Mehitable (Phinney) Higgins (1696 - 1778)

Born 14 Aug 1696 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Samuel Higgins — married 9 Oct 1718 (to 25 Jul 1776) in Barnstable, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 28 May 1778 at age 81 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA

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Biography

Mehitable Phinney was born on 14 August 1696 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay, the daughter of Ebenezer and Susanna (Linnell) Phinney.^[1][2][3] She was baptized in the Barnstable church on 11 October 1696.^[4]

She was married in Barnstable on 09 October 1718 to Samuel Higgins,^[5][6] the son of Jonathan and Lydia (Sparrow) Higgins, born in Eastham on 05 October 1694.^[7][3] Samuel was a carpenter in Eastham.^[7]

Samuel died in Eastham on 25 July 1776 in his 83rd year, and was buried in the Orleans cemetery.^[8][9][10] Mehitable died there on 28 May 1778.^[11][7]

No probate records are found in Barnstable County for Samuel or Mehitable.^[3]

Children born Eastham:^[12][13][3]

1. Hannah, b. 12 July 1719.
2. Ebenezer, b. 21 Jul 1721.
3. Martha, b. 2 Oct 1723.
4. Susanna, b. 3 Feb 1725/6.
5. Jonathan, b. 3 Apr 1728.
6. Samuel, b. 6 Aug 1730.
7. Eliakim, b. 21 Jan 1732/3.
8. Sylvanus, b. 12 Oct 1736.
9. Lydia, b. 9 Oct 1737.
10. Prince, b. 28 Apr 1741.

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch : 13 July 2016, Barnstable > Barnstable > Town records 1640-1774 vol 1-2 > image 247 of 663; town clerk offices, Massachusetts.
   Barnstable Town Records, Vol. 1:378.

   Ebenezer Phinny & Susanah Linnel ... his Daughter Mehitable born 14 Aug^s 1696.

2. ↑ George Ernest Bowman, "Barnstable, Mass., Vital Records," Mayflower Descendant Vol. 11:132
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} Ann Reeves and Alice W.A. Westgate, Mayflower Families Through 5 Generations, Thomas Rogers, Vol. 19 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2000), pp. 34, 77.
4. ↑ "Barnstable, MA: Church Records, 1639-1892." Records of Barnstable, Massachusetts. CD-ROM. Boston, MA.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.) p. 100 (Link by $ubscription.)
5. ↑ Bowman, "Barnstable VRs," MD Vol. 14:227.
6. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch : 13 July 2016, Barnstable > Barnstable > Town records 1640-1774 vol 1-2 > image 255 of 663; town clerk offices, Massachusetts.
   Barnstable Town Records, Vol. 1:389.

   Sam^ll Higgins of Eastham & Mehitable Phinny of Barnstable octo^r 9 1718. [Married by Esq^r Parker.]

7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2} Katherine E.C. 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) p. 69, 94-5
8. ↑ Stanley W. Smith, "Bill of Mortality in the South Parish of Eastham," MD Vol. 7:185.

   [1776] Sam^l Higgins, 84

9. ↑ CapeCodGravestones.com, Gravestone of Samuel Higgins, 1776, Orleans Cemetery (Includes gravestone photo and inscription.)
10. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 01 August 2019), memorial page for Samuel Higgins, Jr (5 Oct 1694–25 Jul 1776), Find A Grave: Memorial #50986378, citing Orleans Cemetery, East Orleans, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by happi (contributor 47230744). (Includes gravestone photo.)
11. ↑ Smith, "Bill of Mortality in the South Parish of Eastham," MD Vol. 7:186.

    [1778] W^o Mehit^l Higgins

12. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch : 20 May 2014, Barnstable > Eastham, Orleans > Births, marriages, deaths 1701-1796 > image 22 of 126; town clerk offices, Massachusetts. Br/> Eastham Births, marriages, deaths 1701-1796, p. 28. (Birth of first 9 children.)
13. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch : 20 May 2014, Barnstable > Eastham, Orleans > Births, marriages, deaths 1701-1796 > image 13 of 126; town clerk offices, Massachusetts.
    Eastham Births, marriages, deaths 1701-1796, p. 11. (Birth of Lydia)

See also:

• Roser, Susan E. Mayflower Births and Deaths: From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Volumes 1 & 2. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1992

• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 31 July 2019), memorial page for Mehitable Phinney Higgins (4 Aug 1696–28 May 1778), Find A Grave: Memorial #74972371; Maintained by Janet Durlam (contributor 47545670) Unknown. (No gravestone photo or sources.)

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Acknowledgments

Thanks to Eryn Hibbert for starting this profile.