Edward John RIGGS, III

1636 - 1715  (79 years)

• Name	Edward John RIGGS
  Suffix	III
  Born	1636	Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
  Gender	Male
  FamilySearch ID	9J3F-1N1
  Name	Edward Riggs  [1]
  _UID	FF51CD14A5E449F1A00B777A6963451CBDB0
  Buried	1715	Newark Township, Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America   [1]
  Died	3 Jul 1715	Newark, Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America   [1]
  Person ID	I30597	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	19 Sep 2024

  
  

  Father	Edward RIGGS, Jr. II,   b. 17 Oct 1619, Nazing, Essex, England ,   d. 5 Mar 1668, Newark, Essex, New Jersey  (Age 48 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth ROOSA,   b. 1618, Nazeing, Essex, England ,   d. 2 Sep 1669, Roxbury Township, New Jersey, British Colony  (Age 51 years)
  Married	5 Apr 1635	Roxbury Township, Morris, New Jersey
  Family ID	F14298	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary MUNN,   b. 6 Dec 1639, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Colonial America ,   d. 6 Mar 1689, Newark, Essex, New Jersey, Colonial America  (Age 49 years)
  Married	14 Jun 1667	Newark, Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America
  Children	1. James RIGGS,   b. 18 Feb 1664, Newark, Essex, New Jersey ,   d. Aft 21 Aug 1744, Prince George's, Maryland, British Colonial America  (Age 80 years)   2. Edward RIGGS, IV,   b. 1673, Newark, Essex Colony, New Jersey, British Colonial America ,   d. Mar 1715, Basking Ridge, Somerset Colony, New Jersey, British Colonial America  (Age 42 years)   3. Joseph RIGGS,   b. 1676, Newark, Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America ,   d. 11 Sep 1744, Orange, Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America  (Age 68 years)   4. Martha RIGGS,   b. 1677, Newark, Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America ,   d. Abt 1730, Bloomfield, Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America  (Age 53 years)   5. Elizabeth RIGGS,   b. 1678, Newark, Essex, New Jersey, United States ,   d. Aft 1711  (Age 34 years)   6. Samuel RIGGS, I,   b. Abt 1681, Newark, Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America ,   d. 1770, Newark, Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America  (Age ~ 89 years)   7. Charity RIGGS,   b. 1685, Newark, Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America ,   d. 1774  (Age 89 years)   8. John RIGGS,   b. 13 Dec 1687, Anne Arundel, Maryland, British Colonial America ,   d. 17 Aug 1762, Anne Arundel, Maryland, British Colonial America  (Age 74 years)
  Last Modified	19 Sep 2024
  Family ID	F14297	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Children: James Riggs 1664– 1744 Anna Riggs 1664– 1715 Mary Riggs 1666– 1701 Edward Riggs 1668– 1692 Joseph Riggs 1675– 1744 Martha Riggs 1677– Elizabeth Riggs 1678– John Riggs 1679– 1762 Samuel Riggs 1681– 1725 Charity Riggs 1685– 1774 Neither Wallace nor Abbott found any record of a marriage, but both reported that Edward's wife's name was MARY. Torrey reported her as "MARY [MUNN]?". This is probably based on the fact that a 'Daniell Munne' of Milford made an oral will prior to 13 June 1666 leaving his estate to Mary 'Rigs' which, if one makes the reasonable assumption that Mary was Daniel's married daughter, implies that Edward married Mary MUNN(E) prior to 13 June 1666. This casts doubt on a statement made by a recent researcher that Edward married twice: that a MARY BROWN, born in 1639 at Roxbury, was the mother of his ten children and that Mary MUNN his second wife, also born in 1639, died in 1689. The first child was born about 1662 and the last about 1685 (see below), so if Mary MUNN married Edward prior to 13 June 1666 and did not die until 1689 as the researcher states, she would have been the mother of at least 7 of these children. The statement may have been an attempt to reconcile the probability that Edward married Mary MUNN with a possible reference elsewhere to him marrying a Brown (if so, he could have been confused with his brother Joseph who married Hannah Brown). In 1667, Edward and his family followed his father Edward's family from Derby CT to Newark NJ, where they were amongst the original settlers - he and his brother Joseph were the first to obtain grants of outside lands from the town authorities. He was assigned a home lot in Newark and, though he was not as educated as his two younger brothers, he succeeded in accumulating other landed property there, which he subsequently distributed among his children. In his land conveyances, he was often designated as a "planter" He was still alive in 1700 when he was party to a deed. Edward Riggs III, was living on 10 Apr 1696 when he granted 100 acres by the East New Jersey proprietors. He witnessed the Will of William Brant of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, on 21 Jan 1708/9.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 19 Sep 2024), entry for Edward John RIGGS, person ID 9J3F-1N1. (Reliability: 3).