Person:Robert Higginson (4)

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Capt. Robert Higginson
b. Warwickshire, England
d.Aft 1645 Virginia, United States
Parents and Siblings
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  • F.  Thomas Higginson (add)
  • M.  Ann (add)
m.
  1. Capt. Robert Higginson - Aft 1645
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Capt. Robert Higginson - Aft 1645
  • W.  Joanna Torkesy (add)
m. Abt 1625
  1. Lucy HigginsonAbt 1632 - 1675
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Facts and Events
Name[1] Capt. Robert Higginson
Gender Male
Birth? Warwickshire, England
Marriage Abt 1625 to Joanna Torkesy (add)
Death[1] Aft 1645 Virginia, United States
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Gorsuch and Lovelace Families (Continued), in Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. (Richmond, Virginia: Virginia Historical Society)
    25 (1917):85-98.

    ... Robert Higginson is described prior to his removal to Virginia in 1643 in an old chancery suit, as a citizen and painter-stainer.

    He was a son of Thomas and Anne Higginson of Berkeswell, Warwick, England.

    He married about 1625 Joanna Torkesy.

    Captain Robert Higginson commanded at Middle Plantation, Virginia in 1645.

    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." ...

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