Higgins Family of Maryland’s Eastern Shore

 

Higgins Census/Tax List References in Maryland.....If you do not have Microsoft Excel, download free Excel Viewer.

pre-1800 Higgins' in "Passenger and Immigration List Index: 2003 edition, 1500s-1900s"

Higgins Bible Records

Bible Records of Francis Higgins and Temperence Hughes, married May 31st 1795, of Dorchester County
Bible Records of Elizabeth A. Guest and James A. Higgins, married February 17th 1898
Bible Records of William T. Higgins and Louisa Knotts, married Jan 30 1868, of Queen Anne's and Talbot Counties
Bible Records of Daniel Eli Webster Higgins, born 1856, of Talbot County
Bible Records of Daniel G. Higgins and Anna Pearce, married Nov 24 1917, of Talbot County

Higgins Family Trees

Descendants of John Higgins and Rebecca Saywell, married 1725 Talbot County
Descendants of William Higgins and Margaret Lankford, married 1733 Talbot County
Descendants of John Higgins, died 1811, of Talbot County
Descendants of Daniel Higgins (1801 - 1877) and Mary Matilda Furness, of Talbot County
Descendants of Robert T. Higgins (born circa 1817) of Talbot County, as prepared by Ormand D. Higgins
Descendants of Francis Higgins and Temperence Hughes of Dorchester County, Married 31 May 1795
Descendants of Charles Higgins of Queen Anne's County (d. 1820)
Family of Argalus Higgins and Elizabeth Reed, of Queen Anne's County, married 1824
Family of Daniel Higgins and Mary Cooper, of Queen Anne's County, married 1819
Misc Higgins Families of Maryland's Western Shore

Overview of Maryland Counties

Overview of Maryland Courts

Overview of Eastern Shore Newspapers

Eastern Shore Regiments/Militia

War of 1812
Civil War
First Regiment, Eastern Shore Infantry, Union
Fourth Maryland “ChesapeakeBattery, Early's Brigade, Ewell's Division, Stonewall Jackson's Corps,Confederate
soldiers from Queen Anne’s Co.

Maryland National Guard, Index 1888-1933 [MD State Archives online]

Links

Genealogy

Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet

Delaware Genealogical Society

Delaware Public Archives

Dorchester County, MD Genealogical Magazine

Genealogy Quest

Grandfathers Clock Genealogy and History Pages (Genealogy and History of Maryland, Delaware and Virginia's Eastern Shore)

Handley's Eastern Shore Maryland Genealogy Project

Lower DelMarVa Genealogical Society

Maryland Genealogical Society

Maryland GenWeb

Maryland State Archives Online

RootsWeb.com - Message Boards

Sandy's File Cabinet

The DelMarVa Surnames Project

Upper Shore Genealogical Society of Maryland

Worcester County genealogical information (see Ocean City Maryland Life-Saving Station Museum)

Church Records [User name/password for most records at MD State Archives: aaco/aaco#]

Dorchester County Church Records, Misc

Talbot County Church Records, Bayside and Tilghman Methodist Charge 1902-1967

Civil Records / Misc [User name/password for most records at MD State Archives: aaco/aaco#]

Centreville, Queen Anne’s Co. Town Meeting Minutes 1797-1876

Credit Guide & Directory of Kent, Cecil & Harford Counties, MD, December 1912

Queen Anne’s County Court Judgment Records 1709-1716

Talbot County Court Judgment Record 1686-1748

Death Records / Wills [User name/password for most records at MD State Archives: aaco/aaco#]

Colonial Probate Records, Index 1634-1777

Death Records, Index 1898-1951

Delaware Probates Records Database

Maryland Calendar of Wills 1635-1743

Social Security Death Index (SSDI)

Talbot County Board of Health Burial Permits 1900-1913

Talbot County Wills 1862-1900 [MDGenWeb page for Talbot County, Maryland]

Will Abstracts from Prerogative Court 1743-1764

Vital Records

Land Records [User name/password for most land records at MD State Archives: plato/plato#]

Synopses of Chancery Court cases 1713-1853

Tax Assessment of 1783, Index

William R Nuttle Survey Records (Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne’s counties)

Caroline County Land Patents

Cecil County Land Patents

Dorchester County Land Patents

Kent County Land Patents

Queen Anne’s County Court Land Commissions 1716-1851 [User name/password: aaco/aaco#]

Queen Anne’s County Land Records, Grantee Index 1706-1854

Queen Anne’s County Land Records, Grantor Index 1706-1854

Queen Anne's County Circuit Court Land Survey Plats

A-BL DU-GR LE-MU SA-SU WR-Y

BL-CL GR-HU MU-PL SU-WA

CL-DU HU-LA PL-SA WA-WR

Talbot County Land Patents

Marriages

Indexes to Maryland Marriage References by Robert Barnes

Lynn's Transcription of Queen Anne's Marriage (see Sandy's File Cabinet)

Sandy’s Index to Caroline County Marriage Licenses (see Sandy's File Cabinet)

Newspapers

Copies of Early Maryland Newspapers

Various Articles from the Cecil Whig, Elkton, Cecil Co

Various Articles from the Dorchester Daily Banner

 

Libraries/Museums

 

Caroline County Public Library

Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum

Choptank River Heritage Center

Dorchester County Public Library

The Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History & Culture

The Historical Society of Cecil County

The Historical Society of Delaware

The Historical Society of Talbot County, Maryland

Kent County Public Library

The Library of Congress

The Library of Virginia

The Mariners' Museum

Maryland Historical Society

Maryland History Museums [a listing from the Maryland Association of History Museums]

Ocean City Maryland Life-Saving Station Museum

Queen Anne's County Free Library

Somerset County Library

Talbot County Maryland Free Library

University of Maryland, Langsdale Library

Wicomico County Free Library

Wicomico Historical Society

Worcester County Library

Historical Documents

The American Local History Network - Diaries, Journals and Memoirs Online

History of Catholics in Maryland

DelmarvaSettlers.org

Father Andrew White's First Impressions of Maryland & Its Native Inhabitants (1634)

The History of Caroline County, Maryland From Its Beginning 1920

History of Somerset County - an on-line copy of "Some Historical Notes on Old Somerset 1620-1958"

Historic Timeline of Worcester County

Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage

Maryland Hundreds and Parishes [Combs & Coombs Resource Genealogy Page]

Maryland State Archives

National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections

Maps

Maryland/Delaware

Indian Tribe and Village locations [Nanticoke Indian History]

John Smith's1612 Map of Virginia (and Maryland) [Library of Congress]

New Sweden on the Delaware 1638-1655 [Mid-Atlantic Archives]

George Alsop’s 1666 map of Maryland [Maryland State Archives]
Augustin Herrman’s 1670 map of Virginia and Maryland [Unicorn Book Store]

John Speed's 1676 Map of Maryland and Virginia [New York Public Library, Digital Collection]

Robert Morden's 1687 Map of Delaware & Maryland [Historical Maps of Pennsylvania] **other sources date as 1680

Anthony Smith’s “1689 Map of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsilvania, East & West Jersey” [Unicorn Book Store]

A. H. Jaillot's 1700 Map of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and East and West New Jersey [Unicorn Book Store]

John Seller's 1703 Map of Maryland and Virginia [New York Public Library, Digital Collection]

John Thornton's [published 1727?] map of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, part of New York and Carolina [New York Public Library, Digital Collection]

Herman Molls' 1732 Atlas Minor, of Maryland and Virginia [New York Public Library, Digital Collection]

Emanuel Bowen's 1747 "New and Accurate Map of Virginia & Maryland" [Maryland State Archives]

Lewis Evans' 1749 Map of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Delaware[Historical Maps of Pennsylvania]

Eman Bowen’s 1752 Map of Virginia & Maryland [Unicorn Book Store]

Thomas Kitchin's 1757 Map of Maryland & Delaware [Historical Maps of Pennsylvania]

Delaware 1769 [Delaware Public Archives]

William Russell's 1778 The History of America, Map of Maryland & Delaware [Historical Maps of Pennsylvania]

John Churchman's 1778 Map of Chesapeake Bay and Delaware [Library of Congress]

Lucas Fielding Jr.'s 1794 Map of Maryland [Library of Congress]

Dennis Griffith's 1795 Map of Eastern Shore and Delaware [Fassitt & Seaside Family homepage]

Samuel Lewis' 1795 Map of Maryland [Maryland Historical Society]

Delaware Hundreds
1775 and Before[Mid-Atlantic Archives]
1800 [Mid-Atlantic Archives]
1875 to present [University of Delaware Library]

1799 map of Head of the Chesapeake Bay and Susquehanna River [Maryland Historical Society]

Mathew Carey's 1814 Map of Maryland [New York Public Library, Digital Collection

Lucas Fielding Jr.'s 1822 Map of Maryland with descriptive appendix [University of Alabama, Dept. of Geography] **may need to install free ExpressView(MrSID) plug-in to view

Henry S. Tanner's 1833 Map of Maryland and Delaware [New York Public Library, Digital Collection]

Lucas Fielding Jr.'s 1841 Map of Maryland [Library of Congress]

Sidney E. Morse and Samuel Breese's 1842-[45] Map of Maryland and Delaware [New York Public Library, Digital Collection]

Eastern Shore Rail Road's 1853(?) Maryland survey [Library of Congress]

Charles DeSilver's 1857 Map of Maryland and Delaware with their Canals, Roads, and Distances [University of Alabama, Dept. of Geography **may need to install free ExpressView(MrSID) plug-in to view]

Simon Martenet's 1865 Atlas of Maryland - searchable by place name or individual's names. Enlargements of each county and election district. [Maryland State Archives]

D. G. Beers 1868 Atlas of the State of Delaware
Brandywine Banks, New Castle County [Mid-Atlantic Archives]
Pencader Hundred, New Castle County [Mid-Atlantic Archives]
Frederica, Kent County [Mid-Atlantic Archives]
Mispillion, Kent County [Mid-Atlantic Archives]
Georgetown Hundred, Sussex County [Mid-Atlantic Archives]
Other Hundreds and assorted cities/towns [Univeristy of Delaware - Delaware Geological Survey]

Rand, McNally, & Co.'s 1895 Map of Maryland & Delaware [Global Landforms Database]

Mercantile Guide and Bureau Co.'s 1899 Map of Delaware [Library of Congress]

USGS Topographic Maps, 1898 - 1950's [Maptech]

Caroline County, Maryland

John Isler's 1875 Map of Caroline County [Library of Congress]

Cecil County, Maryland

Simon Martenet's 1858 Atlas of Maryland, for Cecil County [Maryland State Archives]

1877 Atlas of Cecil County Maryland; Lake, Griffin & Stevenson [Mid-Atlantic Archives]
 Brick Meeting, Cecil County, Maryland
 Cecil County, Maryland
 Chesapeake City, Cecil County, Maryland
 Warwick, Cecil County, Maryland

1877 Fair Hill, Cecil County, Maryland [Mid-Atlantic Archives]

T. M. Fowler's 1907 map of Elkton, Cecil County, Maryland [Mid-Atlantic Archives]

T. M. Fowler's 1907 map of Havre de Grace, Cecil County, Maryland [Mid-Atlantic Archives]

East and West Nottingham Friends Meetings, Cecil County, Maryland [Mid-Atlantic Archives]

East Nottingham Friends Meeting, Cecil County, Maryland [Mid-Atlantic Archives]

Nottingham Lots as granted by William Penn (Cecil Co., Maryland and Chester Co., Pennsylvania) [Mid-Atlantic Archives]

Western Quarter of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Past and Present [Mid-Atlantic Archives]

Dorchester County, Maryland

1876 map of Dorchester Co [Hitch Genealogy]

Kent County, Maryland

1776 manuscript map of Kent Co. [Kent County Historical Society]

Martenet's 1860 Atlas of Kent County [Library of Congress]

1877 Atlas of Kent County Maryland; Lake, Griffin & Stevenson, including
Betterton, Lloyds and Turners Creek, Chestertown Area, Chestertown Waterfront, Chesterville,
Eastern Neck Island, Galena, Georgetown, Howell Point & Betterton, Kennedyville, Massey's, Millington,
Piney Neck, Sassafras, Shrewsbury Neck, Still Pond, Rock Hall, and Upper Sassafras River
[Kent County Historical Society]

T. M. Fowler's 1907 map of Chestertown, Kent Co., Maryland [Library of Congress]

Queen Anne's County, Maryland

J. G. Strong's 1866 Map of Queen Anne's County, and enlarged views of District 1, District 2, District 3, District 4District 5, Centreville, Crumpton, and Sudlersville sections [Maryland State Archives]

1877 Atlas of Queen Anne's County Maryland; Lake, Griffin & Stevenson, including Centreville, Church Hill, Crumpton, Sudlersville, and Kent Island [Kent County Historical Society]

Talbot County, Maryland

J. H. Alexander's 1835 map of Maryland showing Trappe area [Unicorn Book Store]
William H. Dilworth's 1858 map of Talbot County, with an inset of Easton. [Library of Congress]
1876 map of Talbot Co [Hitch Genealogy]
Gray's New Map of Trappe, 1877 [Unicorn Book Store]
1877 Atlas of Talbot County Maryland; Lake, Griffin & Stevenson, Trappe area [Unicorn Book Store]
1891 Sanborn Insurance Co. map of Trappe [Unicorn Book Store]
J. L. Smith and Co 1898 map of Talbot Co [Unicorn Book Store]
Trippe & Hambleton real estate and insurance advertising map circa 1900 of Trappe area [Unicorn Book Store]

Wicomico, Worcester, and Somerset Counties, Maryland

1876 maps of Wicomico, Worcester, and Somerset Co’s [Hitch Genealogy]
1877 Atlas of Wicomico County Maryland, with Salisbury inset; Lake, Griffin & Stevenson [Library of Congress]

American Origins Project 1877 Atlas [Edward H. Nabb Research Center]

Kent County, Delaware

1776 Milford, Kent County, Delaware [Mid-Atlantic Archives]

New Castle County, Delaware

1631-1664 Delaware River Settlements of the Dutch, Swedes and Finns [Mid-Atlantic Archives]

1736 Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware [Kent County Historical Society]

1772 Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware
  Mid-Atlantic Archives
  Delaware Public Archives

H.H. Bailey & Co.'s 1874 Map of Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware [Library of Congress]

18th Century Chester County, Pennsylvania Friends' Meetings [Mid-Atlantic Archives]

 

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