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, Jediah Higgins (b. 05 MAR 1655/56, d. 17 MAY 1715)

Death: 17 MAY 1715 Somerset Cty, New Jersey

Change: Date: 13 APR 2002

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Newbold, Mary (b. 23 MAY 1661, d. 23 APR 1715)

Death: 23 APR 1715

Change: Date: 13 APR 2002

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Higgins, Richard (b. , d. 1677)

Note: Richard Higgins arrived in the United States on the ship 'Anne'
in 1623. He married first, Lydia Chandler on 23 November, 1634
at Eastham, Mas-sachusetts. Her father was Edmund Chandler of
Duxbury and Scituate, Massachusetts. They had two sons,
Jonathan and Benjaman who remained in Massachusetts and were
the ancestors of most of the Higgins in New England. After the
death of Lydia, Richard married a second time to Mary Yates,
widow of John Yates of Duxbury. They were married in October
of 1651. Richard and Mary had ten children. In 1670 they
moved to Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey. Richard died
before 1677. The Higgins Family is well documented in the book
'Richard Higgins of Plymouth and Eastham, Massachusetts and
Piscataway, New Jersey' by Katharine Chapin Higgins - 1918 -.
Richard Higgins arrived on the ship 'Anne' in 1623 from
England.[shrope.ftw] Emmigrated to Plymouth Mass., ca. 1629-32
+- Lived in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1632. Moved to Eastham,
Massachusetts in 1644, was representative from 1647 - 1651.
Moved to Piscataway, New Jersey in 1670. A son of Higgins,
Robert b: Abt 1575 of Leominster, Hereford and Worcester,
England, Higgins, Richard b: August 1603 migrated to Plymouth
in 1632 and became the first Higgins in the New World and thus
the patriarch of the line. In 1644, he and six others founded
the town and church of Eastham, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts,
and lived there until 1669, when he left Massachusetts and
acquired a homestead of 254 acres at New Piscataway, New
Jersey.