Person:David Riggs (1)

David Riggs was born at Basking Ridge, N. J., 1709. He married Elizabeth Cox, daughter of Philip Cox who was born February 17, 1716. In 1762, he purchased a large body of land in the vicinity of what is now Hightstown, and afterward sold it out in parcels to different members of his family in 1774. In 1738 he had a controversy with the Proprietors about the title to a tract of land, at Basking Ridge, that he had purchased from the Elizabethtown people. We can find no other trace of his history, except that his residence appears to have been at Basking Ridge and afterward, about 1774, in Windsor Township, Middlesex County, N. J. There is no clue to the time or place of his death.

1. ↑ John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (1901, New York).
2.   GEDCOM file submitted by Lora Fleming, wolfspiritgenealogy@hotmail.com. Created on 2 SEP 2006. Imported on 19 May 2007..