Capt. Robert# Higginson

  Notes:

Info from;
http://www.glenncourt.com/family/chart_higginson.shtml

Said to have come to Virginia in ~1643. He is described as 'a printer and painter-stainer of London'. He commanded at Middle Plantation, Virginia (Later Williamsburg) in 1645.

This http://www.glenncourt.com/family/chart_higginson.shtml says;
"A family from Shropshire then Warwick, who spelled the name also Hykynson and Higinson, and pronounced it Hickerson. O, the English! Captain Robert seems to have been prominent as an Indian fighter. In 1646, and earlier, he commanded, at the Middle Plantation, a palisaded settlement. A deed, recorded in York August 24, 1682, states that for his services he was given 100 acres at the Middle Plantation. He seems also to have owned land in Martin's Hundred. The epitaph of his daughter Lucy (who died November 6, 1675) on her tomb in the Burwell graveyard at "Carter's Creek," Gloucester, only states that she was the widow of Maj. Lewis Burwell, and that "She was descended from the ancient family of the Higginsons. She was the only daughter of the valiant Capt. Robert Higginson, one of the first commanders that subdued the County of Virginia from the power of the heathen."

http://www.glenncourt.com/family/family_emigrations.shtml says;
Captain Robert Higginson—by all accounts pronounced "Hickerson" thus proving beyond other extensive documentary evidence his English heritage—died in Virginia about August 1649 after serving as executor to his father Thomas's will in Berkeswell, County Warwick, England in 1610.

Robert# married Joanna# Tokesey. (Joanna# Tokesey was born in 1610 in Berkswell, Warwickshire and died in 1675 in Virginia.)