Excerpt from The Litchfield Family in America, Vol. 1: November, 1902This was the second marriage of Joseph Briggs, Jr. His first wife was Mary Garrett, bapt. 17 - 4 - 1711 (first Parish dau. Joseph and Ruth (buck) Gar rett, to whom he was married, Feb. 2, 1709 - 10, by whom he had two daus., viz., Mary, b. Oct. 9, 1711, m. John Cudworth, Jr., Jan. 13, 1731 - 32; Hannah, b. Feb. 8, 1714 - 15, m. Dea. Joseph Clapp (first wife), Dec. 21, 1732. Mary (garrett) Briggs died in Scituate, Feb. 8, 1714 - 15. His t/zira' wife was the widow Sarah Morey (see Family No. To whom Joseph was married, in Scituate, Jan. 14, 1730, and who survived him. He was called in order to distinguish him from his first cousin, Joseph Briggs (b. Feb. 19, 1678 son of Captain Cor melius Briggs (ensign in King Philip's war). For an account of the Briggs family, see foot-note, page 66.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.