When Capt. Thomas Briggs was born on 13 October 1728, in North Kingstown, Kings, Rhode Island, British Colonial America, his father, Francis Briggs, was 24 and his mother, Mercy Matteson, was 21. He married Mary Theodosha Greene in 1748, in East Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Stephentown, Rensselaer, New York, United States in 1800. He died on 6 March 1794, in Cherry Hill, Harmony, Chautauqua, New York, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Stephentown, Rensselaer, New York, United States.
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The first Jewish Synagogue in America was built in Newport, Rhode Island in 1763. It still stands today, making it the oldest synagogue in the United States.
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
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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