Oliver Higley (1779 - abt. 1846)

Born 14 Aug 1779 in Marlboro, Windham County, Vermont, USA

Ancestors

Husband of Lucretia Higley — married 20 Jun 1801 in Marlboro, Windham, VT

Descendants

Died about 6 May 1846 at about age 66 in Jo Daviess County, Illinois

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Biography

OLIVER HIGLEY, the ninth and first surviving child of Elijah and Anna (Halliday) Higley, was born August 14, 1779. It is not clear whether his birth took place at Windsor, Conn., and that he was taken a very young infant to Marlboro, Windham County, Vermont, on the removal of his parents to the Green Mountain State, or whether he was born at Marlboro very soon after they settled there.

He married, June 20, 1801, Lucretia Higley, his second cousin, the daughter of Daniel and Ruth Higley, who lived in a distant part of the same town Marlboro. She was born November 13, 1781.

For a few years after their marriage they resided in Marlboro. Here their oldest two children were born. They then crossed Lake Champlain to Port Kent, Essex County, N. Y., where they settled for a time, afterward removing to Edinburg, Washington County, in the same State, about the year 1813. Here other children were born to them. From Edinburg they emigrated to western New York, settling at Jamestown, Chautauqua County, some time in the twenties, where, in the year 1831, they were still found.

Sources

See also:

• 1830 Federal Census; 1840 Federal Census;

https://archive.org/stream/higleystheirance00johniala/higleystheirance00johniala_djvu.txt

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24935918/oliver-higley

http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/m/c/g/Poopsmith-Mcgee/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0192.html