Jonathan Higgins

When his first wife died he married her sister:

"Jonathan Higgens, for committing fornication with his wifes sister after his wifes death, was fined the sume of £20:00:00 Att the earnest petition of some of his frinds, the Court remitted £10:00:00 Ten pounds of this fine was remitted by the Generall Court”. [5]" Such were the rules against marrying your wife’s sister in the 17th century!

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Jonathan Higgins was born about 16 Jul 1637 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony to Richard Higgins and Lydia (Chandler) Higgins. He is the brother of Benjamin Higgins, Mary (Higgins) Looker [half], Eliakim Higgins [half], William Higgins [half], Jediah Higgins Sr [half], Zerah Higgins [half], Thomas Higgins [half], Lydia Higgins [half], Rebecca (Higgins) Martin [half], Sarah Higgins [half] and Ruth (Higgins) Tuttle [half]

Husband of Elizabeth (Rogers) Higgins — married 9 Jan 1660 (to before 4 Jul 1679) in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

Husband of Hannah (Rogers) Higgins Elizabeth's sister) — married about 1679 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony, NewEngland [uncertain]

He is the father of Beriah Higgins, Jonathan Higgins, Jemima (Higgins) Mulford, Joseph Higgins, Hannah (Higgins) Paine, Elisha Higgins, Elizabeth (Higgins) Mayo, Mary (Higgins) Young, Rebecca (Higgins) Hurd, James Higgins and Sarah (Higgins) Mitchell. Jonathan died on 21 May 1711 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Profile last modified 8 Jul 2019 | Created 11 Sep 2010

Biography

Johnathan Higens & Elizebeth Rogers were married the ninth of Jenuary one thousand Six hundred & Sixti On 28 Feb. 1663: “Jonathan Higgins hath one mare colt of a black color”.[1]

“Jonathan Higgins of Eastham… for the sum of £13 paid to him by Ephraim Doane of Eastham, husbandman, doth sell… his dwelling house in Eastham with twenty-two acres of upland, two acres whereof lyeth about the dwelling house, being near a pond called the Basse Pond, the other twenty acres lying on the other side the Basse River by the Bayside… together with four acre of meadow lying at Billingsgate att the mouth of the Silver Springe on both sides the Creek”. Dated 19 Nov. 1670. [2]

“May 12, 1675. The town hath chosen to be presented to the Court for ensigns Jonathan Higgins and Jonathan Bangs. The Court has conferred the office of ensign of the military company of this town upon Jonathan Higgins”. He was confirmed as an ensign on 1 June 1675, an office he held for the next four years. [3] “June 1676. Bulletts received of Thomas Paine by Lieut. Sparrow, [ ] Higgins, Mark Snow, a total of 173 pounds weight”. The Higgins mentions could have been either Jonathan or his brother Benjamin. [4]

Jonathan lost his rank of ensign in July 1679:

“Wheras Ensigne Higgens, with the leave of the Court, hath layed downe his place and office of being ensigne bearer of the milletary companie of Eastham, these are to signify to the said company, that they are heerby required to choose another souldier out of theire companie to serve in that place, and to present his name to the Court for their approbation of their choise.

Jonathan Higgens, for committing fornication with his wifes sister after his wifes death, was fined the sume of £20:00:00

Att the earnest petition of some of his frinds, the Court remitted £10:00:00

Ten pounds of this fine was remitted by the Generall Court”. [5]

Such were the rules against marrying your wife’s sister in the 17th century!

“Aug. 24, 1677. The town hath granted to Jonathan Higgins a parcel of sedge ground adjoining to Sampson’s Island, containing two acres.” On 1 Sept. 1677: “Granted by the town of Eastham to Jonathan Higgins six acres at poche on a neck of land by the side of the Cove that runs up to lieutenant roggerses on the northerly side of the Cove”. And “granted to Jonathan Higgins Senr a piece of land near the head of the town Cove at the westerly end of his son Jonathan Higens his land on the northerly side of Ceder Swamp…to.. the northwesterly corner of Jonathan higens Jr. his land”[6]

“July 15, 1696. The eleventh lot [of the undivided land] is the lot of Jonathan Higens containing 6 acre of medow & two acres of upland at little billingsgate the medow lying in two parcels the first layeth at the northeasterly end of Griffiths Iland… and the other piece on the southerly side of the herring river… near some land formerly granted to Gov. Prence.”[7]

“April 22, 1700, the town voted that Jonathan Higgins senior might have about two acres of land where he now lives”. And on 31 July 1700: “The town voted that Jonathan Higgins might exchange a bit of land at Pochet on the west side of the Barley Neck for his convenience of fencing”.[8]

“Granted to Jonathan Higgins by the town of Eastham liberty to exchange part of his six acres of upland at Pochet where he formerly lived for a piece of common that lyeth betwixt this six acre lot and the land which his father Rogers gave him on the west side of the barley neck, so as to lay his land together, and it is allowed of by the major part of the men appointed by the Town to have a negative in disposing of land within the same and by them laid out and bounded… on a hill nigh the Cove side against the northerly end of a cedar swamp… which was formerly granted to lieutenant Rogers on the west side of the barley neck… down to the water westerly… allowing a cart way by gate or barrs for Jonathan linnel to cart from the cove to his own land… a little above the northerly corner of said marsh allowing a way by gate or barre by the side of sd marsh for carts to use on any occasion from the Cove to the common...” recorded 20 Sept. 1700. [9]

In July 1703: “Land granted to Jonathan Higgins Senr in Eastham at pochy low flats between pochy Island and hog island, being the 28th lot as they were laid out in the division of the common meadows in Eastham.” He was also granted the 11th lot in pochy meadow by the beach. [10]

In 1711 Jonathan had the following grants of land from the town: “March 26, 1711. Set out to Jonathan Higgins Senr. Land to make up his plains lot, 4 ½ acres lying in Sd Eastham on the westerly side of the highway that goes towards Potonomek at and on the northerly side of the way that goes from pochy towards Harwich… the other parcel one acre… on the northern side of the house lot of said Jonathan Higgins Senr. And beginning… at the partition line between him and Jonathan Higgins Junr”. “May 21, 1711. Granted by the town of Eastham and laid out to Jonathan Higgins Senr. Of Sd Eastham a parcel of land for his tenement lot lying on the northeasterly side of Wm Smith’s tenement lot”. “May 21, 1711. Land set out to Jonathan Higgins Senr. For his wood lot on the northerly side of the Secund brooke (so called).” “Laid out to him 6 acres on the northerly side of the second brooke on the northerly side of Joshua Hardings lot”.[11]

In a deed dated 8 May 1711: “I Joseph Higgins, senr of Eastham… in consideration of the sum of eight pounds… paid by Jonathan Higgins junr & Elisha Higgins both of Eastham… all that one third part of that parcel of Land lyingat the barley neck in Eastham… given unto our deceased mother Elizabeth Higgins by our Deceased Grandfather, Leutt Joseph Rogers”. The land had been bequeathed to Elizabeth Higgins by her father in his will dated 2 Jan. 1677/8. [12]

Name

Jonathan Higgins

Notes

He married first Elizabeth Rogers, daughter of Joseph (named in his 1676/7 will as his daughter Elizabeth Higgins).

Elizabeth (Rogers) Higgins died 2 after Jan 1676/7 (when named in her father's will) and before 5 Jul 1679 (when she was referred to as deceased in a Plymouth Court Record that also indicates her widower was sleeping with her [unnamed] sister.

That sister, said to be Hannah/Anna Rogers (only single daughter named in her father's will), was likely the mother of Higgins' last five children (b btw 1680 and 1690)

Children by his first wife, as revealed through a deed dated 1711 concerning land their deceased mother received of their grandfather, (her father), Joseph Rogers:[13] See also[14]

Elisha (Beriah in vitals) Jonathan Joseph Jemima? Hannah? Children by second wife(?), sister of his first wife, said to be Hannah Rogers (because she was only single daughter of Joseph at time of his will?[15], [16]

Elizabeth b 11 Feb 1680 Mary b 22 Jan 1682 Rebecca b 30 Nov 1686 James b 22 Jul 1688 [not mentioned in the 1711 deed because he was not son of Elizabeth Rogers] Sarah b 18 Oct 1690 Memorial

Jonathan Higgins

Memorial

Birth: Jul. 16, 1637 Plymouth Plymouth County Massachusetts, USA

Death: 1711 Eastham Barnstable County Massachusetts, USA

JONATHAN, 1st known child of Richard Higgins by his 1st wife, was born at Plymouth July 1637. He married (1) Eastham 9 January 1660 Elizabeth Rogers. He married (2) by 1680 Hannah Rogers. (The two wives of Jonathan Higgins were sisters, a situation that was considered incestuous by the Puritans and strenuously discouraged; but the evidence presented by Anne Borden Harding in 1969 indicates that in this instance the two wives were sisters. Source: Anderson's Great Migration Begins.

Family links:

Parents: Richard Higgins (1603 - 1674) Lydia Chandler Higgins (1615 - 1650)

Spouse: Elizabeth Rogers Higgins (1639 - 1677)*

Children:

Jonathan Higgins (1664 - 1754)*

Joseph Higgins (1666 - 1729)*

Jemima Higgins Mulford (1667 - 1723)*

Elisabeth Higgins Mayo (1680 - 1721)*

Siblings:

Jonathan Higgins (1637 - 1711)

Benjamin Higgins (1640 - 1691)*

Mary Higgins Looker (1651 - ____)**

Eliakin Higgins (1654 - ____)**

Jadiah Higgins (1656 - 1715)**

Zerah Higgins (1658 - ____)**

Lydia Higgins (1661 - ____)**

Thomas Higgins (1661 - ____)**

Rebecca Higgins Martin (1666 - ____)**

Ruth Higgins FitzRandolph Tuttle (1671 - ____)**

Sarah Higgins Moore (1673 - ____)**

Calculated relationship Half-sibling Burial: Unknown

Created by: Linda Mac Record added: Jul 13, 2010 Find A Grave Memorial# 54902943 [17]

Variation

Individual Report for Jonathan HIGGINS (I28664)

Name: Jonathan HIGGINS 1, 2 Gender: Male

Born: Jul 1637 Place: Plymouth, Massachusetts 1 Baptized: Place: Fact: Place: Son of Richard Higgins and Lydia Chandler 1

Died: Bef 28 May 1711 Place: 1

Buried: Place: Father: Mother:

Spouse: Elizabeth ROGERS (29 Sep 1639 - Between 02 Jan 1677 and 04 Jul 1679) 1, 2 Married: 09 Jan 1660 Place: Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA 1, 2

Spouse: Hannah ROGERS (08 Aug 1652 - Aft 18 Oct 1690) 1, 2 Married: Bef Jul 1679 Place: Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA 1

General

Excerpt from Mayflower Increasings: 4 July 1679, Jonathan was fined for his relationship with Hannah who was his dec'd wife's sister; their first child was b. Feb. 1680/1681. [18]

Born JUL 1637. Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. [19][20][21]

Died Y. 1711[22][23] Source: Note: Age: 73-74.

File Format: htm. Elizabeth Rogers, daughter of Thomas & Elizabeth Rogers as written in "Thomas Rogers, Pilgrim, And Some of His Descend.

Marriage Husband @P814@. Wife @P815@. Child: @P867@. Child: @P774@. Child: @P869@. Child: @P870@. Child: @P866@. Child: @P868@. Child: @P864@. Child: @P863@. Child: @P862@. Child: @P865@. Child: @P861@. Marriage 9 JAN 1660. Orleans, Massachusetts. [24][25][26]

Sources

↑ Town Records quoted by Higgins- p. 43 ↑ Plymouth Colony Deeds- Vol. IV, p. 198 quoted by Higgins p. 43 ↑ Town Records quoted by Higgins- p. 43 ↑ Eastham Town Book- quoted by Higgins- p. 45 ↑ Jonathan Higgins and His Two Wives- Anne Harding- NEHGR- Vol. 123, pp. 147-8; Higgins-Rogers: Eastham: A Question- Donald Jacobus, TAG- Vol. 41, p. 29 ↑ Town book of Lands and Ways quoted by Higgins- p. 44 ↑ Town book of Lands and Ways quoted by Higgins- p. 44 ↑ Town book of Lands and Ways quoted by Higgins- p. 44 ↑ Eastham Lands and Ways- p. 161 quoted by Higgins- p. 46 ↑ Town book of Lands and Ways quoted by Higgins- p. 44 ↑ Town book of Lands and Ways quoted by Higgins- p. 44 ↑ Lt. Joseph Rogers Will and Inventory- George Bowman, The Mayflower Descendant- Vol. III, p. 67-9 ↑ [(as cited in Katharine Chapin Higgins, Richard Higgins... and his Descendants, Worcester, MA: Unknown (1918), pp 595-596.")] ↑ [( Anne Borden Harding, "Notes and Corrections," in NEHGS Register, 123:147-148.)] ↑ [(Donald Lines Jacobus, "Higgins-Rogers: Eastham, Mass.: A Question," in The American Genealogy, 41 (1964):29)] ↑ {9Births listed in "Eastham & Orleans Vital Records," in Mayflower Descendant, 6(1904):15)] ↑ [(http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=54902943)] ↑ [(http://www.dkdonovan.com/getperson.php?personID=I28664&tree=Main)] ↑ Source: #S1114149822 ↑ Source: #S1114149811 ↑ Source: #S1114149808 Source number: 858.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: RH1 ↑ Source: #S1114149822 ↑ Source: #S1114149811 ↑ Source: #S1114149822 ↑ Source: #S1114149808 Source number: 858.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: RH1 ↑ Source: #S1114149782

George Thomas Little, A. M., Litt. D., Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine (Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York 1909) Mayflowerfamilies.com (www.mayflowerfamilies.com/mayflower/thomas1_rogers_family.htm) Mayflower Families through Five Generations , Vol. 2 - James Chilton Richard More Thomas Rogers (General Society of Mayflower Descendants) Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume Nineteen: Thomas Rogers, Ann T. Reeves, Volume: 19, Alice W.A. Westgate (General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2000) p. 13-14. New England Marriages Prior to 1700, by Clarence Almon Torrey (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011) Vol. II, p. 751. HIGGINS, Jonathan (1637-) & 1/wf Elizabeth ROGERS (-1678, 1679); Jan 1660; Eastham {Reg. 6:46, 9:315; Cape Cod Lib. 33:24; NYGBR 46:393; 47:22; MD 3:68, 6:15, 7:16, 17:201; Pilgrim Notes 4:70; Higgins 42; Hills: Mayflower Planters 134} HIGGINS, Jonathan (1637-) & 2/wf[?Hannah ROGERS]; ca 1680; Eastham {NYGBR 46:393; MD 6:15; Pilgrim Notes 1:21, 4:70; Higgins 42; Young (1923) 19; Hills: Mayflower Planters 134} [S02658] Mayflower Increasings 2nd Edition by Susan E. Roser. [S02578] Lineage of the Rogers Family - England - Embracing John Rogers the Martyr, John Cox Underwood, C.E., A.M.. Richard Higgins And His Descendants- Katherine Chapin Higgins, Worcester, 1918, pp. 42ff Richard Higgins of Plymouth and Eastham, MA and Piscataway, NJ- Orra Monnette- NYG&BR- Vol. 47, pp.22-3 Source: S1114149808 U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Yates Publishing Publication: Ancestry.com Operations Inc Source: S1114149811 Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015 Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Source: S1114149822 Millennium File Heritage Consulting Publication: Ancestry.com Operations Inc s://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Higgins-69

'Jonathan Higgins

From his Thomas Rogers Society page:

http://www.thomasrogerssociety.com/p2.htm#i41

Jonathan Higgins [1]

• M,
• b. July 1637,
• d. after 21 May 1711

Jonathan Higgins was born in July 1637 at Plymouth. He was the son of Richard Higgins and Lydia Chandler.

Jonathan Higgins married Elizabeth Rogers, daughter of Joseph Rogers and Hannah, on 9 January 1660 at Eastham.

Jonathan Higgins married Hannah Rogers, daughter of Joseph Rogers and Hannah, after 16 July 1679.

Jonathan Higgins died after 21 May 1711; (deed).

Children of Jonathan Higgins and Elizabeth Rogers

• 1. Beriah or Benjah Higgins+[1] b. 29 Sep 1661, d. b 27 Apr 1699
• 2. Jonathan Higgins+[1] b. "latter end of Aug. 1664", d. bt 2 Nov 1753 - Jun 1754
• 3. Joseph Higgins+[1] b. 14 Feb 1666/67, d. b 21 May 1729
• 4. Jemima Higgins [1] b. 14 Feb 1666/67, d. 8 May 1723
• 5. Hannah Higgins+[1] b. c 1672, d. 24 Jan 1731/32
• 6. Elisha Higgins+[1] b. c 1677, d. bt 19 Sep 1749 - 7 Aug 1750

Children of Jonathan Higgins and Hannah Rogers

• 1. Elizabeth Higgins+ b. 11 Feb 1680 [prob 1680/1], d. 4 Nov 1721
• 2. Mary Higgins+ b. 22 Jan 1682 [prob 1682/3], d. a 2 Jun 1750
• 3. Rebecca Higgins+ b. 30 Nov 1686, d. 25 Dec 1776
• 4. James Higgins+ b. 22 Jul 1688, d. 11 Jul 1777
• 5. Sarah Higgins+ b. 18 Oct 1690, d. a 1741

Citations

• [S1] Ann T. [Revised by], (Originally compiled by Alice W. A. Westgate) Reeves, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620: Family of Thomas Rogers (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2000), p. 10. Hereinafter cited as Rogers-Silver.

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Reference: ancestry.com:

'Jonathan Higgins

Born in Plymouth on 1637 to Richard Higgins and Lydia Chandler.

Jonathan married Elizabeth Rogers and had 6 children.

Jonathan married Hannah Rogers and had 5 children.

He passed away on 1690 in Eastham, Massachusetts, USA.

Family Members

Parents

Richard Higgins 1613-75

Lydia Chandler 1610-1645

Spouse(s)

Elizabeth Rogers 1639-1678

Hannah Rogers 1652-1690

Children

Beriah Higgins 1661-1699

Jonathan Higgins 64-1753

Jemima Higgins 1667-1723

Joseph Higgins 1666-1729

Hannah Higgins 1662-1731

Elisha Higgins 1678-1749

Elizabeth Higgins 1680-1731

Mary Higgins 1681-1749

Rebecca Higgins 1696-1776

James Higgins 1683-1777

Sarah Higgins 1690-1795

• Residence: Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA - 1695
  • Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Mar 30 2020, 20:32:02 UTC