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Descendants of Higginson Progenitor-195033

Seventh Generation


20. Wife1 Higginson Sarah-177600 (John , John 3 , John , Francis , John , Progenitor ) was born in 1702/1705. She died in 1746.

From Cabot Genealogy, see p. 800.

Sarah married Dr Cabot John II-177597 son of Emigrant John Cabot John I-177595 and Orne Anne-177614. John was born in 1704. He died in 1749.

He has sons John and William.

John and Sarah had the following children:

+ 28 M i Cabot John IV-194147.

21. Capt Higginson John-177621 (John , John 3 , John , Francis , John , Progenitor ) was born in 1697/1698 in Salem, Mass. He died in 1744 in Salem Mass.

Additional information per a web treatment of Senator John Forbes Kerry (b. 1943) by William Addams Reitwiesner Genealogical Services - email to: wargs@wargs.com (with help from David Curtis Dearborn and Gary Boyd Roberts et al. He is son of John son of John son of John son of Francis.

John married (1) wife2 Cabot Esther-177620 daughter of Emigrant John Cabot John I-177595 and Orne Anne-177614. Esther was born in 1706. She died in 1739.

They had the following children:

  29 M i Higginson Francis-177626 was born in 1732/1733. He died in 1760 in Salem Mass.
        Francis married Gardner Esther-448842 daughter of Merchant Gardner Samuel-198127 and wife1 Orne Esther-198128. Esther was born in 1739 in Salem Mass. She died in 1796 in Salem Mass.
  30 M ii Higginson Nathaniel-177627.
  31 F iii Higginson Susan-177628.

John married (2) wife1 Boardman Ruth-177516 daughter of Boardman Andrew-177517 and Truesdale Elizabeth-177518. Ruth was born in 1698 in Cambridge, Mass. She died in 1727 in Salem Mass.

http update. Additional information per a web treatment of Senator John Forbes Kerry (b. 1943) by William Addams Reitwiesner Genealogical Services - email to: wargs@wargs.com (with help from David Curtis Dearborn and Gary Boyd Roberts et al.

John and Ruth had the following children:

+ 32 F iv Higginson Elizabeth-177524 was born in 1722. She died in 1781.

22. Boston merchant Higginson Stephen-13135 (John , John 3 , John , Francis , John , Progenitor ) was born in 1716. He died in 1761.

Code-US. He has brother Nathaniel born 1718 died 1719. He adopts Laura Storrow daughter of Capt Thomas Storrow and Anne Appleton who is a cousin of John Wentworth the governor of Nova Scotia. This man is supposedly part of the "Essex Junto". See Holden Furber p. 254, on first US-India trade, 1801, ship Hazard in trouble with EICo.

Stephen married Cabot Elizabeth-58838 daughter of Emigrant John Cabot John I-177595 and Orne Anne-177614. Elizabeth was born in 1715. She died in 1797.

They had the following children:

+ 33 F i Wife1 Higginson Sarah-32666 was born in 1744. She died in 1772.
+ 34 M ii Hon Higginson Stephen Jr.-177425 was born in 1743. He died in 1728.
+ 35 F iii Higginson Deborah-177831 was born in 1754. She died in 1820.
+ 36 F iv Higginson Elizabeth-178454 was born in 1756. She died in 1826.

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