Person:John Briggs (4)

Admitted to the Island of Aquidneck in 1638; Freeman in 1641^[1].

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Wilbour, Benjamin Franklin, and Little Compton Historical Society [Rhode Island]. Little Compton Families. (Little Compton [Rhode Island]: Little Compton Historical Society, 1967 (College Hill Press : Providence, R.I.))
   p. 57.

   Will dated 3 Oct 1690, proved 16 Nov 1690, eldest son John Briggs, sons Enoch [executor], Thomas, and William; daughter Susanna Northway. [Also son Job per Briggs Genealogy.]

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Aldridge, Bertha Bortle Beal. The Briggs genealogy, including the ancestors and descendants of Ichabod White Briggs, 1609-1953: also other line descendants of his immigrant ancestor John Briggs, b. 1609, York, England, and some of the descendants of Ichabod White. (Victor, New York: [s.n.], 1953)
   pp. 11-12.

   John Briggs, b. England 1609, d. 1690, came to Boston 1635 or 1636, follower of Anne Hutchinson so became purchaser of Aquidneck Island. 16 Mar 1641 freeman. 20 Feb 1673 testified calling himself sixty-four years or thereabouts. Married (2) Constant Mitchell, widow of John Fobes.

3.   Abstracts of Portsmouth Wills, in Rhode Island Genealogical Register. (Princeton, Massachusetts: A. G. Beaman)
   49, July 1982.

   John Briggs of Portsmouth. Will dated 19 Apr 1690, proved 17 of 9th month 1690, p. 278.
   Wife Content
   Sons: Enoch, John, eldest, Thomas, William & Job
   Daughters: Susannah Northway & ____ Momony.

4.   Rhode Island land evidences : volume 1, 1648-1696, abstracts. (Ann Arbor, Michigan: University Microfilms, 1987)
   49.

   Richard Smith to John Brigs. (WHICH JOHN BRIGGS?)
   ...Richard Smith of Narragansett...for...Twenty five pounds...received from John Brigs of Narragansett have...sold...the land formerly belonginge to Rubin Willis which I bought in England from his father and Mother William and Sussanah Hixe...havinge order from Rubin Willis to make sale of same, it lyinge...in Narragansett Cuntry contaninge...Fifty seven Acres...bounded on the East by five-hundered acres of Land now layd out as it is in the North ward purchass, On the West bounded by the Comon, on the North with the high-way, on the South by the lands of Samuell Waite,...Elventh day of January...1672