Memoirs of Allegheny County Pennsylvania Volume II--Personal and Genealogical with Portraits

Memoirs of Allegheny County Pennsylvania Volume II--personal and genealogical with portraits
By Northwestern Historical Association
Excerpt Robert L. Riggs, one of the foremost citizens of McKeesport, is descended from an ancestry which can be traced for over three centuries. Edward Riggs, the first of that name in America, was born in Lincolnshire, England, in 1590. He came to Boston with his wife, two sons and four daughters in 1633, and settled at Roxbury, Mass., and in 1634 was granted the privilege of citizenship. He had a son, Edward, born in England in 1614, who came to America with his parents, and on April 5, 1635, married a Miss Roosa. The second Edward and his wife moved later to a place afterwards known as Riggs Hill, near Milford, Conn., where they resided for a number of years, and then, in 1665, moved and settled with a colony at Derby, N.J. They were the parents of three sons and one daughter, viz.: Edward, Samuel, Joseph, and Mary. The father died in 1668. Edward Riggs, the third of that name, was born in Roxbury, about 1636, was married in 1660, and reared a family of ten children. The third born was named Edward. He was born in Newark, N.J., about 1668, and about 1692 married Alphia Stoughton. They lived most of their lives near the village of Milbourn, N.J., and had six boys and one girl: Edward Daniel, Samuel, Thomas, Joseph, Mary and David. David Riggs, son of Edward and Alphia (Stoughton) Riggs, was born at Basking Ridge, N.J., in 1709. He married Elizabeth Cox and resided in Middlesex county, N.J. Mr. and Mrs. David Riggs had six children, of whom the second was named Joseph. He was born at Baskingridge, N.J., April 24, 1740, and, when about twenty-one years old was married to Miss Leah Cosad, of true Dutch stock. They were the parents of eight children. Of these, the second, Edward, was born near Hightstown, N.J., July 21, 1764. When twenty years old he moved west and located on the waters of Short creek, near Wheeeling, W. Va., and the following year went to Pittsburg, Pa., where, in May, 1785, he was married to Mary Higbee. In 1786 he located on a 400-acre tract some ten miles southwest of Pittsburg, on Peters creek, where he spent the rest of his days as a farmer. He was in religious belief a Baptist, and when he died, Oct. 4, 1843, he was buried in the Peters creek burying ground of the Baptist church. Edward and Mary (Higbee) Riggs had six children, as follows: Nancy, born June 20, 1787, and on April 30, 1807, married to Elijah Townsend; Eleanor, born... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Windham Press is committed to bringing the lost cultural heritage of ages past into the 21st century through high-quality reproductions of original, classic printed works at affordable prices. This book has been carefully crafted to utilize the original images of antique books rather than error-prone OCR text. This also preserves the work of the original typesetters of these classics, unknown craftsmen who laid out the text, often by hand, of each and every page you will read. Their subtle art involving judgment and interaction with the text is in many ways superior and more human than the mechanical methods utilized today, and gave each book a unique, hand-crafted feel in its text that connected the reader organically to the art of bindery and book-making. We think these benefits are worth the occasional imperfection resulting from the age of these books at the time of scanning, and their vintage feel provides a connection to the past that goes beyond the mere words of the text.