Desire (Cooke) Higgins (1694 - aft. 1736)

Born 14 Jun 1694 in Eastham, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Beriah Higgins — married about 1716 (to after 17 May 1736) in Province of Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

Descendants

Died after 17 May 1736 after age 41 in Provincetown, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

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Biography

Desire was born on 14 June 1694 in Eastham, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay, the daughter of Josiah Cooke^[1] and his wife Mary, whose surname may have been Godfrey or Rickard.^[2][3][4]

She married Beriah Higgins by 1717 (birth of first child), the son of Joseph Higgins Ruth Unknown.^[5][3]

Desire died sometime after 17 May 1736, location unknown.^[3]

No probate records have been found in Barnstable County Probate Records for Beriah or Desire. It is "barely possible" that they moved to Middletown or Saybrook or Lyme, Connecticut.^[3] At least two of their children went to Connecticut, one being of Middletown, Beriah, and the other, Thankful, in Saybrook and perhaps Lyme, dying in Hartland in 1792.^{[5] [6]}

Children, first 3 born Truro, last 3 born Provincetown:^{[3] [5]}

1. Thankful, b. 7 Aug 1717
2. Jemima, b. 15 Jun 1719
3. Desire, b. 10 Aug 1724
4. Deborah, b. 26 Oct 1725
5. Beriah, b. 01 Apr 1727
6. Phebe, b. 17 May 1736

Note that MF 6:399^[7] and the Higgins Supplement list three additional possible children:^[8]

1. Jethro
2. Josiah
3. Joseph

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch : 20 May 2014, Barnstable > Eastham, Orleans > Births, marriages, deaths, land grants 1649-1722 > image 136 of 157; town clerk offices, Massachusetts. Eastham Land Records 1659-1710, Births, Marriages & Deaths 1649-1710, p. 70b.

   Desire Cooke the daughter of Josia Cooke was borne the fourtenth day of June 1694.

2. ↑ John D. Austin, Mayflower Families Through 5 Generations, Stephen Hopkins, Vol. 6 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2001 [3rd printing]), p. 96, citing unnamed published suggestions.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4} Ann Reeves and Alice W.A. Westgate, Mayflower Families Through 5 Generations, Thomas Rogers, Vol. 19 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2000), p. 79.
4. ↑ Clarence A. Torrey,New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. Reference Volume 1, page 368, {citing: Hall, Grace Fielding, A Mayflower Line: Hopkins-Snow-Cook, Cape Cod Library of Local History and Genealogy #40 (Yarmouthport, Mass.: C. W. Swift, 1914); Park, E. A., Memoir of the Life and Character of Samuel Hopkins, D.D. (Boston: Doctrinal Tract & Book Society, 1854); Mayflower Descendant 7:238; Rich, George, Early Rich History and Ancestry of Jonathan Rich, Jr., Ft. Covington, N.Y. (Cleveland, 1922) 24; Cooke, Rollin H. [probably] Descendants of Josias Cooke of Plymouth & Eastham Mass. (n.p., n.d.) 7, 11; Dawes-Gates 2:504; Torrey, Clarence Almon, “John Young of Eastham, Mass.,” typescript (Boston: 1923) 5; NEHGR 6:43; Stockberger, Maude Nina, Alva Cook and Lydia Cooper, Their Ancestors and Descendants (Washington, D.C.: 1958) 2, 38}
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} Katherine Elizabeth Chapin Higgins, Richard Higgins : a resident and pioneer settler at Plymouth and Eastham, Massachusetts, and at Piscataway, New Jersey, and his descendants (Worcester, Mass. : K.C. Higgins, 1918), pp. 69-71,99, 142.
6. ↑ Ferris, Mary W., Dawes-Gates ancestral lines... 2 vols., (Milwaukee, Wisc., 1931-43), Vol. 2:505.
7. ↑ Austin, Mayflower Families - Hopkins, p. 399.
8. ↑ Higgins, "Supplement to Richard Higgins and his descendants, (Worcester, Mass., 1924), p. 13.

• Caleb H. Johnson, The Mayflower and her passengers (Indiana:Xlibris Corp., Caleb Johnson, 2006)

• "Mayflower Families Through Five Generations", Volume six, "Hopkins", Published by General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1992.
• Sedgwick.org at http://www.sedgwick.org/na/families/robert1613/4/1/41-sedgwick-samuel1725.html

• Sedgwick.org A Genealogy of the Sedgwick Family in America since 1635, page 31, http://www.sedgwick.org/na/library/books/sed1934/sed1934-031.html

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