Eastham, Wellfleet and beyond


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picture Higgins 
      Sex: F
Individual Information 
          Birth: 1883
        Baptism: 
          Death: 1883
         Burial: Evergreen Cemetery, Eastham
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Asa Higgins (1841-1897) 1
         Mother: Eunice Hattie Robbins (1841-1929) 1



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Higgins 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 1 Feb 1845 - Orleans, Massachusetts
        Baptism: 
          Death: 1 Feb 1845 - Orleans, Massachusetts
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Jabez Higgins (1796-1881)
         Mother: Alice Linnell (1797-1878)



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Higgins 
      Sex: F
Individual Information 
          Birth: 13 Aug 1857 - Eastham, Massachusetts
        Baptism: 
          Death: 14 Aug 1857 - Eastham, Massachusetts
         Burial: in Evergreen Cemetery, Eastham
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Beneiah G Higgins (1830-1876) 1
         Mother: Maria T Dill (1835-1902) 1



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Higgins 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 6 Nov 1871 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
        Baptism: 
          Death: 6 Nov 1871 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death: stillborn

Parents 
         Father: Nathaniel Coombs Higgins (1832-1873)
         Mother: Mary Snow Knowles (1836-1871)



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Higgins 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 27 Aug 1856 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 2
        Baptism: 
          Death: 
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Captain William Hutton Higgins (1823-1867) 3
         Mother: Jerusha Cole Dyer (1825-1870) 4



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Higgins 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: Cir 1810
        Baptism: 
          Death: Bef 1880
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Spouses and Children 
1. *Sarah (Cir 1812 - After 1880)
       Marriage: 
         Status:
Notes
Marriage Notes (Sarah)
In 1880 South Wellfleet, Sarah (68) was a widow, housekeeping for widower John Witherel (71). house 5, family 7
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picture Higgins 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: Massachusetts
        Baptism: 
          Death: 
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Spouses and Children 
1. *Joanna (Cir 1810 -       )
       Marriage: 
         Status: 



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Higgins 
      Sex: U
Individual Information 
          Birth: 29 Sep 1755 - Truro, Massachusetts
        Baptism: 
          Death: 8 Oct 1755 - Truro, Massachusetts
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Barnabus Higgins (1722-1799)
         Mother: Abigail Paine (1721-1791)



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Higgins 
      Sex: U
Individual Information 
          Birth: 7 Oct 1756 - Truro, Massachusetts
        Baptism: 
          Death: 16 Oct 1756 - Truro, Massachusetts
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Barnabus Higgins (1722-1799)
         Mother: Abigail Paine (1721-1791)



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Higgins 
      Sex: U
Individual Information 
          Birth: Cir Jun 1838 - Orleans, Massachusetts
        Baptism: 
          Death: 10 Jan 1839 - Orleans, Massachusetts 7
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Captain Lot Higgins (1809-1896)
         Mother: Sevillie Snow (1809-1900)



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Higgins 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 1865 - Eastham, Massachusetts
        Baptism: 
          Death: 1865 - Eastham, Massachusetts
         Burial: in Evergreen Cemetery, Eastham 1
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Captain Daniel Higgins (1832-1921)
         Mother: Betsey Collins (1836-1924)



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Higgins 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 18 Jan 1870 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 8
        Baptism: 
          Death: 31 Jan 1870 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 9
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death: premature birth

Parents 
         Father: Captain Charles Freeman Higgins (1842-1889) 10 11
         Mother: Abbie Rich Baker (1842-1915) 10



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Higgins 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 30 Dec 1874 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 12
        Baptism: 
          Death: 
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Captain Charles Wesley Higgins (1833-1903) 13 14 15
         Mother: Anna Horton Jenkins (1835-1895) 16 17



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A Louise Higgins 
      Sex: F
Individual Information 
          Birth: 1881
        Baptism: 
          Death: 1937 - (East Boston, Mass.)
         Burial: in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Wellfleet
 Cause of Death:

Spouses and Children 
1. *Ernest L Brown (7 Dec 1882 - 1968) 18 
       Marriage: Cir 1909
         Status:
Notes
General:
1908 of East Boston
Marriage Notes (Ernest L Brown)
of East Boston, 1910, 1911, 1915, 1919, 1924

picture Aaron Higgins 
      Sex: M
AKA: Aron Higgens 19
Individual Information 
          Birth: 25 Mar 1754 - Eastham, Massachusetts 20
        Baptism: 
          Death: 10 Jul 1812 - Eastham, Massachusetts
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Isaiah Higgins (1727-After 1790)
         Mother: Joanna Mayo (Cir 1728-      ) 21
Spouses and Children 
1. *Abigail Atwood (Abt 1756 - 1779)
       Marriage: 31 Dec 1772 - Eastham, Massachusetts 22
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Priscilla Higgins (1775-      )
                2. Betsey Higgins (1777-      )
                3. Abigail Stevens Higgins (1783-      )
                4. Anna Parker Higgins (1785-      )
                5. Reuben Higgins (1788-      )
                6. Aaron Higgins (1790-1816)
Notes
General:
Apparently 2 Aaron Atwoods married 2 Abigail Atwoods on the same day in Eastham. It must have amused them.
Marriage Notes (Abigail Atwood)
Records of 2 Aaron Higgins seem confused. KC Higgins has the one b 1742 marrying Abigail, with Abigail dying in 1779.
THERE IS ANOTHER AARON HIGGINS LISTED IN THE HIGGINS GENE. AS #121 THAT MARRIED TO ABIGAIL ATWOOD ON THE SAME DATE.
Father: Isaiah Higgins b: 5 Apr 1727 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Mother: Joanna Mayo

picture Aaron Higgins 
      Sex: M
AKA: Aron Higgins 23
Individual Information 
          Birth: 14 Mar 1742 - Eastham, Massachusetts 23
        Baptism: 
          Death: 1812 - Orleans, Massachusetts
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Moses Higgins (1711-1798)
         Mother: Elizabeth Arey (1716-1792)
Notes
General:
check this
Birth: 25 Mar 1754 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Death: 10 Jul 1812 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

THERE IS ANOTHER AARON HIGGINS LISTED IN THE HIGGINS GENE. AS #121 THAT MARRIED TO ABIGAIL ATWOOD ON THE SAME DATE.

Father: Isaiah Higgins b: 5 Apr 1727 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Mother: Joanna Mayo

picture Aaron Higgins 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 24 Aug 1790 - Eastham, Massachusetts 24
        Baptism: 
          Death: 25 Feb 1816 - Orleans, Massachusetts 25
         Burial: in Orleans Cemetery
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Aaron Higgins (1754-1812)
         Mother: Abigail Atwood (Abt 1756-1779)



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Aaron Higgins 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 18 Jan 1786
        Baptism: 
          Death: 6 Jan 1849 - Starks, Maine
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Richard Higgins (1762-      )
         Mother: Lydia Cahoon (Est 1762-1843)
Spouses and Children 
1. *Apphia Gill (Est 1790 - 5 Sep 1842)
       Marriage: Oct 1811 - Eastham, Massachusetts 26
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Barnabas Atwood Higgins (1812-      )
                2. John Chandler Higgins (1824-1886)



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Captain Aaron Snow Higgins 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 30 May 1843 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 27 28
        Baptism: 
          Death: After 1921 - (Lynn, Massachusetts)
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Philip Higgins (1799-1883) 29 30
         Mother: Mercy Cole Snow (1807-1898) 31
Spouses and Children 
1. *Jennie McIntosh (1844 - After 1922) 32 
       Marriage: 17 Oct 1869 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Eugene Weston Higgins (1870-      ) 33
                2. Sarah Newcomb Higgins (1872-      ) 34
                3. James Roberts Higgins (1873-      ) 32
                4. Charles R Higgins (1877-      ) 35
                5. Ethel G Higgins (1878-      ) 36
Notes
General:
1870, 1872, 1877, 1878 mariner, Wellfleet
1873 master mariner, Wellfleet
Marriage Notes (Jennie McIntosh)
1880 US census, Lynn
Aron S Higgins, 37, sea captain
Jane Higgins, wife, keeping house, b Scotland
Eugene W Higgins, son, 10
Sarah M Higgins, dau, 8 at school
James R Higgins, 6, at school
Charles R Higgins, son, 3
Ethel G Higgins, 1

of Lynn, 1889, 1893, 1894, 1910, 1920, 1922
Wellfleet house on Cahoon Hollow Road
sold property to Mary S Pierce in 1921

picture Abagail Higgins 
      Sex: F
Individual Information 
          Birth: 23 Dec 1830 - Orleans, Massachusetts 37
        Baptism: 
          Death: 
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: John Hopkins Higgins (1804-1868) 38
         Mother: Rhoda Ellis (1809-1844)
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Sources

1 Margaret H. Weiler, Cemetery Inscriptions. Congregational & Soldiers Cemetery, Evergreen Cemetery, Eastham Mass. (1987. Eastham Mass: Eastham Historical Society).

2 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1843 - 1858,. in vol. 2 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts), 46. unnamed.

3 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:125. the children of Ennoch and Elizabeth Higgins.

4 Frank Dyer, "Descendants of William & Mary (Barrett) Dyer of Rhode Island" (Rootsweb files will_riged, spragueged).

5 1880 US census, Wellfleet Massachusetts, house 5, family 7.

6 George Ernest Bowman, compiler, Vital Records of Truro, Massachusetts to the year 1849 (1933. Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants. republished online), 59.

7 Barnstable Patriot (Barnstable, Mass
archives 1830-1930 online at Sturgis Library, Barnstable), 23 jan 1839.

8 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1858-1910 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 14 (unnamed).

9 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Deaths 1859-1907 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 14.

10 Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association, Wellfleet, Truro & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions, section 9. Pleasant Hill and Oakdale Cemeteries, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1986. Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association), lot 378. C.F. Higgins & Abbie R. Baker family.

11 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:128. the children of Josiah R and Nabby Higgins.

12 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1858-1910 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 20. (unnamed).

13 Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association, Wellfleet, Truro & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions, section 9. Pleasant Hill and Oakdale Cemeteries, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1986. Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association), lot 116. Charles W. & Anne H. Higgins family.

14 Katharine Elizabeth Chapin Higgins, Richard Higgins, a resident and pioneer settler at Plymouth and Eastham, Massachusetts, and at Piscataway, New Jersey, and his descendants. (1918. Worcester, Mass.: Higgins, 811 pgs.), p 360. This is a major source, which seems accurate.

15 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:104. The children of Joseph and Abigail Higgins.

16 Pleasant Hill cemetery, Joseph and Abigail Higgins family.

17 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:154. The children of Paine and Olive Jenkins.

18 Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association, Wellfleet, Truro & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions, section 9. Pleasant Hill and Oakdale Cemeteries, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1986. Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association), lot 399. Young & Brown.

19 Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 111 (MD24:87. Col. Leonard H Smith, Jr. and Norma H Smith. Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans. An authorized facsimile reproduction of records published serially 1901-1935 in "The Mayflower Descendant." With an added index of persons.
1980, 1993. Baltimore MD: reprinted for Clearfield Co. by Genealogical Pub. Co.

20 Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 111 (MD24:87.

21 Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 136 (MD28:82).

22 Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 171 (MD32:175).

23 Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 107 (20:95.

24 Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 187 (MD33:184).

25 Robert Paine Carlson, Cape Cod Gravestones, 2003. Eastham MA. CapeCodGravestones.com.

26 Vernon R. Nickerson, Marriages and Marriage Intentions, 1795-1844. Town of Eastham, Masachusetts (1969. New England Historical & Genealogical Register 123: 117-124, 198-204), by Mr. Shaw. numerous transcription errors

27 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:143. The children of Philip and Mercy Higgins.

28 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1843 - 1858,. in vol. 2 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts), 1.

29 Katherine Chapin Higgins, Supplement to Richard Higgins and his descendants (1924. Worcester Mass: K Higgins.), #190.

30 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:52. the children of Philip and Sarah Higgins.

31 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:71. Solomon and Lavina Snow family.

32 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1858-1910 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 18.

33 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1858-1910 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 15.

34 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1858-1910 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 17.

35 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1858-1910 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 22.

36 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1858-1910 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 24.

37 "Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts, births by family 1628-1855, from Orleans records" (2002. Holbrook Research Institute. files H01_01a - H01_01g), 129.

38 Katharine Elizabeth Chapin Higgins, Richard Higgins, a resident and pioneer settler at Plymouth and Eastham, Massachusetts, and at Piscataway, New Jersey, and his descendants. (1918. Worcester, Mass.: Higgins, 811 pgs.), 330.

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