Sarah Higgins

Descendant of Elder William Brewster, "Mayflower" Passenger and Mary Brewster, "Mayflower" Passenger

Sarah Freeman

• Born about 1682 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony
• Died 21 Jan 1743 at about age 61 in Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts Bay
• BURIAL - Cove Burying Ground, Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA
• Daughter of Edmund Freeman and Sara Mayo
• Wife of Benjamin Higgins — married 22 May 1701 (to 1743) in Orleans, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Edmund Freeman and Sarah Mayo had the following eleven children:

1. Sarah Freeman, married Benjamin Higgins. "Benjamin Higens and sarah ffreeman ware Married the two and twentieth day of may 1701“ (Eastham Vital Records). He was the son of Benjamin Higgins and Lydia Bangs.

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Freeman-1181

Benjamin Higgins and Sarah (Freeman) Higgins had the following (14) children:[2]

1. Priscilla, born 17 November 1702; married Jonathan Smith
2. Thomas, born 24 June 1704; married Abigail Paine
3. Sarah, born 13 July 1706; married Jesse Smith
4. Paul, born 25 June 1708; married Rebecca Mayo
5. Reliance, born 10 May 1710
6. Elizabeth, born 1 April 1712; married Henry Young
7. Experience, born 31 January 1713/4; married ____ Fohy
8. Benjamin, born 1 March 1715/6; married Hannah Higgins
9. Thankful, born 28 October 1717
10. Zaccheus, born 15b August 1719; married Rebecca Young
11. Solomon, born 8 September 1721
12. Lois, born 6 August 1723; married _____ Cirkum
13. Isaac, born 12 July 1725
14. Freeman, born 28 July 1727; married Martha Cole and Thankful (Hopkins) Paine

Benjamin Higgins married secondly to Mercy Hopkins, widow, nee Freeman. No children resulted from that marriage.

References

• Mayflower Families Fifth Generation Descendants, 1700-1880. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017). From Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1975-2015. < AmericanAncestors > Name Sarah FREEMAN Marriage 5/22/1701 Location Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States Original Text Gen. 5: 293. SARAH FREEMAN5 (Edmund Freeman4, Mercy Prence3, Patience Brewster2, William Brewster1) Benjamin Higgins Father Edmund Freeman Mother Sarah Freeman Volume Name Brewster, William (MFIP Patience) Page 59
• http://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/sarah-freeman_34001953
• Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine. By Henry Sweetser Burrage Published 1909.
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/123058266/sarah-higgins