Capt. Robert Briscoe1
d. 1729
- Family Background:
- Fairfield and Allied Families
Capt. Robert Briscoe married Abigail Stone, daughter of John Stone and Abigail Dixey, before 1692.1 He died in 1729.1
Captain Robert Briscoe of Beverly was a man of large wealth and of prominence in the community, serving the town as selectman, assessor, treasurer and representative to the General Court. He presented the town with a bell in 1712 and the church with a silver communion cup in 1718, and the elegance of his house was still remembered a century after his death. A street and a school (Briscoe Hall) in Beverly bore his name in the middle of the nineteenth century. His second wife was Elizabeth (Leavitt) Dudley of Exeter, to which town Capt. Briscoe moved his residence. He remembered by will Zachariah, Samuel and Robert Stone, Abigail Stevens and Elizabeth Ober, nephews and nieces of his first wife, and also left £20 to the poor of Beverly. His widow married Rev. John Odlin.1
Captain Robert Briscoe of Beverly was a man of large wealth and of prominence in the community, serving the town as selectman, assessor, treasurer and representative to the General Court. He presented the town with a bell in 1712 and the church with a silver communion cup in 1718, and the elegance of his house was still remembered a century after his death. A street and a school (Briscoe Hall) in Beverly bore his name in the middle of the nineteenth century. His second wife was Elizabeth (Leavitt) Dudley of Exeter, to which town Capt. Briscoe moved his residence. He remembered by will Zachariah, Samuel and Robert Stone, Abigail Stevens and Elizabeth Ober, nephews and nieces of his first wife, and also left £20 to the poor of Beverly. His widow married Rev. John Odlin.1
Additional Data
Nehemiah Stone deeded to his brother-in-law Capt. Robert Briscoe the house and land where Briscoe was then living in 1720, probably the house mentioned in his father's inventory as being in Nehemiah's possession in 1703/4.2
Citations
- [S845] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Stone, of Beverly and Arundel," Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): A Reprinting in Alphabetical Order by Surname, of the Sixteen Multi-Ancestor Compendia, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996), Vol. III, 380, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Stone (1930).
- [S845] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Stone, of Beverly and Arundel," Massachusetts and Maine Families, Vol. III, 384, citing Essex Deeds, 37: 109, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Stone (1930).
