Sarah Tremain, born 30 June 1795, in Sheffield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, to Elijah and Mary Tremain. She married Ransom Riggs 30 March 1814 at Yorktown. They settled in Livingston County, New York. Ransom Riggs was the third son of Jeremiah and Anna Riggs. He was born at Litchfield, Conn., March 6, 1789. Nine children were born to this union. In the spring of 1822 the family moved to Indiana. Sarah died January 8, 1853 in Johnson County Indiana....

Isabella Burgess Riggs Williams was the daughter of Stephen R. Riggs and Mary Ann Longley and was born February 21, 1840 at Lac qui Parel Mission in Chippewa County Minnesota. Her parents worked among the Dakota Indians as missionaries. She died January 26, 1887 in Hebei, China. She was educated at the Western Female Seminary in Oxford, Ohio. Her father established the Hazelwood mission where she served as an assistant missionary. The family...

Edward Riggs was born in 1590 in England. His father was Edward Riggs. He married Elizabeth Holmes (1591-1635) 10 September 1618. They had six children. They emigrated in 1633 and they settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts. He died 1 March 1672. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, Colorado and California.

Family Bible records of: J.R. Jones and R. K Allen of Coos County, Alabama (married in 1902) -- James C. Riggs and Lula Mae Frank married in Fredericksburg, Virginia in 1924 -- The Stammer family of Tennessee.

John Thompson (d. ca. 1760) is believed to be of Scotch-Irish origin and first settled in America in Pennsylvania. He and his wife Mary had six children and later moved to Halifax County, North Carolina. There sons migrated to Virginia. Solomon Thompson (1842-1903) was born in Virginia and married Nancy Ellen Ball. She descends from John Ball (b. ca. 1670- d. 1722) of Virginia. Solomon and Nancy had eight children, and raised them in Wayne County,...

William Spark Mabry was born December 30, 1849 in Selma, Alabama. His parents were Albert Gallatin Mabry and Martha Riggs Tartt. He worked as a surveyor in Texas for forty-nine years. He never married. He died in 1941 in Selma, Alabama. Ancestors and relatives lived in Alabama, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, New Jersey and elsewhere.

John Bennion (1820-1877) came to Utah from Wales. The Bennions were instrumental in the settling of Rush Valley west of Salt Lake City. Descendants lived in Utah and elsewhere. Includes Adams, Cannon, Riggs, Palmer and other allied families.

"... I wish to acknowledge, to the fullest extent, my obligation to Mr. D. Williams Patterson ... who has been my assistant since 1873. Not only has he acted as my amanuensis ... but he has also added largely to the bulk and value of the book by his own researches, especially in the female lines"--Preface, p. vii of v. 1. Henry Whitney (1620?-1673?) emigrated by 1649 from England to Southold, Long Island, New York. He moved to Huntington, Long Island,...