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Jesse Higgins, I

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
Death: 1790 (53-54)
Maine Colony, British Colonial America
Immediate Family:

Son of Captain Thomas Higgins, Sr. and Abigail Higgins
Husband of Experience Higgins
Father of Priscilla Weeks; Jesse Higgins, Ii and Jonathan Higgins
Brother of Philip Higgins, Sr.; Thomas Higgins, Jr.; Benjamin Higgins; Deacon Jonathan Higgins; Thankful Freeman and 2 others

Managed by: Leo Rogers
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About Jesse Higgins, I


Descendant of Mayflower passengers William and Mary Brewster

Descendant of Mayflower passengers Francis Cooke, and John Cooke

Descendant of Mayflower passengers Thomas Rogers and Joseph Rogers

Descendant of Mayflower passengers Stephen and Elizabeth Hopkins and Constance Snow (Hopkins)


Higgins Massachusetts to Maine migration


https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Higgins-3646

http://www.thomasrogerssociety.com/p31.htm#i929

Jesse is descendant of six Mayflower passengers.

(William Brewster through father Thomas Higgins,

grandmother Sarah (Freeman) Higgins, great-grandfather Edmund Freeman).

Source for ancestry of Sarah (Freeman) Higgins: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?

op=GET&db=stephcarson&id=I1046

Page for Edmund Freeman. Contact: steph_carson|AT|yahooDOTcom.

Anthon Genealogy by Stuyvesant Fish pub 1930:

"Letters of adm. were granted to 'Sarah, widow, and Isaac, eldest son, Feb 25 1717-18;' and mention is made in probate of 'three sons and nine drs.' In the final settlement Feb 12, 1718-9, appear the names of Isaac, Ebenezer, Edmung,' sons; and of the drs., 'Ruth Doane, Sarah Higgins, Mary Hinckley, Experience Gross, Mercy Cobb, Thankful Snow, Elizabeth Pepper, Hannah Remick, and Rachel Freeman.' Moreover, the will of 'Mrs. Sarah Freeman, the widow of Lieut. Edmund Freeman,' March 26, 1736-7, probated Mar 5, 1745, mentions 'my six daughters, Thankful Snow, Mary Hinckley, Mercy Cobb, Hannah Remick, Rachel Gray, Sarah Higgins; and my son Edmund, and the chn. of my son Isaac, dec.' "
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If the above source is unsatisfactory, William Brewster is an ancestor of Jesse's children anyway, through Jesse's wife Experience (Hinckley) Higgins. brother https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Higgins-3641



https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Higgins-3646

Jesse Higgins (1736)

Born 21 Feb 1736 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

ANCESTORS

Son of Thomas Higgins Sr and Abigail (Paine) Higgins

Brother of

Philip Higgins, Thomas Higgins, Benjamin Higgins, Jonathan Higgins, Thankful (Higgins) Freeman,

Sarah Higgins and	Solomon Higgins

[spouse%28s%29 unknown] [children unknown]

Died [date unknown] [location unknown]

Profile manager: Charles Sartelle

Profile last modified 14 Oct 2015

Biography

Sources

Richard Higgins A Resident and Pioneer Settler at Plymouth and Eastham, Massachusetts, and At Piscataway, New Jersey and His Descendants, By Mrs. Katharine Chapin Higgins, Worcester, Massachusetts: Printed for the Author, 1918. Page 190

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Jesse Higgins, I's Timeline

1736
February 21, 1736
Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
1764
May 30, 1764
Georgetown, Lincoln, ME, United States
1766
June 23, 1766
Georgetown, Lincoln County, Maine Colony, British Colonial America
1768
March 17, 1768
Georgetown, Lincoln, ME
1790
1790
Age 53
Maine Colony, British Colonial America