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About Benjamin Higgins, Jr.
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Benjamin Higgins was born on 15 Sep 1681 in Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts to Benjamin Higgins and Lydia (Bangs) Higgins, and died there in 1760.
- Husband of Sarah (Freeman) Higgins — married 22 May 1701 (to 1743) in Orleans, Massachusetts
- Husband of Mercy (Freeman) Dyer — married 28 Jun 1749 in Eastham, Barnstable, Ma. No children of 2nd marriage.
Children
Benjamin and Sarah (Freeman) Higgins had the following (14) children:[1]
- Priscilla, born 17 November 1702; married Jonathan Smith
- Thomas, born 24 June 1704; married Abigail Paine
- Sarah, born 13 July 1706; married Jesse Smith
- Paul, born 25 June 1708; married Rebecca Mayo
- Reliance, born 10 May 1710
- Elizabeth, born 1 April 1712; married Henry Young
- Experience, born 31 January 1713/4; married ____ Fohy
- Benjamin, born 1 March 1715/6; married Hannah Higgins
- Thankful, born 28 October 1717
- Zaccheus, born 15b August 1719; married Rebecca Young
- Solomon, born 8 September 1721
- Lois, born 6 August 1723; married _____ Cirkum
- Isaac, born 12 July 1725
- Freeman, born 28 July 1727; married Martha Cole and Thankful (Hopkins) Paine
Death
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Origins
Updated: 05 Apr 2012
Richard Higgins and Descendants. The State of Maine, USA Source: Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine. By Henry Sweetser Burrage Published 1909. (As always this information is subject to user confirmation. This being a transcription of a published genealogy, errors in transcription may have occurred)
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- (2) Benjamin, son of Richard and Lydia (Chandler) Higgins, born July 1640, died March 14,1691. He married, December 24,1661, Lydia, daughter of Edward Bangs. Children: Ichabod, Richard, John, Joshua, Lydia, Isaac, Benjamin, Samuel, Benjamin.
- The youngest child, Benjamin married Sarah Freeman, a member of the choice Plymouth families.
- Thomas, the second of the fourteen children of Benjamin and Sarah (Freeman) Higgins, married Abigail Paine, a woman of great religious faith, and their first child Philip, purchased three miles of land near where the city of Bath now stands, and was the ancestor of most of the Higgins families in that part of Maine.
- (3) Richard, ~2~, a son of Benjamin and Lydia (Bangs) Higgins, was born October 15, 1664. He married, 1694,Sarah Freeman* of England. (Possible error on wife's name – verification needed.). Children: Joshua, Eleazer, Theophilus, Jedidiah, Zacchaeus, Esther, David, Reuben, and Abigail.
- The youngest child, Benjamin married Sarah Freeman, a member of the choice Plymouth families.
- (4) Reuben, son of Richard ~2~, and Sarah (Freeman) Higgins, was born 1709.He married (UNKNOWN). Children: Abigail, Hannah, Reuben, Esther and Isaac.
- (5) Reuben ~2~, son of Reuben ~1~ Higgins was born June 24,1739. He removed from Cape Cod to Cape Elizabeth, Maine, at quite an early date. He married UNKNOWN. Children: Hannah Morton, Thankful, Reuben, Sylvanus, Eleazer, Mariah, Frances, Henry, Abigail, twin of Henry.
(1) Richard Higgins, the ancestor, was of Celtic origin, but seems to have emigrated from England, though some of his descendants claim that he came from the north of Ireland. By trade he was a tailor. He was a man of great strength and integrity of character. His name appears in the Plymouth records as early as 1633,and he was an original settler of Eastham, Cape Cod in 1644.
He married (first), November 23, 1634, Lydia Chandler;
Children of first marriage:
- -1- Jonathan, born July 1637.
- -2- Benjamin, born July 1640.
married (second) October 1651,Mary Yates.
Children of second wife:
- -3- Mary, born September 27,1652, -
- 4- Eliakim, born October 20,1654.
- -5- William, born December 15, 1655.
- -6- Judah, born March 5,1657.
- -7- Zenna, born June 1658.
- -8- Thomas, born June 1661.
- - 9- Lydia, born July 1664.
It has been asserted that the name was actually Higginson, but information derived from a careful study of the origin of English surnames makes it quite evident that Higgins not Higginson was the parent name. The name is doubtless of Celtic or Irish origin and was anglicized from Hugonis. Freeman’s “ Cape Cod Families” states that the latter name existed in England in the reign of Richard the 2nd.The first of the name in America was Richard Higgins, and the Charlestown family now in hand is the posterity of that immigrant. The Higginses were enrolled among the patriots of the American Revolution.
'The Mayflower descendant, Volume 18 p 189
"Benjamin8 Higgins was the son of Benjamin and Lydia (Bangs) Higgins, and was born at Eastham, 15 September, 1681. He married, first, at Eastham, on 22 May, 1701, Sarah Freeman6 (Edmund*, Mercy Prence, Patience3 Brewster, William1), who was the mother of all his children, and died at Eastham, 21 January, 1743/4
Benjamin Higgins married, second, at Truro, 28 June, 1749, Mercy (Freeman) Hopkins, who was mentioned in his will. She was the widow of Caleb4 Hopkins (Caleb3, Gyles2, Stephen1) of Truro.
"The Treat Family", published in Salem, Mass., in 1893, states that the Benjamin Higgins who married Mercy (Freeman) Hopkins was born 19 April, 1701, and was "a son of Isaac and Lydia Higgins"; but the will of this Isaac Higgins, dated 12 February, 1760, contains a bequest to the heirs of his deceased son Benjamin. Isaac's son Benjamin, therefore, died more than four months before Benjamin, son of Benjamin* and Lydia Higgins, made his will, in which he named all but three of his children by his wife Sarah, and mentioned his wife Mercy in a way which proves that she was a second wife."
The marriage of Benjamin Higgins and Sarah Freeman, and the births of their fourteen children, were printed in the Eastham records in our seventh volume. All but three of these children, viz. Reliance, Thankful and Solomon, were mentioned in their father's will."
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- 'Full text of "Richard Higgins : a resident and pioneer settler at Plymouth and Eastham, Massachusetts, and at Piscataway, New Jersey, and his descendants"
- http://www.archive.org/stream/richardhigginsre00higg/richardhiggins...
- 3. BENJAMIN^ HIGGINS (Richard'), born July, 1640, at Plymouth; "deceased on ye 14th of March, 1690-1," at Eastham; married Dec. 24, 1661, Lydia Bangs, born ; died after Feb. 13, 1706-7; daughter of Edward and Lydia (Hicks) Bangs of Eastham. Benjamin Higgins resided at Eastham, probably on lands which had belonged to his father at Pochet, now in East Orleans. ...................
- An inventory of the estate of Benjamin Higgins, amounting to £85 in real estate and £206.06.00 in personal estate, was rendered June 19, 1691, and sworn to by Mrs. Lydia Higgins, administratrix, five days later. "Memorandum: that Ichabod Higgins hath already had £10 and a piece of land on which his house stood, appraised at £9." An agreement was made that Ichabod should have in cattle, bedding, boards, shingles and cash £20.05.00; Richard the loom and gears, 7 acres of land, a cutlass, cartridge box, cattle and cash £20.18.00; Joshua a gun, rapier, cartridge box, bedding, wearing clothes, powder and bullets, saddle and cloth, cattle, sheep and cash £20.05.00; Lydia should have cattle, sheep, an iron pot, books, cloth and cash £20; Isaac a gun, ammunition, a cutlass, cartridge box, bedding, clothing, cattle, sheep and cash £20.05.00; Samuel was to have a gun, sword, cartridgebox, a book, bedding, clothes, ammunition, cattle, sheep and cash £20.05.00; 'Benjamin was to have two-thirds of the housing and one-third of the lands and meadows'; the widow to have her legal third part. She was living Feb. 13, 1706-7, when her brother, Joshua Bangs, willed to her one-eighth part of such personal estate of his as might remain after the death of his wife. Aug. 20, 1711, town of Eastham "Laid out to widdow Lidia Higgins for her natural life and then returns to the town, a parcel of land near the head of Namskaket on the Eastern side of the first lot which is the lot of Daniel Cole Sr." The date of her death is unknown. She married (2) Nicholas Snow.
- Children born at Eastham.
- 16. i. Ichabod, b. Nov. 14, 1662; married Melatiah Hamblen (?).
- 17. ii. Richard, b. Oct. 15, 1664; married Sarah Hamblen(?).
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- iii. John, b. Nov. 20, 1666; d. June 13, 1689.
- 18. iv. Joshua, b. Oct. 1, 1668; married (1) Ehzabeth Smith; (2) Priscilla Bixby; (3) Mary Baker.
- V. Lydia, b. "latter end of May, 1670"; living June 24, 1691.
- 19. vi. Isaac, b. Aug. 31, 1672; married Lydia Collins,
- vii. Rebecca, b. June 14, 1674; d. March, 1675.
- 20. viii. Samuel, b. March 7, 1676-7; married (1) Hannah Cole; (2) Thankful Mayo; (3) Elizabeth Hardmg.
- 21. ix. 'Benjamin, b. Sept. 15, 1681; married (1) Sarah Freeman; (2) Mercy Hopkins.
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Benjamin Higgins, Jr.'s Timeline
| 1681 |
September 15, 1681
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Eastham, Cape Cod, Plymouth Colony
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| 1702 |
November 17, 1702
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Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1704 |
June 24, 1704
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Eastham, Barnstable County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America
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| 1706 |
July 13, 1706
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Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA
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| 1708 |
June 25, 1708
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Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts
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| 1710 |
May 13, 1710
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Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1712 |
April 12, 1712
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Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1713 |
January 31, 1713
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Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1716 |
March 1, 1716
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Eastham, Barnstable County, Province of Massachusetts
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