Mother: Susannah "Susan" Porter Cleveland
Spouse1: Martha Salisbury m. 7 Aug 1794
Spouse2: Louisa Storrow m. 14 Feb 1805

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 28 & 29; print, private . 1910 (Internet Archive: Stephen Higginson (Stephen, Stephen, John, John, John, Francis}, born Nov. 20, 1770, at Salem, Mass.; died Feb. 20, 1834, at Cambridge, Mass.; married 1st, Aug. 7, 1794, at Boston, Mass., Martha Salisbury, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Sewall) Salisbury, born Mar. 14, 1771, at Boston; died Sept. 29, 1803, at Boston. He married 2d, Feb. 14, 1805, at Boston, Louisa Storrow, daughter of Capt. Thomas and Anne (Appleton) Storrow, born Mar. 18, 1786, at St. Andrews, N. B.; died Nov. 15, 1864, at Brattleboro, Vt. Steward H. U., 1818-1827. Children, born at Boston, Bolton, and Cambridge, Mass.: [i.] Elizabeth Sewall, b. June 3, 1795; d. Mar. —, 1796. [ii.] Elizabeth Sewall, b. May 26, 1798; d. Dec. —, 1840, at Alexandria, Va.; m. Aug. 16, 1831, Rev. Reuel Keith, D. D., son of Reuel and Abigail (Allen) Keith, born June 26, 1792, at Pittsford, Vt.; d. Sept. 3, 1842, at Sheldon, Vt., Prof, at the Prot. Epis. Seminary in Virginia. [iii.] Susan Cleveland, b. Mar. 1, 1800; d. Sept. —, 1801. [iv.] Martha Salisbury, b. June 6, 1801; d. Dec. 14, 1889, at Cambridge; m. May 3, 1833, at Cambridge, Rev. Ichabod Nichols, D. D., son of Ichabod and Lydia (Ropes) Nichols, born July 5, 1784, at Portsmouth, N. H.; d. Jan. 2, 1859, at Cambridge. He m. 1st, May 15, 1810, [Dorothea Folsom] Gilman, dau. of Gov. John Taylor and Deborah (Folsom) Gilman, of Exeter, N. H., who d. [Apr.17], 1831. A. B. at H[arvard] U[niversity], 1802; A. M., 1805; tutor, 1805-1809; S. T. D., Bowd., 1821; H. U., 1831. Ordained at the First Church (Uni.), Portland, Me., 1809; pastor about 50 years. [v.] Stephen, b. Aug. 4, 1803; d. July 13, 1804. Children of second marriage: [vi.] Francis John, b. May 6. 1806. [vii.] Stephen, b. Jan. 4, 1808. [viii.] Ann Storrow, b. Dec. 13, 1809; d. Nov. 17, 1892, at Boston. [ix.] Edward Cabot, b. Apr. 21, 1812; d. Mar. —, 1814. [x.] Waldo, b. May 1, 1814; d. May 4, 1894, at Boston; m. Dec. 29, 1845, at Boston, Mary Davies Sohier, dau. of William Davies and Elizabeth Amory (Dexter) Sohier, b. Apr. 2, 1817, at Boston; d. Dec. 9, 1885, at Boston. A. B., H. U., 1833; A. M., 1856; overseer, 1869-1873. [xi.] Susan Louisa, b. Mar. 19, 1816; d. Aug. 27, 1875, at Portland, Me. [xii.] Samuel Thacher, b. Mar. 31, 1818; d. Mar. —, 1842; lost at sea. [xiii.] Mary Lee, b. Apr. 1, 1820; d. Oct. 11, 1826. [xiv.] Edward Cabot, b. Dec. 20, 1821; d. Apr. 24, 1824. [xv.] Thomas Wentworth, b. Dec. 22, 1823.