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Page 35 - court held May 5th, 1735. Moses Hickenbothom (sic) and
Joshua Law (sic) (This is Joshua Lowe) - that Hickenbothom
appear and abide the judgment of the court, continued - (No
further preceedings in this case was found).
Page 36 - (same Court as above) John Fleming; fornication with
Margaret Hunter - Prosecutor, Joseph Growdon - Jury included
Joseph Hickenbottom (sic)
Page ? - Court held November 4, 1735 - Elizabeth Baldwin to
appear and prosecute Moses Higenbotem (sic)
Page 59 - Court held May 3, 1737. Daniel Stewart for assaulting
and beating Peter Leman - pleads not guilty. Stewart fined 10
shillings and cost. Among jurors was Joseph Hickenbothem (sic)
Authors Note: I will include the letter from Mr. Allender Sybert
(genealogy researcher) to Mr. Dean D. Higinbotham, but, only the
first part, that contains information of Joseph Higginbotham and
Moses Higginbotham.
Allender Sybert
7107 Sheffield Road
Baltimore, Maryland 21212
Mr. Dean D. Higinbotham August 22, 1994
180 Mount View Place
Grants Pass, Oregon 97527
Dear Mr. Higinbotham:
Thanks you very much for your check and for the additional
information you sent on the Higinbotham family, including the
pages from The Ascent of the Higinbotham Family by Descent by
Norman L. Higinbotham, Dr. Higinbotham compiled a vast amount of
information on the Higinbotham family, but, unfortunatley, did
not include the critical links that would allow us to establish
the ancestry of the Higginbothams of Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania and Frederick County, Maryland. Perhaps with
further research the lineage in Ireland will become more
relevant.
I was especially intrigued by two of the items you sent, one
being the indenture of Joseph Hembery to Joseph Higginbotham and
the other being the information from the book Higginbotham
Descendants of Moses and Frances (Kyle) Higginbotham by Earl and
Nena Higginbotham regarding the identity of the Higginbotham
immigrants to Albemarle County, Virginia, c. 1740. I located
some additional information on Joseph Hembery in the hope that
it may offer some clues to the Higginbotham ancestry. Joseph
Hembery was an English Quaker who immigrated to Philadelphia in
1684, where he presented a certificate of removal from the
Somersett Meeting at Ilchester, England. From the book Quaker
arrivals at Philadelphia, 1682-1750: Certificates of Removal
Received at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting by Albert Cook Myers,
2nd ed., p. 9: "Hugh Durborow and Joseph Hembey (Hembray) from
Somerset, Ilchester, England, dated 6 mo., 6, 1684, received 9
mo., 4, 1684". Joseph Hemey of Bucks County and Eleanor Jackman
of Philadelphia were married at the Philadelphia Meeting House
on 8th mo., 1, 1720 (records of Philadelphia Monthly Metting, in
Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, by William Wade
Hinshaw, vol. II, p. 547). The indenture dated 6 Sept 1720 by
which Joseph and Elinor Hembery sold to Joseph Higginbotham his
land and part of his house did not indicate what relationship,
if any, existed between the Hemberys and Higginbotham, but it is
possible that Higginbotham was their son-in-law, as their
marriage date of 1702 made it possible for them to have had a
daughter of marriage age in 1720. The will of Joseph Hembry of
Makefield twp., Bucks County, Pennsylvania, made on 13 June
1721, proved 9 April 1722, left £ 10 to Samuel Coombes, £ to
James Downey and £ 5 to Joseph Higginbotham. Joseph Kirkbright,
Edwd. Lucas and John Thacher were maned as executors "to dispose
of the remaining parts of my estate as they shall see fit".
Witnesses were Thomas Jones and Elizabeth Cutifer (Bucks County
Wills 1:64). Again, no relationship between Hemry and
Higginbotham was stated.
Although there is as yet no proof, it seems likely that the
Joseph Higginbotham, cordwinder, of Bucks County in 1720 is the
same Joseph Higginbotham who was mentioned as a resident of the
Conestoga settlemet in (now) Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in
1727, and who appeared in the Quarter Sessions records of
Lancaster County from 1730 through 1737. I have not found any
furthur record of him in Lancaster County after 1737. Perhaps he
moved away or died about that time. Moses Higginbotham also
appeared in the Quarter Sessions records in 1735, and also
disappeared from Lancaster County records thereafter.
At this point the information from the book Higginbotham
Descendants of Moses and Frances (Kyle) Higginbotham regarding
the identity of the Higginbotham immigrants to Albemarle (now
Amherst) County, Virginia, c. 1740, becames relevant. As you
know, the authors question whether the parents of the Virginia
Higginbothams were indeed John and Frances (Riley) Higginbotham,
as stated in William M. Sweeny’s book The Higginbotham Family.
They point out that Sweeny offered no documentary proof of that
statement, which has been accepted and repeated in subsequent
articles on the Virginia Higginbothams. They further point out
that a note written in a law book owned by James Higginbotham
(b. 25 Dec 1729, son of the "Widow Higginbotham" of Virginia)
states that Joseph Higginbotham died April 17th 1742. They
conclude that the evidence strongly suggest that Joseph
Higginbotham was the Widow Higginbotham’s husband and the father
of the Virginia Higginbotham family. Unfortunatley, none of the
available records gives the name of the Widow Higginbotham or
her husband.
All of the above leads is to the question of whether the Joseph
Higginbotham found in the Bucks County, Pennsylvania, records in
1720-1722, the Joseph Higginbotham found in the Lancaster
county, Pennsylvania, records from 1727-1737, and the Joseph
Higginbotham who died on 17 April 1742 and was presumably the
husband of Widow Higginbotham of Virginia are the same person. I
do not know of any evidence against that possibility. The dates
of his known residence in each place do not overlap; in other
words, we don’t find him mentioned in the records of one place
while at the same time we find him living elsewhere. In fact,
the Virginia records are apparently so sparse that we don’t even
know whether his death occurred before or after the family
arrived in Virginia. The eldest son Moses Higginbotham (see
Higginbotham Descendants of Moses and Frances (kyle)
Higginbotham, pp.11-12) and I have not seen anything to indicate
the Widow Higginbotham’s husband ever lived in Virginia.
If the Joseph Higginbotham of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,
was the husband of Widow Higginbotham of Virginia, then it is
likely that the Moses Higginbotham whom we find in the Lancaster
County Quarter Sessions records in 1735 is the same Moses
Higginbotham, eldest son of Widow Higginbotham, who purchased
land in Virginia in 1745. Indeed, the fact that we find a Moses
Higginbotham closely associated with Joseph Higginbotham both in
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and in Virginia is furthur
evidence that we are dealing with the same family in both
locations. Even if we could prove that the Joseph and Moses
Higginbotham of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, were members of
the family that later settled in Virginia, it would not tell us
anything about the Higginbothams of western Maryland. The only
connection we have between the two families is the fact that
both Joseph Higginbotham and Thomas Higginbotham (brother of
Charles Higginbotham) lived in Lancaster County at the same
time. What the relationship between them may have been remains
unknown.
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The Widow Higginbotham
Our oldest grandmother is known to us as the "WIDOW / MRS.
HIGGINBOTHAM" as noted by Parson Robert Rose in his diary. She
lived with her family in old Goochland County, Virginia, in the
early 1740a - near the community of New Glasgow, which became a
part of Albemarle County in 1744 and in 1762, was in the survey
of Amherst County. You will note that we use all these county
names in our discussion, and while the county names changed
through the years, the family probably lived in the same general
area of what is now Amherst, Virginia.
The information on our family found in the Rose diary, is with
out a doubt the most authenric, where we learn these facts about
our early Virginia family. The Widow Higginbotham, her daughter
and several sons lived a short distance Southeast of the Parson
Rose - probably in the community of New Glasgow, Old land
records found in Charlottesville, Virginia, dated 1751 identify
all the brothers and sisters who were living at that time.
Joseph? or John? and the Widow Higginbotham had seven children:
The following is an excellent discussion of the evolution of our
knowledge of this family in search of our ancestors from Brian
Bauer [email protected] in response to the ancestry
presented here. This is what the science of genealogy is all
about:
"Her [[email protected]] message to this list nicely summarizes
the standard and most widely accepted theory regarding the
origins of the HIGGINBOTHAM family of
Goochland/Albemarle/Amherst Counties,Virginia. I am concerned,
however, that many researchers accept this theory as fact and I
am merely using Josephine's message as a framework on which to
hang my doubts about this theory. A few of my arguments are
original. Many more, were borrowed from my mother's research.
Most have been previously published by Earl H. HIGGINBOTHAM (and
other researchers) although my mother and I came up with the
same arguments independently. And some of the ideas are stolen
outright from Earl HIGGINBOTHAM (probably the chief critic of
the theory that the Virginia HIGGINBOTHAMs came from the
Barbados)."
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josephine bass
One version that John H. came from Ireland to VA early in the
18th century with 5 children: John, Moses, Aaron, James and Anne
and that four others were born in VA, Benj. Joseph, Rachel and
Thomas. quote
"Documentation of this tradition has been difficult to prove".
Brian Bauer Argument:
The HIGGINBOTHAM "family tradition" has always said that the
parents of Moses, Joseph, Aaron, Benjamin, John, James and
Rachel HIGGINBOTHAM were John HIGGINBOTHAM and Frances (Riley)
and that they came from Ireland.
To the best of my knowledge, this theory was first advanced in
the genealogical literature by William M. and Lenora
(Higginbotham) Sweeny in a series of articles in the William and
Mary Quarterly (and other genealogical periodicals) in the
period 1915-1918. Again, to the best of my knowledge, no one
has ever been able to produce *documentary* proof that there
ever was a Frances Riley (or Reily) married to a John
HIGGINBOTHAM (or to any other HIGGINBOTHAM for that matter).
The name Frances Riley (or Reily) has never been found in any
church record, civil record, Bible or other contemporaneous
document, and exists soley in the oral traditions of our old
Virginia HIGGINBOTHAM family and subsequent published
genealogies based on those oral traditions.
The Sweenys' conclusions that our immigrant ancestor (? John
HIGGINBOTHAM ?) came from Ireland was based on this same oral
tradition and was backed up by a notation in an old family Bible
belonging to Tirzah HIGGINBOTHAM) London -- daughter of John and
Rachel (Banks) HIGGINBOTHAM and granddaughter of the immigrant
ancestor. The notation reads:
"Tirzah London was a daughter of John Higginbotham, who came
from Ireland when nine years old, with his father and mother and
several other children." (NOT LIKELY AS SHE WAS BORN IN
1783-1841).
(Sweeny,W.M., "The Higginbotham Family of Virginia", William
and Mary Quarterly, 1918)
It is not known who made the Bible entry, or when it was made.
If Tirzah made it herself it is curious that she speaks of
herself in the third person and in the past tense. Also, as
Earl and Nena HIGGINBOTHAM pointed out in their book
_Higginbotham; Descendents of Moses and Frances (Kyle)_ (1989),
it is suprising that she would use the phrase "several other
children" to refer to her uncles and aunt who lived all around
her as she was growing up and whom she probably knew quite well.
The Sweenys attempted to bolster their evidence by finding the
marriage record of John HIGGINBOTHAM and Frances Riley in the
Irish records. On p.11 of his 1971 book _The Higginbotham
Family_, William M. Sweeny makes reference to his 1918 W&MQ
article. He writes:
"Since writing that article and before official Irish records
were destroyed, I engaged a genealogist to search for the
marriage of John Higginbotham and Frances Riley. There was no
such marriage record in the Irish records."
There is no way to verify the findings of that Irish genealogist
(a William Higginbotham of Dublin) because a sizable portion of
the Irish records were destroyed by fire in 1922. The Sweenys
eventually abandoned their theory of Irish roots in favor of
English roots by way of Barbados, but they continued to hold to
the belief that the immigrant ancestors were John and Frances
(Riley).
josephine bass
in the VA MAG of Hist, Oct 1944,
Mrs. Lillian Brown Higginbotham Kasehagen says it is most
probable that the John H. who died in VA between 1741-1744 was
the John H. who came from Barbadoes in 1716 and whose ancestor
was Nicholas H. of Cheshire, ENG.
Brian Bauer Argument:
Here begins the second major theory proposed by the Sweenys
regarding the origin of the Virginia HIGGINBOTHAMs, the
"Barbados Connection". The Lillian Brown Higginbotham Kasehagen
referred to above was the sister of Lenora (Higginbotham)
Sweeny. The major pieces of evidence supporting this theory are
laid out below by Josephine Bass and I will try to discuss them
point by point.
"The identification is made stronger by the fact that in an old
trunk belonging to Col. James Higginbotham, son of John and
Frances was found an old book, dated 1662, which on the flyleaf
had the signature of a Nicholas H. On another page is the entry
that Joseph H d. Apr 17, 1742; most likely this Joseph was the
son of Charles and Ann H. of Barbadoes and the younger brother
of John the immigrant to VA."
Brian Bauer Argument:
First of all, Col. James HIGGINBOTHAM's parents may or may not
have been named John and Frances. That's what this whole
discussion is about. Who are the parents of this Virginia
family and where did they come from?
Second, I agree that the finding of Nicholas HIGGINBOTHAM's
signature in this book strengthens the case that the Virginia
HIGGINBOTHAMs descend from the same Nicholas HIGGINBOTHAM of
Cheshire, England from whom the Barbados HIGGINBOTHAM's are
descended. Even those of us who doubt the Sweenys' Barbados
theory agree that Nicholas is most likely the progeniter of both
the Barbados HIGGINBOTHAMs and the Virginia HIGGINBOTHAMs. What
is lacking is the proof that the Virginia HIGGINBOTHAMs descend
from Nicholas *through* the Barbados HIGGINBOTHAMs. As Earl and
Nena HIGGINBOTHAM pointed out in their book, "all of the
children of Nicholas have never been identified by name."
Even more interesting is the other entry in the same book noting
the death of a Joseph HIGGINBOTHAM Apr 17, 1742. Isn't it
curious that this is about the same time that the father of our
Virginia Family is supposed to have died. We know that the
father of Moses, Joseph, Aaron, Benjamin, John, James and Rachel
died between 1741-1744. We don't, however, know that his name
was John. Remember, so far that is just family tradition. A
comparison with the known handwriting of Col. James HIGGINBOTHAM
reveals that he probably made the entry regarding the death of
Joseph. Why would Col. James HIGGINBOTHAM record the death of
his "Uncle Joseph" in 1742, but not the death of his "Father
John" in 1741-1744? A simple explanation might be that James'
father was named "Joseph", not "John" and that the Joseph
HIGGINBOTHAM who died on Apr 17, 1742 *was* the father of James
and the rest of the Virginia HIGGINBOTHAM family. This is, of
course, pure conjecture, but then so is the Barbados theory. I
know of no documentary evidence to support the statement that
"most likely this Joseph was the son of Charles and Ann H. of
Barbadoes and the younger brother of John the immigrant to VA."
Back to josephine bass
Nicholas H. had a son Anthony, also of Cheshire, whose son Lt.
Col. John H. emigrated to the island of Barbadoes, Parish of St.
Philip. his will Nov 27, 1673 - among his children was Capt.
John H. who for business reasons returned to ENG.
His will proved Oct 23, 1714 and mentions son Charles and
Charles children: John, Charles, Thomas, William, Joseph,
Benjamin, Clever and Millicent.
Capt. John's son Charles lived in Barbadoes and his will May 20,
1734; His wife Ann's will was proved in Barbadoes
Aug 18, 1740 and named sons John, Thomas, Charles, Joseph,
Cleaver, grandson John Reddan and gran-daughter Ann Reddan
(Reddin).
Brian Bauer Argument:
This is a well documented line of descent from Nicholas
HIGGINBOTHAM to the Barbados HIGGINBOTHAM family. I know of no
serious dispute regarding any of the above. The questions begin
to pop up when one makes the great leap of faith that John, the
son of Charles and grandson of Capt. John, is the same John
HIGGINBOTHAM that our family legend says is the father of the
Virginia HIGGINBOTHAMs.
Again, josephine bass
"The Boston, Mass. Registry Dept. Report 29, page 238 gives
this record:
"July 11 - vessels entered in the month of July 1716 Benj. Evans
ye sloop Betty from Barbadoes - John Higginbotham, a Planter."
Brian Bauer Argument:
Fact and almost certainly the same John HIGGINBOTHAM mentioned
above in the wills of his father, Charles and grandfather, Capt.
John.
"John went first to Boston, later moving to Virginia."
Brian Bauer Argument:
Here's where that great leap of faith comes in. The statement
above is pure conjecture. This statement was first made by
Lillian Brown Higginbotham Kasehagen [sister of Lenora
(Higginbotham) Sweeny] in her Oct, 1944 article, "Will of an
Early Settler of Barbadoes" in _The Virginia Magazine of History
and Biography_. There the statement was made a little less
forcefully. Something along the lines of:
"It is most probable that the John Higginbotham who died in VA
between 1741-1744 was the John Higginbotham who came from
Barbadoes in 1716 and whose ancestor was Nicholas Higginbotham
of Cheshire, ENG."
(I can't seem to lay my hands on the exact quote at the moment.)
I know of no documentation that would substantiate this claim
and, yet, by the time of William Montgomery Sweeny's 1971 book
_The Higginbotham Family_, the conjecture about this link had
swollen into "fact":
"The John Higginbotham who went to Boston from Barbados in 1716
was the John Higginbotham who came to Virginia where he died
between 1741 and 1744, leaving a widow Frances and several sons
and a daughter from whom the Higginbothams and their connections
in Virginia and elsewhere are descended."
(Sweeny, _The Higginbotham Family_, 1971, p.13)
This claim has been repeated and repeated from one HIGGINBOTHAM
genealogy to the next until it now pervades most of the
literature (and GEDCOMs) and has become "gospel".
Let me try to point out just a few of the many unanswered
questions and problems raised by this theory:
The John HIGGINBOTHAM from Barbados, who landed in Boston in
1716 was from a shipping and trading family and may well have
just visited Boston on family business. We have no evidence
that he even remained in the mainland colonies, much less moved
to Virginia. If he did stay; where was he in the 25 years
between his arrival in Boston in 1716 and his supposed death in
Virginia in 1741-1744? Exhaustive searches by countless
HIGGINBOTHAM researchers in records of the colonies all the way
from Massachusetts to Virginia have failed to turn up a trace of
John HIGGINBOTHAM or his family in those intervening years.
If this or any other John HIGGINBOTHAM married a Frances Riley,
when and where did this take place and what evidence do we have
of it?
Why isn't the location of John as living in Boston, Virginia or
elsewhere in the mainland colonies mentioned in the wills of his
parents, Charles and Anne? A review of other Barbados wills of
that same time period reveals that the whereabouts of
non-resident family legatees was specified almost without
exception. When Charles HIGGINBOTHAM's will was probated in
1734, his son John "should" have been living in the mainland
colonies for 18 years, yet the will fails to make any special
mention of his location.
Anne's will probated in 1740 likewise makes no special mention
of her son John's location, even though he would now have been
absent from Barbados for 24 years. Could that be because he did
not, in fact, remain in the mainland colonies, but returned to
the Barbados after completing his business in Boston?
If John HIGGINBOTHAM (son of Charles and Anne of Barbados)
continued to reside in the mainland colonies after his arrival
in Boston in 1716, who was the John HIGGINBOTHAM of the Parish
of Christ Church, Barbados whose marriage to Susanna Walker on
April 5, 1717 is recorded in the Barbados records? Of the three
other HIGGINBOTHAM families living in Barbados at that time,
none had a son John of the right age. John and Susanna went on
to name their first son *Charles* (baptized May 11, 1718) and
had four other children Millicent, Benjamin, Susannah and
Elizabeth (Elizabeth baptized in 1736). All of the above are
common names in the family of Charles HIGGINBOTHAM.
In 1981-82 Earl and Nena Higginbotham presented this evidence
(the wills, marriage records and baptism records of the Barbados
HIGGINBOTHAMs) to the late Frank Higenbottam of Canterbury,
England for his evaluation. For those of you who are unfamiliar
with Frank Higenbottam, he was a highly respected genealogist,
founder of England's Higenbottam Society, author/editor of the
society's "Higenbottam Bulletin" and was considered to be the
foremost authority on the HIGGINBOTHAM/HIGENBOTTAM families of
England. He was already familiar with the HIGGINBOTHAM families
of Barbados, but did not previously have access to the above
mentioned records. After a thorough analysis of the Barbados
records he reported his conclusions in his very last
"Higenbottam Bulletin" dated June 1982:
"John Higginbotham, born June 10, baptized 31 July, 1695, Parish
of St. Phillips, Barbados, son of Charles and Anne Higginbotham
(RL 1/22 P.62), married 5 April, 1717, Christ Church, Barbados;
Susanna Walker (RL 120 P.104). Legatee in his father's will 1732
and his mother's will, 1740, left 5 shillings."
In the same bulletin he responded to an inquiry from a
HIGGINBOTHAM researcher whose line followed the standard "Sweeny
connection" from the Barbados HIGGINBOTHAMs to the Virginia
HIGGINBOTHAMs. He replied:
"The editor would like to point out that the first ancestor in
the above pedigree, Charles Higginbotham, married 9 Aug. 1688,
Parish of St. Phillips, Barbados, Ann Rawlings, not Ann
Higginbotham as stated above - see "Higginbotham wills relating
to Barbados.." on page 4 of the present issue of the Bulletin.
Nor did his son marry Frances Reily, but Susanna Walker."
So, if The progenitors of the Virginia HIGGINBOTHAMs were not
John HIGGINBOTHAM and Frances Riley, who were they and where did
they come from?
Contemporaneous Virginia sources (The Diary of Robert Rose)
refer to our ancestral mother only as "Mrs. Higginbotham" or
"Widow Higginbotham". Our ancestral father's name is never
mentioned.
Earl H. HIGGINBOTHAM has developed an interesting collection of
evidence that suggests that our Virginia forefather was named
Joseph HIGGINBOTHAM, not John; and that he may have come to
Virginia from Lancaster County, PA.
This theory is unproven and rests on circumstantial evidence and
conjecture, but it is certainly no more circumstantial than the
evidence for the Sweenys' original Irish theory or their
susequent Barbados theory. Bits and pieces of Earl's theory can
be found scattered through various publications including:
The Higginbotham Family Newsletter, vol 11, 1984 and vol 12,
1985; Earl's own book, _Higginbotham; Descendents of Moses and
Frances (Kyle)_, Earl and Nena Higginbotham, 1989; and in a
contribution that he made to a recently published HIGGINBOTHAM
genealogy, _HIGGINBOTHAM; Descendents of Benjamin and Elizabeth
(Graves)_, Mabel LaBiche, 1996.
As I stated in a previous message to this list, it is not my
intention to criticize the work of others (especially the
Sweenys, to whom we all owe a great deal for their extensive
work on the HIGGINBOTHAM family of Virginia). Hopefully, all of
this will stimulate an interesting discussion and possibly turn
up some new evidence.
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"complied by the Media Research Bureau, Washington, D.C.", no
date on the document:
"As early as 1680, one Richard HIGGINBOTTOM, a tailor, was
living at New Haven, Connecticut. He married Elizabeth, a
daughter of Thomas MUNSON of that place, and had issue of at
least one child Rebecca. He removed before 1692 to
Elizabethtown, but returned to Connecticut and settled at
Stamford of that colony."
I did see essentially the same information at the New England
Historical and Genealogical Society. I believe that I found it
in Clarence Almon Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700_.
one then assumes that the 1680 date is the date of the marriage
of Richard Higginbottom and Elizabeth Munson. As far as
Elizabethtown goes: there is no current town named that in MA,
CT or RI. There is an Elizabethtown nowadays in upstate NY (well
north of Albany), and there are the Elizabeth Islands off of
Cape Cod. This is probably where I got the Cape Cod from. I
really don't know where this Elizabethtown is located.
Scott Higinbotham -- Middlesex Community College -- Bedford, MA
01730 [email protected]
"Tuckahoes & Cohees: The Settlers & Cultures of Amherst and
Nelson Counties, 1607-1807". This is copyright 1992 by
Catherine Hawes Coleman Seaman, currently of Faber, Va,
telephone 804-263-4334.
"The HIGGINBOTHAM" Family, by Wm. Montgomery Sweeney, 1971 by J.
P. Bell Co, Lynchburg, VA.
"HIGGINBOTHAM", descendants of Moses and Frances (Kyle), by Earl
& Nena Higginbotham, 1972 in TX. Out of Print.
"Higginbotham" Mabel Labiche, 200 Ryan Road, Lake Charles, LA
70611, her book is $48.00 , a hard bound 690 big pages,
includes index.
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998
From:
Subject: John Swanson's work -- the rest I have heard
To: [email protected]
On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Josephine Lindsay Bass
so this book will not include the VA line???
(this being the book in progress by John Swanson concerning
Ralph Higinbotham of Fayette Co., PA and descendants)
Well, not directly. But let me quote from the _Higginbotham
Family Newsletter_ of 1997 (Volume 24, page 195) that I
mentioned a couple of messages ago.
"Dr. Swanson and Dean Higinbotham of Grants Pass, OR are both
seeking the father of Ralph Higinbotham, who was born circa
1723; married Mary circa 1746 and died in 1780, leaving a will.
Dean Higinbotham has retained a researcher in Baltimore, MD who
has uncovered some interesting clues that raise the possibility
that the Amherst Co., VA family and the Fayette Co., PA family
share a common ancestry from Ireland."
"Captain Charles Higginbotham lived in what is now York Co., PA
and Washington Co., MD between 1736 and 1750. Although he
probably had no natural children, he and his wife Margaret
raised his niece Lucina, daughter of Thomas Higginbotham of
Lancaster Co., PA (who died before 1734) and his wife
Catherine/Katrina. They also raised his nephew Ralph
Higinbotham, who was the one who married Mary and died in 1780.
Ralph was the son of a third, unknown brother who died leaving
two sons: Ralph and Charles. A fourth, unknown brother was the
father of Mary Higginbotham (1749-1786), who married Hugh
Jackson, an Irish immigrant. Either one of these brothers may
have been the one identified in early records as the eldest son
who remained in Ireland.
Another possibility is that the son in Ireland was a fifth
brother.
These brothers had at least one sister: Mary, who married James
Henthorn, another Irish immigrant."
"Finally, to tie this all together, there is the possibility of
another brother: Joseph Higginbotham, who lived in what is now
Lancaster Co., PA between 1727 and 1737. Could this Joseph have
been the husband of 'Widow Higginbotham' and father of the
brothers of Amherst Co., VA?..." at which point the discussion
continues with a summary of (I believe) Earl Higginbotham's
theory on Joseph Higginbotham as the progenitor of the VA
Higginbothams (sorry, fingers getting tired, and the theory was
well-discussed on the list a couple of years ago).
Based on this, I guess: John Swanson's upcoming genealogy
_may_present _some_ evidence relating Ralph Hig to the VA line.
I have heard nothing concerning the progress of Dean
Higinbotham's researcher, nor do I know of the nature of any
evidence backing up the claims made above.
More than this, I know not.
Scott Higinbotham
John Swanson. John has been working on the descendants of Ralph
Higginbotham of Menallen Twp. PA (b. MD) for at least 25 years,
if memory serves. The 1997 Higginbotham Family Newsletter (the
annual newsletter out of Missouri) had a short synopsis of the
Ralph Higginbotham family and a discussion of
his work at that time.
John Swanson
69 Juliette St
N Dartmouth, MA 02747-1942
508-996-4252
**More on the Irish Higginbotham line:
the Irish branch, as a Ralph, John and Thomas had estates in
Cootehill of Ireland, (Cortober, Drumheriff and
Nutfield) This is well authenticated, Family tradition speaks
of three brothers in William the 3rd's army who settled in
Cavan, Dublin, and Cork.
The family Seal is the "Tudor Rose". There is a silver "Coat of
Arms" for the Higginbotham family. An ancient tradition still
practiced by some in the area of Cheshire England, no doubt
where the name originated, is the decorating of various objects
with small painted roses. This is thought to have originated
during "The War of the Roses" 1455-1487. The red rose of
Nicholas
Higginbotham , where we find one of the old wills bearing the
"Family Seal", the Tudor Rose. This is probably the same rose
which adorns the Coat of Arms.
This excerpt was from page 2 of "Higginbotham Descendants of
Moses and Frances (Kyle).
One branch of Higinbothams who
were considered "native" Irish (used one "G") and might be of
German origin. They had a distinctly different coat of arms. I
have a copy, but cannot translate the "Motto", nor one of the
words in the description, which I have noted with a ?:
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"Arms of HIGINBOTHAM on record in Ulster's Office.
Ermine on a cross engrailed - gules, five mullets pierced - or,
in the first and fourth quarters a lion passant guardent -
azure. Crest -- An arm embowed vambraced?, the hand grasping a
sword all ppr, pierced through a mullet - or"
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Metals are only two, or (gold), argent (silver).
Colours are - gules (red), sable (black), azure (blue), vert
(green), purpue (purple). All these with the metals are known
as Tinctures.
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October 2004
Higginbotham gathering in Lynchburg, VA on Friday and Saturday,
October 22 & 23, 2004. They will be staying at the Holiday Inn
Select for $79 a night which includes a continental breakfast.
Call Holiday Inn at 434-528-2500 and say your with the
Higginbotham Reunion.
On Friday evening it is getting to know each other and comparing
research.Earl Higginbotham, researcher and author of "The
Descendants of Moses Higgginbotham" will be there.
On Saturday at 11 a.m. the group will go to the Amherst
Historical Society Museum where Tom Higginbotham will present a
book from 1797 that was used by George Washington Higginbotham
to teach horse medicine in that area. Then they will visit the
oldest known Higginbotham cemetery in the area. Also a visit to
the Poplar Grove estate, built in 1773 by John Higginbotham Jr.,
and hopefully the Higginbotham Academy.
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Mother: Ann America HIGGINS |
After the war, Alexander Morgan II again returned to "Morgansa"
but the farm could not be saved. Severe economic pressure from
the Unionists led to Morgansa's sale at the behest of its
creditors. The property was later sold to developers and turned
into the Joyland Amusement Park, a Lexington landmark for many
years."
Children:
2 Alexander Gibson Morgan b: 26 February 1858 d: 22 January 1914
+ Lizzette Hayman b: March 1863 d: 12 January 1928
2 Thomas R. Morgan b: ca. 1860
2 Charles Morgan b: ca. 1860
2 Claude M. Morgan b: ca. 1860 + Unknown Johnson
2 Ann A. Morgan b: 1 March 1856
Children:
Ann America Morgan b. 1 Mar 1856
Alexander Gibson Morgan, III b. 26 Feb 1858
Sallie Russell Morgan b. 2 Apr 1860
Thomas Russell Morgan b. 10 Nov 1862
Charles McClung Morgan b. 28 Oct 1866
Maggie Russell Morgan b. 29 Mar 1869
Jason Hawkins Morgan b. 4 Oct 1871
Calvin Cogswell Morgan b. 24 Oct 1872
Laurence H. Morgan b. 21 Jul 1874
_Gideon MORGAN Sr.___+
| (1751 - 1830) m 1772
_Luther MORGAN __________|
| (1776 - ....) m 1798 |
| |_Patience COGSWELL __
| (1754 - 1797) m 1772
_Alexander Gibson MORGAN Sr._|
| (1801 - 1847) m 1823 |
| | _Philip DOLD ________+
| | | (1743 - 1819)
| |_Ann Nancy Cameron DOLD _|
| (1779 - ....) m 1798 |
| |_Daughter of MILLER _+
| (1740 - ....)
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|--Alexander Gibson MORGAN II C.S.A.
| (1832 - 1908)
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|_Ann America HIGGINS ________|
(1805 - 1882) m 1823 |
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Mother: Elizabeth MADISON |
_Francis WILLIS "the Immigrant_+
| (1650 - ....)
_Henry "Harry" WILLIS of Willis Hill_|
| (1690 - 1740) m 1714 |
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_John WILLIS ________|
| (1724 - 1780) |
| | _David ALEXANDER ______________
| | | (1660 - ....)
| |_Ann ALEXANDER ______________________|
| (1689 - ....) m 1714 |
| |_Anne MORGAN __________________+
| (1654 - ....)
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|--Mary Madison WILLIS
| (1745 - 1818)
| _John MADISON II_______________+
| | (1663 - 1717) m 1692
| _Ambrose MADISON ____________________|
| | (1695 - 1732) m 1721 |
| | |_Isabella Minor? TODD? ________+
| | (1663 - 1710) m 1692
|_Elizabeth MADISON __|
(1725 - 1773) |
| _James TAYLOR II_______________+
| | (1675 - 1730) m 1699
|_Frances TAYLOR _____________________|
(1700 - 1761) m 1721 |
|_Martha THOMPSON ______________+
(1679 - 1762) m 1699
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Mother: Dorothea RANDOLPH |
_John WOODSON ______________________+
| (1658 - 1715) m 1679
_Josiah WOODSON _____________|
| (1702 - ....) |
| |_Judith TARLETON ___________________+
| (1660 - 1714) m 1679
_John WOODSON _______|
| (1730 - 1789) m 1751|
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| |_Mary ROYALL ________________|
| (1710 - 1757) |
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|--Martha WOODSON
| (1752 - ....)
| _William I RANDOLPH "the immigrant"_+
| | (1651 - 1711) m 1678
| _Isham RANDOLPH of Dungeness_|
| | (1685 - 1742) m 1718 |
| | |_Mary ISHAM ________________________+
| | (1660 - 1735) m 1678
|_Dorothea RANDOLPH __|
(1732 - 1794) m 1751|
| _Charles ROGERS ____________________+
| | (1660 - ....)
|_Jane ROGERS ________________|
(1692 - ....) m 1718 |
|_Jane LILBURN ______________________+
(1670 - ....)
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