Briggs Jr., Richard

Born: 1785-02-02 Massachusetts

Died: 1856-02-29 Bond County, Illinois

Richard Briggs, Jr., was the oldest child of Richard, Sr., and Huldah R. Briggs, and older brother of Charles Briggs, Henry Briggs, and Mary Bradford. Little is known about his life before March 1840, when he married Rebecca Robinson in Bond County, Illinois. In May of that same year, he purchased forty acres of public land north of Greenville, Illinois. By 1850, he was living with his brother Henry in Bond County.

Vital Records of Abington Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston: New England Genealogical Society, 1912), 1:37; Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, Bond County, 25 March 1840, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales, Bond County, 326:7, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; U.S. Census Office, Sixth Census of the United States (1840), Bond County, IL, 126; U. S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Bond County, IL, 413; Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Gillespie; Gravestone, Tobias File Cemetery, Pierron, IL.