Miriam Higgins
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth:
Baptism: 27 Oct 1782 - (Eastham, Massachusetts) 1
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Gideon Higgins (1738-1816) 2
Mother: Ruth Burgess (1742- )
Spouses and Children
1. *Nathaniel Godfrey Paige (Est 1780 - )
Marriage: 18 Apr 1803 - Orleans, Massachusetts 3
Status:
Children:
1. Nathaniel G Paige (1806-1849)
2. Mary Paige (Est 1806- )
3. Captain Stephen Paige (Cir 1808-1849)
Notes
Marriage Notes (Nathaniel Godfrey Paige)
tentative Miriam Higgins
Mollie Higgins
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 12 May 1765 - Middle Haddam (Middletown), Connecticut 4
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Israel Higgins (1728-1790)
Mother: Elizabeth Aiken (1733-After 1794)
Spouses and Children
1. *Abner Chase (1 Jan 1764 - )
Marriage: 12 Feb 1784 5
Status:
Moses Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 13 Apr 1783 - Eden, Maine
Baptism:
Death: 8 Jun 1848 - (Eden, Maine
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Jesse Higgins (1743-1815) 6
Mother: Priscilla Snow (1756- )
Spouses and Children
1. *Mary Higgins (25 Mar 1788 - )
Marriage: 11 Jan 1810 - Eden, Maine 7
Status:
Children:
1. Zeruiah Higgins (1811- )
2. Seth Higgins (1813-1841)
3. Elliot Higgins (1816- )
4. Adoniram Judson Higgins (1820- )
Moses Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 8 Sep 1836 - Orleans, Massachusetts 8
Baptism:
Death: 4 Sep 1837 - Orleans, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Captain Jabez Higgins (1796-1881)
Mother: Alice Linnell (1797-1878)
Moses Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1 Oct 1822 - Orleans, Massachusetts 8
Baptism:
Death: 10 Sep 1834 - Boston, Massachusetts
Burial: in Orleans Cemetery
Cause of Death: drowned
Events
• Alt Death 9
Parents
Father: Captain Jabez Higgins (1796-1881)
Mother: Alice Linnell (1797-1878)
Moses Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 24 Mar 1711 - Eastham, Massachusetts 10
Baptism:
Death: 20 Apr 1798 - Eastham, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Richard Higgins (1664-1732) 11
Mother: Sarah Hamblin (1671-After 1743) 12
Spouses and Children
1. *Elizabeth Arey (1716 - 1792)
Marriage: 3 Jul 1735 - Eastham, Massachusetts 6
Status:
Children:
1. Gideon Higgins (1738-1816) 6
2. Elnathan Higgins (1740-1816)
3. Aaron Higgins (1742-1812)
4. Jesse Higgins (1743-1815) 6
5. Azubah Higgins (1745-Bef 1768) 13
6. David Higgins (1746- )
7. Phebe Higgins (1749- ) 13
Notes
Marriage Notes (Elizabeth Arey)
A recorded daughter, Esther, born 7 Feb 1740, conflicts with Elnathan's birth, and is an obvious error in the original records for her birth to Joshua Higgins, which is also recorded corrrectly. 14
Moses Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 14 Dec 1797 - Orleans, Massachusetts 15
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Colonel Moses Higgins (1772-1859)
Mother: Hannah Rogers (1771-1855)
Colonel Moses Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 19 Oct 1772 - Eastham, Massachusetts 16
Baptism:
Death: 23 Feb 1859 - Orleans, Massachusetts
Burial: in Orleans Cemetery 9
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Elnathan Higgins (1740-1816)
Mother: Mercy Sparrow (1739-1780) 17
Spouses and Children
1. *Hannah Rogers (19 Oct 1771 - 4 Feb 1855)
Marriage: 29 Sep 1791 - Eastham, Massachusetts 18
Status:
Children:
1. Polly Higgins (1793-1866) 19
2. Captain Jabez Higgins (1796-1881)
3. Moses Higgins (1797- )
4. Benjamin Higgins (1800- ) 19
5. Charlotte Higgins (1802-Bef 1817) 19
6. Hannah Higgins (1804- ) 19
7. Mercy Higgins (1806-1869)
8. Almira Higgins (1808-1882)
9. Nathan Higgins (1812- ) 19
10. Sarah Sparrow Higgins (1814-1895) 19
11. Susannah Snow Higgins (1814- ) 19
12. Charlotte Higgins (1817-1843) 20
Myrtie Lewis Higgins
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 5 Jun 1885 - Truro, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 1954
Burial: in Oak Dale Cemetery, Wellfleet
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Levi Lincoln Higgins (1839-1923) 22
Mother: Harriet L Whitman (1847-1929)
Spouses and Children
1. *Charles W Swift (1870 - 1919) 21
Marriage: 3 Sep 1906 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 23
Status:
Children:
1. Margaret W Swift (1912-1947) 21
Myrtle M Higgins
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1908 - Harwich, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Winfred C Higgins (1867- )
Mother: Inez Weston Nickerson (1868-1915)
Nancy Atwood Higgins
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 29 May 1835 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 24
Baptism:
Death: 13 Mar 1922 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Burial: in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Wellfleet 25
Cause of Death: intestinial nephritis 26
Parents
Father: Josiah Rich Higgins (1794-1882)
Mother: Abigail H Freeman (1801-1853) 27
Spouses and Children
1. *Captain Benjamin Ryder Jones (24 Jan 1832 - 13 May 1895)
Marriage: 31 Dec 1857 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 28
Status:
Notes
Medical:
age 86-9-8Marriage Notes (Captain Benjamin Ryder Jones)
[cod seems jumbled]
1880 US census, Wellfleet MA:
Benjamin R Jones, head, 48, sea captain;
Nancy A Jones, wife, 45, keeping house;
Josiah R Higgins, father-in-law, 85, widowed; all b MA, parent b MA.
p 132A
29
Nancy F Higgins
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 28 Nov 1784 - Eastham, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 1 Jul 1861 - Orleans, Massachusetts 31
Burial: in Orleans Cemetery 9
Cause of Death: palsy
Parents
Father: Captain Simeon Higgins (Cir 1745-1824)
Mother: Martha Knowles (Cir 1750-1817)
Spouses and Children
1. *Captain Simeon Mayo (23 Jun 1781 - Bef 1850) 32
Marriage: Abt 1808
Status:
Children:
1. Captain Alexander Mayo (1809-1874)
2. Unisa Mayo (1813- ) 33
3. Rebecca Mayo (1815- ) 33
4. Patty Knowles Mayo (1820-1882) 33
5. Captain Simeon Mayo (1824-1871)
Nancy Green Higgins
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 12 Nov 1802 - Hampden, Maine 34
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Abisha Higgins (1753-1812) 35
Mother: Hannah Harding (1760-Abt 1852)
Nancy Rich Higgins
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 13 Aug 1821 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 36
Baptism:
Death: 13 Jan 1892 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Enoch Higgins (1798-1866) 37
Mother: Eliza Hopkins (1798-1850) 38
Spouses and Children
1. *Captain William Newcomb (28 Dec 1818 - 12 Dec 1867)
Marriage: 27 Nov 1842 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Status:
Children:
1. Warren A Newcomb (1844-1846) 39
2. Celinda Ellen Newcomb (1846-1848) 40
3. Celinda Ellen Newcomb (1849-1916) 41
4. Annette Eliza Newcomb (1851-1905)
5. Nancy Rich Newcomb (1857-1877)
6. Wilmer Leslie Newcomb (1859-1951) 42
Naomi Higgins
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 2 May 1781 - Eastham, Massachusetts 43
Baptism:
Death: 28 Dec 1862 - Orleans, Massachusetts
Burial: in Orleans Cemetery 9
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Prince Higgins (1741- )
Mother: Keziah Freeman (Abt 1746-1817)
Spouses and Children
1. *Samuel Freeman (25 Dec 1778 - )
Marriage: 1799 - Orrington, Maine
Status:
Nathan Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 7 Jul 1788 - Eden, Maine
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Elkanah Higgins (1769-1847)
Mother: Azubah Knowles (1767-1860) 44
Nathan Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 28 Feb 1813 - Orleans, Massachusetts 45
Baptism:
Death: 14 Sep 1876 - Orleans, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Judah Higgins (1784-1854)
Mother: Betsey Small (1786-1842)
Spouses and Children
1. *Charlotte Small (4 Mar 1816 - 29 Jan 1889)
Marriage: 2 Dec 1851 - Orleans, Massachusetts 31
Status:
Nathan Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 6 Jun 1756 - Eastham, Massachusetts 46
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Zaccheus Higgins (1719-Cir 1790)
Mother: Rebecca Young (1718- )
Nathan Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 26 Jan 1812 - Orleans, Massachusetts 47
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Colonel Moses Higgins (1772-1859)
Mother: Hannah Rogers (1771-1855)
Nathan Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 15 Aug 1782 - Eastham, Massachusetts 48
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Samuel Higgins (1740-1815)
Mother: Patience Rogers (Cir 1747-1824) 49
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