Person:Jacob Briggs (1)

Jacob served in the Colonial Wars in the Reduction of Canada, 2 April 1757 to 11 Sept. 1758 (Massachusetts Archives Volume 95, p. 268 and p. 380) and in the Revolutionary War as a private in the Lexington Alarm. The will of Jacob Briggs was executed at Mansfield on 20 Jun 1806 and probated 2 July 1822. The witnesses were John Williams, Jr., and Marcus Williams. Beneficiaries were: wife Esther; sons Jacob and Emerson; daughters Lusylda, wife of Obadiah Brintnall, Sally, wife of Abraham Crowley, and Esther, wife if Nathan Starkley (Bristol County Probates, 59:367)

1. ↑ Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States. Vital records of Attleborough, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1934)
   48.

   BRIGGS, Jacob, s. Seth and Hanah (Whitaker), [born] Apr. 20, 1739.

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Compiler: Holman, Winifred Lovering. Briggs family records. (The Rumford Press, Concord, N.H., 1931)
   p 15.
3. ↑ Early vital records of Bristol County, Massachusetts to about 1850. (Wheat Ridge)
   Mansfield Deaths - 181.
4.   The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society).