Richard Higgins

Abt 1609 - 1675  (~ 65 years)

• Name	Richard Higgins
  Birth	Abt 1609  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Between 20 Nov 1674 and 1 Jun 1675	Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey   [1]
  Alternate death	Bef 1678	Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey   [2]
  Person ID	I30868	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	8 Nov 2020

  
  

  Family	Mary   d. Aft 2 Dec 1702
  Marriage	Oct 1651	Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  Children	1. Jadiah Higgins,   b. 5 Mar 1657, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts d. Between 23 Apr 1715 and 17 May 1715, Somerset County, New Jersey (Age 58 years)
  Family ID	F18327	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Nov 2020

  
  

• Notes

  He was a tailor. He first appears in the New World at Plymouth in 1632; removed to Eastham in 1645, where he was one of the town founders; later removed to Piscataway in 1670. He held many public offices during his 25 years at Eastham.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1647] The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New York Historic Genealogical Society, 2004. [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.