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per 1838 census, Robert is living next door to William at #113 Londonderry and is thought to be a son.
9 Nov 2006 - This note came from the Colchester Historical Society: "Hi Dianne: Below, is a note from Jane Wile regarding the question you asked. We didn't have a copy(but do now) of the register here so checked with her.
....I did look over the marriage record Dianne Stevens was asking about and it is recorded in the Rev. Bayne register as taking place Jan 16 1849 at Folly Lake. I've looked these Stevens families over before and have corresponded with Dianne about them and it is because the marriage took place at Folly Lake that I believe that Robert Stevens b. 1824 has to be the son of William Stevens of Folly Lake.... there was no other Stevens families at Folly Lake. The second Robert Stevens b. 1796 she refers to did not live at Folly Lake - he lived at East Mines/Debert area.
I hope this helps. If we can be of further help, please let us know. If you would like to make a donation, a cheque can be made out to the Colchester Historical Society Archives and mailed to the address below attention to me.
Nan Harvey
Archivist/Librarian
Colchester Historical Society Archives
PO Box 412
Truro, Nova Scotia
B2N 5C5"
Notes Carol copied from "Stevens" folder at Truro Historical Society Oct 2011 give Robert's place of birth "Londonderry twsp."
Marriage Notes for Robert Stevens and Agnes Nancy MACLEAN-3359
Per Penny Lane: Robert and Agnes were married by Rev. James Bayne.
According to Jane Wille's notes, Alesander Hamilton Stevens never married.
Per Jane Wille's notes, David Sanford Stevens died at age 21.
Anoither source gave his death as 1882.
September 28, 2009
Dear Children
Tonight I'm going to tell you about a couple involved with a very sad time in history, Jonathan and Rachel Higgins. Jonathan and his wife, Rachel Doane, were both born in Eastham, Massachusetts, Jonathan in 1711 and Rachel in 1714. They married there in in 1735, then moved to Hardwick where their nine children were born. Three children, Lurania and two Henrys, died in Hardwick. That was a sad part. Then they moved to Nova Scotia with their surviving children. This is where the sad time in history comes in.
Did you ever read the poem “Evangeline” by Longfellow? It's a beautiful sad story that tells about the expulsion of the Acadians from Nova Scotia. The Acadians were the French people who lived there before the English. The English won the French colonies in North America as a result of the French and Indian War. The French and Indian War was really part of a much larger conflict between the French and the English called the Seven Years War even though it lasted nine. When Nova Scotia became British in 1755 two English officers in the war, Gov. William Shirley and Charles Lawrence, decided the Acadians had to go. They told them that they had to sign an oath of allegiance to the British crown and renounce their Catholic faith, or be expelled from the country. The Acadians refused so soldiers came, rounded them up, put them into ships without a thought to family ties and sent them off, some to Maine, some to Massachusetts, some to France and Louisiana among other places. Today this action would be called ethnic cleansing. The ones who settled in Louisiana came to be known as Cajuns.
After the Acadians were expelled there was a lot of good land lying empty. Colonists in Massachusetts were getting a bit crowded from everyone having so many children, and some of them were interested in the new lands to the north. So in 1761 our Jonathan Higgins and his family became one of thirty families to take a land grant in the area north of Cobequid Bay called Onslow., now part of Colchester County. The thirty families brought with them twenty head of horned cattle, eight horses, and seventy sheep. What did Jonathan and his neighbors find when they got to Onslow? A man named Judge Thomas Haliburton described it thusly:
“They found the country laid waste to prevent the return of the Acadians, but 570 acres of marshland was still under dyke, and about forty acres of uplands around the ruins of houses was cleared, though partially overgrown by young shrubs. Remains of the French roads are still visible, as also parts of their bridges. Near the sites of their buildings have also been found, at various times, farming implements and kitchen utensils, which they had buried in the hope of being permitted at some future time to return to their possessions.”The new settlers did not have an easy time of it during their first few years. They experienced drought, early frost and poor crops. One poor soul reportedly died of starvation after eating the end of a candle because he was so hungry. Many more would have perished had not the government in Halifax sent aid in the form of corn for eating and planting.
Joanthan was not a young man when he went homesteading in Nova Scotia. He was already 50 years old. But he had two strong sons to help him, plus two more coming along. Son Jonathan was about 25, and Joshua was 13. Our ancestor, their son Philip, was only about 8 years old and the youngest , Joseph, was an infant. Daughters Bethia, aged 16, and Rachel, 11, could have been old enough to be really helpful, but as records are scarce we don't know for sure if they ever made it to Nova Scotia. Three sons, Jonathan, Joshua and Philip, stayed in Onslow and raised families. Son Joseph moved back to Rhode Island and had a family there. Also, we don't know for sure how long Jonathan or Rachel lived. We do know Jonathan, at least, survived the initial hardships as there is a deed showing he transferred some land to his son, Jonathan, in 1777.
Jonathan and Rachel came from hardy colonial stock in the British Colony of Massachusetts. They endured the deaths of three precious children. In late middle age they moved with their family to the British Colony of Nova Scotia where they endured great hardships as one of the founding families of Colchester County. It was not their fault that they built their homes on the sites of the Acadians, just as it's not our fault that our homes lie on land that was once the Native Americans. So hooray for Jonathan and Rachel and their hard but honest lives.
Here's how we are related to them. Jonathan and Rachel had Philip Higgins. Philip Higgins had Hannah Higgins. Hannah Higgins had Charles Stevens. Charles Stevens had Edmund Stevens. Edmund had Harold Stevens. Harold had Paul Stevens. Paul had Dawne Stevens. Dawne had . . . you,
my wonderful grandbabies!So Hooray for Jonathan Higgins and his wife Rachel Doane Higgins!
Love, Granny
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Per Rootsweb:
1) Incestuous marriage?||
The noted genealogist Donald Lines Jacobus put out a call to produce evidence supporting Hannah Rogers, was the second wife of Jonathan Higgins. The first wife was Elizabeth Rogers, sister of Hannah. Jacobus wrote there was a prejudice against marriage to a deceased wife's sister in early New England. Court cases have been found where such marriages were set aside as illegal and incestuous (TAG 41:Jan 1965:29).
Evidence for the second wife was produced by Anne Borden Harding and published in 1969. Indeed, the Puritan court did not take kindly to the relationship and Jonathan Higgins was fined for committing fornication with his wife's sister after his wife's death (NEHGR 123:Apr 1969:147-148).2) He was confirmed as an ensign in the military company of Plymouth on June 1, 1675
From WikiTree:
"Johnathan Higens & Elizebeth Rogers were married the ninth of Jenuary one thousand Six hundred & SixtiOn 28 Feb. 1663: “Jonathan Higgins hath one mare colt of a black color”.[1]
“Jonathan Higgins of Eastham… for the sum of £13 paid to him by Ephraim Doane of Eastham, husbandman, doth sell… his dwelling house in Eastham with twenty-two acres of upland, two acres whereof lyeth about the dwelling house, being near a pond called the Basse Pond, the other twenty acres lying on the other side the Basse River by the Bayside… together with four acre of meadow lying at Billingsgate att the mouth of the Silver Springe on both sides the Creek”. Dated 19 Nov. 1670. [2]
“May 12, 1675. The town hath chosen to be presented to the Court for ensigns Jonathan Higgins and Jonathan Bangs. The Court has conferred the office of ensign of the military company of this town upon Jonathan Higgins”. He was confirmed as an ensign on 1 June 1675, an office he held for the next four years. [3] “June 1676. Bulletts received of Thomas Paine by Lieut. Sparrow, [ ] Higgins, Mark Snow, a total of 173 pounds weight”. The Higgins mentions could have been either Jonathan or his brother Benjamin. [4]
Jonathan lost his rank of ensign in July 1679:
“Wheras Ensigne Higgens, with the leave of the Court, hath layed downe his place and office of being ensigne bearer of the milletary companie of Eastham, these are to signify to the said company, that they are heerby required to choose another souldier out of theire companie to serve in that place, and to present his name to the Court for their approbation of their choise.
Jonathan Higgens, for committing fornication with his wifes sister after his wifes death, was fined the sume of £20:00:00
Att the earnest petition of some of his frinds, the Court remitted £10:00:00
Ten pounds of this fine was remitted by the Generall Court”. [5]
Such were the rules against marrying your wife’s sister in the 17th century!
“Aug. 24, 1677. The town hath granted to Jonathan Higgins a parcel of sedge ground adjoining to Sampson’s Island, containing two acres.” On 1 Sept. 1677: “Granted by the town of Eastham to Jonathan Higgins six acres at poche on a neck of land by the side of the Cove that runs up to lieutenant roggerses on the northerly side of the Cove”. And “granted to Jonathan Higgins Senr a piece of land near the head of the town Cove at the westerly end of his son Jonathan Higens his land on the northerly side of Ceder Swamp…to.. the northwesterly corner of Jonathan higens Jr. his land”[6]
“July 15, 1696. The eleventh lot [of the undivided land] is the lot of Jonathan Higens containing 6 acre of medow & two acres of upland at little billingsgate the medow lying in two parcels the first layeth at the northeasterly end of Griffiths Iland… and the other piece on the southerly side of the herring river… near some land formerly granted to Gov. Prence.”[7]
“April 22, 1700, the town voted that Jonathan Higgins senior might have about two acres of land where he now lives”. And on 31 July 1700: “The town voted that Jonathan Higgins might exchange a bit of land at Pochet on the west side of the Barley Neck for his convenience of fencing”.[8]
“Granted to Jonathan Higgins by the town of Eastham liberty to exchange part of his six acres of upland at Pochet where he formerly lived for a piece of common that lyeth betwixt this six acre lot and the land which his father Rogers gave him on the west side of the barley neck, so as to lay his land together, and it is allowed of by the major part of the men appointed by the Town to have a negative in disposing of land within the same and by them laid out and bounded… on a hill nigh the Cove side against the northerly end of a cedar swamp… which was formerly granted to lieutenant Rogers on the west side of the barley neck… down to the water westerly… allowing a cart way by gate or barrs for Jonathan linnel to cart from the cove to his own land… a little above the northerly corner of said marsh allowing a way by gate or barre by the side of sd marsh for carts to use on any occasion from the Cove to the common...” recorded 20 Sept. 1700. [9]
In July 1703: “Land granted to Jonathan Higgins Senr in Eastham at pochy low flats between pochy Island and hog island, being the 28th lot as they were laid out in the division of the common meadows in Eastham.” He was also granted the 11th lot in pochy meadow by the beach. [10]
In 1711 Jonathan had the following grants of land from the town: “March 26, 1711. Set out to Jonathan Higgins Senr. Land to make up his plains lot, 4 ½ acres lying in Sd Eastham on the westerly side of the highway that goes towards Potonomek at and on the northerly side of the way that goes from pochy towards Harwich… the other parcel one acre… on the northern side of the house lot of said Jonathan Higgins Senr. And beginning… at the partition line between him and Jonathan Higgins Junr”. “May 21, 1711. Granted by the town of Eastham and laid out to Jonathan Higgins Senr. Of Sd Eastham a parcel of land for his tenement lot lying on the northeasterly side of Wm Smith’s tenement lot”. “May 21, 1711. Land set out to Jonathan Higgins Senr. For his wood lot on the northerly side of the Secund brooke (so called).” “Laid out to him 6 acres on the northerly side of the second brooke on the northerly side of Joshua Hardings lot”.[11]
In a deed dated 8 May 1711: “I Joseph Higgins, senr of Eastham… in consideration of the sum of eight pounds… paid by Jonathan Higgins junr & Elisha Higgins both of Eastham… all that one third part of that parcel of Land lyingat the barley neck in Eastham… given unto our deceased mother Elizabeth Higgins by our Deceased Grandfather, Leutt Joseph Rogers”. The land had been bequeathed to Elizabeth Higgins by her father in his will dated 2 Jan. 1677/8. [12]
NameJonathan Higgins
Notes
He married first Elizabeth Rogers, daughter of Joseph (named in his 1676/7 will as his daughter Elizabeth Higgins).
Elizabeth (Rogers) Higgins died 2 after Jan 1676/7 (when named in her father's will) and before 5 Jul 1679 (when she was referred to as deceased in a Plymouth Court Record that also indicates her widower was sleeping with her [unnamed] sister.
That sister, said to be Hannah/Anna Rogers (only single daughter named in her father's will), was likely the mother of Higgins' last five children (b btw 1680 and 1690)
Children by his first wife, as revealed through a deed dated 1711 concerning land their deceased mother received of their grandfather, (her father), Joseph Rogers:[13] See also[14]
Elisha (Beriah in vitals)
Jonathan
Joseph
Jemima?
Hannah?
Children by second wife(?), sister of his first wife, said to be Hannah Rogers (because she was only single daughter of Joseph at time of his will?[15], [16]Elizabeth b 11 Feb 1680
Mary b 22 Jan 1682
Rebecca b 30 Nov 1686
James b 22 Jul 1688 [not mentioned in the 1711 deed because he was not son of Elizabeth Rogers]
Sarah b 18 Oct 1690
MemorialJonathan Higgins
Memorial
Birth: Jul. 16, 1637 Plymouth Plymouth County Massachusetts, USA
Death: 1711 Eastham Barnstable County Massachusetts, USA
JONATHAN, 1st known child of Richard Higgins by his 1st wife, was born at Plymouth July 1637. He married (1) Eastham 9 January 1660 Elizabeth Rogers. He married (2) by 1680 Hannah Rogers. (The two wives of Jonathan Higgins were sisters, a situation that was considered incestuous by the Puritans and strenuously discouraged; but the evidence presented by Anne Borden Harding in 1969 indicates that in this instance the two wives were sisters. Source: Anderson's Great Migration Begins.
Family links:
Parents: Richard Higgins (1603 - 1674) Lydia Chandler Higgins (1615 - 1650)
Spouse: Elizabeth Rogers Higgins (1639 - 1677)*
Children:
Jonathan Higgins (1664 - 1754)*
Joseph Higgins (1666 - 1729)*
Jemima Higgins Mulford (1667 - 1723)*
Elisabeth Higgins Mayo (1680 - 1721)*
Siblings:
Jonathan Higgins (1637 - 1711)
Benjamin Higgins (1640 - 1691)*
Mary Higgins Looker (1651 - ____)**
Eliakin Higgins (1654 - ____)**
Jadiah Higgins (1656 - 1715)**
Zerah Higgins (1658 - ____)**
Lydia Higgins (1661 - ____)**
Thomas Higgins (1661 - ____)**
Rebecca Higgins Martin (1666 - ____)**
Ruth Higgins FitzRandolph Tuttle (1671 - ____)**
Sarah Higgins Moore (1673 - ____)**
Calculated relationship
Half-sibling
Burial: UnknownCreated by: Linda Mac Record added: Jul 13, 2010 Find A Grave Memorial# 54902943 [17]
Variation
Individual Report for Jonathan HIGGINS (I28664)
Name: Jonathan HIGGINS 1, 2 Gender: Male
Born: Jul 1637 Place: Plymouth, Massachusetts 1 Baptized: Place: Fact: Place: Son of Richard Higgins and Lydia Chandler 1
Died: Bef 28 May 1711 Place: 1
Buried: Place: Father: Mother:
Spouse: Elizabeth ROGERS (29 Sep 1639 - Between 02 Jan 1677 and 04 Jul 1679) 1, 2 Married: 09 Jan 1660 Place: Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA 1, 2
Spouse: Hannah ROGERS (08 Aug 1652 - Aft 18 Oct 1690) 1, 2 Married: Bef Jul 1679 Place: Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA 1
General
Excerpt from Mayflower Increasings: 4 July 1679, Jonathan was fined for his relationship with Hannah who was his
dec'd wife's sister; their first child was b. Feb. 1680/1681. [18]Sources
George Thomas Little, A. M., Litt. D., Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine (Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York 1909)
Mayflowerfamilies.com (www.mayflowerfamilies.com/mayflower/thomas1_rogers_family.htm)
Mayflower Families through Five Generations , Vol. 2 - James Chilton Richard More Thomas Rogers (General Society of Mayflower Descendants)
Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume Nineteen: Thomas Rogers, Ann T. Reeves, Volume: 19, Alice W.A. Westgate (General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2000) p. 13-14.
New England Marriages Prior to 1700, by Clarence Almon Torrey (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011) Vol. II, p. 751. HIGGINS, Jonathan (1637-) & 1/wf Elizabeth ROGERS (-1678, 1679); Jan 1660; Eastham {Reg. 6:46, 9:315; Cape Cod Lib. 33:24; NYGBR 46:393; 47:22; MD 3:68, 6:15, 7:16, 17:201; Pilgrim Notes 4:70; Higgins 42; Hills: Mayflower Planters 134} HIGGINS, Jonathan (1637-) & 2/wf[?Hannah ROGERS]; ca 1680; Eastham {NYGBR 46:393; MD 6:15; Pilgrim Notes 1:21, 4:70; Higgins 42; Young (1923) 19; Hills: Mayflower Planters 134}
[S02658] Mayflower Increasings 2nd Edition by Susan E. Roser.
[S02578] Lineage of the Rogers Family - England - Embracing John Rogers the Martyr, John Cox Underwood, C.E., A.M..
Richard Higgins And His Descendants- Katherine Chapin Higgins, Worcester, 1918, pp. 42ff
Richard Higgins of Plymouth and Eastham, MA and Piscataway, NJ- Orra Monnette- NYG&BR- Vol. 47, pp.22-3
↑ Town Records quoted by Higgins- p. 43
↑ Plymouth Colony Deeds- Vol. IV, p. 198 quoted by Higgins p. 43
↑ Town Records quoted by Higgins- p. 43
↑ Eastham Town Book- quoted by Higgins- p. 45
↑ Jonathan Higgins and His Two Wives- Anne Harding- NEHGR- Vol. 123, pp. 147-8; Higgins-Rogers: Eastham: A Question- Donald Jacobus, TAG- Vol. 41, p. 29
↑ Town book of Lands and Ways quoted by Higgins- p. 44
↑ Town book of Lands and Ways quoted by Higgins- p. 44
↑ Town book of Lands and Ways quoted by Higgins- p. 44
↑ Eastham Lands and Ways- p. 161 quoted by Higgins- p. 46
↑ Town book of Lands and Ways quoted by Higgins- p. 44
↑ Town book of Lands and Ways quoted by Higgins- p. 44
↑ Lt. Joseph Rogers Will and Inventory- George Bowman, The Mayflower Descendant- Vol. III, p. 67-9
↑ [(as cited in Katharine Chapin Higgins, Richard Higgins... and his Descendants, Worcester, MA: Unknown (1918), pp 595-596.")]
↑ [( Anne Borden Harding, "Notes and Corrections," in NEHGS Register, 123:147-148.)]
↑ [(Donald Lines Jacobus, "Higgins-Rogers: Eastham, Mass.: A Question," in The American Genealogy, 41 (1964):29)]
↑ {9Births listed in "Eastham & Orleans Vital Records," in Mayflower Descendant, 6(1904):15)]
↑ [(http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=54902943)]
↑ [(http://www.dkdonovan.com/getperson.php?personID=I28664&tree=Main)]"
6 March 2004
Dear Children,
Tonight I will tell you the story of our ancestor Joseph Rogers.
The English ship, the Mayflower, carried the Separatist Puritans to Plymouth, Mass., in 1620. It was later that they came to be known as "Pilgrims." John Carver, a leader of the Separatists in Leiden, Holland, went to London and chartered the ship and found some business men that would help pay for everything.. The ship was down on the south coast of England at Southampton getting all ready to sail. It needed to have repairs and a lot of supplies. They would be at sea a long time. When they finally got to America there would be no stores or houses or factories. So they needed to take all the food they would need for many months, plus tools to build new homes starting with trees, and every other thing they would need. The passenger list included English Separatists, some non-Puritans that the London business men wanted to send, and a few hired people like Miles Standish, a soldier.
Meanwhile, in Leiden, Joseph, a strong young man, and his father Thomas, and others of the Leiden Separatists, set sail for Southampton in the ship, Speedwell. Both the Speedwell and the Mayflower set off together from Southampton on August 15 of 1620 with a total of 120 passengers plus crew members. But the Speedwell was a leaky old boat and twice both boats came back to England to repair the Speedwell. No one wanted to take off across the vast Atlantic Ocean in a boat that leaked from the start. Finally, at Plymouth, England, some of the passengers were taken off the Speedwell and others were crowded onto the Mayflower and it set sail for real on September 16, 1620 with 102 passengers including our Joseph Rogers, his father, Thomas, and 35 of their friends from Leiden.
The crew sighted Cape Cod on November 19 and the Mayflower dropped anchor at Provincetown on November 21. That day 41 men signed the so-called Mayflower Compact. Joseph's father was one of the signers. Maybe they thought Joseph was too young, being only 18. You can read about the Mayflower Compact in the letter I wrote to you about his father.
Even though they were at Plymouth, America, they didn't get off the boat right away. They wanted to find just the right spot where they could make a settlement. So everyday they sent scouts out to find a good spot and Joseph was very likely one of the scouts. Finally they picked a spot that had a nice stream running by it and a cleared area where they could put up some houses quickly, and a deep harbor where the big ship could come in, and a tall hill with a forest on top to supply logs for their houses. They moved off the boat the day after Christmas in 1620. Boy, was it cold! And a lot of people were sick.
Joseph's father died that first winter in Plymouth along with many others. But when spring finally came things began to look more hopeful and the next few years brought more and more boatloads of settlers, many of them Puritans, to the new little colony in New England. Soon new settlements were built. By 1639 Joseph had married Hannah and moved out to the village of Duxbury with Hannah and his three children Sarah, Joseph, and Thomas. By 1647 he had three more children, Elizabeth, John, and Mary, and moved to Eastham where he lived until he died. In Eastham his last two children, James and Hannah, were born.
We know a few other things about Joseph Rogers because of records made then that have survived until now. A court record from March 1635/1636 shows Joseph was given permission to operate a ferry over the Jones River near his home for the charge of one penny per passenger. Another court order from 1670 gave him permission to purchase land from Indians near Eastham.
We also know that Joseph Rogers was a good upstanding member of the community. There were no criminal charges against him ever unlike his brother John who got into trouble more than once because of his liking for pretty ladies. Joseph was involved as the plaintiff in a civil case. He accused Edward Doty of not fulfilling a contract for six pigs. Doty was required to come through with 4 bushels of corn instead. Joseph was twice named as a Lieutenant in Eastham, a post he held when he died. He also served as a selectman.
Joseph died at Eastham in January of 1677/1678, fifty-seven years after riding the Mayflower to the new world. He is a famous American colonist because he was one of the first, coming on the Mayflower. Fortunately he lived long enough to help the colony become well established and to leave children for us to descend from. Now go to the last paragraph of the letter I wrote about his father, Thomas Rogers, and you will see how we are related to Joseph Rogers.
Love,
Granny
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5 March 2004
Dear Children,
Today I am writing to you about our Pilgrim ancestor who came to America on a ship called the Mayflower.
The story of Thomas Rogers.
Thomas Rogers was a camlet merchant in Watford, Northampton, England. Camlet is a fabric made of wool and silk. He had a wife, Alice Cosford, and a number of children including his eldest son Joseph, who came with him to America, and a younger son and two daughters who came to America later. Thomas was a Puritan.
The Puritans were a group of Christians living in England. They did not want to go to the King's church and worship the way the king told them to. They believed they should follow the teachings of the Bible. They wanted to "purify" the Church of England and that is how they came by their name. Other peolpe called them "Separatists" because they wanted to separate from the Church of England. The king did not like it that the Puritans would not go to his church and so he was always trying to catch them worshipping somewhere other than his church, and if he caught them doing it, he put them in jail or sometimes he even hanged them. King James was making life so unpleasant for the Puritans that a group of them sneaked away across the English Channel to the country of Holland. This group of Puritans was called the Leiden Separatists, because they lived in the Dutch city of Leiden. Our ancestor Thomas Rogers and his family were part of the Leiden Separtists.
I found a very nice story about these people on the internet. It is here:
http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=pumphrey&book=pilgrims&story=holland
I think you would like it.
So Thomas and his family went to Leiden to live. There they couldn't farm as they had done in England because they didn't have any land. So they went to work in the woolen mills, making cloth. It was very hard work but they didn't mind. As the years passed by, however, they found their children speaking Dutch and wanting to wear fancy clothes as the Dutch did rather than the simple garments of their parents. So after 12 years they decided to go to the new world they had heard about across the sea. Only a few could go at first, so they chose 35 hearty people plus their two leaders, William Bradford and William Brewster. Then they had to take a bunch of other English people because they didn't have enough money for a ship all their own so some of the people who paid for the ship got to say who would go. 102 people were aboard the Mayflower when it finally left for America on September 6, 1920. Two people died on the voyage but two others were born so they still had 102 when they got to America and picked a place to land on December 16, 1620.
Before they got off the boat in America at a place called Plymouth Rock all the men got together and had a meeting. The Puritans were a little bit afraid that the others in the group, whom they called "Strangers", would not cooperate and work nicely with them once they got on shore so they wrote out an agreement and they called it the Mayflower Compact. I copied it here so you can read it.
THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT
"In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord, King James, by the Grace of God, of England, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, e&. Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia; do by these presents, solemnly and mutually in the Presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid; And by Virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the General good of the Colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod the eleventh of November, in the Reign of our Sovereign Lord, King James of England, France and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini, 1620."
There followed the signatures of 41 of the 102 passengers, 37 of whom were members of the "Separatists" and among them was our forefather Thomas Rogers. It became the first law in Plymouth Colony and the basis of the town meetings in New England that survive til this day.The first winter in the new world was VERY difficult for the pilgrims. They now called themselves pilgrims because of their perilous journey. They didn't have enough food, the work was exhausting and the winter weather was like nothing they had experienced in England or Holland. 52 members of the community died that first winter, including 14 of the 18 mothers in the group. Unfortunately, Thomas was among those that perished that winter. But his son, Joseph, survived for many many years.
Now here's how you are related to Thomas Rogers. Thomas was the father of Joseph Rogers. Joseph Rogers fathered Elizabeth Rogers. Elizabeth was the mother of Elisha Higgins. Elisha begat Jonathan Higgins. Jonathan had Philip Higgins. Philip was the father of Hannah Higgins. Hannah had Charles Stevens. Charles sired Edmund Stevens. Edmund fathered Harold Stevens. Harold had your grandpa, Paul Stevens. Paul and Granny had your mama, Dawne Stevens. Dawne married your daddy and had - Becky, Hannah, Tim, and Sarah! There are twelve generations from Thomas to you, counting Thomas as one and you as twelve. Or you could just say he's your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather.
Love
Granny
From Ancestry.com, Biographical Summary by FrankewellThomas Rogers was born in Watford, Northampton, England, the son of William and Eleanor Rogers. He married Alice Cosford in 1597. All his children were baptized and/or buried in Watford. He brought his wife and family to Leiden, Holland, where he became a citizen of Leiden on 25 June 1618, where he is called a camlet merchant. On 1 April 1620, he sold his house on Barbarasteeg for 300 guilders, apparently in preparation for his voyage on the Mayflower. He came on the Mayflower with eldest son Joseph, leaving behind in Leiden his son John, daughters Elizabeth and Margaret, and wife Alice. Thomas Rogers died the first winter at Plymouth, leaving behind his 18-year old son Joseph. His wife and children that were left behind in Leiden are found in the 1622 poll tax of Leiden, and were termed "poor people" and "without means". Children Elizabeth and Margaret apparently came to New England later, but where they lived or who they married remain unknown. Son John came to Plymouth about 1630, and there married Anna Churchman, on 16 April 1639.
Another account of Thomas Rogers is from Jane Wile's website http://genejane.com She says Thomas was one of the Separatists and explains that he had been a camlet Merchant. Camlet is a satiny fabric of silk and wool.
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Occupation - Mercer - Tailor
A mercer is a cloth merchant.
From WikiTree:Biographical Notes
Richard Higgins was born in England upon the death of his mother, August 1, 1603.[1] [2]He migrated to Plymouth Colony in 1632, appearing in the 1633 list of freedmen.[1] It is not known on which ship he came.[3]
He was the son of Edward Higgins and Julian Meals. [4]
On 7 Oct. 1633 he purchased from "Thomas Little his now dwelling howse and misted, for and in consideration of twenty-one bushels of merchantable corne, whereof twelve bushels to be pd in hand, & the remainder at harvest next ensuing." [5]
On 25 Mar. 1633 Richard was taxed 9/ and on 27 Mar. 1634 he was taxed another 12/ in corn (two bushels). [6] Sometime in 1633 or 1634 he was admitted a freeman as he is on the Plymouth list of freemen 1 Jan. 1634/5.[7]
On 1 Apr. 1634 Samuel Godbertson, son of Godbert Godbertson of New Plymouth, deceased, was apprenticed to Richard Higgins, tailor, for the term of seven years. Samuel was a ward of the Colony and Bradford agreed to pay Richard "six bushels of corne and a cowe calfe this present year of the next." Richard was to teach Samuel his trade and to give him the calf and half her offspring at the end of the seven year term.[8] Richard sold this apprenticeship to John Smaley who was also a tailor, 31 Aug. 1639. [9]
From the list of marriages in the Court Orders for 1634:
December 11 1634 Richard Higgins & lidia Chandler wer maried [10]
Richard and Lydia Chandler had two children, both born in Plymouth:[1]
Jonathan, b. July 1637
Benjamin, b. June 1640.
On 13 Jan. 1633/4 Richard purchased from John Barnes "one dwelling house and twenty acres of land, being lately in the possession of Edward Holman, with all the fence, boards, timber (squared and unsquared) (belonging to the same) in consideration of ten pownd starling to be paid in currant English money or beaver at the rate it shall passe at the day of payment which is the 20th of March in the year of our Lord 1634. And also that the said Richard shall possesse the said John and his heirs of 20 acres of land in Scituate in some convenient place." [11]On 14 Mar. 1635/6 Mr. Hicks, George Watson and Richard were granted the rest of the Island Creek for haying. They were granted more land for haying on 20 Mar. 1636/7.
On 2 May 1637 Richard was one of the committee to lay out highways in Plymouth, Duxbury and Ele River. [12]
On 7 Aug. 1638 Richard was one of the jury in the case of John Weeks vs. George Russell for slander. On 3 Dec. 1639 Richard posted a bond of 20/6 for Samuel Chandler who was accused of slander against the governor and the government. The bond was released. [13] Richard was on the jury several times while living in Plymouth and was a member of the "Grand Inquest" in June of 1644.
In Mar. 1638/9 Richard was granted 40 acres of land on the southeast of Great South Pond and two pieces of marshland southwest of the other grant. Richard swapped land with John Smaley in June 1640. [14] On 2 Nov. 1640 Richard was granted 6 acres in South Meadows. His property on Manomet Pond was confirmed to him on 30 Nov. [15]
After Lydia's death, which was probably shortly after Benjamin's birth, Richard married in Eastham Mary Yates, the widow of John Yates; her maiden name is unknown.[1] They had 9 children:[1]
Mary, b. Eastham September 27, 1652
Eliakim, b. Eastham October 20, 1634
Jadia, b. Eastham March 1656/7
Zera, b. June 1658
Thomas, b. January 1661
Lydia, b. July 1664
Rebecca, b.c. 1666
Ruth, b.c. 1671
Sarah, b.c. 1673
Richard Higgins one of the seven first settlers of Eastham, Massachusetts in April 1644; the others were Thomas Prince, John Doane, Nicholas Snow, Josias Cook, John Smalley, and Edward Bangs.[16] RIchard was chosen deputy in 1649, 1661 and 1667, and was selectman three years.[16]In Feb. 1643 Richard was one of the people who was appointed to make traps to kill the wolves in the area. "The Names of the Freemen of eich Towne. Plymouth (1643)... Richard Higgins." "August, 1643. The Names of all the Males that are able to beare Armes from xvj. Yeares old to 60 Yeares, wthin the sevrall Towneshipps. Plymouth... Richard Higgins." [17]
In 1644 several families moved to Nauset (Eastham): "The Court doth grant unto the church of New Plymouth, or those that go dwell at Nausett all the tract of land lying between sea and sea, from the purchaser's bounds at Namskaket to the herring Brook at Billingsgate". 5 Mar. 1644/5. [18]
On 3 Mar. 1643/4 Richard sold a half acre of marsh at Hobb's Hole to Gyles Rickett for 40/. In Aug. 1645 he sold his house, garden and orchard near Brownes Rock to John Churchwell for £12 provided that "it shall be lawful for the said Richard to take away the boards that line the inward room and the bedstead and board overhead, and some fruit trees in the orchard so that he leaves the said John Churchwell 30 trees."[19] Richard moved to that part of Eastham called Pochet which was next to Nauset Beach in what is now East Orleans. He is listed as an inhabitant of Eastham in 1658. [20]
Richard was one of the representatives to the General Court at Plymouth beginning in 1647 until 1665. [21] He was also one of the surveyors of highways on 5 June 1651. [22] In 1658 he was one of four men chosen to settle the boundary between Barnstable and Yarmouth. [23] He was a selectman for Eastham in 1666, 1667 and 1668. [24]
Between 1659 and 1669 Richard bought and sold numerous parcels of land and obtained many land grants.
"June 1, 1659. Whereas it is and order of court that every town in this colony is to choose two or three men for the oversight and disposal of poor children, this town hath chosen Edward Bangs, Nicholas Snow and Richard Higgins according to order." [25]
"1659. Richard Higgins has one little black mare which was Job Cole's with a blaze down the face and a little white hair above her hoofs before, burn marked with an E on the right shoulder. Dec. 23, 1659."[26]
"May 15, 1660. Mr. John Doane, Richard Higgins and Thomas Paine with the surveyors are to appoint what particular highways are to be mended and those that are most concerned in the ways are to mend them by the appointment of the abovesaid for the present year." [27]
"Court of June 13, 1660. Richard Higgins one of a committee to dispose of the trade at Kennebeck." [28]
"Dec 13, 1660. Richard Higgins undertook to provide a company for to cut up the third fish" (whale).[29]
"The mark of Richard Higgins (for his cattle) is a piece cut off the hind side of the left ear, to the top of the ear, and a slit cut in the side of the ear slanting downwards. Jan. 22, 1660/1." [30]
"24 10th mo. 1667. Richard Higgins and Benjamin Higgins were on a jury of inquest as to the deaths of Robert Chapell, James Nichols, and William Pidell, cast ashore upon Cape Cod." [31]
"To all people to whome these presents shall come. Know ye that I Richard Higens of Eastham in the Government of New Plimoth in New England in America, Taylor... grant unto my son Benjamine Higens of the Towne of Eastham abovesaid, Husbandman, a parcell of upland and meadowing the upland containing twentie acres be it more or less lying at a place commonly called Poche, the which upland lieth next to the lot of Job Cole and was bought and exchanged by the said Richard Hignes of Jonathan Sparrow as appears by a deed... And two acres of marsh or meadowing, be it more or less, which was formerly Mr. William Bradfords deceased, that Richard Higens hath and lieth at the harbor's mouth... 4th day of the 5th mounth 1669
Richard Higens
in the presence of us
Nath: Bacon
John Scudder"(16) [32]In 1669 a group of people moved from the Cape to New Jersey because of religious and political differences with the establishment at Plymouth or because of the fact that land was more available in New Jersey. Richard seems to have moved to New Piscataway because of the last reason.
"Know all men by these presents that I Richard higgens of New Piscataway in the province of New Jersey, yeoman, for the sum of nine pounds sterling to him paid... to Benjamin Higgens of Eastham in the jurisdiction of New Plimouth... land at a place called little Billingsgate." Dated 20 Nov. 1672. [33]
On 8 Mar. 1677/8 Mary had her deceased husband's claims to land laid out to her in the western part of old Piscataway township near the Raritan River consisting of 254 acres.
Samuel Moore Sr. of Woodbridge, NJ obtained a license to marry Mary, but for some reason the marriage never took place and she married Isaac Whitehead. In her son Thomas' will in Dec. 1702 she received "the Parlor or Rooms where she now lives and also one-third part of the orchard during her natural life."[34]
He owned land in Eastham and Piscataway, New Jersey, where he moved a few years before his death, which was between Nov. 20, 1674, and June 1, 1675.[1]
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↑ The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 46, pages 390-391
↑ Higgins, Katherine Chapin. Richard Higgins : a resident and pioneer settler at Plymouth and Eastham, Massachusetts, and at Piscataway, New Jersey, and his descendants, 1918, p. 26. This research is mentioned positively in the entry on Richard Higgins in The Great Migration Begins (pp. 928-932).
↑ The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 46, pages 390-391
↑ Richard Higgins And His Descendants- Katherine Chapin Higgins, Worcester, 1918, p.26- quoting Plymouth Colony Records- Vol. I, fol. 16
↑ Plymouth Colony Records- Vol. I, fol. 11, 28
↑ Plymouth Colony Records- Vol. I, fol. 4
↑ Richard Higgins And His Descendants- Katherine Chapin Higgins, Worcester, 1918, p.27- quoting Plymouth Colony Records- Vol. I, fol. 29
↑ Plymouth Colony Records- Vol. I, pp. 129-30
↑ Plymouth Court Orders-Vol. I, p. 72
↑ Richard Higgins And His Descendants- Katherine Chapin Higgins, Worcester, 1918, p.27- quoting Plymouth Colony Records- Vol. I, fol. 24
↑ Plymouth Colony Records- Vol. I, fol. 58
↑ Plymouth Colony Records- Vol. I, pp. 137-8
↑ Plymouth Colony Records- Vol. XII, fol. 59
↑ Plymouth Colony Records- Vol. I, fol. 115, 168
↑ 16.0 16.1 Pratt, Enoch. A comprehensive history, ecclesiastical and civil, of Eastham, Wellfleet, and Orleans : County of Barnstable, Mass., from 1644 to 1844, W.S. Fisher and Co., Yarmouth, Massachusetts, 1844, pp. 8-20.
↑ Records of the Colony of New Plymouth- Nathaniel Shurtleff, M.D., Boston, 1857, pp.173-4, 187-8- quoting Plymouth Colony Records- Vol. I, fol. 189
↑ History of Harwich- p.29
↑ Higgins Genealogy- p.30- quoting Plymouth Colony Records- Vol. XII, fol. 59, 107, 111
↑ Records of the Colony of New Plymouth- Nathaniel Shurtleff, M.D., Boston, 1857, p. 201
↑ Plymouth Colony Records- Vol. II, fol. 117; III, 32, 80, 115, 135, 187; IV, 90
↑ Plymouth Colony Records- Vol. II, fol. 168
↑ Plymouth Colony Records- Vol. III, fol. 175
↑ Plymouth Colony Records- Vol. IV, fol. 124, 146, 182
↑ Richard Higgins And His Descendants- Katherine Chapin Higgins, Worcester, 1918, p. 33
↑ Richard Higgins And His Descendants- Katherine Chapin Higgins, Worcester, 1918, p. 33
↑ Richard Higgins And His Descendants- Katherine Chapin Higgins, Worcester, 1918, p. 34
↑ Richard Higgins And His Descendants- Katherine Chapin Higgins, Worcester, 1918, p. 31- quoting Plymouth Colony Records- Vol. III, fol. 195
↑ Richard Higgins And His Descendants- Katherine Chapin Higgins, Worcester, 1918, p. 34
↑ Richard Higgins And His Descendants- Katherine Chapin Higgins, Worcester, 1918, p. 34
↑ Richard Higgins And His Descendants- Katherine Chapin Higgins, Worcester, 1918, pp. 34-5 - quoting Plymouth Colony Records- Vol. IV, fol. 176
↑ Land Grants, 1659-1710, Town of Eastham- Plymouth Colony Land Records- Vol. III, fol. 147
↑ Book of Land Grants of Eastham- p.98
↑ New York Genealogical & Biographical Record- Vol. 47, pp. 21-2
ImmigrationImmigration:
Date: 1632
Place: Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts[35]Occupation
Occupation: Tailor[36]
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