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received his diploma, in May 1812; continued with his preceptor till Oct. 1812; then went to Philadelphia, Penn., and attended a course of lectures by Dr. Benjamin Rush; and in Ap. 1813, settled in Vernon, N. Y., where he married, 26 March 1814, Fanny Olmstead, dau. of James and Mary (Beaumont) Olmstead, of Hartford, Conn., where she was born 6 July 1787. Re remained in Vernon, with a constantly increasing practice, till 1818, when he moved to Homer, N. Y.; and there his wife died, 3 Jan. 1862, and was buried. He married (2d), S Aug. 1862, at Tecumseh, Mich., Sarah Burke,1 widow or Zenas Lilley, of Homer, and dau. of Zenas and Dorcas (Van Deusen) Burke. She was born at Salem, N. Y., 6 Jan. 1802; and was living at Homer in Feb. 1876. He was postmaster at Homer, for 12 years, and was a member of the 27th Congress, 1841-1843, from the 22d District of New York He died at Rome; 7 Nov. 1870, in his 82d year, and was buried in Glenwood Cemetery. The Republican, published at Cortlandville, N. Y., contained a long notice of him, including the following: "He possessed a stout heart, sinewy muscular frame and iron will; and a determined, persevering energy. With these valuable characteristics, he entered hopefully upon the practice of his chosen profession. He often underwent great fatigue in prosecuting his extended rides through the country, with almost impassable roads, or on foot by marked trees through the wilderness; and even pioneered by a guide bearing a torch-light through the most impenetrable darkness, to the cabin of the most destitute and even profligate of our race. It was not gain alone that prompted him to the most unwearied attention upon the sick. Re regarded it as a duty, a positive necessity. Re possessed a clear, discriminating judgment, and was rarely mistaken in a disease, or its appropriate remedy."
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VII. ----- Riggs, b. in Norfolk, Conn.; died there in Feb. 1791, and was buried in the South End Cemetery. According to the sexton's record, which was sold in Winsted, for paper-stock, in 1862, "An infant of Miles Riggs was buried 9 Feb. 1791."
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VIII. Delina Riggs, b. in Norfolk, Conn., 6 Oct 1796; married Henry Pinney, of Colebrook, Conn., who was born in Dec. 1799, son of Grove and Mercy (Case) Pinney.2 They moved to Penn., and afterward to Tidwell Creek, Hunt Co., Texas, where she died at some time during the war of 1861.
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Chil. of Samuel and Prudence (Riggs) Northrop.
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I. James Northrop, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., in 1770; died of cancer,
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1 Zenas Lilley, her first husband, whom she married 18 April 1822, died 12 Aug. 1858. Her father died in Homer, N. Y., 1 Dec. 1806; her mother, in the same place, 14 May 1852.
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2 See Stiles' History of Windsor, p. 109 of the supplement.
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