BRIGHAM     MA  NH VT AND ME
Date:	5/22/98 6:39:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From:	Farns10th@AOL.COM (Farns10th)


 BRIGHAM
This information is from the Farnsworth Memorial:
p.70    Alice Brigham m. Seth Rice.  Their daughter,
        Lucy Brigham Rice b. 2l Apr l8l3 at Northboro,
        MA m. Thomas Treadwell Farnsworth b. l798 at
        Groton MA
p.72    William Brigham m. Philatheatra Farnsworth
        b. l800 daug of John Farnsworth. They moved
        to Hillsdale, MI
p.257   Louisa Brigham b. l793 at Alstead NH daug of
        Stephen Brigham m. l82l John Proctor b. l792
        son of  Philip Proctor and Hannah (Locke) of
        Groton, MA
p.258   Aaron Brigham b. l797 at Alstead NH m. Susanna
        Proctor b l797 at Sullivan,  NH daug of Phillip
        Proctor and Hannah (Locke) Proctor.
p.294   (see p.353)
        Margaret Brigham b. l848 at Beddington ME
        m. l874 Adams Wallace Farnsworth b. l849 at
        Jonesboro, ME son of Levi Farnsworth and Delia
        Spears Watts Farnsworth of Jonesboro, Maine
p.3l7   Lists the children of Adams Wallace Farnsworth
        and Margaret Brigham (surname, Farnsworth)
p.500   Harriet Brigham m. Luke Wolcott Farnsworth l838
        at Halifax Vt had 6 children, surname Farnsworth
        listed this page.

Source:   Prescott Memorial  -  Surname: Brigham

John Prescott/Mary Platts Line - Lancaster, MA 1600s

p.6l
David Brigham b. l744 son of Silas Brigham and Tabitha
Prescott. p.49 has Brigham lineage for Silas Brigham
as follows:  Silas Brigham b.l7l0 was  son of David,
son of
Thomas, son of Thomas Brigham the imigrant b. l603.
David Brigham m. (l) Mar 2l, l766, Mary Maynard dau
of Deacon Benjamin Maynard.  She died with her infant
Nov l0, l766.  He m. (2) Oct l3, l768 Martha Chamberlain
of Westboro; settled at Shrewsbury where he died l824.
Aged 80.  David's children by his 2d wife, Martha
Chamberlain: (p.8l)
l.  Nathaniel Brigham b. July 27, l769 m. Sarah Mason
    Res: lst at Royalston thence to Worcester, MA.
2.  Edmund Brigham b. Mar 9, l77l m. Elizabeth Davis.
    Res: Shrewsbury where he d.1858.  Elizabeth (Davis)
    Brigham died May l853 leaving two sons:
          l. Elijah Brigham b. June 20, l804
          2. David Trowbridge Brigham b. Aug 6, l806
             a lawyer at Worcester, MA.
3. Mercy Brigham b. l773 d. l776
4. Trowbridge Brigham b. l776
5. Prescott Brigham b. Apr l6, l780 m. Hannah Rider dau
   of Gideon Rider of Shrewsbury. Res: Sauk County, WI
   in l838 where he d. l860 age 80.
>> A few years before his death he gave to the Wisconsin
   Historical Society the celebrated "Old Gun" brought
   from England to New England in l640 by John Prescott
   the emigrant and frequently used by him to fight the
   Indians and which several were brought to "bite the
   dust".  This gun was given by him to his (oldest)
   son John and by him to his son John and by him to his
   daughter, Tabitha Prescott who married (l) Aaron
   Sawyer and (2) Silas Brigham and she gave it to her
   grandson named (above) Prescott Brigham, who disposed
   of it as stated above.
   Children of Prescott Brigham and Hannah (Rider) Pres-
   cott:
        l. Ebenezer Prescott Brigham b. Sep 8, l8l8
           m. Lucy Gibbs Res: CA
        2. Martha Chamberlain Brigham b. Dec l6, l823
           m. Thomas B. Cowles of Sauk County, WI
6. Martha Brigham b. Mar l782 m. Caleb Dean l800.
7. Mercy Brigham b. Mar 2l, l784 m. John Rider
   Two daughters, one of whom married the Hon. Charles
   Hudson of Lexington, lawyer and statesman.
8. David Brigham, Jr. b. Aug l5, l786 grad. Harvard l8l0
   tutor at Bowdoin College, m. Elizabeth Franklin l8l9.
9. Ebenezer Brigham b. Apr 28, l789. Removed to Blue
   Mounds, Dane County, WI in l828 where he was the lst
   settler and where in l828 he discovered valuable
   minerals.  He was many years a member of its legis-
   lature (WI) and the one that selected Madison as the
   site ofr the capital.  He d. unm. Sep l4, l86l.
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Submitted by Janice Farnsworth  5/22/98  email farns10th@aol.com

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