The Maine historical and genealogical recorder . 1885. No. I. COLONEL ALEXANDER RIGBY: A Sketch of his career and connection with Maine asProprietor of the Plough Patent and President of the Province of Lygonia. BY CHARLES EDWARD BANKS, M. D. I. Alexander Rigby. Great on the bench, great in the saddle,That could as well bind oer, as swaddle. HudibraSy I. i. 23-24. Alexander Rigby, one of the most notable per-sons in Lancashire during the civil war, was a manof active, daring, and versatile character, who wasbrought into notice at that crisis. He was lawyer,justice of peace, legislator, committ
The Maine historical and genealogical recorder . 1885. No. I. COLONEL ALEXANDER RIGBY: A Sketch of his career and connection with Maine asProprietor of the Plough Patent and President of the Province of Lygonia. BY CHARLES EDWARD BANKS, M. D. I. Alexander Rigby. Great on the bench, great in the saddle,That could as well bind oer, as swaddle. HudibraSy I. i. 23-24. Alexander Rigby, one of the most notable per-sons in Lancashire during the civil war, was a manof active, daring, and versatile character, who wasbrought into notice at that crisis. He was lawyer,justice of peace, legislator, committee-man, colonel,judge of assize, and president of a colony during anactive public career of less than ten years. He be-longed to the Rigby family of Wigan, descendedfrom Adam Rigby of that town, and Alice Middle-ton of Leighton. Their two sons were—John ofWigan (who married a cadet of the Molyneux family of Hawksley),and Alexander of Burgh (in the township of Duxbury, parish ofStandish), the ancestor of the Rigbys of that place, a family much. 2 Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder. devoted to the Earls of Derby, and on the side of the royalists inthe civil war. Of the sons of John of Wigan the most notable wasAlexander (father of the subject of this article) of the same town, whoseems to have accumulated property in various places, including anestate in Goosnargh, called Middleton Hall.^ Alexander, whosename frequently appears in public documents, married Alice, daugh-ter of Leonard Asshawe or Asshal, Esq., of Shaw Hall, an old man-sion yet standing between Flixton and Stretford.^ Alexander, hiseldest son and heir, was born 1594, and received a liberal education,probably at the Wigan school, which served as the foundation of hislegal knowledge, obtained later as a bencher at Grays Inn, to whichhe was admitted i November, 1610. Rigby became connected with several families of consequencein the two counties of Lancaster and Cheshire. About 1619 hemarried Lucy, second daug
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