Descendants of the Reverend Francis Higginson, first "teacher" in the Massachusetts Bay Colony of Salem, Massachusetts and author of "New-Englands plantation" (1630), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, pg 30 & 31; print, private . 1910 (Internet Archive: George Higginson (Stephen, Stephen, John, John, John, Francis), born July 19, 1779, at Boston, Mass.; died Mar. 19, 1812 at Boston; married Dec. 16, 1800 at Boston, Martha Hubbard Babcock, daughter of Adam and Martha (Hubbard) Babcock, born Apr. 7, 1781 at Boston; died Sept. 28, 1863, at Boston. She married 2d, 1813, James Perkins Higginson (No. 32), brother of George Higginson. Children, born at Boston and London, Eng.: [i.] Martha Babcock, b. Oct. 15, 1801 ; d. Mar. 4, 1833, at Boston; m. Apr. 7, 1824, at Boston, Augustus Aspinwall, son of William and Susanna (Gardner) Aspinwall, b. Dec. 14, 1787, at Brookline, Mass.; d. July 27, 1865, at Woodstock, Conn.; res. Brookline. [ii.] Susan Cleveland, b. Aug. 25, 1803, at London ; d. Oct. 27, 1862, at Boston, unm. [iii.] George, b. Sept. 18, 1804. [iv.] John, bapt. Feb. 27, 1807; d. Jan. 2l, 1822, at Boston. [v.] James Babcock, b. Nov. 16, 1809 ; d. May 26, 1855, at Mirzapore, India. [vi.] Sarah Rhea, b. 1810; d. May 6, 1818, at Boston.
Descendants of the Reverend Francis Higginson, first "teacher" in the Massachusetts Bay Colony of Salem, Massachusetts and author of "New-Englands plantation" (1630), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, pg 30 & 31; print, private . 1910 (Internet Archive: George Higginson (Stephen, Stephen, John, John, John, Francis), born July 19, 1779, at Boston, Mass.; died Mar. 19, 1812 at Boston; married Dec. 16, 1800 at Boston, Martha Hubbard Babcock, daughter of Adam and Martha (Hubbard) Babcock, born Apr. 7, 1781 at Boston; died Sept. 28, 1863, at Boston. She married 2d, 1813, James Perkins Higginson (No. 32), brother of George Higginson. Children, born at Boston and London, Eng.: [i.] Martha Babcock, b. Oct. 15, 1801 ; d. Mar. 4, 1833, at Boston; m. Apr. 7, 1824, at Boston, Augustus Aspinwall, son of William and Susanna (Gardner) Aspinwall, b. Dec. 14, 1787, at Brookline, Mass.; d. July 27, 1865, at Woodstock, Conn.; res. Brookline. [ii.] Susan Cleveland, b. Aug. 25, 1803, at London ; d. Oct. 27, 1862, at Boston, unm. [iii.] George, b. Sept. 18, 1804. [iv.] John, bapt. Feb. 27, 1807; d. Jan. 2l, 1822, at Boston. [v.] James Babcock, b. Nov. 16, 1809 ; d. May 26, 1855, at Mirzapore, India. [vi.] Sarah Rhea, b. 1810; d. May 6, 1818, at Boston.
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Re-interred May 1879 from the Babcock tomb (prob 86), Granary, Boston.
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