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- Isaac_Briggs abstract "Isaac Briggs (1763-1825) was an American engineer, surveyor, and manufacturer during the Early Republic. He lived much of his adult life with his family in Brookeville, Maryland.Briggs was born in Haverford, Pennsylvania in 1763 to Samuel and Mary Briggs, two Quakers. He studied engineering at the College of Pennsylvania (the University of Pennsylvania today), where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1783 and a master's degree in 1786. After his graduation, Briggs traveled, moving to Georgia and Georgetown, Washington, D.C. before he married Hannah Brooke and settled near Brookeville in Montgomery County, Maryland.Briggs was a renowned surveyor and engineer. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson appointed him to be the Surveyor General of the Mississippi Territory. He was also one of many chief engineers of the Erie Canal in New York and served as a chief engineer in Virginia on the James River and Kanawha Canal. He was also devoted to developing domestic agriculture and manufacturing. He co-founded the American Board of Agriculture and a cotton mill and manufacturing town at Triadelphia in Montgomery County, Maryland. Additionally, Briggs was a devout Quaker and a member of the American Philosophical Society. He was close friends with both Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and was well-respected in his community.Briggs became ill while working on the James River and Kanawha Canal in Virginia. He died at "Sharon," his family's home, in 1825.".
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