Briard, Oliver (1775-1844)

Name:

Briard, Oliver (1775-1844)

Title:

Member, Humane Fire Society, 1817
Director, Portsmouth Bank, 1821, 1826
Justice of the Peace, Portsmouth, 1833
Justice of the Peace, County of Strafford, 1840

Born:

11/26/1775

Birthplace:

Portsmouth, NH

Died:

01/04/1844

Death Location:

Great Falls, NH

Residence:

Portsmouth, NH 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830
Somersworth, NH 1840, 1844

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Dry Goods Merchant, 1796, 1803, 1819, 1826
Grocer

Father:

Briard, Samuel (Capt.)

Mother:

Hart, Elizabeth (1734-1831)

Relations:

Partnership, Briard & Wadleigh, South Berwick, ME, -1826
(Oliver Briard and Albra Wadleigh)

Spouse:

Sarah Noble (1772-1855), November 11, 1800, Portsmouth

Children:

George, born 1802; died 1829
Oliver, born 1804; died 1804
Sally
Elizabeth
Oliver, born 1810; died 1872
Ann Maria, born 1813; died 1846

Notes:

From accession, chair 1978.81: "A merchant named Oliver Briard is known to have lived in Portsmouth in the early nineteenth century and was probably born there in 1775. Briard's chair relates to an important group of Portsmouth pieces marked in the early nineteenth century by their owners, many of whom seem to be merchants." D-B Garvin NHHS Newsletter, Spring 1979.

"New Store," Oracle of the Day, Portsmouth, NH, November 2, 1796, 3.

"The Suffers by the Late Fire" United States Oracle, Portsmouth, NH, January 15, 1803, 4.

Obituary, New-Hampshire Gazette, Portsmouth, NH, January 16, 1844, 3.

North Cemetery, Portsmouth, NH