Family:Aaron Riggs and Abigail Unknown (1)

Parents: Thomas Riggs and Ann Wheeler Aaron Riggs b. 18 Jan 1700/01 Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States d. Dec 1788 Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States	Abigail (add)

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Marriage^[1]^[3]

Aft 10 Jul 1774

Children

		Birth	Death

References

↑ Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Gloucester, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts.: Essex Institute, 1917)
Vol. 2, p. 452.

RIGGS, Aaron, and Abigail Burnam, int. July 10, 1774.
Essex County (Massachusetts). Register of Deeds. Deeds, 1639-1866; index to deeds, 1640-1879 (Essex County, Massachusetts). (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1971)
Vol. 160, folio 163.

20 Oct 1788: Aaron Riggs Sen of Glocester Carpenter with the consent of Abigail my wife resigning her right of dower for £20 convey to Aaron Riggs, third, my sun of Glocester yeoman my dwelling house and barn and shop and land. Acknoweldged 22 Nov 1788.
[Note: Inbetween father and son in age was a third Aaron of Gloucester, known as Aaron Jr., who had a wife named Rachel by 1756, possibly the son of Moses Riggs.]
↑ One source (Source:Simon, Vaughn L. Descendants of William Richardson and Elizabeth Wiseman, p. 52) names Abigail as the daughter of Jacob Burnham and Mary Low, bp. 1716/17, but the basis for this identification is unknown.