Dorcas (Brainerd) Higgins (1745 - 1829)

Born 19 Feb 1745 in Haddam, Hartford, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Moses Higgins Sr. — married 10 Dec 1767 in Chatham, Hartford, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 16 Jun 1829 at age 84 in Exeter, Otsego, New York, United States

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Biography

Dorcas was born in 1745, the daughter of Abijah and Esther.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F7WC-878 : accessed 13 Feb 2014), Abijah Brainerd in entry for Dorcas Brainerd, 19 Feb 1745.

• Fuller, William Hyslop. Fuller Genealogy (C.B. Fiske & Co., Palmer, Mass., 1908) Vol. 1, Page 43.

• "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7WC-87Z : 7 January 2020), Dorcas Brainerd, 1745.

• "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPSF-XGZR : 15 April 2022), Dorcas Brainard, ; citing Marriage, Chatham, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States, Compiled by Lucius A. and Lucius B. Barbour, housed at State Library, Hartford, Connecticut; FHL microfilm 008143430.

• "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F77B-MHX : 7 January 2020), Dorcas in entry for Tamzen Higgins, 1768.

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28099495/dorcas-higgins : accessed 26 October 2021), memorial page for Dorcas Brainerd Higgins (1746–16 Jun 1829), Find a Grave Memorial ID 28099495, citing Exeter Center Cemetery, Exeter, Otsego County, New York, USA ; Maintained by J Felts (contributor 46995081)