Ancestry of
Amelia Earhart

Aviation Pioneer

Brewster Higley

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Amelia Earhart — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 214 
  • Father:
  • John Higley 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Drake   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1680 
  • Birth Location:
  • Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 5 Nov 1760 
  • Death Location:
  • Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Hop Meadow Cemetery, Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Esther Holcombe
  • Marriage Date:
  • 17 Feb 1708/1709 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Hannah Higley

  Elizabeth Higley (Ahnentafel No:107 )

• Sources for Brewster Higley

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Simsbury, p. 73, Marriage record for Brewster Higley and Esther Holcomb.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Simsbury, p. 73, Death record for Brewster Higley.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/01/2015).
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1959, Vol. 35, p. 20.
  • ⁵ Brown, Abiel, Genealogical History with Short Sketches and Family Record of the Early Settlers of West Simsbury, Now Canton, Conn., Hartford: Press of Case, Tiffany and Company (1856), 99.
  • ⁶ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 2004, Vol. 37, p. 636.
  • ⁷ Johnson, Mary Coffin, The Higleys and their Ancestry: An Old Colonial Family, New York: D. Appleton and Company (1896), 99-105.

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