Brewster Higley Sr. (1680 - 1760)

Born 10 Jan 1680 in Windsor, Hartford , Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Hester Sarah (Holcombe) Higley — married 17 Feb 1708 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died 5 Nov 1760 at age 80 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

Reverend Brewster was born in 1680. He passed away December 17, 1775. ^[1]

Brewster and Esther (Holcomb) Higley of Simsbury were identified as the parents of Elizabeth, who married Gideon Mills on November 23, 1748. She died in Simsbury in 1774 at the age of 51.^[2]

"On the 17th of February, 1709, he married Hester Holcombe, 1 the daughter of Deacon Nathaniel and Mary (Bliss) Holcombe of Simsbury, an old family of excellent standing. In December of the same year their first child was born, and named Brewster, who when he reached manhood was known as Brewster Higley, 2d. They had been married five years when their " honored father " Captain Higley died. After this event, upon the removal of Captain Higley's widow to Windsor, in the spring of 1725, Brewster and his young family, with his eldest brother John, took up their residence in the old homestead at Higley-Town, which lost none of its former prestige through its new occupants. It was here the younger members of their circle of eight children, who gradually filled the family home, were born. There were four sons and four daughters, viz. :

Brewster, 2d;

David,

Joseph

Hannah

Hester

John

Elizabeth

Naomi"^[3]

Brewster is buried at Simsbury Cemetery, Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.

Sources

1. ↑ First Settlers of Simsbury, Simsbury Historical Society: www.simsburyhistory.org/SimsHistory/FirstSettlers.html
2. ↑ Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College (Holt, 1885) Vol. 1: October 1701-May 1745, Pt. 2, pp. 585-586.
3. ↑ https://archive.org/stream/higleystheirance00johniala/higleystheirance00johniala_djvu.txt

• Humphreys Family in America Pub,1885? Frederick Humphreys Fam 4 [S}
• Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College (Holt, 1885) Vol. 1, Page 586
• Find A Grave: Memorial #40974318