Ancestry of
John Higginson

(1616–1708)

John Higginson

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Francis Higginson 
  • Mother:
  • Anne Herbert   
  • Birth Date:
  • 6 Aug 1616 
  • Birth Location:
  • Claybrook, Leicestershire, England 
  • Christening Date:
  • 31 Aug 1616 
  • Christening Location:
  • Claybrook, Leicestershire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 9 Dec 1708 
  • Death Location:
  • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts 
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• Marriages for John Higginson

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  • Spouse:
  • Sarah Whitfield
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1646
  • Marriage Location:
  • Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Blakeman
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 8 Jul 1675

• Sources for John Higginson

  • ¹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 934.
  • ² Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, Descendants of the Reverend Francis Higginson: First Teacher in the Massachusetts Bay Colony of . . ., Unknown: Privately printed (1910), 5-7.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "The Royal Descents of Jane Pierce, Alice and Edith Roosevelt, Helen Taft, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Barbara Bush", (accessed 09/29/2014).
  • ⁴ Threlfall, John Brooks, The Ancestry of Reverend Henry Whitfield (1590-1657) and His Wife Dorothy Sheafe (159?-1669) of Guilford, Connecticut, Madison, Wisconsin: Unknown (1989), 17, 213-220, 228, 257.