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John or Joseph (speculative) Higginbotham

Male 1695 - 1741  (45 years)


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  • Name John or Joseph (speculative) Higginbotham 
    Birth 10 Jun 1695  Ireland or Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 1741  Amherst Co., VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I3357  forneyclark
    Last Modified 22 Mar 2024 

    Father Charles (speculative) Higginbotham,   b. ABT. 1664, St. Philip's Parish, Barbados, West Indies Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Aug 1734, St. Philip's Parish, Barbados, West Indies Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 70 years) 
    Mother ANN (speculative) RAWLINGS,   b. 1658-1668, St. Philip's Parish, Barbados, West Indies Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Aug 1740, St. Philip's Parish, Barbados, West Indies Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years) 
    Marriage 9 Aug 1688 
    Family ID F0396  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Unknown (speculative) Riley,   b. ABT. 1697 
    Marriage ABT. 1712 
    Family ID F1297  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 22 Mar 2024 

  • Notes 
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      Source:
      SEE WILLIAM MORRIS HIGGINBOTHAM'S SITE FOR COMPREHENSIVE INFORMATION AND REFERENCES:
      http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=misterhigg&id=I160
      Higginbotham Family From Amherst Co., VA:
      William Morris Higginbotham:
      Names, dates, & places
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      Source:
      SEE WILLIAM MORRIS HIGGINBOTHAM'S SITE FOR COMPREHENSIVE INFORMATION AND REFERENCES:
      http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~higginbotham/is_it_joseph.htm
      William Morris Higginbotham:
      "George Brian Bauer has done a nice job of compiling the different arguments in a series of postings on the Higginbotham-L message board on Rootsweb."
      His essays are found at the above site.
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      Source:
      SEE ELAINE KING KUBINSKI'S SITE FOR COMPREHENSIVE INFORMATION AND REFERENCES:
      http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=efkubinski&id=I03976
      McDaniel-King:
      Elaine King Kubinski:

      William & Mary Quarterly, Volumes 26/27 (1917-1918)

      "THE HIGGINBOTHAM FAMILY" by William Montgomery Sweeney

      CONFLICT: NOT PROVEN SON OF CHARLES of Barbados. Old Records in VA refer to Widow Higginbotham, and her children. No evidence has been found as to her surname or Mr. Higginbotham's first name.

      Tradition says that three Higginbotham brothers coming to what is now Amherst Co. VA abt 1735, John, Thomas, and Joseph. According to the testimony of a gdau of John, Tirzah H. London, these Higginbothams emigrated from Ireland.

      - John came to Virginia about 1735 and contracted for land on Rutledge Creek (2,430 acres). He died prior to 1745 and the land he had contracted for was conveyed to his oldest, Moses, in April 1745. Moses partitioned this land in 1751 among his brothers and sister probably after the death of his mother, (Frances Riley?), who was not mentioned in this partition as receiving any dower

      Tradition has it that John came from Ireland to VA early in the 18th century with 5 children, John, Moses, Aaron, James and Anne and that four others were born in VA, Benjamin, Joseph, Rachel and Thomas.

      Documentation of this tradition has been difficult to prove. VA Mag reports that the ancestry of John as presented here is strenghtened by the finding of an old book dated 1662 with the signature of a Nicholas Higginbotham in the flyleaf found in an old trunk belonging to Col. James Higginbotham, son of John and Frances.

      p. 505 Shows John Higginbotham from Ireland was living in Virginia as early as 1751 m. to Frances Riely.

      The ancestry of our John or Joseph HIGGINBOTHAM is still unproven.
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