Briggs, Sarah B.

The Briggs-Stabler papers contain personal, business, and family papers documenting the Briggs and Stabler families and important information about exploration and engineering in the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as the history of the American South. In addition to genealogical information, the collection includes surveys of the Mississippi Territory in 1803-1804, and information on Isaac Briggs’ work with Thomas Jefferson and the Erie Canal.

Verse and prose writings, both original and copied, begun by Sarah B. Briggs in Alexandria, Virginia and continued by her and Deborah Stabler in Montgomery County, Maryland.