When Mary Briggs was born on 30 April 1762, in Keene, Cheshire, New Hampshire, British Colonial America, her father, Elisha Briggs, Sr., was 29 and her mother, Mary Polly Fisher, was 27. She married Joseph Parker Jr. on 7 December 1780, in Keene, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 26 March 1813, in Belcoda, Wheatland, Monroe, New York, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Sheddsville, West Windsor, Windsor, 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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