This family tree should be considered a work in progress, as the Higgins family of Raritan Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey is large and complex, more than enough to work on without including Higgins family members who migrated west. They are for the most part left out.
My original version of a Higgins tree began with Jediah Higgins and Hannah Stout, who figured in the story related in “Carman, Hoagland & Higgins.” But while researching a neighbor of those families, Samuel Hill and his father Jonathan Hill, I realized that Hill family members were married to descendants of Jediah Higgins’ brother Joseph. So, it just made sense to publish a new tree that includes both. However, I do not have information on their siblings, other than sister Mary, who married Freegift Stout. The Stout family is so huge that I must postpone attempting that tree.
As usual, children of daughters are included, but not grandchildren. Surnames of spouses who also have published family trees on Goodspeed Histories are highlighted in green. Also, additions and corrections are always welcome, either as comments or as emails. Family Trees are best viewed with your screen widened so that lines do not wrap.
First Generation:
(1) Jediah Higgins (1656 – 1715) & Mary Newbold (1661 – 1715)
The parents of Jediah Higgins, Richard and Mary Higgins, were among the Puritans who emigrated to Massachusetts in the mid 17th century. They had 11 children, but only one of them interests me—Jediah, who settled in Kingston, Middlesex County, NJ. He married English immigrant Mary Newbold in 1684, and the couple matched Jediah’s parents by having 11 children of their own. They are listed below, but the rest of the Higgins tree will only concern sons Jediah and Joseph. I have included their sister Mary Higgins, wife of Freegift Stout, in the third generation to show how many other Hunterdon families she was connected with.
Second Generation:
| (2.1) Anne Higgins (1685 – 1702)
| (2.2) Rose Higgins (1686 – 1715) & Timothy Bloomfield
| (2.3) Mary Higgins (1688 – bef. 1699)
| (2.4) Thomas Higgins (1690 – after 1715)
| (2.5) Jediah Higgins (1691 – 1772) & Hannah Stout (1694 – 1779)
| (2.6) James Higgins (1692 – c.1718)
| (2.7) Joshua Higgins (1694 – bef. 1715)
| (2.8) Phoebe Higgins (1696 – bef. 1715)
| (2.9) Michael Higgins (1698 – ) & Anne Bryant (c.1700 – )
| (2.10) Mary Higgins (1700 – 1773) & Freegift Stout Sr. (1693 – 1766)
| (2.11) Joseph Higgins (c.1702 – 1782) & Unknown
I have not been able to track the families of the younger daughters. Note that Hannah Stout, wife of Jediah Higgins, and Freegift Stout, husband of Mary Higgins, were first cousins.
Third Generation:
| (2.5) Jediah Higgins & Hannah Stout
| | (3.1) Joseph Higgins (1716 – 1790)
| | | | m. 1) Mary Phillips (1717 – 1778)
| | | | m. 2) Elizabeth ( – after 1790)
| | (3.2) Mary Higgins (1718 – 1789) & Benjamin Stout (1707 – 1789)
| | (3.3) Anne Higgins (c.1722 – bef. 1768) & Robert Davison
| | (3.4) Jonathan Higgins (1725 – 1813) & Ann Britton (1730 – 1811)
| | (3.5) Joshua Higgins (c.1732 – 1804) & Mary Quick (1726 – 1803)
| | (3.6) James Higgins (c.1733 – 1779) & Sarah Stout
| | (3.7) Rachel Higgins (c.1738 – ) & James Stout (1728 – 1777)
| | (3.8) Hannah Higgins (c.1740 – ) & Henry Gulick (c.1740 – 1826)
| (2.10) Mary Higgins & Freegift Stout Sr.
| | (3.1) Sarah H. Stout (c.1720 – 1768) & Ephraim Oliphant (c.1717 – 1795)
| | (3.2) Jediah Stout (c.1720 – 1782) & Philina Chamberlain (1721 – )
| | (3.3) Rebecca Stout (1722 – ) & Edward Taylor (c.1730 – after 1786)
| | (3.4) Freegift Stout (1724 – 1798) & Elizabeth Stout (c.1732 – )
| | (3.5) Mary Stout (c.1726 – ) & Richard Chamberlin (1722 – )
| | (3.6) James Stout (1728 – 1777)
| | | | m. 1) Mary Mattison (c.1740 – )
| | | | m. 2) Rachel Higgins (c.1738 – )
| | (3.7) Joshua Stout (1734 – c.1821) & Mary Haines (c.1740 – )
| | (3.8) Rachel Stout (1738 – bef. 1797)
| | | | m. 1) Richard Rounsavell Jr. (1734 – 1777)
| | | | m. 2) Evans Godown (c.1745 – 1790)
| | (3.9) Isaac Stout (1740 – 1823) & Mary Quinby (1745 – 1793)
| | (3.10) Obadiah Stout (1745 – 1830) & Mary McBride (1756 – )
| (2.11) Joseph Higgins & Unknown
| | (3.1) Rachel Higgins (c.1725 – aft 1777) & Joseph Hill (c.1720 – 1777)
If any readers can identify the parents of this Joseph Hill, please share. Despite much work on the Hill family of Hunterdon County, I could not find Joseph’s connection
| | (3.2) Hannah Higgins (c.1728 – c.1785) & Lott Rittenhouse (1737 – 1813)
| | (3.3) Anne Higgins (1729 – 1779) & Benjamin Runyon (1727 – 1776)
| | (3.4) Joshua Higgins (c.1730 – )
| | (3.5) Jediah Higgins (c.1740 – )
| | (3.6) Ruth Higgins (c.1750 – ) & Ephraim Taylor Corle (c.1750 – )
| | (3.7) Azariah Higgins (c.1755 – 1812) & Sarah Stout (c.1764 – 1828)
| | (3.8) Elizabeth Higgins (c.1755 – ) & William Halliday (c.1755 – )
Fourth Generation:
| (2.5) Jediah Higgins & Hannah Stout
| | (3.1) Joseph Higgins & 1) Mary Phillips
| | | (4.1) Sarah Higgins (c.1723 – 1763) & David Stout (1719 – 1781)
| | | (4.2) Michael Higgins (1739 – 1818)
| | | | | m. 1) Mary (1734 – 1770)
| | | | | m. 2) Ruth Brush (1757 – 1843)
| | (3.2) Mary Higgins & Benjamin Stout
| | | (4.1) Mary Stout (c.1756 – 1826) & Garrison Prall (c.1757 – 1793)
| | | (4.2) Jediah Stout (1757 – 1820) & Mary Polly Stout (c.1760 – )
| | | (4.3) Rachel Stout (1760 – 1820) & Paul Hill (1751 – 1824)
| | | (4.4) Benjamin Higgins Stout (1762 – 1822)
| | | (4.5) Sarah Stout (1764 – 1782) & Elijah Stout (1761 – 1838)
| | | (4.6) Anne Stout (1766 – 1842) & Elijah Stout (1761 – 1838)
| | | (4.7) David Stout (1769 – 1806) & Elizabeth Stout (1767 – 1844)
| | (3.4) Jonathan Higgins & 1) Ann Britton
| | | (4.1) Judiah Higgins (1750 – 1820)
| | | | | m. 1) Mary Hill (1751 – 1800)
| | | | | m. 2) Rachel McPherson (1767 – 1848)
| | | (4.2) Capt. Jonathan Higgins (1756 – 1829)
| | | | | m. 1) Mary Reading (1766 – c.1793)
| | | | | m. 2) Eleanor Polhemus (1776 – 1815)
| | | (4.3) Nathaniel Higgins (1760 – 1823) & Martha Perrine (1763 – 1835)
| | | (4.4) Martha Higgins (1762 – 1833) & John Covenhoven (1760 – 1812)
| (2.11) Joseph Higgins & Unknown
| | (3.2) Hannah Higgins & Lot Lott Rittenhouse
| | | (4.1) David Rittenhouse (c.1758 – )
| | | (4.2) Joseph Rittenhouse (c.1759 – 1821) & Mary Ann Wright (c.1760 – )
| | | (4.3) William Rittenhouse (c.1761 – 1831) & Eunice Keen (1770 – )
| | | (4.4) Sarah Rittenhouse (c.1763 – 1836) & Joseph Howell (1762 – 1821)
| | | (4.5) John Lott Rittenhouse (c.1765 – 1839)
| | | | | m. 1) Mary Stull (c.1775 – )
| | | | | m. 2) Maria Green (1762 – 1836)
| | | (4.6) Jesse Rittenhouse (c.1765 – 1813) & Mary Schamp
| | | (4.7) Elisha Rittenhouse (c.1768 – 1806) & Elizabeth Rake (1773 – 1846)
| | | (4.8) Rebecca Rittenhouse (c.1770 – )
| | | (4.9) Nancy A. Rittenhouse (1772-1852) & William J. Werts (c.1770-1812)
| | | (4.10) Mary Rittenhouse (c.1774 – ) & Hugh Magee (c.1770 – 1827)
| | (3.3) Anne Higgins & Benjamin Runyon
| | | (4.1) Sarah Runyon (c.1750 – ) & unknown Roberson (c.1750 – )
| | | (4.2) Elizabeth Runyon (c.1760 – ) & unknown Mathis
| | | (4.3) Piety Runyon (1764 – 1844)
| | | | | m. 1) Elijah Rittenhouse (1758 – 1796)
| | | | | m. 2) Benjamin Wright (1747 – 1826)
| | | (4.4) Joseph Runyon & Elizabeth Sutton
| | | (4.5) Reuben Runyon
| | | (4.6) Mary Runyon
| | | (4.7) Anne Runyon
| | (3.7) Azariah Higgins & Sarah Stout
| | | (4.1) James Higgins (1776 – 1865) & Alice Snook (1783 – 1849)
| | | (4.2) Azariah Stout Higgins (1781 – 1845)
| | | (4.3) Gideon Higgins (1782 – 1833) & Mary Dilts (1781 – 1858)
| | | (4.4) Lot Higgins (1784 – 1809)
| | | (4.5) Jesse Higgins (c.1785 – )
| | | (4.6) William Higgins (c.1787 – )
| | | (4.7) Grace Higgins (c.1789 – )
| | | (4.8) Ida Higgins (c.1790 – )
| | | (4.9) Catharine Higgins (c.1792 – )
| | | (4.10) Margaret Higgins (c.1794 – )
Fifth Generation:
(1) Jediah Higgins & Mary Newbold
| (2.5) Jediah Higgins & Hannah Stout
| | (3.1) Joseph Higgins & 1) Mary Phillips
| | | (4.1) Sarah Higgins & David Stout
| | | | (5.1) James Stout (1750 – 1819)
| | | | (5.2) John Stout (c.1752 – bef. 1781) & daughter Stout (c.1755 – )
| | | | (5.3) Jacob Stout (c.1754 – ) & Abigail Hance (c.1756 – )
| | | | (5.4) Sarah Stout (1756 – 1847) & Abraham Runkle (1757 – 1845)
| | | | (5.5) David Stout (c.1757 – ) & Sarah Acker (c.1760 – )
| | | | (5.6) Joshua Stout (c.1757 – 1806) & Catherine Servis (c.1765 – )
| | | | (5.7) Amos Stout (c.1758 – )
| | | (4.2) Michael Higgins & 1) Mary
| | | | (5.1) Andrew Higgins (1761 – )
| | | | (5.2) Keziah Higgins (1763 – 1811) & Robert Meldrum (1763 – 1841)
| | | | (5.3) Mary Higgins (1765 – ) & Henry Bake (c.1757 – )
| | | | (5.4) Joseph Higgins (1767 – 1855) & Sarah Cornell (1775 – 1853)
| | | | (5.5) Zelotes Higgins (1770 – )
| | | (4.2) Michael Higgins & 2) Ruth Brush
| | | | (5.6) Aaron Higgins (1771 – )
| | | | (5.7) Job Higgins (1774 – )
| | | | (5.8) Sarah Higgins (1786 – 1826) & Ephraim Smith (c.1780 – 1882)
| | | | (5.9) Jonathan M. Higgins (1787 – 1861)
| | | | | | m. 1) Eliza Ann Howell (c.1790 – 1854)
| | | | | | m. 2) Mary Austen
| | | | (5.10) Elizabeth Higgins (1789 – 1842) & Daniel A. Kershow
| | | | (5.11) Michael Higgins (1791 – 1851) &
| | | | | | m. 1) Ann Brokaw (c.1795 – )
| | | | | | m. 2) Dorothea White
| | | | (5.12) Israel Higgins (1794 – 1865) &
| | | | | | m. 1) Mary Polly Holcombe (1796 – 1825)
| | | | | | m. 2) Rebecca Taylor (1806 – 1847)
| | | | | | m. 3) Martha Ann Hagaman (1815 – 1893)
| | | | (5.13) Ruth Higgins (1797 – 1876) & Nathaniel L. Furman (1805 – 1883)
| | (3.4) Jonathan Higgins & Ann Britton
| | | (4.1) Judiah Higgins (1750 – 1820) & 1) Mary Hill (1751 – 1800)
| | | | (5.1) Anne Higgins (1774 – 1861) & William Bishop (1774 – 1842)
| | | | (5.2) Hannah Higgins (1779 – 1857) & Paul Kuhl Jr. (1773 – 1861)
| | | | (5.3) Martha Higgins (1781 – 1802) & John Hummer (~1775 – )
| | | | (5.4) Sarah Higgins (1783 – 1867) & Gilbert Barton (1777 – 1852)
| | | | (5.5) Judiah Higgins Jr. (1785 – 1824) & Mary Quick (1792 – 1858)
| | | | (5.6) Asher Higgins (1787 – 1823) & Margaret Merrill (1797 – 1875)
| | | | (5.7) Jonathan J. Higgins (1789 – 1840) & Eleanor Voorhees (1787 – 1848)
| | | | (5.8) John Higgins (1791 – 1851) & Rebecca Schenck (1800 – 1835)
| | | | (5.9) Richard Higgins (1794 – 1829) & Elizabeth Eliza Brittain (1803 – )
| | | | (5.10) Jesse Higgins (1796 – 1848) & Elizabeth L. Clark (1801 – 1890)
| | | (4.1) Judiah Higgins & 2) Rachel McPherson
| | | | (5.11) Samuel McPherson Higgins (1802 – 1878)
| | | | (5.12) Martha M. Higgins (1804 – 1894) & John W. Kuhl (1803 – 1846)
| | | | (5.13) Mary Higgins (1805 – after 1880)
| | | | (5.14) Rebecca Higgins (1806 – ) & George Huffman (c.1798 – c.1882)
| | | (4.2) Capt. Jonathan Higgins & 1) Mary Reading
| | | | (5.1) Jonathan R. Higgins (1792 – 1865) & Rhoda Godown (1796 – )
| | | (4.2) Jonathan Higgins & 2) Eleanor Polhemus
| | | | (5.2) Polhemus Higgins (1796 – 1831) & Frances Quick (1798 – 1868)
| | | | (5.3) Jedediah Higgins (1799 – 1890) & Charity Fisher (1803 – 1881)
| | | | (5.4) David C. Higgins (1802 – 1830) & __ Carhart
| | | | (5.5) Elizabeth Higgins (1805 – 1865) & Lewis Chamberlain (1797 – 1846)
| | | | (5.6) Sarah Ann Higgins (1808 – 1852) & Frederick Van Fleet
| | | | (5.7) Martha Higgins (1810 – 1849) & Aaron Carman Hill (c.1808 – 1880)
| | | | (5.8) Henry Polhemus Higgins (1814 – 1830)
| | | (4.3) Nathaniel Higgins & Martha Perrine
| | | | (5.1) Jonathan Higgins (1785 – 1803)
| | | | (5.2) Nicholas B. Higgins (1787 – 1851) & Hannah Hill (c.1789 – 1846)
| | | | (5.3) James Higgins (1789 – 1839) &
| | | | | | m. 1) Phoebe Still (1801 – 1826)
| | | | | | m. 2) Elizabeth Still (c.1810 – 1833)
| | | | | | m. 3) Sarah Ann Stille (1814 – 1861)
| | | | (5.4) Mary Stout Higgins (1793 – 1864) & Samuel C. Hill (1786 – 1870)
| | | | (5.5) Asa Higgins (1796 – 1871) & Eurah Wilson (1803 – 1847)
| | | | (5.6) Uriah Higgins (c.1798 – 1816)
| | | | (5.7) Anna Higgins (1799 – 1800)
| | | | (5.8) Nancy C. Higgins (1803 – ) & Jonathan Wilson (c.1800 – )
| | | (4.4) Martha Patty Higgins & John Covenhoven Esq.
| | | | (5) David Covenhoven (1783 – 1801)
| | | | (5) Nancy Covenhoven (1786 – 1801)
| | | | (5) Jonathan Higgins Conover (1787 – 1849) &
| | | | | | m. 1) Ann Schenck (1789 – 1831)
| | | | | | m. 2) Ann Sutphin (1794 – 1867)
| | | | (5) Catharine Hill Covenhoven (1789 – 1826)
| | | | (5) John W. Conover (1792 – 1854)
| | | | (5) Isaac Britton Conover (1794 – 1882) &
| | | | | | m. 1) Margaret Pettit (1802 – 1894)
| | | | | | m. 2) Mary Severs
| | | | (5) Elias Hubbard Conover Esq. (1796 – 1871)
| | | | | | m. 1) Rachel P. Poulson (c.1778 – 1811)
| | | | | | m. 2) Mary Servis (1817 – 1882)
| | | | (5) Anna Covenhoven & Bishop
| | | | (5) Hannah Covenhoven & Kuhl
| (2.11) Joseph Higgins & Unknown
| | (3.7) Azariah Higgins & Sarah Stout
| | | (4.1) James Higgins & Alice Snook
| | | | (5.1) Margaret Higgins (1802 – 1877) & Aaron Wyckoff
| | | | (5.2) Amos Higgins (1803 – )
| | | | (5.3) John W. Higgins (1806 – 1887) & Ellen Smith (1809 – 1871)
| | | | (5.4) Lewis Higgins (1809 – 1864)
| | | | | | m. 1) Ann Barbara Cramer (c.1804 – )
| | | | | | m. 2) Mahala Hummer (c.1810 – )
| | | | (5.5) Jonathan Higgins (1811 – 1878) & Ann Holcombe (1803-1890)
| | | | (5.6) Catharine Higgins (1815 – ) & John Cook (c.1810 – )
| | | | (5.7) Ida Higgins (1815 – 1868) & Hon. John H. Horn (1813 – 1895)
| | | | (5.8) David B. Higgins (1817 – ) & Jane Amelia Servis (c.1840 – )
| | | | (5.9) Asher Higgins (1819 – 1902)
| | | | | | m. 1) Sarah Maria Conover (1825 – 1852)
| | | | | | m. 2) Jane Voorhees (1825 – 1910)
| | | | (5.10) Nath’l H. Higgins (1824-1894) & Rebecca Young (1822-1892)
| | | (4.3) Gideon Higgins & Mary Dilts
| | | | (5.1) Achilles Higgins (1803 – 1825)
| | | | (5.2) Ann Higgins (1805 – 1873) & Joseph Taylor (c.1800 – bef. 1860)
| | | | (5.3) Mahlon Higgins (1808 – 1881) & Ann W. Everitt (c.1810 – )
| | | | (5.4) Amy Higgins (1812 – 1898) & Aaron Carman Hill (c.1808 – 1880)
| | | | (5.5) Dilts A. Higgins (1814 – 1854) & Elizabeth Rockafellar (c.1819 – )
| | | | (5.6) Elizabeth Higgins (1816 – ) & Christopher K. Johnson (1821-1911)
Sixth Generation:
(1) Jediah Higgins & Mary Newbold
| (2.5) Jediah Higgins & Hannah Stout
| | (3.1) Joseph Higgins & 1) Mary Phillips
| | | (4.2) Michael Higgins & 1) Mary
| | | | (5.4) Joseph Higgins (1767 – 1855) & Sarah Cornell
| | | | | (6.1) Mary Higgins (1798 – 1812)
| | | (4.2) Michael Higgins & 2) Ruth Brush
| | | | (5.11) Michael Higgins & 1) Ann Brokaw
| | | | | (6.1) Amanda Higgins (1812 – 1886) & Mahlon Pettit (1804-1849)
| | | | | (6.2) Hiram Higgins (c.1820 – )
| | | | (5.12) Israel Higgins & 1) Mary Polly Holcombe
| | | | | (6.1) Jos. H. Higgins (1820-1884) & Margaret R. Bellis (1824-1911)
| | | | | (6.2) Harriet Higgins (1821 – 1890) & Azariah P. Hunt (c.1820 – )
| | | | (5.12) Israel Higgins & 2) Rebecca Taylor
| | | | | (6.3) Mary Higgins (1828 – 1830)
| | | | | (6.4) Levi H. Higgins (1830 – 1846)
| | | | | (6.5) Elizabeth Higgins (1833 – 1908) & Jesse M.Hunt (1835-1900)
| | | | | (6.6) Israel Higgins (1835 – )
| | | | | (6.7) Jonathan Mitchell Higgins (1839 – 1864)
| | | | | (6.8) Sarah Matilda Higgins (1845 – ) & Hon. Simeon R. Huselton
| | | | | (6.9) William B. Higgins (1842 – )
| | | | (5.13) Ruth Higgins & Nathaniel Lanning Furman
| | | | | (6.1) Nathaniel Higgins Furman (1837 – )
| | (3.4) Jonathan Higgins & Ann Britton
| | | (4.1) Judiah Higgins & 1) Mary Hill
| | | | (5.2) Hannah Higgins & Paul Kuhl Jr.
| | | | | (6.1) Mary Kuhl (1798 – 1799)
| | | | | (6.2) Leonard P. Kuhl (1800-1857) & Dorothy T. Sutphin (1809-1893)
| | | | | (6.3) Martha Higgins Kuhl (1802 – 1886)
| | | | | (6.4) Margaret Y. Kuhl (1804 – 1873)
| | | | | (6.5) Maria Kuhl (1806 – 1830)
| | | | | (6.6) Judiah H. Kuhl (1808-1871) & Catharine Y. Sutphin (1818-1886)
| | | | | (6.7) William B. Kuhl (1811 – 1870) & Ellen Sutphin (1814-1878)
| | | | | (6.8) Sarah Kuhl (1813 – 1814)
| | | | | (6.9) Alpheus C. Kuhl (c.1815 – bef. 1870)
| | | | | (6.10) George Kuhl (1818 – 1879) &
| | | | | | | m. 1) Mary Y. Chamberlin (1819 – 1847)
| | | | | | | m. 2) Henrietta VanLiew (1827 – 1903)
| | | | (5.4) Sarah Higgins & Gilbert Barton
| | | | | (6.1) Asher Barton (1814 – 1829)
| | | | | (6.2) John Higgins Barton (1817 – 1829)
| | | | | (6.3) Jemima Barton (1819 – 1829)
| | | | | (6.4) Jediah S. Barton (1824 – 1885) & Susan S. Merrill (c.1825 – )
| | | | (5.5) Judiah Higgins Jr. & Mary Quick
| | | | | (6.1) Mary A. Higgins (1810 – 1891) & David R. Bodine (1808-1867)
| | | | | (6.2) Hannah K. Higgins (1811 – 1891) & John G. Ewing (1810 – 1874)
| | | | | (6.3) John Higgins (1813 – 1889) & Rhoda Carkhuff (1814-1895)
| | | | | (6.4) Martha Higgins (1815 – 1900) & William Britton (1817-1864)
| | | | | (6.5) Cornelius Q. Higgins (1817-1883) & Eliz. R. Bartolette (1813 – )
| | | | | (6.6) Judiah J. Higgins (1820-1882) & Phoebe A. Mulford (c.1825- )
| | | | | (6.7) Jonathan B. Higgins (1822 – 1829)
| | | | | (6.8) Ellen Higgins (1824-1897) & Benjamin L. Pimm (1829-1886)
| | | | (5.6) Asher Higgins & Margaret Merrill
| | | | | (6.1) William M. Higgins (1819-1850) & Ann E. Drake (1824-1854)
| | | | | (6.2) Asher Higgins (1821 – 1890) & Anna G. Case (1826-1906)
| | | | (5.7) Jonathan J. Higgins & Eleanor Voorhees
| | | | | (6) William B. Higgins (1813-1869) & Eleanor H. Cole (1813-1868)
| | | | | (6) Catherine Higgins (1815-1884) & George Gano (1811-1890)
| | | | | (6) Rebecca Higgins (1820-1862) & Hiram E. Deats (1810-1887)
John Newman
October 6, 2019 @ 9:26 am
Emma Higgins, daughter of Alexander Higgins, and my direct ancestor, never married Reuben Savidge.
At some point in the 1910s, she separates from her husband and lived with Mr. Savidge, but she never married him and she retained the surname Phillips for her entire life.
Marfy Goodspeed
October 6, 2019 @ 10:58 am
Thanks John. I removed Savidge as Emma’s spouse. Is John Phillips correct?
John Newman
October 6, 2019 @ 11:44 am
Yes, John, or more formally Jonathan, Phillips is correct.
Jennie (Higgins) S.
August 2, 2020 @ 8:08 pm
I am looking for Amos Higgins born in New Jersey 1777. I am not able to find his parents or siblings in any of my searches. He was married to Elizabeth Davenport. Thank You
Marfy Goodspeed
August 3, 2020 @ 7:06 am
Do you know where he lived? As you have seen, I do not have a record of an Amos born in the 1770s. I know an early Davenport family lived in Burlington County, but I also do not have an Elizabeth of the right age.
Claire Hanson
August 16, 2020 @ 12:34 pm
So interesting to see how all the families intertwine, in this and so many other trees. Neighbors married neighbors, for sure! One tiny typo I happened to notice – (8) Elizabeth Jane Higgins (1871 – 1931) & Garret Beekman Rynearson (1966 – — Garret would have been born in 1866??
Thank you, Marfy, for all your diligent work in documenting our Hunterdon ancestors. Sure wish mine were not Asa and Robert Smith….
Marfy Goodspeed
August 16, 2020 @ 12:39 pm
Thanks for catching that, Claire.
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August 18, 2020 @ 10:26 am
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Cheryl Rounsaville
October 3, 2020 @ 12:40 pm
Marfy, thanks again for another extensive family tree. Jediah Higgins (2.4) and Mary Newbold are my 7th great grandparents. I have a couple of questions about the tree. The surname of the children of Martha Patty Higgins (5.4) and John Covenhoven, Esq. changes to Conover when you get to their son John W. (6.5). Did some of the family change their surname?
There is a sad story of one family in the tree (see them listed below). They parents Nicholas Higgins and Hannah Hill had 15 children. The mother (Hannah) and 6 of the children all died in 1846 (Mathilda, Jonathan, Nathaniel, John, Elias, Ura). Another had died the year before (Asa). Do you know by any chance why they all died so close together? Disease maybe?
(6.2) Nicholas Britton Higgins (1787- 1851) & Hannah Hill (1789 – 1846)
| (7.1) Matilda Ann Higgins (c.1810 – 1846) & Hon. Joseph B. Case (1811 – 1870)
| (7.2) Samuel Higgins (1811 – 1877)
| | m. 1) Permelia Amelia Williamson (1810 – 1864)
| | m. 2) Mary E. Reading (1846 – 1888)
| (7.3) Theodore Higgins (c.1813 – 1834)
| (7.4) Elizabeth Higgins (1815 – 1882) & Edward H. Hunt (1815 – 1881)
| (7.5) Asa Higgins (c.1818 – 1845)
| (7.6) Jonathan Higgins (c.1820 – 1846)
| (7.7) Nathaniel Higgins (c.1821 – 1846) & Emma Sergeant Reading (1825 – 1887)
| (7.8) Hannah E. Higgins (c.1823 – 1910) & Robert E. Holcombe (1819 – 1879)
| (7.9) John Higgins (c.1824 – 1846)
| (7.10) Elias C. Higgins (c.1826 – 1846)
| (7.11) Amos Higgins (c.1827 – 1837)
| (7.12) Ura Higgins (c.1829 – 1846)
| (7.13) Alexander Higgins Sr. (1833 – 1905) & Christiana Hope (1843 – 1930)
| (7.14) Lemuel Higgins (1835 – 1910) & Mary Jane Gaddis (1835 – 1907)
| (7.15) George W. Higgins (1839 – 1906) & Caroline M. Wolverton (~1842 – 1916)
Thanks!
Cheryl
Marfy Goodspeed
October 3, 2020 @ 2:10 pm
Hi Cheryl, As for the Covenhoven/Conover name, it seemed to change back and forth over several years. I could find no consistent pattern. It probably depended as much on the clerks as on the family member.
As for all the Higgins deaths in 1845-1846, I went straight to the newspapers hoping the obits would state the cause of death. No such luck. In fact, the Democrat, which had been publishing since 1838, only took note of Asa Higgins in 1845, ignoring all those death in 1846. But Asa’s obit in the Gazette talked about a lingering illness that he bore with patience. It seems most likely that he ended up sharing that illness with the rest of his family, some of whom survived it, and many who did not.
Cheryl Rounsaville
October 24, 2020 @ 6:48 am
Thanks for looking into that Marfy. What a tragedy for that family.