BRIGHAM FAMILY of Sullivan County, NH

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BRIGHAM FAMILY of Sullivan County, NH
Transcribed and contributed to Genealogy Trails by Janice Farnsworth - Farns10th@aol.com

History of Charlestown, NH - Fort 4 by Rev. Henry H. Saunderson pub 1876,
Claremont, NH

This information is from the Farnsworth Memorial:

p.70 Alice Brigham m. Seth Rice. Their daughter, Lucy Brigham Rice b. 21 Apr 1813 at Northboro, MA m. Thomas Treadwell Farnsworth b. 1798 at Groton MA

p.72 William Brigham m. Philatheatra Farnsworth b. 1800 daug of John Farnsworth. They moved to Hillsdale, MI

p.257 Louisa Brigham b. 1793 at Alstead NH daug of Stephen Brigham m. 182l John Proctor b. 1792 son of Philip Proctor and Hannah (Locke) of Groton, MA

p.258 Aaron Brigham b. 1797 at Alstead NH m. Susanna Proctor b 1797 at Sullivan, NH daug of Phillip Proctor and Hannah (Locke) Proctor.

p.294 (see p.353) Margaret Brigham b. 1848 at Beddington ME m. 1874 Adams Wallace Farnsworth b. 1849 at Jonesboro, ME son of Levi Farnsworth and Delia Spears Watts Farnsworth of Jonesboro, Maine

p. 317 Lists the children of Adams Wallace Farnsworth and Margaret Brigham (surname, Farnsworth)

p.500 Harriet Brigham m. Luke Wolcott Farnsworth 1838 at Halifax Vt had 6 children, surname Farnsworth listed this page.

[Source: Prescott Memorial]

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

p.61
David Brigham b. 1744 son of Silas Brigham and Tabitha Prescott. p.49 has Brigham lineage for Silas Brigham as follows: Silas Brigham b.17l0 was son of David, son of Thomas, son of Thomas Brigham the imigrant b. l603. David Brigham m. (l) Mar 2l, 1766, Mary Maynard dau of Deacon Benjamin Maynard. She died with her infant Nov l0, 1766. He m. (2) Oct 13, 1768 Martha Chamberlain of Westboro; settled at Shrewsbury where he died 1824. Aged 80. David's children by his 2d wife, Martha Chamberlain: (p.81)

1. Nathaniel Brigham b. July 27, 1769 m. Sarah Mason Res: lst at Royalston thence to Worcester, MA.
2. Edmund Brigham b. Mar 9, 177l m. Elizabeth Davis. Res: Shrewsbury where he d.1858. Elizabeth (Davis) Brigham died May 1853 leaving two sons:

l. Elijah Brigham b. June 20, 1804
2. David Trowbridge Brigham b. Aug 6, 1806 a lawyer at Worcester, MA.
3. Mercy Brigham b. 1773 d. 1776
4. Trowbridge Brigham b. 1776
5. Prescott Brigham b. Apr l6, 1780 m. Hannah Rider dau of Gideon Rider of Shrewsbury. Res: Sauk County, WI in 1838 where he d. 1860 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 (1) 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) Prescott:
l. Ebenezer Prescott Brigham b. Sep 8, 1818 m. Lucy Gibbs Res: CA
2. Martha Chamberlain Brigham b. Dec l6, 1823 m. Thomas B. Cowles of Sauk County, WI

6. Martha Brigham b. Mar 1782 m. Caleb Dean 1800.
7. Mercy Brigham b. Mar 2l, 1784 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, 1786 grad. Harvard 18l0 tutor at Bowdoin College, m. Elizabeth Franklin 18l9.
9. Ebenezer Brigham b. Apr 28, 1789. Removed to Blue Mounds, Dane County, WI in 1828 where he was the 1st settler and where in 1828 he discovered valuable minerals. He was many years a member of its legislature (WI) and the one that selected Madison as the site for the capital.
He d. unm. Sep 14, 186l.