Dorcas Higgins
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 12 May 1785 - Gorham, Maine
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Captain Joseph Higgins (1749-1804) 1
Mother: Mercy Cook (1755-1843)
Spouses and Children
1. *Moses Rich (22 Jun 1783 - )
Marriage: 1806 - Gorham, Maine
Status:
Children:
1. Joseph Higgins Rich (1808- )
Dorcas Higgins
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Cir 1723 - Eastham, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 14 Apr 1805 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Burial: in Orleans Cemetery 2
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: James Higgins (1688-1777)
Mother: Sarah Mayo (1690-Bef 1726)
Spouses and Children
1. *Isaac Taylor (1 May 1725 - 21 Nov 1760)
Marriage: 3 Oct 1751 - Eastham, Massachusetts 3
Status:
Children:
1. Ruth Taylor (Bef 1756-1776)
2. Sarah Taylor (1754-1775)
Notes
General:
It is not clear which Sarah was Dorcas's mother.Marriage Notes (Isaac Taylor)
stone:
Dorcas Taylor
wife of
Isaac Taylor
who died
April 14 1805
aged 82 years 4
Daughters said to have been baptized at Pembroke in 1775.
Dorcas C Higgins
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1861
Baptism:
Death: 1925
Burial: in Evergreen Cemetery, Eastham 5
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Captain Daniel Higgins (1832-1921)
Mother: Betsey Collins (1836-1924)
Doris Higgins
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1905 - Harwich, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Winfred C Higgins (1867- )
Mother: Inez Weston Nickerson (1868-1915)
Doris Audrey Higgins
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 23 Mar 1912 - Medford, Massachusetts 6
Baptism:
Death: 5 Sep 1998 - Stuart, Martin, Florida
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Events
• Social Security Number, 028-07-7360, Massachusetts in Massachusetts
Parents
Father: Wilber Oliver Higgins (1865-1941)
Mother: Eva Myrtle Crump (1883-1981)
Spouses and Children
1. *Richard H Schmidt (16 Aug 1911 - 14 Jun 1973) 7
Marriage:
Status:
Dorothy Higgins
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1920
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Glenn B Clough (2 Dec 1918 - 2 Jul 2003)
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Dana W Clough (1951-2001)
Dorothy Higgins
Sex: F
AKA: Dorathy Higgins 8
Individual Information
Birth: 16 Mar 1731 - Eastham, Massachusetts 8
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: David Higgins (1706-1771)
Mother: Mercy Twining (1708-Bef 1757)
Dorothy Evelyn Higgins
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 31 Oct 1921 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 9
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Raymond Smith Higgins (1887-1921) 10
Mother: Harriet Elizabeth Runnels (1895- )
Eben Parsons Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1 Jun 1811 - Framingham, Massachusetts 11
Baptism:
Death: 12 Feb 1879 - Andover, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Captain Robert Kemp Higgins (1775-1826)
Mother: Eunice Holbrook (1781-1822)
Notes
General:
Married 1835 Rebecca Abbott of Andover, Mass.
m2 Ann E Whittier, 30 oct 1878 Andover 12
Ebenezer Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 24 Nov 1825 - Maine
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Ebenezer Higgins (Est 1795- )
Mother: Ruth Smith (Est 1795- )
Captain Ebenezer Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1807
Baptism:
Death: 15 Jun 1846 - Provincetown Harbor
Burial:
Cause of Death: heart attack
Notes
Medical:
"In P'town harbor, on Monday last, Capt. Ebenezer HIGGINS, master of schr EBEN ATKINS, 39. The vessel was under way bound to Norfolk, when Capt. HIGGINS, who was at the helm, fell suddenly upon deck, dead; supposed from disease of the heart." 13
Ebenezer Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 4 Jul 1775 - Truro, Massachusetts
Baptism: 30 Jul 1775 - Truro, Massachusetts
Death: Lost At Sea
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Ebenezer Higgins (1749-Between 1793/1801)
Mother: Rebecca Dyer (1753-1820)
Spouses and Children
1. *Joanna Collins (21 Dec 1776 - 22 Jun 1849)
Marriage: 2 Dec 1800 - Penobscot, Maine 15
Status:
Children:
1. Johanna Higgins (1803-1865) 4
Notes
Marriage Notes (Joanna Collins)
Lived at Castine.
Children
Hannah Atkins HIGGINS b in Standish, Cumberland, Maine 14
Ebenezer Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1790 - Harwich, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 7 Apr 1875
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Jacob Higgins (1747-1824) 16
Mother: Marcy Holbrook (1753-1818) 17
Spouses and Children
1. *Sukey Sears (24 Jun 1790 - 15 Jul 1874) 18
Marriage: 16 Nov 1815
Status:
Children:
1. Susan Sears Higgins (1816- )
2. Ebenezer Higgins (1818-1880) 19
3. Jacob Higgins (1821-1838) 20
4. Abigail Freeman Higgins (1823-After 1910)
5. Willard Higgins (1826-1866) 20
Ebenezer Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 12 May 1818
Baptism:
Death: 23 May 1880
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Ebenezer Higgins (1790-1875)
Mother: Sukey Sears (1790-1874) 18
Ebenezer Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1 Jan 1811 - Eastham, Massachusetts 22
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: James Higgins (1781-1871)
Mother: Jerusha Linnell (1781-1853)
Spouses and Children
1. *Lucretia Eldredge (12 Jan 1812 - )
Marriage: 19 Nov 1829 - Orleans, Massachusetts 23
Status:
Ebenezer Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 15 Apr 1701 - Eastham, Massachusetts 25
Baptism:
Death: 1779 - Eastham, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Ichabod Higgins (1662-1728)
Mother: Melatiah Hamblin (1668-1744)
Spouses and Children
1. *Abigail Cole (Est 1704 - Bef 1771) 24
Marriage: 5 Oct 1721 - Eastham, Massachusetts 26
Status:
Children:
1. Cornelius Higgins (1722-1803)
2. Experience Higgins (1724- )
3. Asenath Higgins (1726- )
4. Captain Isaiah Higgins (1727-After 1790)
5. Elkanah Higgins (1729-1815) 24
6. Ebenezer Higgins (1731-1818)
2. Content James (21 Aug 1720 - Bef 1788)
Marriage: 25 Dec 1771 - Eastham, Massachusetts 27
Status:
3. Phebe (Snow) (Est 1750 - )
Marriage: 29 Feb 1776 - Eastham, Massachusetts 28
Status:
Notes
General:
The Higgins Genealogy says his death was probably in 1788 or 1789, repeated by the Helen Swift's book. 24Marriage Notes (Abigail Cole)
Marriage Notes (Content James)
Marriage Notes (Phebe (Snow))
27
widow Phebe Snow, presumably
Ebenezer Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 26 Jun 1731 - Eastham, Massachusetts 29
Baptism:
Death: 13 Oct 1818 - Jamaica, Vermont
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Ebenezer Higgins (1701-1779) 24
Mother: Abigail Cole (Est 1704-Bef 1771) 24
Spouses and Children
1. *Elizabeth Merrick (1732 - 8 Jul 1820)
Marriage: 22 Feb 1755 - Eastham, Massachusetts 30
Status:
Children:
1. Zoheth Higgins (1756- )
2. Ichabod Higgins (1759- )
3. Tamesin Higgins (1760-After 1790)
4. Joseph Higgins (1762- )
5. Cornelius Higgins (1766- )
6. Lucy Higgins (1768- )
7. Ephraim Higgins (1771- )
8. Abraham Higgins (1773- )
9. David Higgins (1776- )
Notes
General:
The marriages here so far don't make sense.
Eastham constable, 1768. Held town offices 1768, 1781, 1783.
1790 census: himself and wife, 2 sons over 16, one son under 16, 2 daughters. By 1790 sons Joseph and Ephraim were settled in Jamaica, Vermont, and Ebenezer followed later. He lived on the SOuth Hill in Jamaica, west of the farm of Ephraim. 31
Ebenezer Higgins
Sex: M
AKA: Ebnezar Higgins 32
Individual Information
Birth: 23 Aug 1749 - Eastham, Massachusetts 32
Baptism:
Death: Between 1793 and 1801 - Truro, Massachusetts 14
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt Death, , Pearsontown (now Standish), Maine in Pearsontown (now Standish), Maine
Parents
Father: Ebenezer Higgins (1721-1779)
Mother: Martha Burgess (1723-1763)
Spouses and Children
1. *Rebecca Dyer (18 Oct 1753 - 25 Dec 1820)
Marriage: 14 Apr 1772 - Truro, Massachusetts 33
Status:
Children:
1. Ebenezer Higgins (1775- ) 14
2. Rebecca Higgins (1780- )
3. Hannah A Higgins (1782- )
4. Martha Higgins (1784- )
5. David Higgins (1787- ) 14
6. Susanna Higgins (1789- )
7. Desire P Higgins (1793- )
Notes
Marriage Notes (Rebecca Dyer)
He resided at Truro and Provincetown and about 1781-2 moved to Pearsonstown (now Standish), Maine, where he was living there in 1790, then moved back to Truro, Barnstable, Ma where he died.
Children
Mary Higgins b: AFT 1772
Rebecca Higgins b: 4 JUL 1775 in Provincetown, Barnstable, Ma
Ebenezer Higgins b: BEF 30 JUL 1775 in Truro, Barnstable, Ma
Hannah Atkins Higgins b: 20 AUG 1782 in Standish, Cumberland, Me
Martha Higgins b: 21 JUN 1784 in Standish, Cumberland, Me
David Higgins b: 3 NOV 1787 in Standish, Cumberland, Me
Susanna Higgins b: 14 APR 1789 in Standish, Cumberland, Me
Desire Parker Higgins b: BEF 19 MAY 1793
(will_riged)
Ebenezer Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 21 Jul 1721 - Eastham, Massachusetts 34
Baptism:
Death: 21 Apr 1779 - Truro, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Samuel Higgins (1694-1776)
Mother: Mehitable Phinney (1696-1778)
Spouses and Children
1. *Martha Burgess (23 Sep 1723 - 29 Oct 1763)
Marriage: 8 Oct 1742 - Eastham, Massachusetts 35
Status:
Children:
1. Elizabeth Higgins (1743-Bef 1786) 35
2. Seth Higgins (1744- ) 35
3. Hannah Higgins (1747- ) 32
4. Ebenezer Higgins (1749-Between 1793/1801)
5. Jonathan Higgins (1751-1798) 32
6. Abisha Higgins (1753-1812) 36
7. Susannah Higgins (1755-1789) 37
8. Heman Higgins (1757- ) 38
9. Thankful Higgins (1759- ) 39
2. Hannah Yates (Est 1724 - )
Marriage: 27 Oct 1763 - Harwich, Massachusetts 40
Status:
Children:
1. Elkanah Higgins (1764- ) 38
2. Mary Higgins (1765- ) 41
3. Martha Higgins (1767- ) 38
Notes
Marriage Notes (Martha Burgess)
KC Higgins (p137) has Abisha born 18 Oct 1752, and Elisha born 12 Aug 1753. This seems in direct conflict with the Eastham transcription (MD20:95)
Ebenezer Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1795 - Bucksport, Maine
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Ruth Smith (Est 1795 - )
Marriage: Est 1816
Status:
Children:
1. Elijah Smith Higgins (1818- )
2. Jeremiah Higgins (1820- )
3. Harriet Elizabeth Higgins (1822- )
4. Ebenezer Higgins (1825- )
5. Julia Francis Higgins (1828-1865) 42
6. Ruth Priscilla Higgins (1830-1897)
7. George Higgins (1832- )
Sources
1. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 94 (MD17:80). Col. Leonard H Smith, Jr. and Norma H Smith. Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans. An authorized facsimile reproduction of records published serially 1901-1935 in "The Mayflower Descendant." With an added index of persons.
1980, 1993. Baltimore MD: reprinted for Clearfield Co. by Genealogical Pub. Co.
2. index to Orleans, Massachusetts cemeteries (1970. Excel file at Orleans Historical Society, http://orleanshistoricalsociety.org/collections.html).
3. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 117 (MD24:191). .... F. Apthorp Foster, editor, Vital Records of Pembroke, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (1911. Boston: NEHGS), 288, 358.
4. Robert Paine Carlson, Cape Cod Gravestones, 2003 ff. Eastham MA. CapeCodGravestones.com.
5. Margaret H. Weiler, Cemetery Inscriptions. Congregational & Soldiers Cemetery, Evergreen Cemetery, Eastham Mass. (1987. Eastham Mass: Eastham Historical Society).
6. Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910 (Massachusetts Archives. [online at AmericanAncestors.org (NEHGS) and FamilySearch.org]), Medford.
7. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association, Wellfleet, Truro & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions, section 9. Pleasant Hill and Oakdale Cemeteries, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1986. Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association), row 2, lot 2. Solomon Rich Higgins family.
8. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 83 (MD16:196).
9. Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1921.
10. Kenneth Cole, South Wellfleet Cemetery (Wellfleet, Mass. Rich Family Association).
11. Vital Records of Framingham, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Middlesex/Framingham/), 111.
12. Katharine Elizabeth Chapin Higgins, Richard Higgins, a resident and pioneer settler at Plymouth and Eastham, Massachusetts, and at Piscataway, New Jersey, and his descendants. (1918. Worcester, Mass.: Higgins, 811 pgs.), 387. This is a major source, which seems accurate.
13. Yarmouth Register (Yarmouth, Massachusetts), 18 Jun 1846.
14. Hugh Davis McLellan, Katherine B. Lewis, History of Gorham, Maine (1908. Portland, Maine: Smith & Sale, Printers [online]), 571.
15. Raymond T. Wing, Wing Family of America (http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=mewingnut).
16. Rootsweb.com, dguentner (David Guentner).
17. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 79 (MD16:142).
18. L. R. Sears, "Sears Genealogy" (lrsears.com), 159.
19. L. R. Sears, "Sears Genealogy" (lrsears.com), 159-160.
20. L. R. Sears, "Sears Genealogy" (lrsears.com), 160.
21. George Ernest Bowman, compiler, "Vital records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts" (Mayflower Descendant [several sections]), 33:136. highly incomplete
22. George Ernest Bowman, compiler, "Vital records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts" (Mayflower Descendant [several sections]), 33:136.
23. marriages, circa 1761-1844. from Book 2, in "Vital Records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts" (2002. Oxford, MA: Holbrook Research Institute (2 Cds), files H01_04a - H01_04f), 65 (H).
24. Katharine Elizabeth Chapin Higgins, Richard Higgins, a resident and pioneer settler at Plymouth and Eastham, Massachusetts, and at Piscataway, New Jersey, and his descendants. (1918. Worcester, Mass.: Higgins, 811 pgs.), p 160.
25. Katharine Elizabeth Chapin Higgins, Richard Higgins, a resident and pioneer settler at Plymouth and Eastham, Massachusetts, and at Piscataway, New Jersey, and his descendants. (1918. Worcester, Mass.: Higgins, 811 pgs.), p 160. .... Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 22 (MD6:15).
26. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 67 (MD 15: 231).
27. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 167 (MD:32:113).
28. marriages, circa 1761-1844. from Book 2, in "Vital Records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts" (2002. Oxford, MA: Holbrook Research Institute (2 Cds), files H01_04a - H01_04f), 7.
29. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, p 67 (MD 15: 232).
30. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 67 (MD 15: 232).
31. Katharine Elizabeth Chapin Higgins, Richard Higgins, a resident and pioneer settler at Plymouth and Eastham, Massachusetts, and at Piscataway, New Jersey, and his descendants. (1918. Worcester, Mass.: Higgins, 811 pgs.), 160.
32. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 107 (20:95.
33. George Ernest Bowman, compiler, Vital Records of Truro, Massachusetts to the year 1849 (1933. Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants. republished online), 108.
34. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 62 (MD15:142).
35. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 107 (20:94.
36. Rosemary West, "R.K. West's Master List" (Sept 2003. Rootsweb). .... Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 107 (20:95.
37. unverified, Clearly the Susannah Higgins 1771 did not marry in 1776, but Susannah Higgins 1755 is a good candidate. Data is marked as "unverified" when I have have been queried and do not have a primary or published reference. Usually the info comes from Rootsweb or FamilySearch.
38. Katharine Elizabeth Chapin Higgins, Richard Higgins, a resident and pioneer settler at Plymouth and Eastham, Massachusetts, and at Piscataway, New Jersey, and his descendants. (1918. Worcester, Mass.: Higgins, 811 pgs.), 138.
39. Katharine Elizabeth Chapin Higgins, Richard Higgins, a resident and pioneer settler at Plymouth and Eastham, Massachusetts, and at Piscataway, New Jersey, and his descendants. (1918. Worcester, Mass.: Higgins, 811 pgs.), 138. .... Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 162 (MD32:62).
40. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 107 (20:95, 162 (MD32:62).
41. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 79 (MD16:143).
42. Provincetown cemeteries (http://www.provincetowngov.org/historic/cem.htm). badly organized