Huggins Family Line

Huggins Family Line

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Grandy's 5x Great-Grandmother:

My 7x Great-Grandmother:

Laila Laemmel-Gordon's 8x Great-Grandmother:

Elizabeth Huggins (1684 - 1755)

Elizabeth Marvel

Birthdate: ca. 1684

Birthplace: Somerset County, Province of Maryland

Denomination: (probably) Episcopalian

Date of Marriage: June 16, 1721

Place of Marriage: Stepney Parish, Somerset County, Province of Maryland

Death: 1755 in Somerset County, Province of Maryland

Burial: Saint Paul's Episcopal Cemetery, Georgetown, Sussex County, Delaware

Parents::

Edmund Huggins

1658-1726

Anne Covington

1672-1726

Family

Spouse:

Thomas Marvel, Sr.

Thomas Marvel

Also known as: "Marvell", "Marvil", "Marville", "Thomas M. Marvel, Sr."

Birthdate: 1682

Birthplace: Somerset County, Province of Maryland

Denomination: (probably) Episcopalian

Death: March 28, 1753 in Worcester County, Province of Maryland

Burial: Saint Paul's Episcopal Cemetery, Georgetown, Sussex County, Delaware

Immediate Family:

Son of John Marvel, I and Ann West

See: Marvel Family Line

Children:

1. David Marvel 1729–1796

2. Abigail Marvel 1723–

3. Viley Clear Marvel 1726–

4. Thomas Marvel, Jr. 1732–1801

5. Philip Marvel, Sr. 1735–1795

6. Robert Marvel, Sr. 1737–1775

7. Joseph Marvel 1739–1786

8. John Marvel 1748–

About Elizabeth Huggins

Biography

Elizabeth Huggins was born in about 1695-1700 in Nanticoke Hundred, Somerset County, in the English province of Maryland. The most-recent research states that she was the daughter of Edmund Huggins and his 2nd wife, Anne (Covington) Huggins. Although this remains unproven by primary documents, most of which have not survived; it is likely, because Edmund was the only man named Huggins appearing in contemporary records in that area. He originally owned land on the north side of Wetipquin Creek, Somerset Co., Maryland. Nehemiah Covington, Anne's father, had a nearby plantation. Widower Edmund Huggins married Anne in the late 1690s (but no records have survived). [1]

In 1718 Edmund Huggins bought land further north, on the upper Nanticoke River a few miles above where Thomas Marvel, b. 1684, would soon settle. Thus, Thomas Marvel and Edmund & Anne (Covington) Huggins were neighboring planters. [2]

Elizabeth and Thomas Marvel were married on June 21, 1720 in Stepney Parish, Somerset Co., Maryland.[3] They had the following 7 children:

David Marvel b: 05 JAN 1721 in Somerset County, MD

Abigail Marvel b: 05 APR 1723 in Wicomico County, MD

Viley Clear Marvel b: 14 DEC 1726 in Somerset County, MD

Thomas Marvel b: 11 NOV 1732 in Somerset Co., MD

Phillip P Marvel b: 30 NOV 1735 in Somerset County, MD

Robert Marvel b: 15 MAY 1737 in Somerset County, MD

Joseph Marvel b: About 1739 in Worcester County, MD

Elizabeth (Huggins) Marvel died in about 1755 in Somerset County, Maryland, on land that became part of Sussex County, Delaware, when the Mason-Dixon survey established firm local boundaries in 1765-1767. She is buried at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Georgetown, Sussex County, Delaware.[4]

"A Huggins Line" Family Tree on RootsWeb says:[5]

ID: I18952

Name: Elizabeth Huggins

Note: DNA connection [6]

Sex: F

Birth: ABT 1684 in Somerset County, MD [sic = 1700 is a better date]

Burial: Saint Pauls Episcopal Cemetery, Sussex County, DE

Death: ABT 1755 in Somerset County, MD [became Sussex Co, DE]

Father: Edmund Huggins b: ABT 1658 in Somerset, Montgomery County, MD

Marriage: Thomas M. Marvel b: ABT 1682 in Somerset County, MD

Married: 16 JUN 1720 in Stepney, Somerset County, MD[7]

Sources

↑ MilesFiles 16.1: 100’s of Families from the Eastern Shore - Anne Covington. Cites: Barbara Massey Horsman, "Massey Family of Worcester County, Maryland," Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, MD, 1995

↑ A Huggins Line Genealogy on RootsWeb - Elizabeth Huggins. Cites primary sources recorded by Ancestry.com from Maryland records. He has a different mother listed but she died in 1688; best evidence for Elizabeth Huggins' birth, based on her last child's birth in 1739, is 1695-1700. Before 1688 would be too early as she would have been over 50.

↑ Stepney Parish Register, p. 10; cited on See preceding Note for RootsWeb source.

↑ Find A Grave Memorial# 11395661 - Elizabeth Huggins Marvel

↑ A Huggins Line Genealogy on RootsWeb - Elizabeth Huggins

↑ Ancestry.com file.

↑ Source: Ancestry.com / Title: Delaware, Find A Grave Memorial# 11395661 - www.findagrave.com

See also:

Elizabeth Huggins on MilesFiles 16.1: 100’s of Families from the Eastern Shore, pg. 775. (Valid May 2016) - See Surname Index for page changes. Lists Anne Covington as Elizabeth's mother.

Source: S550859363 Repository: #R-2145177372 Web: Delaware, Find A Grave Index, 1707-2012 Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.

Repository: R-2145177372 Ancestry.com

Children:

1. Elizabeth Huggins (Marvel) 1690-1755

About Edmund Huggins

Biography

Edmund Huggins was from the northwest part of Somerset County, Eastern Shore, Maryland, called Nanticoke Hundred (Hundreds were a sub-division of the large counties in Colonial America). Most of this area was declared to be Sussex County, Delaware, when the Mason-Dixon Line was surveyed in 1765-67. Edmund Huggins' property, especially that which he bought in 1718, was located in what is now Sussex County, Delaware.

Little known of his early life and his parents names are not known. The latest research indicates he probably had 2 wives. First he married Clarissa Ann Cohn (last name spelling is not certain) from the Pamlico River area of North Carolina in about 1680. She died in 1688. Edmund Huggins may even have been born in Bath County, North Carolina; Edmund's son, John Huggins [b: 1680s], lived there in the 18th Century.[1]

Originally it was believed that his daughter Elizabeth Huggins was born of this union in about 1684. However, newer research, based in part on the "near-kin" witnesses to his 1726 will, indicate she was more-likely born between 1698 and 1700, and that her mother was Anne Covington, daughter of Somerset County MD planter, Nehemiah Covington. Edmund Huggins also had 2 sons, Charles and Edmund (Jr.) born in Maryland around 1707 to 1709, thus by Anne Covington. He had an older son, John Huggins, "weaver of Bath Co., NC," probably from his first marriage.[2]

Edmund Huggins is said to have died at home in June 1726. Although no will was filed or proven, an "Inventory of the Estate," was signed on June 16, 1726, by Nehemiah Huggins and Margaret Smith as "near kin". Note the first-name "Nehemiah" as in Anne Covington's father's name.

Sources

↑ [ http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hugginsjh&id=I18954 "A Huggins Line" Family Tree on RootsWeb - Edmund Huggins] gives this wife's name, age & NC connection. See: MilesFiles on Eastern Shore Public Library - Edmund Huggins, pg. 788 for mention of a son: John Huggins, "weaver of Bath Co., NC," who sold land inherited from his father in 1728. This source cites: Pauline Manning Batchelder, "Somerset Sampler - Families of Old Somerset Co., MD, 1700-1776," pp. 161-163 (Huggins Family).

↑ MilesFiles on Eastern Shore Public Library - Edmund Huggins, pg. 788

See also:

Research by Laura Tasset Koehn on RootsWeb - Edmund Huggins. Lists his sons, Charles, b: 1706 and Edmund Jr., b: 1709 in Nanticoke Hd. Somerset, Maryland.

"A Huggins Line" on RootsWeb - Edmund Huggins. Names 1st wife but ignores 2nd wife etc.

John W, Crossno III Database on RootsWeb - Edmund Huggins. Puts his birth in 1660; lists 2 wives, both named Ann; Ann#1 dates: 1662-1690; none for Ann#2. Repeats that Elizabeth was born in 1684 (unlikely as her last child: Joseph Marvel, was born in 1739 - she'd have been 55 years old). Cites Ancestry.com's Family History collection.

Source: S-2116222201 Repository: #R-2145177372 OneWorldTree Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc. - Repository: R-2145177372 Ancestry.com

Somerset County Court (Tax List) 1723

https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/coagser/c1800/c1812/html/tax1723.html

Chancery Court (Chancery Papers) 1713-1853

https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/stagser/s500/s512/html/ssf0512.html

References:

https://www.geni.com/people/Edmund-Huggins/6000000011083732023

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Huggins-397

https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/M73G-G46/edmund-huggins-1675-1729

http://espl-genealogy.org/MilesFiles/site/p788.htm

http://www.geocities.ws/Heartland/Cliffs/6573/huggins.html

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Huggins History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

The name Huggins is English but thought to be Norman-French in origin. The name is believed to have come over with the Norman invasion and is considered patronymic, as having been derived from the name Huggin which was a pet or nickname for someone with the Old French given name of Hugh. The translation of Hugh can mean any of the following; hug, mind, spirit, or heart. In England the name Hugh was favored among the French who came after the Norman conquest because of the popularity of St. Hugh.

Early Origins of the Huggins Family

The surname Huggins was first found in Fife, where like its English counterpart, the name is a diminutive of "Hugh" as in "son of Hugh." This is turn, translates in Latin to "Hugo." Hugens was in the Domesday Book as a surname while Hugh, Hugo and Hugolin were personal names.

Taking a rather large step back in time over the centuries, we found Andrew Hugoun, latimus, recorded in 1519, and a few years later, Robert Huggou (perhaps a miscopying of Huggon) in Glasmount in 1540, and John Huggoun had sasine of lands of Neddyr Pitgrugny in 1545.

The earliest record of any variation of the name is that of Robert Hugyn which appears in the Sussex “Pipe Rolls” from 1327. The Pipe Rolls often times called the “Great Rolls” were a series of financial records kept by the English Treasury by order of King Edward III, with the oldest dating back to the 12th century. They hold the distinction of being the oldest consecutive set of records detailing English governance in the United Kingdom. These records span a period of over 700 years and have proven invaluable to researches over the years. Additional records of those bearing any variation of the surname Huggins include, Amisia Hugines which appears in the Worcestershire “Pipe Rolls” from 1327 and John Hugyn which appears in Staffordshire public records of 1337. Public records from the 19th century show Samuel Huggins held the office of President of the Liverpool Architectural Society and the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings.

Huggins Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Huggins, Huggan, Hugan, Huckings, Huckins, Huggin and others.

Huggins Settlers in United States in the 17th Century

The first recorded immigrant to America bearing the surname Huggins or any variation of the spelling was Nicholas Huggins who landed and settled in Virginia in 1635.

Others who followed:

Nico Huggins, aged 24, who arrived in Virginia in 1635

Peter Huggins, who landed in Maryland in 1667

John Huggins, who landed in Hampton, NH in 1670

Roger Huggins, who settled in New Jersey in 1678

Suggested Readings for the name Huggins

1478 "The Descendants of James Huggins (1752-1819) of Granby, Connecticut" by Seth P. Holcombe, "Huggins Families of Western Pennsylvania and Northern West Virginia" by Charles E. Huggins.