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Rev. Brewster Higley, I

Rev. Brewster Higley, I[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23]

Male - 1760


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  • Name Brewster Higley  [12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 23] 
    Title Rev. 
    Suffix I 
    Birth Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [12, 21, 23] 
    Gender Male 
    Death 05 Nov 1760  Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [12, 14, 21, 23] 
    Burial 07 Nov 1760  Hop Meadow Cemetery, Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [11, 12, 21, 23] 
    Person ID I312684223368  Oswald Genealogy
    Last Modified 15 Jun 2025 

    Family Hester Holcombe,   b. Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Dec 1775, Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2465  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 15 Jun 2025 

  • Notes 
    • GEDCOM line 1453 not recognizable or too
      GEDCOM line 1453 not recognizable or too long: (SLGC) 2 FAMC @01857568@ GEDCOM line 1454 not recognizable or too long: () 1 SOUR @S01@

      Line in Record @I01500@ (RIN 1493) from
      Line in Record @I01500@ (RIN 1493) from GEDCOM file not recognized: FAMILY_SPOUSE @F0628@

      !Higleys & Their Ancestors, M. D. Johnso
      !Higleys & Their Ancestors, M. D. Johnson pg 99

      From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 J
      From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996. From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996. From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.

      Descendants
      Ancestors of abolitionist John BROWN, and of Dr. Brewster HIGLEY VI, author of "Home on the Range"

      Brewster and Hester were married 17 Feb
      Brewster and Hester were married 17 Feb 1708 @ Simsbury, CT Brewster and Esther (Hester) Holcomb had eight children:

      Brewster b 12 Dec 1709, d 21 Mar 1794 (m 5 times)
      David b 1712
      Joseph b 21 Oct 1715, d May 1790
      Hannah* b 17 Dec 1717, d 1806 ae 90
      Hester b 3 Dec 1719, d 1807
      John b 17 Feb 1722, d 22 Jan 1808
      Elizabeth b 1723, d 27 Jul 1774
      Naomi b 1726, d 1817

      !NAME-SON-BORN-DIED-NOTE: was a member o
      !NAME-SON-BORN-DIED-NOTE: was a member of a committee from Simsbury, Conn.; DAR Lineage Book; vol. 119 pg. 37; Carrol Turk (1992). !NAME-SPOUSE-MARRIED; Carol Turk's Ahnentafel Chart (1992) !NAME-BORN-DIED-PARENTS-SPOUSE: Hester Holcombe; ORDINANCES: B/E/P/S: !NAME-BORN: The date and month in the year have not been preserved. Brewster Higley, 4th, who was born before the death of Brewster Higley, Sr. and lived contemporary with many of that generation, used to say, the correctness of which cannot be doubted, that each Brewster who headed the line, in the successive generations was born in March; MARRIED-DIED-BURIED: Ancient Symsbury Burial Grounds; WILL: dated 27 Oct 1760 (Bk XVIII p 232), Inventory 13 Apr 1761 (Hartford Probate Rec.); PARENTS-SIBLINGS-SPOUSE-CHILDREN- MILITARY: Ensign; BIOGRAPHY: The Higleys and Their Ancestry by Mary Coffin Johnson; FHL film #0928272.

      Chicago Lending Library Book V 291-a, Si
      Chicago Lending Library Book V 291-a, Simsbury Records, Conn. S15,b.p.33The Higley's & Their Ancestors by M.Coffin Johnson, P. 99-103 (B1,C9) Born: Simsbury, Hartford, CT ? "Descendants of John Drake", A8D5, P.5, 15-23. The Higleys and Their Ancestry, an Old Colonial Family by M.C. Johnson p1,2

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      MyHeritage.com [online database]. Lehi, UT, USA: MyHeritage (USA) Inc.
      Brewster Higley, Sr.

    3. [S1173462465] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F77K-N3D : 7 January 2020), Bruster Higley in entry for Hester Higley, 1719.

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