Eastham, Wellfleet and beyond


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picture William Higgins 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 1812 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
        Baptism: 
          Death: 19 Aug 1858 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
         Burial: in Wellfleet, Massachusetts
 Cause of Death: consumption 2

Notes
Medical:
age 36
single
mariner
parents not identified
death record says born Wellfleet

picture William Higgins 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: Est 1810 - (Provincetown, Massachusetts)
        Baptism: 
          Death: 9 Jul 1842 - Cienfuegoes, Cuba
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Notes
General:
obit note:
"In Cienfuegos, July 9th, Mr. William HIGGINS of P'town, seaman." 3

picture William Higgins 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 15 Dec 1655 - Eastham, Plymouth Colony 4
        Baptism: 
          Death: 
         Burial: 
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Parents 
         Father: Richard Higgins (1613-1677)
         Mother: Mary (Yates) (Est 1630-After 1702)



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William Allen Higgins 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 10 Apr 1850 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 6
        Baptism: 
          Death: 19 Dec 1855 - Charlestown, Massachusetts
         Burial: in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Wellfleet
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: John Knowles Higgins (1825-1876) 5 7
         Mother: Lucy B Rich (1829-1886) 8



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William B Higgins 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 29 Aug 1875 - Eastham, Massachusetts
        Baptism: 
          Death: 
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Peter Higgins (1838-1915) 10 11
         Mother: Phebe E Burroughs (1851-1894) 9 12



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William Franklin Higgins 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 31 Dec 1823 - Cohasset, Massachusetts
        Baptism: 
          Death: 19 Jul 1871 - Charlestown, Massachusetts
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: John Higgins (1792-1868)
         Mother: Hannah Wells (Est 1794-Bef 1829)
Spouses and Children 
1. *Mercy Higgins (29 Mar 1826 - 6 Feb 1873)
       Marriage: 24 Oct 1850 - Melrose, Massachusetts
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. John Franklin Higgins (1857-1930)



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William H Higgins 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 1 Nov 1928
        Baptism: 
          Death: 10 Aug 1978 - Cumberland, Rhode Island
         Burial: in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Wellfleet
 Cause of Death:
Events
• Soc Sec Num, 036-20-9554 in Rhode Island


picture William H Blaney Higgins 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 9 Sep 1866 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 14
        Baptism: 
          Death: 
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Philip Higgins (1835-1920)
         Mother: Arabella Cass Blaney (1842-1920) 15
Spouses and Children 
1. *Lucinda Lewis Higgins (20 May 1866 - 11 Aug 1923) 16 17 
    Partnership: 
         Status: This couple did not marry
       Children:
                1. Blanch Franklyn Higgins (1883-      )
                2. Harold Clifton Higgins (1885-1951) 18 19
                3. Raymond Smith Higgins (1887-1921) 18
Notes
General:
1883, 1885 mariner, Wellfleet

picture William Henry Greenough Higgins 
      Sex: M
AKA: Willie H Higgins
Individual Information 
          Birth: 16 Mar 1877 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 21
        Baptism: 
          Death: 10 Mar 1920 - Brattleboro, Vermont 22
         Burial: 17 May 1920 - Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Wellfleet 22
 Cause of Death: cerebral hemorrhage

Parents 
         Father: Captain Charles Freeman Higgins (1842-1889) 20 23
         Mother: Abbie Rich Baker (1842-1915) 20
Notes
Medical:
age 42-11-23 22

picture William Henry Greenough Higgins 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 1 Jul 1840 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 23
        Baptism: 
          Death: 7 Apr 1873 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Josiah Rich Higgins (1794-1882)
         Mother: Abigail H Freeman (1801-1853) 25
Spouses and Children 
1. *Eusebia Sawyer Doane (12 Apr 1841 - 20 Mar 1916) 24 
       Marriage: 10 Feb 1861 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Charles Greenough Higgins (1864-1902) 24



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William Hutton Higgins 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 1 Mar 1859 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 28
        Baptism: 
          Death: 27 May 1933 - Brockton, Massachusetts 29
         Burial: in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Wellfleet
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Captain William Hutton Higgins (1823-1867) 7
         Mother: Jerusha Cole Dyer (1825-1870) 27
Spouses and Children 
1. *Ella F Powers (1867 -       )
       Marriage: 21 Nov 1887
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Jennie Lewis Higgins (1889-      ) 30
                2. Elsie Frances Higgins (1891-      ) 31
                3. Mary Forest Higgins (1896-      ) 32
Notes
General:
tentative link of William to parents and wife

picture Captain William Hutton Higgins 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 10 Apr 1823 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 7 27
        Baptism: 
          Death: 12 Dec 1867 - Lost At Sea 27
         Burial: in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Wellfleet
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Enoch Higgins (1798-1866) 25 33
         Mother: Eliza Hopkins (1798-1850) 33
Spouses and Children 
1. *Jerusha Cole Dyer (Jul 1825 - 4 Apr 1870) 27 
       Marriage: 27 Nov 1845 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 34
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Mary Angeline Higgins (1847-1931) 35
                2. Sarah K Higgins (1851-1896) 27
                3. Marshall Irving Higgins (1854-1936) 27 36
                4. Higgins (1856-      )
                5. William Hutton Higgins (1859-1933) 26 27
                6. Edgar F Higgins (1864-1924) 26 27
                7. Bessie D Higgins (1866-      ) 27
Notes
General:
Lost at sea, supposed on Dec 12 1867, schooner Ellery C. Anthony on a passage from Newport RI to Virginia in a gale of wind - William H Higgins, age 44-8, married; William Newcomb jr, 48-11-14, married; Harvey F Lanman, 36-2-10, married; Elisha F Jones, 22-2-5, single; Alden F Covell, 25-8, married; Simon N Lanman jr, 21-6-19, single.
Wellfleet deaths 1859-1907, page 11

1851, 1854, 1856, 1859, 1866 mariner/seaman, Wellfleet 27
Marriage Notes (Jerusha Cole Dyer)
"From a quarterly report given Dec. 3, we extract the following : —

" As it will be a year, in a few days, since the schooner ' Ellery C. Anthony' sailed from Newport Harbor, for Tangier Sound, I suppose we are under the painful necessity of admitting that she must have been lost with all on board. Capt. William H. Higgins, and William Newcomb, Jun., were both highly respected members of this church. They were called suddenly, but, we trust, were prepared for their change.

" We rest our expectation not upon any dying testimony, but upon about twenty-five years of Christian experience, in which they exemplified those traits of character which only proceed from regenerate hearts. Not only their families, but our church and community, are deeply afflicted by this sad bereavement."" 37

picture William J Higgins 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: Est 1916 - (Harwich, Massachusetts)
        Baptism: 
          Death: 
         Burial: 
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Spouses and Children 
1. *Helen Louisa Morlock (1918 - 5 Jun 2007)
       Marriage: 
         Status: 



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William P Higgins 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 1817
        Baptism: 
          Death: 
         Burial: 
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Parents 
         Father: Robert Kemp Higgins (1775-      )
         Mother: Eunice Holbrook (1781-      )



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William Penn Higgins 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 14 Jun 1824 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 38
        Baptism: 
          Death: 
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Daniel Higgins (1783-1832) 39
         Mother: Polly Atwood (1785-1862)



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Willis Higgins 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: Jun 1881 - Provincetown, Massachusetts
        Baptism: 
          Death: 9 Sep 1881 - Provincetown, Massachusetts
         Burial: in Cemetery #2, Provincetown
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Willis Higgins (1844-1930)
         Mother: Irene A (1844-1881)



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Willis Higgins 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 19 May 1844 - Eastham, Massachusetts
        Baptism: 
          Death: 1930 - Provincetown, Massachusetts
         Burial: in Cemetery #2, Provincetown
 Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt Birth, 18 May 1844 in Eastham, Massachusetts

Parents 
         Father: Josiah Higgins (1791-1881) 12 40
         Mother: Ann Knowles (1804-1879) 40
Spouses and Children 
1. *Irene A (1844 - 20 Jun 1881)
       Marriage: 
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Lizzie Atkins Higgins (1877-      )
                2. Willis Higgins (1881-1881)

2. Emmazette Folger (Est 1850 -       )
       Marriage: 23 Dec 1888
         Status:
Notes
General:
1918 of Nantucket

2nd wife?
Zetta F. Higgins 1850-1932
Marriage Notes (Irene A)
1880 Provinctown census
Willis HIGGINS Self M Male W 36 MA House Carpenter MA MA
Icena A. HIGGINS Wife M Female W 36 ME Keeping House ME ME
Lizzie A. HIGGINS Dau S Female W 3 MA At Home MA ME

picture Willis Higgins 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 18 Oct 1819 - Eastham, Massachusetts
        Baptism: 
          Death: 24 Nov 1839 - Eastham, Massachusetts
         Burial: in Congregational & Soldiers cemetery, Eastham
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Josiah Higgins (1791-1881) 12 40
         Mother: Hannah Snow (1794-1835) 12 40 41



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Wilmer Leroy Higgins 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 27 Nov 1877
        Baptism: 
          Death: 
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Asa Higgins (1841-1897) 12
         Mother: Eunice Hattie Robbins (1841-1929) 12



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Wilson Higgins 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 2 May 1822 - Eastham, Massachusetts 42
        Baptism: 
          Death: 
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: James Higgins (1781-1871)
         Mother: Jerusha Linnell (1781-1851)
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Sources

1 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Deaths 1843-1859 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 97. frequently differ from other records

2 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Deaths 1843-1859 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 97.

3 Yarmouth Register (Yarmouth, Massachusetts), 18 Aug 1842.

4 William Richard Cutter, New England Families Genealogical and Memorial, Third Series (Reprint by Genealogical Publishing Inc 1996. IV, 1915), p 2306.

5 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 675A. John K & Lucy Higgins family.

6 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1843 - 1858,. in vol. 2 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts), 24.

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

8 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:153. The daughter of Micha and Anna L Rich.

9 Simeon L. Deyo, editor, History of Barnstable County Massachusetts, 1620-1890. Chapter 22. Eastham (1890. New York: H. W. Blake & Co.), 741.

10 Simeon L. Deyo, editor, History of Barnstable County Massachusetts, 1620-1890. Chapter 22. Eastham (1890. New York: H. W. Blake & Co.), 740.

11 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.), 465. This is a major source, which seems accurate.

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

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 96. Dill & Higgins.

14 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1858-1910 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 10.

15 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), lots 73-75. Sparrow and Higgins families.

16 Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1923.

17 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1858-1910 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 11.

18 Kenneth Cole, South Wellfleet Cemetery (Wellfleet, Mass. Rich Family Association).

19 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1858-1910 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 30.

20 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.

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

22 Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1920.

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

24 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.), 473.

25 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 254.

26 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 724. William H. & Jerusha C. Higgins family.

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

28 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1858-1910 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1.

29 Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1933 (brought to Wellfleet for burial).

30 Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1889, p 30.

31 Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1891. Births.

32 Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1896. Births.

33 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 657b. Enoch & Eliza Higgins family.

34 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 2:60.31. Marriages.

35 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), row 28, lot 1B. Wesley J. Freeman & Mary A. Higgins family.

36 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 47. Marshall Irving Higgins & Hope Doane Smith family.

37 Rev. Albert P. Palmer, A Brief History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1877. Wellfleet, Mass; Leaders and Stewards [of the Wellfleet Methodist Church]), 66.

38 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:94. Daniel & Polly Higgins family.

39 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:26. the family of Daniel Higgins and Hannah his wife.

40 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 244.

41 Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 180 (MD33:85). 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.

42 George Ernest Bowman, compiler, Eastham and Orleans, Mass., Vital Records (Mayflower Descendant [several sections]), 33:136.

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