portland Street). By mark, Mary relinquished dower next day. The deed went unrecorded for twenty years until the grantee's son, John Soper, of Hull sold the property. In January 1685/6, Moses Bradford and Thomas Matson, Jr. deposed that they had been present when William and Mary Briggs delivered seizin and possession to Soper's father. The present article focuses on the history of this couple after they sold their Boston property in 1665. Mary's maiden name is not found, but at least two more children and their early descendants are identified. From Savage's Genealogical Dictionary WILLIAM, Boston by w[ife]. Mary had Hannah, b[orn]. 28 Aug. 1642, wh[o]. m[arried]. 10 Sept. 1657, John Harris. Perhaps he rem[oved]. to Lyme betw[een]. 1670 and 1680; at least one of this name was inhab[itant]. there at that period. ... This name seems common thro[ugh]. manu Co[untie]s. in Eng[land]. but chief[ly]. Norfolk. Five had been gr[aduated]. at Harv[ard]. and fourteen at other N[ew]. E[ngland]. coll[eges]. in 1834. References
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