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Persoonlijke gegevens Brewster Higley 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1681 in Windsor, CT.Bron 1
• Een kind van John Higley en Hannah Drake
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 21 november 2012.

Gezin van Brewster Higley

Hij is getrouwd met Esther Holcomb.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1708, hij was toen 27 jaar oud.Bron 1

Kind(eren):

1. Brewster Higley  1711-????
2. Joseph Higley  1713-????
3. David Higley  1715-????
4. Hannah Higley  1717-???? 
5. Hester Higley  1721-????
6. John Higley  1721-????
7. Elizabeth Higley  1723-????
8. Naomi Higley  1725-????

Notities over Brewster Higley

Genealogical history: with short sketches and family records, of the early settlers of West Simsbury, now Canton, Conn
by: Abiel Brown
Pg 86-88

ITEMS OF HISTORY OF THE HIGLEY FAMILY, AND RACE OF DESCENDANTS.

JOHN HIGLEY, Esq., was among the early settlers in Windsor, and among the early settlers in Simsbury. The place where he and his numerous descendants lived in Simsbury, was north-west from Tariffville. It was formerly called Higley town, after the name of its inhabitants. He married Hannah, daughter of John and Hannah Drake, and granddaughter of Dea. John and Hannah Moore, married, A. D. 1671. He was honored with many of the highest offices in the gift of his fellow-citizens, being the first appointed justice of the peace, and soon after, judge of the county court. He represented the town at the General Assembly, for many sessions, subsequent to the year 1698. He was the first military captain, being chosen in 1698, an office at that time of great dignity. His children were John Jun., or 2d, born 1673; Jonathan, born 1675; Hannah, born 1677; Rebecca, born 1679; Brewster, born 1681. Of these, Hannah, the oldest daughter, married Joseph Trumbull, in 1704, and became the mother of the first Governor Jonathan Trumbull, and his honorable descendants, who for many years held a high rank among Connecticut worthies.

Brewster, the third son, was married A. D. 1708, to Esther, (or Hester,) daughter of Nathaniel Holcomb, and granddaughter of the first Thomas Holcomb. Their children were Brewster, Jun., born 1711; Joseph, born 1713; David, born 1715; Hannah, born 1717; Hester, born 1719; John, (the third of the name,) born 1721; Elizabeth, born 1723; Naomi, born 1725. These eight persons, who are all that are known of as belonging to this family, lived to great age; their several ages when added together make the round number of 646 years, which divided by eight, makes the average longevity to be about eighty years and nine months. There are now living in Canton several families, who, through the female line are descendants of this ancient Higley family. Hannah, the oldest daughter, became the wife of Elijah Owen, the first, about the year 1734. She had by him, Rebecca, who married Benedict Alford, and removed to Vermont. She lived to the age of 95 years. One child died in infancy; Elijah Jun., or 2d, who died at Otis, in 1814, aged 76; Hannah, was the wife of Capt. John Brown, and the mother of the Brown family in Canton, and died there in the year 1831, aged 91 years. The aforementioned Hannah Higley, widow of Elijah Owen, for a second mariage, married Peletiah Mills, Esq., in the year 1748. Their children were Peletiah, Samuel, Roger, Martha, Eli, Frederick, Susanna and Elihu, the father of the Mills in the town of Bloomfield. Martha married a Barnard; Susanna married a Hubbard; Hester married Capt. Josiah Case, and was the mother of the late Capt. Fithen Case, and that connection; Elizabeth married Rev. Gideon Mills, minister of West Simsbury; Naomi married Solomon Humphrey, Sen., or 1st, and was the mother of Solomon Humphrey, Jun., or 2d, and that connection. Brewster, Jun., the oldest son, was the father of the wife of Abel Case, Sen., and that connection, also grand parent of the wife of the late Plinny Humphrey, and the mother of Norman Case. John, the fourth son of Brewster, Sen., and the third of the name of John, married Apphia, daughter of Jonathan Humphrey, the first, and great granddaughter of the first Michael Humphrey. He resided a part of his family state in Canton, though mostly in Old Simsbury. His sons were John, Carmi, Obed, Isaac, Eber, Roger, and Job. His daughters were the wife of Dea. Jared Mills, and the wife of Job Mills. John, Jun., or John the 4th, resided in the north-west part of the Farms school-district, in Canton, on land now owned by the heirs of the late Asaph Tuller, Esq. Among his children were the wife of Abraham Barber, Jun., John, Timothy and Dan. The father died May, 1802. The family are now extinct in Canton. Carmi, another son of John Higley, 3d, married Hestor, widow of Thomas Case, 2d, and daughter of Capt. Josiah Case. He was in the American army in the autumn of 1776; was taken a prisoner by the British, and with many others, confined in one of the New York churches, then made a prison of, for the purpose of starving soldiers to death, where he died under British cruelty. He left an infant son of his own name; that son was lost at sea when a man, some forty years of age or more. Obed Higley, son of John Higley, of the fourth degree inclusive from the first John Higley, married Miss Rebecca Mills. He resided most of his family state upon the premises now owned by his son, Alson Higley.

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