Mary (Blakeman) Higginson (1635 - 1708)

Born 1635 in Leicestershire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Joshua Atwater Esq. — married 6 May 1651 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut

Wife of John Higginson — married after 16 May 1676 in New England

Descendants

Died 9 Mar 1708 at about age 73 in Salem, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Mary (Blakeman) Higginson immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

Mary was the daughter of Rev. Adam and Jane (___) Blakeman.^[1]

Mary (Blackman) Atwater Higginson born 1635 and died 1709 was the widow of Joshua Atwater when she married the Reverend John Higginson. ^[2]

"Mr Jofhua Atwatter and Mary Blackman were Married by mr Ludlow at Stratford ye 6th of may 1651." ^[3]

She married second John Higginson after 16 May 1676 (Joshua's death) in New England. The record lists her name as Mary Blakeman Atwater with birth year as 1636 and death year as 1709. ^[4] John Higginson was the sixth minister of Salem, Massachusetts, formerly of Guilford, Connecticut. Children by her first husband, - Ann; Samuel, b 20 Jun 1654; Joshua, born 10 April 1658; Mary b. 1659, and perhaps others. ^[5]

She died on 9 Mach1708/09 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts at age 72. ^[6] She is buried in Burning Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex Massachusetts.

Sources

1. ↑ The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995). Cites Higginson Gen 6.
2. ↑ Atwater Edward E. et al. History of the Colony of New Haven to Its Absorption Into Connecticut. Meriden, Connecticut: 1902 p. 631
3. ↑ Vital Records of New Haven 1649-1850 Part I. Hartford: The Connecticut Society of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, 1917 marriage p. 2; Samuel p. 10
4. ↑ Torry, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.
5. ↑ Nathaniel Goodwin. Genealogical Notes, or Contributions to the Family History of Some of the First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts. New Orleans, LA, USA: L. Graham & Son, printers, 1899.
6. ↑ Higginson, Thomas Wentworth.Descendants of the Reverend Francis Higginson (Privately Printed, 1910)

See also:

• Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. Descendants of the Reverend Francis Higginson (Privately Printed, 1910)
• Orcutt, Samuel. A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut (New Haven, Conn. : Press of Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1886) Vol. 2, Page 1116.
• Abstract of Probate Records at Fairfield, Connecticut, Down to 1721 (n.p., ?) Page 1: "1665 Atwater, Mary, d. Adam Blackman, wife of (Josua) Atwater and mother of Josua Atwater, ment. in her father's will."
• Find A Grave: Memorial #8141520