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From: "Sally Rolls Pavia" <>
Subject: Edward Riggs, 1589-1672, of Roxbury, Suffolk Co, MA
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 08:58:15 -0700

Even if you aren't related to any Riggs folk, this is a very interesting
page to check out. It's extremely well done, lots of sources. Have tried
finding a Riggs in my family line but no luck so far.

http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~riggs/USAEdw_N.htm#Mamie

Example:

Edward Riggs

Edward's ancestry in England before he came to America is documented
separately under the pages for MILES RIGGS, OF ROYDON. ESSEX. These include
details of Edward's wife's family (Elizabeth Holmes), his marriage to her,
and the baptisms of their children in Nazeing, Essex; there is also a family
tree of Edward's English relations.

Edward and Elizabeth Riggs and their children landed in the early summer of
1633 in Boston, which was part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. They had
probably sailed from London, on either the 'William and Jane' or the 'Mary
and Jane'.

Edward and his family were among the very early settlers in Roxbury, Suffolk
County, Massachusetts, where a number of other families from Nazeing also
settled, collectively referred to at that time as the "Nazeing Christians"
[S5]. Roxbury, which initially became a separate township on the Boston
outskirts, is now part of the city itself.

But at that time, the migrants landed in what was still a wilderness, and
about one in three perished during or soon after their voyage.[S7] Within a
few months of landing in New England, death started to afflict Edward's
family, and three of his five children as well as his wife all died within
30 months of their arriving:


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