Ichabod Higgins

Ichabod Higgins was a farmer, wheelwright, and a grand juryman.

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Ichabod Higgins

Born 14 Nov 1662 in Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts

Son of Benjamin Higgins and Lydia (Bangs) Higgins

Brother of Richard Higgins, John Higgins, Joshua Higgins, Lydia Higgins, Isaac Higgins, Rebecca Higgins, Deborah Higgins, Samuel Higgins and Benjamin Higgins

Husband of Melatiah (Hamlin) Higgins

Father of John Higgins, Nathaniel Higgins Sr., Thankful (Higgins) Mayo, Lydia Higgins, Ebenezer Higgins and Thomas Higgins

Died 1 Jun 1728 in Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts

Profile last modified 6 Feb 2018 | Created 10 Mar 2011

farmer, wheelwright, grand juryman

Birth

14 NOV 1662 Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Death

1 JUN 1728 Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Sources

Find A Grave memorial #51541091 Ellis-Pagoria Family History (Marriage Date) Ancestry Family Trees (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com) Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=7179083&pid=... Little, George Thomas. Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine (Lewis Historical Publishing Company 1909) Vol.3 - pg. 1784 Ancestral File(R) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998. First Settlers of Eastham, Massachusetts Higgins, Katharine. Richard Higgins: A Resident and Pioneer Settler at Plymouth (K.C. Higgins, Worcester, Mass., 1918) Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1862)

• 'Full text of "Richard Higgins : a resident and pioneer settler at Plymouth and Eastham, Massachusetts, and at Piscataway, New Jersey, and his descendants"
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• 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.
• On March 2, 1668-9, he was sued at law by Peregrine White for damages of £16 for not paying a debt due him, the said White. The parties came to an agreement, and the suit was withdrawn. On June 1, 1675, he was one of the jury in a trial which had momentous consequences, and an account of it may be interesting. In 1662 Massasoit, Sachem of the Wampanoags, the faithful
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• friend of the Pilgrims, with whom he had kept peace and friendship for forty-one years, was gathered to his fathers. Two ' sons survived him, Wamsutta and Metacom, to whom the names Alexander and Philip had been given at their own request. Alexander succeeded his father as sachem, and his sudden death in 1662 gave the Indians suspicion that he had been poisoned by the English. His brother Philip, then about twenty-three years of age and by nature less inclined than his brother to accept a position of dependence, succeeded him. A policy of conciliation might have won his good will, but the constant nagging to which he was subjected increased his resentment and nurtured in him a sullen distrust. The attitude and measures of Plymouth Colony were arbitrary and high-handed and were admirably adapted to bring about the very state of affairs they were intended to forestall. For a dozen years Philip was intriguing and preparing for war.
• The least suspicion of intrigue could not long escape the notice of those Indian converts who kept the authorities well informed of all that went on. There had been living among the Wampanoags at Nemasket (near Middleborough) the daughter of whose chief he had married, an Indian convert of the Rev. John Eliot's, named Sassamon, a Natick, "a cunning and plausible man" Hubbard calls him. This man had accompanied PhiUp to Boston as interpreter after the death of Alexander and served him for some time after, but having, it is said, been found guilty of some offense, had again professed Christianity. Associated with Philip on familiar terms, he claimed to have received the sachem's confidences, and betrayed them to the English under pledge of secrecy.
• His information was not at first much regarded, but Philip, learning in advance of a summons, made haste to Plymouth to free himself from suspicion, and was allowed to return. In the spring of the following year (1675) the dead body of Sassamon was discovered in Assowomset Pond. An investigation led to the belief that Sassamon had been killed while fishing during the winter and his body thrown under the ice. Three Indians were arrested on the evidence of an Indian who claimed to have been an eye-witness of the affair. The three Wampanoags were convicted by a white jury to which had been added several friendly Indians, and executed, utterly denying their guilt, yet the last of them did confess that the other Indians did really murder John Sassamon, and that he himself, though no actor in it, was yet a looker-on. The trial and execution of the three Indians aroused the Wampanoag warriors to madness, and they at once began hostihties.
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• Thus indirectly Benjamin Higgins was one of the immediate causes of the outbreak known in history as King PhiHp's War. That he was a soldier in the contest is probable in general, and is proved by his inventory, which shows that he possessed the equipment of a trooper, and by the grant to his grandson, Jedidiah Higgins, of a share in Narragansett Township No. 7, now the tovrn of Gorham, Me. These grants were made only to the direct heirs or descendants of men who had served in King Phihp's War.
• June 1, 1675, the General Court of Plymouth Colony took the following action: "In answare to a petition prefered to the Court by Benjamine Higgens in the right of his father deceased, to be accommodated with land at Saconett (now Little Compton, R. I.) with the p'tenors and servants there, the Court, generally conceiving that the said Richard Higgens had wronge in that he was not accommodated in the said land with the rest, severall of the p'tenors being p'sent did engage before the Court that in case the petitioner shall and doe make his adresse to the rest of the companie interested in those lands, that they will p'swade them that altho hee can not be supplyed out of the devided land of it, that he may bee competently supplyed in the undevided land thereof."
• It is recorded in the ancient town book of Eastham that on July 14, 1664, "Benjamin Higgins hath a mare of a brownish bay color and one white foot, the other three feet partly white, with a white strip on her face, and running broad toward the right nostril, a piece cut out of the top side the near ear, and burn marked with E on the near shoulder." He also had at this time three mare colts. "The mark of the cattle of Benjamin Higgins is a piece cut off slanting on the fore side of the near ear, and a slit in where the piece is cut out. Entered this 17th April 1680."
• Benjamin Higgins was freeman of the Colony probably as early as 1675 and very probably a soldier in King Philip's War. Jan. 7, 1676, he was one of the Grand Inquest. May 5, 1685, he was chosen constable by the towm, and June 2, 1685, was confirmed by the General Court at Plymouth. Sept. 6, 1686, he was chosen juryman for actions at the County Court at Barnstable. June 4, 1688, he was chosen one of the selectmen at Eastham, and again June 3, 1690. "Aug. 26, 1689, The town have chosen Thomas Paine senior, Daniel Doane and Benjamin Higgins for grand-jurie men for the remainder of this present year." He was one of the witnesses of the will of John Young of Eastham in 1688 and
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• one of the appraisers of the estate, Feb. 3, 1690-1. The book of land grants of Eastham contains several records of grants of land to him by the town, as follows :
• "Richard Higgins sells land to his son Benjamin, 4th day of the 5th month, 1669" (July 4, 1669) (p. 96).
• "Richard Higgins sale of land to Benjamin, proving that Richard went to New Jersey, dated at new pascataway in New Jarsey, Nov. 24, 1672." Mrs. Mary Higgins gave her consent to this and other sales (p. 98).
• "Land granted to Benjamin Higgins Feb. 4, 1673" (p. 97).
• "April 16, 1678. Granted to Benjamin Higgins a parcel of medow at the Harbour's mouth."
• "March 14, 1690. Land granted to Benjamin Higgins (near) Tiis other land upon poche at a place called bishops butter hole' "
• (p. 96).
• 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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Ichabod HIGGINS
Male 1662 - 1728 (65 years)

Name Ichabod HIGGINS [1, 2]
Born 14 Nov 1662 [2]
Gender Male
Died 1 Jun 1728 Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location [1]
Person ID I1965 Downs Genealogy
Last Modified 13 Oct 2015

Father Benjamin HIGGINS, b. Jul 1640, Plymouth, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location, d. 14 Mar 1690/91, Eastham, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 50 years)
Mother Lydia BANGS, b. Abt 1642, d. Aft 13 Feb 1706/07 (Age ~ 65 years)
Married 24 Dec 1661 Eastham, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location [2, 3]
Family ID F199 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Family Melatiah, d. Yes, date unknown
Children

	1. John HIGGINS,   b. 8 Jun 1692,   d. Yes, date unknown

	2. Nathaniel HIGGINS,   b. 1 Jun 1694,   d. Yes, date unknown

	3. Thankful HIGGINS,   b. 24 Aug 1696,   d. Yes, date unknown

	4. Liddia HIGGINS,   b. 13 Apr 1698,   d. Yes, date unknown

	5. Ebenezer HIGGINS,   b. 15 Apr 1701,   d. Yes, date unknown

Last Modified 6 Nov 2006
Family ID F2125 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Sources
[S67] Eastham: First Settlers of Eastham, Mass., Hamblin, David, (?i?Genealogies of Mayflower Families from The New England Historic and Genealogical Register?/i?, 3 volumes (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1985)), DPE0006., 3:888, originally published in the ?i?New England Historical and Genealogical Register?/i? Vol. 6 (Januaryy 1852): 41-6 (Reliability: 3), 6 Nov 2006.

[S67] Eastham: First Settlers of Eastham, Mass., Hamblin, David, (?i?Genealogies of Mayflower Families from The New England Historic and Genealogical Register?/i?, 3 volumes (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1985)), DPE0006., 3:889, originally published in the ?i?New England Historical and Genealogical Register?/i? Vol. 6 (Januaryy 1852): 41-6 (Reliability: 3), 12 Nov 2006.

[S244] Pilgrim Migration, Robert Charles Anderson, (Boston, Massachusetts: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, the Great Migration Project, 2004), 27 (Reliability: 4), 10 Jul 2005.

Added by E. C. nickerson with Citations, proofs.

"I Daniel Cole of Eastham for £7, 14, to me paid by Ichabod Higgins have granted to said Ichabod a parcel of upland in East- ham at a place called pochet on the westerly side next the Town Cove, adjoining to my land where I the sd Daniel do now dwell, seven acres more or less to the westward of my now dwelling house. Dated March 17, 1689-90. Recorded May 22, 1706 in Bk. 5, fol. 17, Barnstable Comity Deeds."

"Zachariah Sias Indian of Eastham conveys to Ichabod Higgins parcel of marsh ground and upland lying at Machquesset in the constable writ of Eastham, bounded west by Thomas Mayo, on the other sides by land of Indians. Dated Oct. 15, 1695. Acknowledged Feb. 11, 1695-6. Recorded May 22, 1706 in Bk. 5, fol. 77, Barnstable County Deeds."

"July 26, 1703. Granted by the town of Eastham to Ichabod Higgins, Richard Higgins and John Atkins land in the town flats, the 19th lot m the middle flat."

"Thomas Mayo son of Mr. John Mayo of Eastham sold to Ichabod Higgins for £6 current pay land on the great or stage flats, the 13th lot on sd flat. Dated April 12, 1704. Recorded May 22, 1706 in Bk. 5, fol. 72, Barnstable County Deeds."

"March 26, 1711. Granted by the to\\Ti of Eastham to Ichabod Higgins land near the sd Higgins's dwelling house, near the land of Thomas Smith."

"May 21, 1711. Laid out to Ichabod Higgins of Eastham a parcell of land for his tenement lot, four acres at little Skaket Neck, it being the fifth lot as they were laid out."

"John Knowles Senr of Eastham yeoman for £60 lawful money paid by Ichabod Higgins conveys to him all his parcels of land in Eastham situated at a place called Weset, two four-acre lots there laid out, bounded as may appear in the Town Book of Records of Lands. Dated Feb. 21, 1712-3. Recorded Jan. 4, 1714-5 in Bk. 7, fol. 268, Barnstable County Deeds."

"Samuel Mayo of Eastham yeoman conveys to Ichabod Higgins of the same town, wheelwright, three tracts or parcells of meadow or sedge ground lying in Eastham on Nauset flats (descriptions and bounds follow). Dated Sept. 30, 1713. Recorded Jan. 4, 1714-5 in Bk. 7, fol. 274, Barnstable County Deeds.

The last deed shows that Ichabod Higgins was a wheelwright as well as a farmer. This occupation carried with it blacksmith's work also, and we find that Ichabod's son Thomas was a black- smith. Ichabod was a freeman of the Colony and in February, 1707-8, was a townsman of Eastham. On March 17, 1700-1, it is recorded that he was chosen grand juryman. In May, 1725, Mr. Ichabod Higgins's house was one of the places appointed by the towTi for sheep shearing. This house was not located on the land he bought of Daniel Cole in 1690, but at a place called Wesset or Weset, and is located by an old deed, as follows:

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"John Sturgis and James Otis both of Barnstable and Samuel Sturgis of Boston for £115 sold to Edmund Freeman of Eastham 'all our Interest, Right and Title to a certain Peice of Land that was Ichabud Higgins Deceased and is Lying in Eastham aforesd adjoyning to the southerly side of the Dwelling House yt sd Deceased used to Leve in and adjoyns on the Northerly side of Joshua Hopkins his Land and adjoyning on the southerly side of it the Road that leads down to Wesset and is bounded on the North East End in the Range of a Parcell of Land that Jonathan Smith bought of John Higgins Takeing part of the House and orchard as may appear By John Higgins deed to Thomas Higgins. Dated March 24, 1749.' " Pratt in his History of Eastham, Well- fleet and Orleans, p. 152, says: "The land between Barley and Tonset Necks and which terminates in Woods Neck is called Pochet. Northeast of Pochet near the ocean is a small neck of land about fifty acres called Weeset. It is separated from Tonset by a cove. Tonset is the east side of the town cove. These several necks constitute a peninsula which is denominated Pochet."

John Higgins was appointed administrator on the estate of Ichabod Higgins on July 5, 1728. In the estate there was a bond (probably promissory note) payable to Isaac Hinckley of Barn- stable. On March 27, 1736, said Hinckley brought a suit for this bond and recovers Judgement against John Higgins mariner and Thomas Higgins blacksmith, both of Eastham. (File No. 44330, Superior Court of Judicature.) This would indicate that Ichabod Higgins had a son Thomas whose birth is not on record, probably born about 1703. This is made a certainty by an old deed which will be given in its place under Thomas Higgins.

Mr. W. B. Snow of Malden, Mass., after a study of the records of Barnstable and Plymouth County towns, by which he endeav- ored to identify all women bearing the rare Christian name, Melatiah, from the beginnings to well past the first quarter of the eighteenth century concluded that the only Melatiah who could have been the wife of Ichabod Higgins was Melatiah Hamblen, born July 1, 1668, at Barnstable, daughter of John and Sarah (Bearse) Hamblen of Barnstable. This seems probable, and his study would amount to a demonstration if it could be shown that no Melatiah had escaped his notice. He also concludes that Richard Higgins, brother of Ichabod, married Sarah Hamblen, sister of Melatiah. ECN