Ancestry of
Alice (Lee) Roosevelt

First Wife of President Theodore Roosevelt

John Higginson

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Alice (Lee) Roosevelt — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 140 
  • Father:
  • John Higginson Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Savage   
  • Birth Date:
  • 20 Aug 1675 
  • Birth Location:
  • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 26 Apr 1718 
  • Death Location:
  • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah Gardner
  • Marriage Date:
  • 11 Sep 1695 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Elizabeth Higginson

  John Higginson IV (Ahnentafel No:70 )

• Additional marriages for John Higginson

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  • Spouse:
  • Margaret Sewall
  • Marriage Date:
  • 11 Nov 1714
  • Marriage Location:
  • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts

• Sources for John Higginson

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Salem, Vol. 1, p.429, Birth record for daughter Elizabeth Higginson.
  • ² Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, Descendants of the Reverend Francis Higginson: First Teacher in the Massachusetts Bay Colony of . . ., Unknown: Privately printed (1910), 9, 13.
  • ³ Prescott, William, The Prescott Memorial: or A Genealogical Memoir of the Prescott Families in America in Two Parts, Boston: Printed by Henry W. Dutton and Son (1870), 46.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "The Royal Descents of Jane Pierce, Alice and Edith Roosevelt, Helen Taft, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Barbara Bush", (accessed 09/29/2014).
  • ⁵ Seymour, Thomas Day, The Family of the Rev. Jeremiah Day of New Preston to January 1, 1900: A Genealogical Appendix to . . ., New Haven, Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Co. (1900), 34.
  • ⁶ 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), 212.