Experience Stanwood
Wife of Joshua Riggs of Gloucester, married 23 Oct 1735, and mother of eleven children, among them Ann Riggs, who married James Ginn. Born at Gloucester, Massachusetts, a daughter of James Stanwood and Mary Davis.
Life
- 1716Born17 Apr 1716, Gloucester, Massachusetts
"Experience, d. James and Mary, Apr. 17, 1716." Bolton (p. 45, OCR) gives conflicting dates; see notes.
documentedproven - 1735Married Joshua Riggs23 Oct 1735documentedproven
Family
- Father
- James Stanwooddocumentedproven
- Mother
- Mary Davisdocumentedproven
- Spouse
- Joshua Riggsdocumentedproven
- Siblings
Pedigree
Notes
Wife of Joshua Riggs of Gloucester, married 23 Oct 1735.
Bolton (p. 45, as read in OCR): “92. Experience, bapt. April 22, 1715. 93. Susanna, bapt. December 27, 1719. 94. Experience, b. December 2[1?], 1719; m. October 23, 1735, Joshua Riggs.” His no. 94 gives her the birth date of her sister Susanna and would make her fifteen at marriage. The town record, “Experience, d. James and Mary, Apr. 17, 1716” (VR 1:672), is the better date, and Mollie Pfeiffer has it too.
Her brothers and sisters, per Bolton p. 45: Mary, b. 1714 (m. Daniel Elwell, then Isaac Davis); Susanna (bp. 1719); Martha (1722, died the next day); James (1723); William (1726); and Abigail (1728).
Open questions
- Check a second scan of Bolton p. 45. Is the day in no. 94 the 21st (Susanna’s birth in the VR) or the 27th (the date Bolton gives for Susanna’s baptism, as the colonial tree reads it)?
Mollie's typescript
Mollie's Stanwood chart gives her birth on 17 Apr 1716 and her marriage to Joshua Riggs on 23 Oct 1735.
EXPERIENCE STANWOOD (4) James 3, John 2, Philip 1) Born Apr. 17, 1716 Married Oct. 23, 1735 Joshua Riggs (3)
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Every notable ancestor and famous relative that Experience's own ancestors lead to, with the lines drawn down to her.
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