Experience (Higgins) Crowell (abt. 1699 - 1777)

Born about 1699 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of John Crowell — married 3 Mar 1719 (to 1777) in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 21 Jul 1777 at about age 78 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

CAUTION: The Mayflower Society^[1] and the Thomas Rogers Society^[2] disagree with some of the points put forth in John Crowe and his descendants, a genealogy.^[3]

From the Mayflower Society:

Experience Higgins was born between 1699 and 1702, probably at Eastham, based on her age at marriage and the residence of Jonathan Higgins.

Father There are no documents to prove that Experience was the daughter of Jonathan HIggins. She and her two sisters, Thankful and Hannah, are generally accepted as Jonathan's daughters. There is a possibility they are daughters to Jonathan's brother, Joseph.

Mother Here again the lack of records leaves a certain amount of doubt. Her father Jonathan was married to Lydia (Sparrow) Freeman, but he may have had a first wife, of whom nothing is known.

From the Crow and Higgins genealogies:

Experience Higgins was born circa 1699, the daughter of Jonathan Higgins and Lydia Sparrow of Eastham, Massachusetts^[4][3]

Marriage: On March 3, 1719, she married John Crowell, in Eastham,^{[3][5] [4]} He was the son of John and Sarah (______) according to the Mayflower Society and the Thomas Rogers Society.^[1] The Crowe Genealogy claims that Sarah was Sarah, eldest daughter of David and Jane O'Kellia.^[3][6]

Death "Widow Experince Crowell departed this life July 21st 1777 "^[7][1]

Children born in Yarmouth. All births from the Mayflower Society,^[1] confirmed in the Yarmouth records.^[8]

1. John born January 13, 1721. Crowe Descendants: He married Lydia Baker October 8, 1741^[3][8]
2. Ruth, born October 18, 1722; d. unmarried 23 Mar 1776.^[8] Crowe Descendants says she married Amos O'Kellia in 1747, and then married James Covil^[3] There is a marriage record for Ruth and Amos Okilley.^[8]
3. Jashar / Joshua born October 28, 1724. From Crowe Descendants: he married Deliverance Okilley April 30, 1752^[3][8]
4. Abner^[4], born August 10, 1726. Crow Descendants: He married Sarah O'Kellia, and then married widow Ruth Nickerson on April 3, 1777, and who died Feb 8, 1778^[3]
5. Shubael born November 2, 1728.
6. Thomas born November 7, 1731, who married Mercy Stuart on June 25, 1753^[3][8]
7. Jedidah born February 16, 1733/4. He married Azuba Baker 16 Jan 1754, and who drowned in the Bass River^[3][8]
8. Jenne (Jane / Genne), born July 3, 1736. She married Sylvanus Baker 8 April 1756^[3][8]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Baker, Peggy M. (revised by) Originally compiled by Alice W. A. Westgate and revised by Ann T Reeves 2000. Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620: Family of Thomas Rogers (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2013. (Silver Book)
2. ↑ Thomas Rogers Society (Link via Wayback Machine, capture date 12 Aug 2022.)
3. ↑ ^{3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10} [Crowell, Levi] John Crowe and his descendants, a genealogy. (New York, T. Y. Crowell & co. 1903 p. 23, p. p. 26
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Richard Higgins, a Resident and Pioneer Settler at Plymouth and Eastham, Massachusetts, and at Piscataway, New Jersey, and His Descendants Higgins, Katharine Chapin, (Worcester, Mass.: privately printed, 1918) see person #12 (Jonathan), and child v. Experience on page 69
5. ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC4F-FZN : 4 December 2014), John Crowell and Experience Higgins, 25 Feb 1719; citing reference ; FHL microfilm 905,406.
6. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-9979-9XDV?cc=2061550&wc=Q4DW-7MX%3A353349701%2C353418401%2C353419901 : 20 May 2014), Barnstable > Eastham, Orleans > Births, marriages, deaths 1701-1796 > image 23 of 126; town clerk offices, Massachusetts.
7. ↑ Yarmouth. Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/13934/281/251762806
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7} Yarmouth Mass Vital Records; Book 3, page 101 found in Yarmouth V1, pages 57-58 of the Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016).

See also:

• Levi Crowell, John Crowe and his descendants : a genealogy, (New York: T.Y. Crowell & Co., 1903), pp. 23, 26.

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