Benjamin had three wives and twenty-one children. [Source: . L. Vernon Briggs, History and Genealogy of the Briggs Family, 1254-1937, 1938, Three volumes]
On 20 Dec 1709 when Benjamin was 19, he married Mercy Randall, daughter of Joseph Randall (Mar 1642-21 Feb 1723) & Hannah Macomber (1652-23 Aug 1714), in Second Church of Scituate. Born on 10 Mar 1685 in Scituate, MA.
They had the following children:
i. Benjamin (1710-<1716)
ii. Martha (1712-)
iii. Benjamin (ca1716-)
iv. Nathaniel (ca1717-)
v. Caleb (ca1719-)
vi. Mercy (ca1722-)
vii. (a child) (ca1728-)
According to Tibbetts & Lamson, "Early Pleasant River Families of Washington County, Maine":
Christopher came to Addison either with or soon after his 1st wife's family settled there {Corthell} and in 1805 bought land from "Patten, Mellus, and Ferno" [Washington Co Deed 4:384]; lived at Addison [1810-40]; since records of his marriages haven't been found, it is not clear just when they occurred, or which children are by which wife {except Mary was by 1st wife and Deborah was by 2nd wife}; Christopher married, first, his second cousin's daughter, DEBORAH CORTHELL,
MARY BRYANT m. (1) CAPT. CALEB TORREY (int) Feb 19, 1931 at Scituate (Caleb owned a "negro servant" named CESAR, who fathered many children).
b. 17 Aug 1684; m. 31 Jul 1706 to HANNAH CHURCH (widow of RICHARD CHURCH of Scituate and who died in 1736). David d. 21 Jun 1731. Letters of Administration in Plymouth, 31 Oct 1731. Hannah's will was probated 6 Apr 1736 in Plymouth, MA.
Lived south of Cornet Stetson's settlement. ["Old Scituate," published by Chief Justice Cushing Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1921, pg 21]
Widow of RICHARD CHURCH. Will probated 6 Apr 1736 in Plymouth, MA
resident of Plymouth, married 20 Mar 1677 in Dedham to MARY BATTLE, dau of THOMAS and MARY FISHER. She was born 6 May 1650, bp 12 May 1650. JOHN was a "freeman" in 1670, and a "Sergeant John Bryant" is mentioned in court documents dated 5 Mar 1678 [Ply Col Rec 5:254]. He was a surveyor of highways in 1678, d. 26 Jan 1708, at Scituate, will probated 12 Feb 1708.
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