Son of Miles Riggs and Elizabeth Whitney. Married Marther Patty Bull on 28 Feb 1775 in Norfolk.
Served as a Private in the Ct. Militia during the Rev War.
Miles Riggs, b. in Norwalk, Conn., 20 May, 1748, a carpenter and joiner, and later, a farmer, married Patty Bull of Harwinton, Conn., who was born in 1750. They settled, in 1772, in the south east corner of the town of Norfolk, Litchfield Co., Conn., on a farm which is still, in 1875, owned and occupied by his descendants. He was at three different times in the service of his country, in the Revolutionary War, and each time honorably discharged. The family tradition says that once, on coming home from the army, he found two of his three children lying dead in the house, and his wife so ill, that she died before the next morning, but the tradition has failed to preserve the date or the names of the children. He married 2d, Abigail Cowles, widow of Eden Mills. She died at their home in Norfolk, 12 Nov., 1833. He died there, 20 Sept., 1836. They were buried in the South End Cemetery, in Norfolk. He was at White Plains and also at the capture of Burgoyne.
It also mentions that while Miles was marching toward what would be the Battle of White Plains he saw Gen. Washington on his white horse with fellow officers in tow.
SOURCE (Google Books): "The Whitney family of Connecticut, and its affiliations: being an...", Volume 1, page 49, by Stephen Whitney Phoenix.
Served as a Private in the Ct. Militia during the Rev War.
Miles Riggs, b. in Norwalk, Conn., 20 May, 1748, a carpenter and joiner, and later, a farmer, married Patty Bull of Harwinton, Conn., who was born in 1750. They settled, in 1772, in the south east corner of the town of Norfolk, Litchfield Co., Conn., on a farm which is still, in 1875, owned and occupied by his descendants. He was at three different times in the service of his country, in the Revolutionary War, and each time honorably discharged. The family tradition says that once, on coming home from the army, he found two of his three children lying dead in the house, and his wife so ill, that she died before the next morning, but the tradition has failed to preserve the date or the names of the children. He married 2d, Abigail Cowles, widow of Eden Mills. She died at their home in Norfolk, 12 Nov., 1833. He died there, 20 Sept., 1836. They were buried in the South End Cemetery, in Norfolk. He was at White Plains and also at the capture of Burgoyne.
It also mentions that while Miles was marching toward what would be the Battle of White Plains he saw Gen. Washington on his white horse with fellow officers in tow.
SOURCE (Google Books): "The Whitney family of Connecticut, and its affiliations: being an...", Volume 1, page 49, by Stephen Whitney Phoenix.
Son of Miles Riggs and Elizabeth Whitney. Married Marther Patty Bull on 28 Feb 1775 in Norfolk.
Served as a Private in the Ct. Militia during the Rev War.
Miles Riggs, b. in Norwalk, Conn., 20 May, 1748, a carpenter and joiner, and later, a farmer, married Patty Bull of Harwinton, Conn., who was born in 1750. They settled, in 1772, in the south east corner of the town of Norfolk, Litchfield Co., Conn., on a farm which is still, in 1875, owned and occupied by his descendants. He was at three different times in the service of his country, in the Revolutionary War, and each time honorably discharged. The family tradition says that once, on coming home from the army, he found two of his three children lying dead in the house, and his wife so ill, that she died before the next morning, but the tradition has failed to preserve the date or the names of the children. He married 2d, Abigail Cowles, widow of Eden Mills. She died at their home in Norfolk, 12 Nov., 1833. He died there, 20 Sept., 1836. They were buried in the South End Cemetery, in Norfolk. He was at White Plains and also at the capture of Burgoyne.
It also mentions that while Miles was marching toward what would be the Battle of White Plains he saw Gen. Washington on his white horse with fellow officers in tow.
SOURCE (Google Books): "The Whitney family of Connecticut, and its affiliations: being an...", Volume 1, page 49, by Stephen Whitney Phoenix.
Served as a Private in the Ct. Militia during the Rev War.
Miles Riggs, b. in Norwalk, Conn., 20 May, 1748, a carpenter and joiner, and later, a farmer, married Patty Bull of Harwinton, Conn., who was born in 1750. They settled, in 1772, in the south east corner of the town of Norfolk, Litchfield Co., Conn., on a farm which is still, in 1875, owned and occupied by his descendants. He was at three different times in the service of his country, in the Revolutionary War, and each time honorably discharged. The family tradition says that once, on coming home from the army, he found two of his three children lying dead in the house, and his wife so ill, that she died before the next morning, but the tradition has failed to preserve the date or the names of the children. He married 2d, Abigail Cowles, widow of Eden Mills. She died at their home in Norfolk, 12 Nov., 1833. He died there, 20 Sept., 1836. They were buried in the South End Cemetery, in Norfolk. He was at White Plains and also at the capture of Burgoyne.
It also mentions that while Miles was marching toward what would be the Battle of White Plains he saw Gen. Washington on his white horse with fellow officers in tow.
SOURCE (Google Books): "The Whitney family of Connecticut, and its affiliations: being an...", Volume 1, page 49, by Stephen Whitney Phoenix.
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