Thomas Rogers Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 22 Aug 1768 - Truro, Massachusetts 1
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Death: 4 Mar 1787 - Truro, Massachusetts 2
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Parents
Father: Jedidiah Higgins (1733-1817)
Mother: Phebe Paine (1738-1793)
Thomas Weston Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 27 Aug 1865 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 3
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Father: Jesse Thomas Higgins (1833- ) 4
Mother: Mary E Weston (1836- )
Captain Thomas Willard Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 25 May 1842 - Orleans, Massachusetts 5
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Death: 17 Jul 1924 - Orleans, Massachusetts
Burial: in Orleans Cemetery 6
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Parents
Father: Thomas Higgins (1811-1893)
Mother: Susan Snow (1815-1893)
Spouses and Children
1. *Deborah Crosby Sparrow (21 Jan 1849 - 13 Oct 1928)
Marriage: 21 Jan 1871 - Orleans, Massachusetts
Status:
Children:
1. Ellen G Higgins (1872-1874)
Notes
Marriage Notes (Deborah Crosby Sparrow)
"Thomas Higgins grew up, married Deborah Crosby Sparrow on 21 January 1871 in Orleans, and they lived there the rest of their lives. Their house still stands on the corner of Great Oak & Main Street in East Orleans. After learning the mariner's trade from his uncle, Thomas eventually became Captain in his own right and commanded the Mary Standish. In 1876, he took his sister Cordelia aboard the Standish and they put into port at Philadelphia and attended the Exposition. He knew as an adult the sorrow his family knew only too well when he was a child. His daughter Ellen died in 1884 at the age of 12 years."
DownsGenealogy.com
" Thomas W. Higgins, son of Thomas and Susan (Snow) Higgins, and grandson of Thomas Higgins, was born in 1842. At the age of fourteen he began going to sea, and since 1870 has been master of coasting vessels. He is a member of the Orleans Congregational church. He married Deborah C., daughter of Samuel and Deborah (Snow) Sparrow, and grand-daughter of Samuel Sparrow. They had one daughter, Ellen J., who died at the age of twelve years." - Deyo 7
Timothy Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 31 Dec 1750 - Middletown, Connecticut
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Death: 14 Jan 1751 - Middletown, Connecticut
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Parents
Father: Beriah Higgins (1727- ) 9
Mother: Thankful Barnes (Est 1730- )
Timothy Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth:
Baptism: 19 Jul 1767 - Middle Haddam (Chatham), Connecticut 10
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Parents
Father: Israel Higgins (1728-1790)
Mother: Elizabeth Aiken (1733-After 1794)
Notes
General:
m1 Lucy Whitmore, 5 apr 1767, Middle Haddam
m2 Annie Follinsbee 11
Timothy Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 15 Mar 1752 - Middletown, Connecticut 8
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Parents
Father: Beriah Higgins (1727- ) 9
Mother: Thankful Barnes (Est 1730- )
Timothy Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 10 Jun 1791 - Standish, Maine
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Death: 21 May 1863 - Standish, Maine
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Parents
Father: Timothy Higgins (1749- )
Mother: Reliance Yates (1751-1825)
Notes
General:
Marriage 1 Rosanna F
Timothy Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 28 Mar 1749 - Eastham, Massachusetts 12
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Death: in Maine
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Parents
Father: Freeman Higgins (1727-1804)
Mother: Martha Cole (1730-Bef 1757)
Spouses and Children
1. *Reliance Yates (18 Jan 1751 - 14 Dec 1825)
Marriage: 1771
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Children:
1. Prince Higgins (1772-After 1850)
2. Ephraim Higgins (1775-1865)
3. Experience Higgins (1777-1865)
4. Thankful Higgins (1779-1823)
5. Freeman Higgins (1787-1809)
6. Timothy Higgins (1791-1863)
Notes
Marriage Notes (Reliance Yates)
Immediately after the close of the Revolutionary War, Timothy Higgins and his wife Reliance Yates and little boy emigrated to Maine. His brother-in-law John Yates went with him, as did nearly 100 others.They embarked from Orleans [sic], Massachusetts on board a sailing sloop of Capt Cahoon. At the mouth of the Saco River they ran on a sand bar which delayed them; finally they got free and sailed up river. They landed, and with heavy packs started on foot to find a place to settle. They travelled 10 miles the first day and reached Gorham Corner (now Narragansett). The next day they travelled 10 more miles, reaching what is now Standish Corner, then called Pearsontown. From here Timothy Higgins and John Yates went northwest into the wilderness another 3 miles. They chose adjoining lots, cut down timber and built for each family a good log house. They lived in them for a number of years, clearing large farms, planting orchards and replacing in time the log cabins with good frame homes. In those early days wolves and bears in great numbers frequented the forest surrounding the Higgins and Yates farms, and were a constant menace by destroying their sheep and cattle.
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Tully Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 31 Aug 1762 - Eastham, Massachusetts 13
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Father: Zaccheus Higgins (1727- )
Mother: Mercy Crosby (1728-1772)
Uriah Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1800 - (Orleans, Massachusetts)
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Death:
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Spouses and Children
1. *Olive Godfrey (Est 1805 - )
Marriage: 2 Oct 1824 - Chatham, Massachusetts 14
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Uriah Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 24 May 1742 - Hardwick, Massachusetts 15
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Death: Abt 1815 - Westhaven, Vermont
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Parents
Father: Elisha Higgins (1702-1777)
Mother: Hannah Doane (1704-1776)
Notes
General:
married Esther Cooley of Greenwich, Mass.
intentions 4/17/1763 Hardwick, Mass.
marriage 5/3/1763 Ware, Mass.
children in Hardwick 16
Uriah Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth:
Baptism: 14 Apr 1799 - Orleans, Massachusetts 17
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Parents
Father: Richard Higgins (1767- )
Mother: Rebecca Young (1772- )
Uriah Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 20 Jul 1800 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 19
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Death: 23 Jul 1800 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 19
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Parents
Father: Uriah Higgins (1767-1837) 20
Mother: Jerusha Rich (1770-1859) 21
Uriah Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 21 Oct 1767 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 20
Baptism:
Death: 24 Jun 1837 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 22
Burial: in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Wellfleet
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Parents
Father: Enoch Higgins (1730-1807) 23
Mother: Mary Atkins (1735-1807) 24
Spouses and Children
1. *Jerusha Rich (25 Oct 1770 - 16 Nov 1859) 21
Marriage: 8 Nov 1791 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 25
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Children:
1. Josiah Rich Higgins (1794-1882)
2. Reuben Higgins (1797-1823) 20
3. Uriah Higgins (1800-1800) 18
4. Jerusha Higgins (1800-1800) 18
5. Mercy Higgins (1800-1800) 20
Uriah Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 26 Jun 1805 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 27
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Death: 16 Jun 1806 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 27
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Parents
Father: Ephraim Higgins (1769-1846) 28
Mother: Nancy Rich (1772-1843) 29
Uriah Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 17 Jan 1776 - Eastham, Massachusetts 30
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Death: Dec 1796
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Father: Lot Higgins (1746-1820) 31
Mother: Zerviah Linnell (1754-1786)
Vincent Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 15 Jul 1802 - Orleans, Massachusetts 32
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Father: Joshua Higgins (1769- )
Mother: Eunice Rogers (1773-1799)
Waldo R Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1878 - Boston, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 21 Sep 1878 - Boston, Massachusetts
Burial: in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Wellfleet
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Parents
Father: Henry Elwood Higgins (1845-1883)
Mother: Carrie Theresa Dill (1852- ) 33
Wallace A Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 23 Mar 1857
Baptism:
Death: 10 May 1858 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Burial: in Oak Dale Cemetery, Wellfleet 34
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Parents
Father: Captain Noah S Higgins (1829-1894) 35
Mother: Abigail Newcomb (1831-1916)
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General:
epitaph:
"This lovely bud of promise fair
Bloomed for a time
Then was transplanted from parents care
To Heaven's pure clime." 34
Walter Irving Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Dec 1852 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 36
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Death:
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Events
• Alt Birth 37, , Wellfleet, Massachusetts in Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Parents
Father: William Higgins (1825-1858) 38
Mother: Mary Knowles Doane (1828-1864) 39
Notes
General:
birthdates a year apart in Wellfleet VR for Walter E and Walter Irving: assume same person
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2. Richard A. Haskell, editor, Truro Cemeteries (2000. Wellfleet MA: Rich Family Association), Rev Jude Damon's notes.
3. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1858-1910 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 9.
4. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:159. The children of Asa and Ruth Higgins.
5. births by family 1628-1855, in "Vital Records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts" (2002. Oxford, Mass: Holbrook Research Institute (2 CDs). files H01_01a - H01_01g), 120.
6. index to Orleans, Massachusetts cemeteries (1970. Excel file at Orleans Historical Society, http://orleanshistoricalsociety.org/collections.html).
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9. George Ernest Bowman and Ethel A. Richardson, "Provincetown, Massachusetts Vital Records" (Mayflower Descendant), 9:102.
10. 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.), 178. This is a major source, which seems accurate.
11. Rev. Frederick W. Bailey, Early Connecticut Marriages As found on Ancient Church Records prior to 1800. Vol. 4. Marriages from the 2nd Congregational Church
of Middle Haddam (now Chatham) (1898. New Haven Ct [http://dunhamwilcox.net/0_ct-index.htm]).
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1980, 1993. Baltimore MD: reprinted for Clearfield Co. by Genealogical Pub. Co.
13. George Ernest Bowman, compiler, "Vital records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts" (Mayflower Descendant [several sections]), 33:14. highly incomplete
14. Sheila M. Dann Westgate and Anna Lowell Tomlinson, Vital Records of Chatham, Massachusetts, 1696-1850. vol. 1 (1991. Chatham Mass.: Chatham Historical Society), 250.
15. Thomas Williams Baldwin, compiler, Vital Records of Hardwick, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (1917. Boston: Wright & Potter (reprinted by Higginson and online)), 58. Please note: Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts is 100 miles from Hardwick, Worcester, Massachusetts. There is no 'Harwick.'
16. Thomas Williams Baldwin, compiler, Vital Records of Hardwick, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (1917. Boston: Wright & Potter (reprinted by Higginson and online)).
17. 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.), 269.
18. Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1:50. .... 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.
19. 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. .... Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:50. the family of Uriah and Jerusha Higgins.
20. 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.
21. 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.), 254.
22. 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. .... 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 668. Uriah and Jerusha R. Higgins. .... Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:241. Deaths.
23. Elizabeth Freeman, Wellfleet, Truro, & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions. Section Three. Duck Creek Cemetery, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet MA: Rich Family Asscociation), 1.
24. Elizabeth Freeman, Wellfleet, Truro, & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions. Section Three. Duck Creek Cemetery, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet MA: Rich Family Asscociation), 1. .... Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 115 (MD24:140-141).
25. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:542. Marriages.
26. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:64. .... 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 255.
27. 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 255.
28. 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.), 254. .... 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. .... 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.
29. 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. .... 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.
30. births and marriages 1740-1841, in "Vital Records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts" (2002. Oxford, Mass: Holbrook Research Institute (2 CDs), files H01_02a - H01_02g), 157.
31. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 82 (MD16:148).
32. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, MD34:60.
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34. 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 3, lot 55. Noah S. and Abigail Newcomb Higgins family.
35. Simeon L. Deyo, editor, History of Barnstable County Massachusetts, 1620-1890. Chapter 24: Wellfleet (1890. New York: H. W. Blake & Co.), 816.
36. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1843 - 1858,. in vol. 2 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts), 2:34.
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38. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Deaths 1843-1859 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 97. frequently differ from other records .... Margaret H. Weiler, Cemetery Inscriptions. Congregational & Soldiers Cemetery, Evergreen Cemetery, Eastham Mass. (1987. Eastham Mass: Eastham Historical Society). .... Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:110 Isaac & Mehetable Higgins family.
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