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Searching for WIGGINS tidbits

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Searching for WIGGINS tidbits

Posted: 11 Jun 2015 5:22PM GMT
Classification: Query
The marriage of Benjamin WIGGINS to Sarah BREWSTER is recorded in the Cornwallis Township Book for 9 Feb 1769. There is one child given for them - Sarah WIGGINS b. 9 Sep 1769 in Cornwallis.

I believe Benjamin WIGGINS died before 1780, but he definitely was deceased before his widow Sarah (BREWSTER) WIGGINS remarried 6 Oct 1783 to Peter MAHAR.

I do not have a death date for Benjamin WIGGINS and thought that in the absence of further births in the Cornwallis Township Book there was only the one daughter, However I have reason to suspect that there was another daughter Rachel WIGGINS who m. John WELCH b. abt 1778. That might place Rachel's birth closer to 1778 than just after her sister's birth of 1769, so there's "room" for other possible siblings.

I'm looking for ANY mention of WIGGINS folk in Kings County in the late 1700's and early 1800's who may be connected to this family. Also wondering about the parentage of Benjamin WIGGINS. Sarah BREWSTER was the daughter of the New England Planter Samuel BREWSTER.

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