Person:Samuel Briggs (31)

Name	Samuel Albert Briggs
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	11 Aug 1820	Coventry, Kent, Rhode Island, United States
Marriage		to Lucy Ann Rice
Death^[2]	4 Sep 1901	Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States

References

↑ Coventry - Births and Deaths, in Arnold, James N. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636–1850: First series, births, marriages and deaths. A family register for the people. (Narragansett Hist. Publ. Co., 1891)
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BRIGGS, Samuel Albert, of Miller and Mary, [born] Aug. 11, 1820.
↑ The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations - Biographical. (New York: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1920)
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Samuel A. Briggs, son of Miller and Mary (Mackmarrow) Briggs, was born in Coventry, R. I., August 11, 1820, and died in Providence, September 4, 1901. He learned the jewelry business in Providence, and afterward was engaged in farming operations. He married Lucy Ann Rice, a native of Warwick, born November 2, 1820, died January 4, 1899, a daughter of Thomas and Lucy (Northup) Rice, of an old distinguished family of New England. Samuel Albert and Lucy Ann (Rice) Briggs were the parents of four children: Lydia Northup, married Charles M. Seekel, of Providence, who died in 1890, and whom she survives; Thomas Arnold, of whom further; Sara A., died in 1917; and a child who died in infancy.