Henry Young (1710 - bef. 1792)

Born 23 Mar 1710 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Higgins) Young — married 8 Mar 1732 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died before 23 Sep 1792 before age 82 in Argyle, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

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Biography

Henry Young was born March 23, 1710, the son of David Young and Ann Doane of Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts^{[1] [2]}.

On March 18, 1731, Henry married Elizabeth Higgins, the daughter of Benjamin Higgins and Sarah Freeman of Eastham^[3], and their children included:

1. Seth Young, born April 6, 1734^[3]
2. Solomon Young, born October 14, 1735, who died young^[3]
3. Solomon Young, born May 18, 1737^[3]
4. Josiah Young, born May 14, 1739^[3]
5. Anna Young, born December 4, 1740^[3]
6. Eunice Young, born January 15, 1742^[3]
7. Sarah Young, born February 5, 1744^[3], who married Solomon Rider^[4]
8. Elizabeth Young, born circa 1747, who married John Headley^[5], and then married Simeon Perkins, of the diary^[4].
9. Henry Young, born 1750

CIrca 1760, Henry and Elizabeth emigrated to Liverpool Nova Scotia, where he is listed among the first proprietors of the town^[6]. Henry later moved to Argyle, where their daughter Sarah (Young) RIder had settled^[4]. When he visited Liverpool in 1792, Simone noted that he was in his eighty-second year. Shortly after, he died after being gored by a bull.

Sources

1. ↑ Familysearch notes the loss of records in Barnstable Mass and refers to the following source
2. ↑ Genealogical notes of Cape Cod families by Brownson, Lydia B.; Norton, Doris V.; Held, Grace V.; Publication date 1967; Topics Registers of births, etc.--Massachusetts--Cape Cod, Sturgis Library (Barnstable, Mass.), Marriage records--Handbooks, manuals, etc., Barnstable (Mass.)--Genealogy, Cape Cod (Mass.)--Genealogy, genealogy; Publisher Lydia B. Brownson; Collection sturgislibrary; regionaldigitizationmass; americana; Digitizing sponsor Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. Vol. 50 (Wing to Young). See page 196 for Henry with his parents and page 206 for Henry and Elizabeth
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7} V.17, p.35/264887970 Eastham and Orleans Mass Vital Records, page 100 published in the Mayflower Descendant, Volume17, page 35; and found in Eastham-Orleans V1, of NEHGR V.123, p.204 Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016).
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} The Diaries of Simeon Perkins, 1766-1780 (volume I) The Publications of the Champlain Society, Volume 29; Author: Simeon Perkins; Editor: Harold A. Innis; Published: 2013
5. ↑ Vital Records of Liverpool, Nova Scotia, page 41 found in Vol 126, page 163 of the Vital Records from The NEHGS Register. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Compiled from articles originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.)
6. ↑ The history of Queens County, N.S. by More, James F. (James Fullerton), 1802-1878; Published in Halifax in 1873; Digitizing sponsor University of Alberta Libraries, see pages 11 and 12 for the list of proprietors

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