My Ancestors in Books: Ancestors and Descendants of Richard Higgins

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Ancestors and Descendants of Richard Higgins

Before reading this article, scroll up one page to see a drawing of Richard Higgins:

New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. XLVI. New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1915.

The article below is a continuation of the one above.

New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. XLVII. New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1916.

Mrs. Katherine Chapin Higgins disagrees with Monnette about the English origin of Richard Higgins of Plymouth and Eastham. You can read what she has to say in Surname: Higgins at Before My Time.

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My purpose herein is to collect and share with my family, both immediate and however greatly extended, interesting and relevant passages from old books. I expect to embed at least one book in every post. Consequently, I've adjusted the settings to present only one post at a time for smoother loading. In addition, the embedded books will not appear in the RSS feed. Because I won't be writing a lot here, just pointing to pages which are of particular interest to me, my descendants, and a million distant cousins with New England roots, the RSS feeds will be short and sometimes not very telling.

All Subjects (labels) using both given name and surname are my direct-line ancestors. In some cases, when a book tells about a particular event in my ancestor's life, I also label it by year, in anticipation of possibly creating a chronology or narrative at some future time. Subjects labelled with only a surname pertain to relatives of my direct-line ancestors.