Edward Riggs and Mary Higbee

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Husband Edward Riggs ^{1 2 3 4}

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           Born: 21 Jul 1764 - near Hightstown, Mercer Co, NJ 4
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           Died: 4 Oct 1843 or Sep 1844 - Snowden Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 4 5
         Buried: 

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         Father: Joseph Riggs (1740-      ) 4
         Mother: Leah Cosad (      -      ) 4

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       Marriage: May 1785 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 4

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Wife Mary Higbee ^{2 4 5}

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           Born: 1 Dec 1764 2
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           Died: May 1853 5
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         Father: Obadiah Higbee (1732-      ) 6 7
         Mother: Anna Brown (      -      ) 6 7

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Children

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1 F Nancy Riggs ^{1 4 8}

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           Born: 20 Jun 1787 1 4
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           Died: 11 Jun 1861 1
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         Spouse: Elijah Townsend (1784-1871) 1 4 8 9
           Marr: 30 Apr 1807 1 4

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2 F Eleanor Riggs ⁴

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           Born: 10 Nov 1791 4
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3 M Joseph Riggs ^{4 8}

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           Born: 18 Nov 1794 4
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4 M John Riggs ^{3 4}

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           Born: 6 Mar or 13 Mar 1800 - Snowden Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 4 5
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           Died: 22 Feb or 28 Feb 1848 4 5
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         Spouse: Mary Phillips (1800-1882) 4 5
           Marr: Jan 1821 4

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5 M Edward Riggs ^{4 8 10 11 12}

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           Born: 2 Jul 1802 4 11
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         Spouse: Hattie Newmyer (1806-      ) 10
           Marr: 1 Jan 1826 11

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6 F Mary Riggs ⁴

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           Born: 11 May 1810 4
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General Notes: Husband - Edward Riggs

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He settled on the Riggs farm [in Washington County, Pennsylvania?] Dec. 25, 1801.

A native of New Jersey, of German and Welsh descent, he was a pioneer of Snowden township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, where he cleared and improved a farm, on which he lived and died. [HAC 1889 ii, 344]

He was born near Hightstown, New Jersey, and when twenty years old moved west and located on the waters of Short creek, near Wheeling, West Virginia, and the following year went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. There he was married and in 1786 located on a 400-acre tract some ten miles southwest of Pittsburgh, on Peters creek, where he spent the rest of his days as a farmer. He was in religious belief a Baptist, and when he died, he was buried in the Peters creek burying ground of the Baptist church. [MAC 1904 ii, 18]

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General Notes: Wife - Mary Higbee

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When her parents moved to Washington County, Pennsylvania, she remained in New Jersey at her grandfather's. She married and moved to Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, near Library.

1 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 899.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 441.

3 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 344, 469.

4 —, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. II (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 18.

5 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 469.

6 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 501.

7 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 438.

8 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 344.

9 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 925.

10 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 489.

11 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 784.

12 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 582.