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Abigail Higbee (Adams)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Death: 1692 (31-32)
Huntington, Long Island, New York, United States
Place of Burial: United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of John Adams, of Hartford and Abigail Betts
Wife of Edward Higbee
Mother of Edward Higbee; John Higbee; Sarah Higbee; Margery Higbee; Mary Higbee and 1 other
Sister of NN Adams, a child; Rebecca Risley; Sarah Brush (Adams); Jeremiah Adams, Sr.; John Adams, Jr. and 2 others
Half sister of Jeremiah Adams, Sr.

Managed by: Jim Sally
Last Updated:

About Abigail Higbee

It states in the Higbee book that Abigail was related to a Dr. Aurthur Adams

(he knows the history of the Hartford churches and who is also an able

Genealogist and particularly interested in the early history of the Higbee

family as Abigail of his Family married Edward)

Also in the Higbee book it states: His first wife (meaning Edward Higby) was

the granddaughter of Jeremy Adams, born in England in 1606, one of the original

proprietors of Hartford, Conn., this fact is shown by the following letter of

attorney, dated 9 Feb. 1696/7:

"I Jeremiah Adams of Huntington, Long Island, son of John Adams and grandson of

Jeremie Adams and nephew of Thomas Greenhill make my brother-in-law Edward

Higby trustee and attorney." (Probate Records of Conn., vol. 1 p. 168

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New Eng Hist & Gen Reg.Vol. 59 p.317 says:

Born 1660 at Hartford.

She went with her step father, John Betts, to Huntinton, Long Island where she

Married Edward Higbee about 1684.

A Child: John Higbee went to Little Egg Harbor N.J.; m. Alice, dau. of Edward

Andrews.Father died while before this child was born

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Abigail Higbee's Timeline

1660
1660
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
1661
1661
Age 1
Hartford, Hartford, Colony of Connecticut, British Colonial America
1685
1685
Queens, Queens County, New York, United States
1685
Huntington, Suffolk County, Province of New York
1687
1687
Huntington, Suffolk, New York, United States
1689
1689
Huntington, Suffolk County, Province of New York
1691
1691
Huntington, Suffolk County, Province of New York
1692
1692
Huntington, Suffolk County, Province of New York
1692
Age 32
Huntington, Long Island, New York, United States