Jadiah Higgins

1657 - 1715  (58 years)

• Name	Jadiah Higgins
  Birth	5 Mar 1657	Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate death	Between 23 Apr 1715 and 6 May 1715	Somerset County, New Jersey   [3]
  Death	Between 23 Apr 1715 and 17 May 1715	Somerset County, New Jersey   [1]
  Person ID	I23451	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of EK
  Last Modified	8 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Richard Higgins,   b. Abt 1609   d. Between 20 Nov 1674 and 1 Jun 1675, Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey (Age ~ 65 years)
  Mother	Mary   d. Aft 2 Dec 1702
  Marriage	Oct 1651	Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts   [3, 4]
  Family ID	F18327	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Newbold,   b. 23 May 1661, Eckington, York, England d. Aft 23 Apr 1715 (Age > 54 years)
  Marriage	12 May 1684	Burlington, Burlington, New Jersey   [1, 5, 6]
  Children	+ 1. Mary Higgins,   b. 24 Jan 1700
  Family ID	F18325	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Nov 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Also spelled Jediah, Jedidiah. He moved with his parents from Eastham, Massachusetts to Piscataway, New Jersey in 1669, when he was about twelve. Sometime between 1700 and 1713 he moved to Kingston, near Princeton. 1683, ensign of the Piscataway train band; 1692, constable of Piscataway; 1695-97, member of the New Jersey assembly. He was a cordwainer.

  
  

• Sources

  [S4858] Richard Higgins: A Resident and Pioneer Settler at Plymouth and Eastham, Massachusetts, and at Piscataway, New Jersey, and His Descendants by Katherine Chapin Higgins. Worcester, Massachusetts, 1918. [S1647] The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New York Historic Genealogical Society, 2004., month, year, and place only. [S4859] Orra Eugene Monnette, "Richard Higgins of Plymouth and Eastham, Mass., and Piscataway, N.J., and Some of His Descendants." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 46:387, 1915; 47:20, 1916. [S1647] The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New York Historic Genealogical Society, 2004. [S1647] The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New York Historic Genealogical Society, 2004., date only. [S4859] Orra Eugene Monnette, "Richard Higgins of Plymouth and Eastham, Mass., and Piscataway, N.J., and Some of His Descendants." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 46:387, 1915; 47:20, 1916., date only.