Ancestry of
Morrison Waite

7th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

Joseph Higgins Jr.

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Morrison Waite — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 18 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Higgins 
  • Mother:
  • Ruth -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1 Oct 1690/1700 
  • Birth Location:
  • Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 21 Dec 1783 
  • Death Location:
  • Lyme, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mercy Remick
  • Marriage Date:
  • 18 Feb 1718/1719 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Rebecca Higgins (Ahnentafel No:9 )

• Sources for Joseph Higgins Jr.

  • ¹ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 2005, Vol. 38,. pp. 189-190.
  • ² Griswold, Glenn E., comp., The Griswold Family: England-America, Vol. 3, Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc. (1943), 137.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 104.