Col. William Bernard ... married about 1652 or 1653, as her second husband, Lucy, the daughter of Capt. Robert Higginson and the widow of Major Lewis Burwell of Carter's Creek, Gloucester. ...
The tombstone of his daughter Lucy, died Nov. 6, 1675, and who is buried at Fairfield, the old Burwell homestead on Carter's Creek, Gloucester, stated that "she was ye only daughter of the valliant Capt. Robert Higginson. One of the first command'rs that subdued the county of Virginia from the power of the heathen," and that "she was descended from the Ancient family of the Higginsons" (Va. Mag. 4; 207). The English ancestry of the Higginsons is elaborated in Eben Putnam's "Higginsons of New England and Virginia."
Lucy Higginson, as has been stated, married three times viz.,
(1) Lewis Burwell,
(2) William Bernard and
(3) Philip Ludwell. ...