When Jedediah Briggs was born on 18 March 1771, in Wareham, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, John Briggs III, was 30 and his mother, Desire Griffith, was 26. He married Sarah Amidon on 4 October 1794, in Douglas, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 23 August 1853, in Arlington, Bennington, Vermont, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Saint James Episcopal Church Cemetery, Arlington, Bennington, Vermont, United States.
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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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