Lloyd Vernon Briggs' collection of Massachusetts family records, ca. 1650-1933.

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Lloyd Vernon Briggs' collection of Massachusetts family records, ca. 1650-1933.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122644199

Copies of the various family records - muster and pay rolls, bounty receipts, church records, etc. -- collected by Lloyd Vernon Briggs. The bulk of the collection is related to the Thomas family of Plymouth County, with smaller groups dealing with the Briggs, Cushing, Damon, Otis, and Stetson families. The copies were prepared in 1920s and 1930s.

1752 pieces.5 boxes.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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SNAC Resource ID: 6801955

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Otis family.

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Cushing family.

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Damon family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q32wq9 (family)

Thomas family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62p3zm4 (family)

Briggs family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63r9q7k (family)

Stetson family.

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Briggs, L. Vernon (Lloyd Vernon), 1863-1941

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Briggs (Medical College of Virginia, M.D. 1899) practiced medicine in Boston, Mass. and was instrumental in founding the Boston Psychopathic Hospital and Metropolitan State Hospital. His great interest was forensic psychiatry. The so-called "Briggs Law" of Massachusetts can be credited to his influence; this provides for a mental examination before trial of all persons indicted for a felony in the state. From the description of Papers of Lloyd Vernon Briggs, 1857-1940 (bulk). (Harvar...