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Family: Richard HIGGINS / Lydia CHANDLER (F24968)

• Father | Male Richard HIGGINS

  
  

  Born	1 Aug 1603	England
  Died	21 Jun 1675	Piscataway, Middlesex Co, NJ
  Buried
  Married	23 Nov 1634  [1]	Eastham, Barnstable Co, MA  [1]
  Other Spouse	Mary | F24969
  Married	Oct 1651	Eastham, Barnstable Co, MA
  Father	Edward HIGGINS | F24972 Group Sheet
  Mother	Julian MEALS | F24972 Group Sheet

  
  

  Mother | Female Lydia CHANDLER

  
  

  Born	1614	Duxbury, Plymouth Co, MA
  Died	1651	Eastham, Barnstable Co, MA
  Buried
  Father	Edmund CHANDLER | F24987 Group Sheet
  Mother	Jane GITTON | F24987 Group Sheet

  
  

  Child 1 | Male Jonathan HIGGINS

  
  

  Born	Jul 1637	Plymouth, Plymouth Co, MA
  Died	1715	Eastham, Barnstable Co, MA
  Buried
  Spouse	Elizabeth ROGERS | F24986
  Married	9 Jan 1659/60	Eastham, Barnstable Co, MA

  
  

  Child 2 | Male + Benjamin HIGGINS

  
  

  Born	Jun 1640	Eastham, Barnstable Co, MA
  Died	14 Mar 1690/91	Eastham, Barnstable Co, MA
  Buried
  Spouse	Lydia BANGS | F5320
  Married	24 Dec 1661	Eastham, Barnstable Co, MA

  
  

• Notes

  Married: From "Richard Higgins and His Descendants", by Mrs. Katharine Chapin Higgins, 1918: Having now a good house and twenty aacres of land, and being a tailor with an apprentice, Richard Higgins bethought himself of a wife and his eye fell upon Lydia chandler, daughter of Edmund Chandler, of Duxbury and Scituate. She was favorable to his suit, and on December 11, 1634.*, they were married and went to housekeeping in the house bought of John Barnes.... *The date of marriage was Nov. 23, 1634, according to Eastham records.

  
  

• Sources

  [S18767] Richard Higgins and His Descendants.