Person:William Higginson (5)

Watchers
William Higginson
b.Est 1648
  • HWilliam HigginsonEst 1648 - Bef 1720
  • WSarah Warner1656/57 - Bef 1720
m. Bef 1685
  1. Margaret HigginsonBef 1685 -
Facts and Events
Name[1][2] William Higginson
Gender Male
Birth[1] Est 1648
Marriage Bef 1685 Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, United States (probably)Based on estimated date of birth of eldest known child.
to Sarah Warner
Death[1][3] Bef 7 Jun 1720 Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, United States (probably)Before date of probate.
Probate[3] 7 Jun 1720 Administration to Edward Neal of Farmington.
Estate Inventory[3] 1 Jul 1720 £159-16-09. Taken by John Porter, John Hart and Hezekiah Hooker.
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 John Warner, in Camp, John F. (John Frederick); N. Grier (Nathan Grier) Parke; and Donald Lines Jacobus. The Ancestry and Descendants of Frederick Tracy Camp and His Wife Marion Fee. (Vancouver, Wash.: John F. Camp, Jr., 1961)
    75.

    "… William Higginson, of Farmington, b. abt. 1648, d. abt. June 1720."

  2. William Higginson, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    2:414.

    "William (Higginson), Farmington, whose name is usually Higason, or Higgison, m. Sarah, d. of John Warner, had there bapt. Margaret, Sarah, Eliz. 17 May 1691, and Mary, 10 Jan. foll.; was a propr. 1673, left no s. nor is the date or place of his d. kn. He is not reckoned of the preced. [Salem/New Haven] fam.

    [Additions and Corrections] [Savage 3:632] [Vol. 2] P. 414 l. 13 from bot. at the end, add, Sarah m. Clark Carrington, acc. Bronson's Hist. of Waterbury p. 143; but he had, on p. 26, m. him to Mary."

  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Higginson, William, Farmington, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
    2:399.

    "Probate Records. Vol. IX, 1715 to 1723. Page 65-81.

    Higginson, William, Farmington. Invt. £159-16-09. Taken 1st July, 1720, by John Porter, John Hart and Hezekiah Hooker.

    Court Record, Page 128—7 June, 1720: Adms. granted to Edward Neal of Farmington.

    See File: An agreement between the heirs for a settlement of the moveable part of the estate of William Higginson, signed and sealed by each of them: Edward Neal in right of his wife Margaret alias Higginson, Samuel Warner in right of his wife Elizabeth alias Higginson, Clark Carrington in right of his wife Sarah alias Higginson, Abner Gillett in right of his wife Mary alias Higginson.

    Page 142—6 December, 1720: An agreement was exhibited in Court for the division of the estate of William Higginson by Edward Neal, Samuel Warner, Abner Gillett and Clarke Carrington, who married the daughters of sd. decd., acknowledged by them to be their free act and deed, and each became bound for the payment of debts.

    Page 58 (Vol. X) 1st December, 1724: Edward Neal, Adms., exhibited an account of his Adms., which this Court accepts."