USGenWeb Lakeville, MA - Briggs Cemetery

Briggs Cemetery (1785)
Location: Howland Road
Included in Cemeteries of Southeastern Massachusetts
Included in A Guide to Massachusetts Cemeteries

Listed below is a compilation gathered by Charles M. Thatcher in the late 1800s of some stones in the cemetery.

Please feel free to email in transcriptions or photographs of stones from the Briggs Cemetery to create a fuller collection.

RECORDS OF BRIGGS CEMETERY
about one mile from Myricks on Howland Road & situated partly in the road limits

BRIGGS:
Malbon, died Feb. 1st, 1838, in his 76th year.
Malbone, son of Malbone & Meribah, July 7, 1826, 36th year.
Meribah Chace, dau. of Malbone & Meribah, Feb. 19, 1810, 1 day.
Job C., son of Malbone & Meribah, Jan. 20, 1827, 23rd yr..
Daniel, son of Malbone & Meribah, Oct. 17, 1827, 32nd yr..
John, son of Malbone, died Aug. 13, 1823, age 23 years.
Doctor, son of Malbone, died May 26, 1821, age 19 years.
Henry Williams, son of Henry & Louisa, Apr. 8, 1828, 8 mos., 20 da..
CHASE:
Mrs. Meribah Chase, dau. of Job, died 1838, age 73 yrs..
Deborah, wife of Job, died Dec. 8th, 1785, in her 46th yr..
Mary, widow of Benjamin, Mar. 16, 1786, age 75 yrs..
Job, died June 17th, 1795, in his 57th year.
KEHOE:
Louisa, wife of Thomas, Oct. 3rd, 1835, in her 28th year.

Also a half dozen other graves with stub stones.

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