12.

Born about 1664. Although Wallace says that James was born in Newark, Essex Co. NJ, his parents did not move there until 1667, and so he was probably born in Derby, New Haven Co. CT.

Wallace could find no record of James's marriage nor the name of his wife, but states that Mr Conger locates him at Elizabeth, Union Co. NJ in 1739.

Recent researchers [S33],[S52] state that his wife's name was Elizabeth (surname unknown) but, since they state that James and Elizabeth moved to Maryland and name other children of theirs as having been born there from 1704 onwards, I believe there were two separate JAMES RIGGS who have been confused with each other.

Wallace states that Mr Conger "gives him, traditionally, the following children":

35.	JOHN RIGGS Born about 1710.
36.	ZOPHAR RIGGS Born about 1712.
37.	PRUDENCE RIGGS Born about 1715, married DANIEL OSBORN.
38.	EUNICE RIGGS Born about 1717, married Mr. LAMBERT.
39.	ELIZABETH RIGGS Born about 1719, married BETHUEL PIERSON.

14.

Born about 1668 in Newark, Essex Co. NJ.

Married APHIA STOUGHTON about 1692. Wallace states that traditionally Edward had 8 sons "but we have never been able to identify more than 3 of them fully." A road record "located him at the end of the mountain and near the village of Milburn, and in 1708 he settled at Basking Ridge", Somerset Co. NJ.

Wallace documents the children of EDWARD and APHIA as follows:

40.	EDWARD RIGGS Born about 1693, traditional and not fully traced.
41.	DANIEL RIGGS Born about 1695, traditional and not fully traced.
42.	SAMUEL RIGGS Born about 1695, traditional and not fully traced.
43.	THOMAS RIGGS Born 13DEC1701, married EUNICE MORRIS.
44.	JOSEPH RIGGS Born about 1703, married JANE PLUMB of Newark, no issue.
45.	MARY RIGGS Born about 1707, married DANIEL MORRIS.
46.	DAVID RIGGS Born about 1709, married ELIZABETH COX, daughter of Philip Cox.
78.	DOROTHY RIGGS Born about 1711 or 1713, married JOHN BREESE, buried in Basking Ridge, NJ.[S73] A recent researcher [S73] has advised me that the above details are listed in the (USA) Breese family genealogies, where Dorothy's parents are given as Edward Riggs and Aphia Stoughton, both of Newark/Basking Ridge, NJ. This would mean she was born two or four years after David, the last child listed by Wallace as above. Apparently there are no surviving birth records for New Jersey for those years, and therefore no proof has yet been found to substantiate Dorothy's parentage, However if, as Wallace states, traditionally there were two more sons, there might have been another daughter as well. Some web-sites quote the date of her death as 23NOV1803 [S74] [S75], and one site[S74] also states that she was buried in Basking Ridge, NJ, Presbyterian Meeting House and that her marriage to John BREESE took place in 1734. [However the latter site [S74] states that Dorothy's father "Edward Riggs was born Ulster, Scotland 1687" and that Dorothy herself was born in Scotland or Ireland, despite also including on a separate tree details of Dorothy's possible brother Thomas and his ancestry back to Edward of Roxbury.]

16.

Born about 1675 in Newark, Essex Co. NJ.

Wallace could find no record of his marriage nor the name of his wife. A recent researcher [S33] states that his wife's name was Sarah (surname unknown), who was born circa 1683 and died on 17 Jun 1735. There is a tradition that he was an active member of the first church organisation at Orange, Essex Co. NJ, which was then called "The Mountain Society". He was buried there 11SEP1744.

Wallace states that "Mr Conger, by tradition, gives him 6 sons, but from one of his descendants we have a list embracing 7 sons and 4 daughters. This list contains evident marks of authenticity, and we do not hesitate to adopt it in preference to that of Mr Conger, as follows:"

47.	JOSIAH RIGGS Born about 1703, married and left issue.
48.	MILES RIGGS Born about 1705, married ELIZABETH WHITNEY 25JNE1735.
49.	HANNAH RIGGS Born about 1707, married Mr HEDDEN.
50.	MARY RIGGS Born about 1709, married Mr THOMAS CUSHMAN.
51.	BENJAMIN RIGGS Born 1711. married, had issue
52.	GIDEON RIGGS Born 1713. married, had issue
53.	DINAH RIGGS Born about 1716.
54.	ZEBULON RIGGS Born 23JAN1719, had issue
55.	JOSEPH RIGGS Born about 1720, had issue
56.	DANIEL RIGGS Born 29MAY1724, married SARAH LAMSON.
57.	SARAH RIGGS Born about 1726, married THOMAS ROBERTS.

19.

Wallace states that John was born "about 1679". However, Wallace always lists children in the order in which they were born and Edward and Joseph, listed either side, are shown as being born about 1668 and about 1675. So it is possible that there was a printer's error in Wallace's book and John was born in 1669 or 1670.

Wallace states that John married FRANCES COLBURN by licence at Trenton, Mercer Co. NJ on 19MAY1705, and that tradition gives 4 sons who Wallace names with approximate years of birth. Recent researchers [S33][S52] add that Frances was born in 1688 at Trenton, Mercer Co. NJ, and quote specific dates for the births of their 4 sons at Trenton, which Wallace was unaware of:

58.	EDWARD RIGGS Born 22SEP1713 at Trenton, Mercer Co, NJ.[S33][S52]
59.	CHRISTOPHER RIGGS Born 10DEC1715 at Trenton, Mercer Co, NJ.[S33][S52]
60.	JOHN RIGGS Born 30OCT1717 at Morristown, Morris Co, NJ.[S33][S52] Confusingly, the researchers also report that John, like his father, also married a FRANCES COLBURN, who was the daughter of Isaac Colburn and Mary Lewis and was born about 1719. Entries recently submitted to the IGI show this marriage as having taken place about 1738. However, these were submitted only as estimates, not extracted by the LDS from records, and one of the researchers[S52] states there is no proof of this marriage.
61.	JEDEDIAH RIGGS Born 17MAY1720 at Morristown, Morris Co, NJ.[S33][S52]

20.

Born about 1681 "near" Newark, Essex Co. NJ.

Whilst Wallace could find no subsequent record of Samuel, he states that by tradition Samuel lived near a locality known as Bottle Hill, in Morris Co. NJ and had 4 sons, two of whom being named Edward and Timothy. A recent researcher [S33] states that Samuel married a Kesiah BALDWIN, who was born circa 1690, and names a daughter as well as the 4 sons.

Another recent researcher [S51] quotes from "Colonial Families of The Americas, Lineage Number 8: Riggs of Massachusetts" which apparently says that Edward with others established in Morris Co. NJ a plantation known as "Bottle Hill" in the vicinity of Basking Ridge and that this property was left to Edward (Samuel's father).

Wallace "fixed upon" Samuel "as the altogether probable father of Timothy that went to North Carolina and left 10 very prolific sons, whose descendants are numerous in the South, in the West, and on the Pacific Coast.". He stated that "Tradition has assigned to this Samuel the following four sons but I will not attempt to approximate their dates". A recent researcher however shows more details[S33]:

62.	EDWARD RIGGS Born 1720 at Hanover, Morris Co, NJ. An Edward Riggs and his children moved from Morris Co. NJ to Surrey Co. NC in 1765.[S52]
63.	TIMOTHY RIGGS Born about 1723 at Newark, Essex Co, NJ, married SARAH DUNKHAM.
64.	REUBEN RIGGS Born 1725 at Hanover, Morris Co, NJ, married SARAH CARTER.
65.	SAMUEL RIGGS Born 1728 at Morris Co, NJ, married ELIZABETH TOMPKINS.

23.

Savage [S5] mentions a John Riggs buried at Milford, New Haven Co. CT in 1670 (albeit mistakenly as a son of Edward). Wallace states that Edward and Joseph had followed their father to Newark, Essex Co. NJ in 1667, so that Samuel and his family were the only RIGGS remaining in the Derby/Milford area.

Samuel's second daughter Sarah was born in 1672, died the same year, and Samuel then also named his third daughter Sarah (in 1674). It is therefore possible to suggest that Samuel may have had an earlier son John, who died in infancy in 1670, as well as the John born in 1676. Whilst Abbott [S48] doesn't refer to John in the list of Samuel's children (based partly on the civil [S49] and church [S50] records of Milford), neither is there a reference to the first Sarah who died in infancy.

One could also surmise that the date of 8OCT1670 mistakenly quoted by Wallace for the birth of Samuel's son Samuel (see below), might instead have been the date of John's death or burial. But all this is only surmise until the source of Wallace and Savage's information can be discovered.
 

24.

Abbott [S48] states that Samuel was born 9JAN1671, [S49] (presumably 9JAN1671N) and baptised 12MCH1671 [S50] at Milford, New Haven Co. CT. Wallace states Samuel was born 8OCT1670.

Nothing further is currently known.
 

27.

Born 1APR1676 [S3] and baptised 29APR1676 [S50] at Milford, New Haven Co. CT.

He held the military rank of Captain, and was a Justice of the Peace for many years. "He was wealthy, and his name in connection with public affairs is constantly borne upon the records. He accumulated much property" and died 24SEP1755

Torrey [S45] reports the marriage of a John Riggs to ELIZABETH TOMLINSON on 23FEB1700N, and this is confirmed by Wallace, who adds that Elizabeth was from Derby, New Haven Co. CT. A recent researcher [S33] reports that Elizabeth was born in 1676, the daughter of Agur Tomlinson and Hannah (surname unknown), and died 17APR1747.

However, Torrey [S45] also reports the marriages of a "MARAH/MARY [SLEE]", firstly to a Joseph Beckwith (under whose name the entries are indexed), secondly to a Daniel Sterling and lastly (presumably, as a widow, marrying in the name of MRS MARY STERLING) to CAPT. JOHN RIGGS at Lyme CT on 18MAY1699.

Wallace states that "the following children are credited to him on the town records"[S3]

66.	SAMUEL RIGGS Born 2JAN1700, married ABIGAIL GUNN, 6JAN1726.
67.	ANNE RIGGS Born 10JNE1704, married SAMUEL HULL, 15JAN1724.
68.	ELIZABETH RIGGS Born 17JNE1706, married DANIEL HOLBROOK, 22JAN1728.
69.	JOSEPH RIGGS Born 13FEB1709, married MABEL JOHNSON, either 20FEB1739 [S3 p12] or 20FEB1740 [S3 p8]. Captain Joseph Riggs of Ansonia, New Haven Co. CT "was active in early Derby affairs and was appointed manager of the first lottery to raise money for highways and bridges".[S27] His house at 13 Elm Street, which was built in 1760, is still standing and known to this day as the Captain Joseph Riggs house. [S27]
70.	SARAH RIGGS Born 17DEC1710, married firstly JOHN BOWERS, and secondly Rev. DANIEL HUMPHREYS, "and became the mother of a distinguished family".

28.

Born 15OCT1678 at Derby, New Haven Co. CT. He married LOIS HAWKINS. [S48]

"He was a prominent and active citizen in his day, and he was sometimes called captain. He was a deacon in the church. His father deeded to him before his death a well-improved and valuable farm of some 200 acres at Oxford, New Haven Co. CT, where he made his home." Abbott [S48] states that he died before 1732, whereas Wallace states that he died 11MAY1712 leaving the following children (though from the dates quoted the third child, John, was born seven and a half months after Ebenezer died):

71.	EBENEZER RIGGS Born about 1703, married RACHEL PECK, of Waterbury, CT.
72.	LOIS RIGGS Born 10JLY1709.
73.	JOHN RIGGS Born 27DEC1712, married HANNAH JOHNSON.

29.

Born 7OCT1680 at Derby, New Haven Co. CT.

He married ABIGAIL NICHOLS on 3JAN1708, [S48] (Wallace quotes the date as 5JAN1708). A recent researcher [S33] reports that Abigail was born circa 1680. EDWARD died 25NOV1712 after which Abigail remarried - Abbott [S48] states she married WILLIAM MOSS on 18MCH1714, whereas Wallace says that "his widow seems to have married NOAH DURAND in 1714"..

He left 3 daughters:

74.	GRACE RIGGS Born 4OCT1708, married JONAH SMITH.
75.	ABIGAIL RIGGS Born FEB1711.
76.	ESTHER RIGGS Born 10FEB1713.

31.

Born 22FEB1686 and died 22OCT1707, presumably unmarried. Not included in Abbott's list of Samuel's children. [S48]
 

32.

Born about 1674; "No trace of this son has been found".
 

33.

Born about 1676; in Newark, Essex Co. NJ.

He died in 1709, and his Will names his wife REBECCA (surname unknown) and an only daughter:

77.	SARAH RIGGS Nothing known, other than she must have been born before 1710.

34.

Born about 1678; "nothing known".