Person:Ruth Briscoe (4)

Name^[1]	Ruth Briscoe
Married Name	Ruth Smith
Gender	Female
Christening^[1]^[2]	1 Jan 1681/82	Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Marriage	Bef 1700	Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States (probably)Based on estimated date of birth of eldest known child (James). to John Smith
Death^[1]	16 Jun 1749	Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Burial^[3]		Old Burying Ground, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 3. James Briscoe, in Abbott, Susan Woodruff, and Jacquelyn Ladd Ricker. Families of Early Milford, Connecticut. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1979)
116.

"Ruth [Briscoe] bpt 15 Jan 1681/2 died 16 June 1749 mar John Smith …"
↑ Volume 071 Milford, in Connecticut, United States. Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920. (Ancestry.com (database on-line), 2013)
65.

"[Briscoe,] Ruth, Sarah & James, children of Sarah, bp. Jan. 16, 1681 (Entry also written in later hand) [1:17]"
↑ Pond, Nathan Gillett. Inscriptions on Tombstones in Milford, Conn. Erected Prior to 1800: Together with a Few of Aged Persons Who Died After that Date. (New Haven, Conn.: Printed for the Society, 1889)
54.

"377 Mrs Ruth Smith / wife to Mr John / Smith died / June y^e 16^th 1749 / In y^e 68^th year of her age."
Connecticut Headstone Inscriptions Vol 28 213-1 Milford Center Cemetery, Milford, in Hale, Charles R. Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions. (Connecticut, United States: Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, 1934)
137.

"Copied by B. S. Brockett, Dec. 7, 1934."

"Smith, Ruth, wife of John, died June 16, 1749, age 68 yrs."
Ruth Briscoe Smith, in Find A Grave.

Gravestone apparently disappeared sometime after 7 December 1734.