Niles (Higinbotham) Higginbotham (abt. 1748 - abt. 1823)

Born about 1748 in Rhode Island

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Died about 1823 at about age 75 in Decatur, Otsego, New York, United States

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Family History of Central NY, Vol. III, Central New York Family Histories, Page 1580 [1]

(III) Captain Niles Higinbotham, son of Dr. Charles (2) Higinbotham, was born in Rhode Island, in 1748, died in Decator, Otsego county, New York, in 1823. He being the eldest son and married remained at home to attend to home affairs, while his father and two unmarried brothers served in the revolutionary army. He was large and strong, and on one occasion, being annoyed while at work in the fields by a certain powerful man, who insisted on a test of trength, Captain Higinbotham picked him up and threw him over a fence. He was an excellent sailor and became captain of a merchant vessel, in which capacity he served for many years, and finally settled down as a farmer in the state of New York. He married (first) in 1772, a Miss Lippet, of Rhode Island. Children: Charles: Mercy, married William Gardner, of DeRuyter, New York; xx married a Mr. Sutphen, of Sherburne, New York; xx married a Mr. Oothout, of Genesee county, New York. Mrs. higinbotham died in 1780. Captain Higinbotham married (second) Lucy (Tisdale) Sherman, widow of his cousin, Nathaniel Sherman (by whom she had two sons, Henry and Watts). Children of second marriage: Lucy, maried (first) Frederick Albert, and (second) Asa Gifford; Sands, see forward; Betsey, died the day appointed for her marriage to Tilly Lynde.

An early settler of Stephentown NY.

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