General Notes

From The OWL, winter 1973-74, page 4185:

Sarah Briggs was the orphaned daughter of John Briggs, who "came over from England in 1635 when he was twenty years of age. He was named among the first sixty settlers of Sandwich in 1637. On the 14th of the 4th month, 1640 (July ?), in an assignment of meadow lands, John Briggs was given 7 1/2 acres. He died in 1641, in his 26th year, and his widow Catherine is said to have died during the same year. John and Catherine had two children, viz.: Samuel and Sarah, the latter of whom was born the same year as her parents' death.

The records show that the estate of John Briggs was probated at Plymouth on the 5th day of the 10th month, 1641, and an inventory of his property, showing 155L, 2s., was 'exhibited on oath of his widow Catherine, who was apt adminstratrix. And the said Catherine Briggs doth promise and give unto her two children, two cows, viz.: the younger white cow to her son Samuel, and the brown heifer to d. Sarah, to be kept for them, and increase of stock to be theirs from this time forward."