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- John Rigby (Rigbye) of England, who had married Isabel Mary Fiske, arrived in Dorchester around 1637, and they were members of the Puritan Church there.
In this marriage they had four children: Elizabeth Rigby was baptized on March 1, 1638, Samuel Rigby was baptized on August 20, 1640, Mehetable Rigby was baptized on February 3, 1643 and Abigail Rigby who was baptized on April 22, 1645 in Dorchester, Massachusetts.
Their son, Samuel Rigby was baptized in Dorchester on the 21st of March 1641, using the spelling of Rigbee, and lived on what was known as Adams Street in Dorchester, and where the Honorable John Howe lived in 1886.
Their eldest daughter, Mehitable Rigby who was baptized in December 1643, Dorchester, married a Nathaniel Turner of Scituate, and the younger sister, Abigail Rigby who was born on 6 August 1641, married Thomas Holman on the 19th of December 1663. The latter was a collector of furs, was an Ensign and lesf a good estate when he died.
John Rigby died about 1645 in Massachusetts. After the death of her husband, John Rigby, she married a second time to Edward Brecke of Lancashire, England and who was a freeman in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1636.
After Edward Brecke's death in 1662, she married a third time to Anthony Fisher and another six children were born to this marriage.
Not all of the children lived to adulthood, many died as children due to various common diseases of the time and other causes of death in Early New England.
Isabel Rigby died on June 21, 1673 in Dorchester, Suffolk (Old Norfolk), Massachusetts, which is located just south of the Boston Harbor, Boston, Massachusetts.
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Abt 1610 - 1673 (~ 63 years)
