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Henry Lee Higginson

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Henry Lee Higginson

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    Stephen Sewall

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    • 4th Great-grandfather of Henry Lee Higginson — 7th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 78 
    • Birth Date:
    • 10 Aug 1657 
    • Birth Location:
    • Baddesley, Hampshire, England 
    • Christening Date:
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    • Death Date:
    • 17 Oct 1725 
    • Death Location:
    • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts 
    • Burial Date:
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    • Burial Location:
    • Broad Street Cemetery, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts 
    • Marriage Date:
    • 13 Jun 1682 
    • Marriage Location:
    • Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
    • Children:

    • Margaret Sewall

      Susanna Sewall (Ahnentafel No:39 )

      Jonathan Sewall

    • Notes: 
    • Stephen Sewall served in 1704 at the head of the volunteers in the successful expedition against the pirate Quelch.

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  • Sources for Stephen Sewall

    • 6 Cleveland, Edmund Janes and Horace Gillette Cleveland, The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families: An Attempt to Track in Both the Male and the Female . . ., Vol. 1, Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company (1899), 109.
    • 7 Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, Descendants of the Reverend Francis Higginson: First Teacher in the Massachusetts Bay Colony of . . ., Unknown: Privately printed (1910), 13.
    • 9 Waters, Henry Fitz-Gilbert, Genealogical Gleanings in England, Volume 2, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1901), 1068.
    • 10 Watkins, Walter K. and Eben Putnam, New England Ancestry of Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, Salem, Massachusetts: The Salem Press (1892), 11.