Born in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Ancestors 
Daughter of Enos Knowles
and Sarah (Sparrow) Knowles
Wife of
Ichabod Higgins
— married
23 Jan 1752 in Orleans, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Descendants 
Mother of
John Higgins
Died [date unknown]
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 21 Jun 2014
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Biography
Bethiah was born on 12 January 1734, in Orleans, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Enos Knowles (1712-1784) and Sarah (Sparrow) Knowles (1701-1784).[1]
On 23 January 1752, Bethiah married Ichabod Higgins (1729-) in Orleans, Massachusetts.[2]
Sources
- ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQDD-Q6P : 2 March 2020), Bethiah Knowles, 1734.
- ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP8V-HJX6 : 19 April 2021), Ichabod Higgins and Bethiah Knowles, 23 Jan 1752; citing Marriage, Orleans, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009735.
- Massachusetts births
- Mayflower Society Application Database: "Community Trees," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:QVQ5-Y8W : accessed 12 August 2021), entry for Bethiah Knowles, cites sources; "Mayflower Pilgrim Genealogies" file (2:2:2:MMXD-DP8), submitted 24 February 2020 by FamilySearch.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Bethiah by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Bethiah:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Bethiah by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Bethiah:
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~1.56%
Bruce Blair
:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch MN8755525 [compare], Ancestry member microrotor
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Joseph Wilton :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member JMWilton71
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~0.78%
Alton Crowell :
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