Higbee is my daughter in law’s birth surname
The Higbee (Higby) family line has a long history beginning in New England in the 1600’s. Samuel Higby was baptized 12 March 1671 in Middletown, Connecticut Colony, the son of Edward Higby. Though records are a bit confusing (New Englanders kept good records, but sometimes they are confusing), it appears Edward had been born in England and migrated to Connecticut Colony in 1630. He married Lydia in 1661 (seems to have been his second marriage) and together they had Samuel. Edward, along with many other Inlow Family relatives who most likely knew one another, was one of the early colonists settling Stratford Connecticut in around 1650. Edward died in 1699 in Jamaica, Long Island, New York Colony. But the long line of Higbees was started. Through the 1700’s and 1800’s the Higbees migrated across the U.S., from New York, through Indiana, Kansas, Oregon, and finally settling in Washington state. The Higbees are not the only important paternal line in my daughter in law’s ancestry, however. For instance, she is a direct descendant of Pierre Billiou, one of the first settlers of Staten Island, as well as an abundance of very early Dutch settlers and colonists.
My daughter in law’s maternal line is very diverse. The Cregar/Creger/Krieger line extends well back to the early 1700’s when John Jacob Krieger immigrated from Germany and settled in Wythe County, Virginia Colony (the photo above is of one set of her Cregar great grandparents). It also includes more recent immigrants from Sweden and other northern European countries.
To be more specific about my daughter in law’s recent heritage I would need to name living people, which I do not want to do.
RELATED SURNAMES INCLUDE:
BENNETT
DONALDSON
JOHNSON
FRY
PETERSON
SULT
FRY
And many others