When Lovet Briggs was born in 1730, in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Job Briggs I, was 19 and his mother, Mary Coggeshall, was 20. He married Abigail Bryant Tallman on 25 January 1767, in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. He lived in Rhode Island, United States in 1805.
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English: variant of Brigg, with post-medieval excrescent -s, from Middle English brig(g) (Old Norse bryggja), the northern and Scottish word for bridge, for someone who lived by a bridge or who came from any of the places called from the word.
History: The surname Briggs is found chiefly in West Yorkshire. A family of gentry have held lands at Keighley in West Yorkshire continuously for 500 years. The mathematician Henry Briggs (1561–1631), who invented logarithms, was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, England.
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