Ancestry of
John Kerry

68th U.S. Secretary of State

John Higginson Jr.

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of John Kerry — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1896 
  • Father:
  • John Higginson 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Whitfield   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1646 
  • Birth Location:
  • Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 23 Mar 1719/1720 
  • Death Location:
  • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Savage
  • Marriage Date:
  • 9 Oct 1672 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Higginson

  John Higginson (Ahnentafel No:948 )

  Thomas Higginson

  Nathaniel Higginson

  Sarah Higginson

  Elizabeth Higginson

  Margaret Higginson

• Sources for John Higginson Jr.

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Salem, Vol. 1, pp. 429-430, Birth records for children of John Higginson and Sarah Savage.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Salem, Vol. 5, p. 327, Death record for daughter Sarah Higginson.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1972, Vol. 126, p. 11.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VI, R-S, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 185.
  • ⁵ Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, Descendants of the Reverend Francis Higginson: First Teacher in the Massachusetts Bay Colony of . . ., Unknown: Privately printed (1910), 7-9.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "The Royal Descents of Jane Pierce, Alice and Edith Roosevelt, Helen Taft, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Barbara Bush", (accessed 09/29/2014).
  • ⁷ 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), 206-212, 219, 257.