Person:John Higgins (64)

Name^[2]	John Higgins
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	Abt Feb 1803	Jamaica, Windham, Vermont, United States
Marriage	Bef 1835	Based on birth of eldest known child to Mary (add)
Death^[1]	7 Dec 1882	Melrose, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Massachusetts, United States. Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915
[1].

Deaths Registered in the Town of Melrose, Middlesex County for the Year eighteen hundred and eighty-two.
No.: 77
Date of Death: Dec 7 [1882]
Name: John Higgins
Sex: Male
Condition: Mar
Age: 79 y. 10 m. [birth about Feb 1803]
Cause: Pneumonia & Paralysis
Place of Death: Melrose
Occupation: Retired
Place of Birth: Jamaica Vt.
Parents: Ephraim Higgins / ---
Birthplaces of Parents: Wellfleet / " [Under Wellfleet which is father's birthplace (and as we know, not the mother's), but mother unknown, so perhaps repeating "---" on column before?]
↑ Higgins, Katharine Elizabeth Chapin. Richard Higgins, a Resident and Pioneer Settler at Plymouth and Eastham, Massachusetts and at Piscataway, New Jersey, and His Descendants. (Worcester, Mass.: Privately Printed for the Author, 1918)
p. 247.

Children of Ephraim Higgins [#206] and first wife Nabby Shepardson: 4) John, b. 16 Jan 1803, d. 7 Dec 1882.
[Note: no further information.]