GJ Appendix Select Higgins Sources

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Higgins Notes
Carle-Higgins Children
Ruth (Higgins) Carle (1728-1808)
Joseph Higgins (1702-1782)

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(Have not edited these, just copied here from PDF - "Jediah Higgins and Joseph Higgins report.PDF" in _LogHiggins)

William Nelson, Calendar of New Jersey Wills ... 1670‐1730, vol. 1 in Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, vol. 23 (1901), page 227; digital images Archive.org (http://www.archive.org : accessed 08 Dec 2008) provides a slightly different transcription:

1715 April 23. Higgins, Jedidiah, of Somerset Co., yeoman; will of. Wife Mary. Children‐‐Jedidiah, James, Miceall, Thomas, Joseph (under 21), Mary (under 18), granddaughter Sarah Bloomefield. Home farm, 120 acres at Barnegat Bay, land acquired as part of a share. Personal estate. Executors‐‐the wife and sons Jedidiah and James. Witnesses‐‐Benjamin Fitz Randolph, Jonathan Stout, Tho. Yates. Proved May 17, 1715. West Jersey Deeds 2:16

1730 April 22. Harrison, Elizabeth, of Rocky Hill, Somerset Co., widow of John, junior, Esq're; will of. Children‐‐Benja. Higgins, Benja. Harrison, who has wife Rachel, Sarah Loakison, who has eldest dau. Sarah Warden (under 18), Grace Harrison, Rachel Harrison, Mary Higgens; legacies to Nancee Harrison, grandson Ed. Higgins and grand‐ daughter Elezebeth Warden. House and lot in Perth Amboy, received by will of husband of March 2, 1723‐4. Personal estate (three silver spoons). Executors‐‐sons Benjamin Higgins and Benjamin Harrison. Witnesses‐‐Lewis Moore, Thomas Soden, Tho. Yates. Proved January 21, 1730. Lib. B, p. 185. New Jersey Colonial Documents, pg. 212

1728‐9 Jan. 28. Harrison, Henry, of Somerset Co., about 37 years old; will of. Wife Grace sole executrix. Children‐‐John, Henry, Thomas, Ann and Elizabeth.; mother still living; Home farm, bought of Benj. Higgins, lot in Amboy, had of brother John Harrison. Personal estate (three negro slaves). Witnesses‐‐Lewis Moore, John Corle, Wm. Hollinshead. Proved February 25, 1730‐1. Lib. B, p. 191 New Jersey Colonial Documents, pg. 213

1723‐4 March 2. Harrison, John, of Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., gentleman; will of. Wife Elizabeth. Son Benjamin, under age; bequests to mother, sisters Mary, wife of Samuel Moore, Sarah, Anne, wife of Richard Allison, sisters‐in‐law Gowen Nette, wife of brother Wil‐ liam, Grace, wife of brother Henry; Sarah and Elizabeth, daughters of brother Edward, dec'd. Real and personal estate (a silver tankard, six do. spoons marked S. R. two do. I. H., a pair of do. salts). Executors‐‐ George Willocks and Col. John Parker; son Benjamin to become sole ex‐ ecutor, when of age. Witnesses‐‐Richard Bishop, John Walls, Sam'l Royse. Proved June 11, 1725. Lib. A, p. 330 New Jersey Colonial Documents, pg. 213

1724 Oct. 3. George Willocks, one of the executors named in preced‐ ing testatment, refuses to act, as he intends to leave America and go to Great Britain. New Jersey Colonial Documents, pg. 213

1718 May 10. Higgins, Higgens, James, of Somersett Co. In‐ ventory of the personal estate of, £75.6.‐‐; made by Tho: Yates and Daniel Fitch. 1718 May 22. gens, yeoman.

1715 April 23. will of. Wife Mary. Children‐‐Jedidiah, James, Miceall, Thomas, Joseph (under 21), Mary (under 18), granddaughter Sarah Bloomefield. Home farm, 120 acres at Barnegat Bay, land acquired as part of a share. Personal estate. Executors‐‐the wife and sons Jedidiah and James. Witnesses‐‐Benjamin Fitz Randolph, Jonathan Stout, Tho. Yates. Proved May 17, 1715. Lib. 2, p. 16

[The item that follows was attributed and presented as an entry that followed the estate items of James Higgins, dec’d 1718; however, it appears to relate to his father, Jediah, on which the son James, dec’d 1718, was co‐administrator with his brother Jediah (Jr.).]

‐‐‐‐‐ ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐. Account of the estate by Jediah Higgins, son and administrator, showing payments to Joseph Kirkbride, Thomas Achley, Ben. Randolph, Edw. Walington, Wm. Tappen, Jarsham Martin, Thos. Yeates, Eleexander Harper, John Cornelus, John Harrison, John Baron, Anne Hogland, Daniel Howell, Daniel Baley, Barefoot Brimson, Daniel Fitch, Unis Denis, Enoch Vreland, Daniel Cornelus, John Pipingen, widow Hordanbrook (? Hardenbergh), Ezekiell and Jeremiah Blumfield, Ben. Hull, Samuel Leonard, Thomas Wetherell, John Bound and Elisha Parker; mentioning also five children of deceased.

1702 Dec. 2. Higgins, Thomas, of Piscataway, yeoman; will of. Mother Mary Whitehead; wife Elizabeth executrix. Children‐‐Benjamin and daughters (names not given). Real and personal property. John Royce and Edward Slater assistants to executrix or feoffes in trust. Witnesses‐‐H. Faurdt (Henry Forde), Samuel Yorke, Benjamin Hull and Anne Pridmore. Proved April 18, 1704. Lib. 1, p. 37, and Middlesex Wills

“Vital Records of Woodbridge, Middlesex County, NJ,” vital record extractions from Rev. Joseph W. Dally, _The Story of a New Jersey Town (1873), by Margie Glover Daniels, n.d., online manuscript, Glover Family (http://www.gloverfamily.com : accessed 9 Jan 2008).

Select entries:

These May Certify all Persons Concerned that Timothy BLOOMFIELD was married to Rose HIGENS, 2 Apr 1707, by Samuel SHEPARD
Timothy BLOOMFIELD, son of Ezekiel BLOOMFIELD & Hope, his wife, b. 11 Feb 1681
Rebecah BLOOMFIELD, daughter of Timothy BLOOMFIELD & Rose, his wife, b. 3 Jun 1709
Sarah BLOOMFIELD, daughter of Timothy BLOOMFIELD & Rose, his wife, b. 19 Aug 1710
Richard BLOOMFIELD, son of Timothy BLOOMFIELD & Rose, his wife, b. 4 Jan 1717
Isaac FITZ RANDOLPH was Married to Ruth HIGGINS, 26 May 1692, by me, Samuel HALE – Justice
Isaac FITZ RANDOLPH, son of Isaac FITZ RANDOLPH & Ruth, his wife, b. 16 Apr 1693
Marthew FITZ RANDOLPH, wife of Isaac FITZ RANDOLPH d. 11 Aug 1691
William FITZ RANDOLPH, son of Isaac FITZ RANDOLPH & Ruth, his wife, b. 27 Oct 1694
nathaniel FITZ RANDOLPH was Married to Grace HULL, 26 May 1692, by me Samuel HALE – Justice
Isaac FITZ RANDOLPH, his Publication for Marriage with Ruth HIGGENS, dated 23 Apr 1692
Nathaniel FITZ RANDOLPH his Publication for Marriage with Grace HULL, date 23 Apr 1692

This May Certify all Persons Concerned that Samuel MOORE was Married to Sarah HIGGINS, 26 Oct 1693, Before Me John BISHOP – Justice
Samuel MOORE, son of Samuel MOORE & Sarah, his wife, b. 23 Aug 1694
Rachel MOORE, daughter of Samuel MOORE & Sarah, his wife, b. 26 May 1701

Janet T. Riemer and the South Brunswick Historical Society, “Higgins (Higgens) Family Burying Ground” in “Cemeteries of South Brunswick,” South Brunswick Public Library (http://www.sbpl.info/township/cemeteries.htm#Higgins : 9 Jan 2009).
Higgins, Charles W., son of Chas. and Ellen, d. Sept. 17, 1823, aged 1.5.22
Higgens, Hanna, wife of Jediah, d. July 14, 1779, in 87th yr.
Higgens, Jediah, Esq., d. Feb. 19, 1772, in 82nd yr.
Higgins, Joshua, d. March 4, 1804, aged 72 yrs. [thus b. ca 1732]
Higgins, Mary, wife of Joshua, d. Aug. 6, 1803, aged 77 yrs. ‐‐ H (fieldstone ) ‐‐+L, Dyd Jun 8, 1803 (fieldstone)

Jeanette K. Muser, Rocky Hill, Kingston and Griggstown: Kingston and Griggstown (1998), pg. 92 as “Jedediah Higgins”; Google Book Search snippet (2009), pg 109. Contains image with description, "These neglected gravestones on Jedediah Higgins property near Raymond Road in Kingston are perhaps the only genuine remains of an early settler of the village. Jedediah Higgins build a house on the King's Highway in the early 1700s. John Dalley of Kingston made a map in 1745 that confirms the general location of the Higgins Property. (Courtesy of Clem Fiori.)

See also--

• Katherine Chapin Higgins, Richard Higgins ... (1918), 92-93 (25. Joseph Higgins); digital images, InternetArchive.
• Katherine Chapin Higgins, Supplement to Richard Higgins and his descendants (Worcester, Mass. : K. Higgins, 1924); digital images, Hathi Trust Catalog entry.