Mehitable was the child of William Blake and Anna Breck*. Mehitable was married to William Briggs on June 16, 1696 in Milton, Massachusetts. William and Mehitable had the following children: Agnes Briggs, Nathaniel Briggs, Mehitable Ware, Eliphalet Briggs, Seth Briggs, and Agnes Boldary.
* Her mother's maiden name was not Lyon. See: Willcox, Doris Schreiber. Edward1 Breck's Baptismal Record and Identification of His "Daughter Blake". New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jul 2010) 164:182.
"Anna Breck, bp. 23 Aug. 1629: d. by 22 Nov. 1693 (date of husband's second marriage)."
Mehitable Briggs is the:
+great-great-great-great-grandmother of:
-Lucius Lorenzo Ball, William Charles Ball, Edmund Burke Ball , Frank Clayton Ball, and George Alexander Ball, founders of the Ball Corporation who were instrumental in the creation of Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.
-Frederick D. Ely, U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts
+great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother of:
-John Goodwin Tower, U.S. Senator from Texas
* Her mother's maiden name was not Lyon. See: Willcox, Doris Schreiber. Edward1 Breck's Baptismal Record and Identification of His "Daughter Blake". New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jul 2010) 164:182.
"Anna Breck, bp. 23 Aug. 1629: d. by 22 Nov. 1693 (date of husband's second marriage)."
Mehitable Briggs is the:
+great-great-great-great-grandmother of:
-Lucius Lorenzo Ball, William Charles Ball, Edmund Burke Ball , Frank Clayton Ball, and George Alexander Ball, founders of the Ball Corporation who were instrumental in the creation of Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.
-Frederick D. Ely, U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts
+great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother of:
-John Goodwin Tower, U.S. Senator from Texas
Mehitable was the child of William Blake and Anna Breck*. Mehitable was married to William Briggs on June 16, 1696 in Milton, Massachusetts. William and Mehitable had the following children: Agnes Briggs, Nathaniel Briggs, Mehitable Ware, Eliphalet Briggs, Seth Briggs, and Agnes Boldary.
* Her mother's maiden name was not Lyon. See: Willcox, Doris Schreiber. Edward1 Breck's Baptismal Record and Identification of His "Daughter Blake". New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jul 2010) 164:182.
"Anna Breck, bp. 23 Aug. 1629: d. by 22 Nov. 1693 (date of husband's second marriage)."
Mehitable Briggs is the:
+great-great-great-great-grandmother of:
-Lucius Lorenzo Ball, William Charles Ball, Edmund Burke Ball , Frank Clayton Ball, and George Alexander Ball, founders of the Ball Corporation who were instrumental in the creation of Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.
-Frederick D. Ely, U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts
+great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother of:
-John Goodwin Tower, U.S. Senator from Texas
* Her mother's maiden name was not Lyon. See: Willcox, Doris Schreiber. Edward1 Breck's Baptismal Record and Identification of His "Daughter Blake". New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jul 2010) 164:182.
"Anna Breck, bp. 23 Aug. 1629: d. by 22 Nov. 1693 (date of husband's second marriage)."
Mehitable Briggs is the:
+great-great-great-great-grandmother of:
-Lucius Lorenzo Ball, William Charles Ball, Edmund Burke Ball , Frank Clayton Ball, and George Alexander Ball, founders of the Ball Corporation who were instrumental in the creation of Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.
-Frederick D. Ely, U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts
+great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother of:
-John Goodwin Tower, U.S. Senator from Texas
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HEARE LEYS the
body of MEHETE
BELL the wife of
William Briggs
the 2d October
ye 17 1763 in the
62 year of her
age
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