Ensign John Biggs b. 25 Mar 1659 Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England d. 17 May 1707 Kingston, New York Colony, British Colonial America: Tangled Roots

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Name	John Biggs
Title	Ensign
Born	25 Mar 1659	Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England [1, 2]
Gender	Male
Name	Jan Bigges [3]
Died	17 May 1707	Kingston, New York Colony, British Colonial America [1]
Person ID	I5783	TangledRoots
Last Modified	22 Oct 2021

Father	Matthew Biggs, b. 1629, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England , d. Kingston, New York Colony, British Colonial America
Mother	Mary _____, b. 1634, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England , d. Kingston, New York Colony, British Colonial America
Family ID	F2243	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Mary Hall, b. 1666, Kingston, New York Colony, British Colonial America , d. 1712, Marbletown, Ulster County, New York Colony, British Colonial America (Age 46 years)

Marriage Banns 4 Sep 1686 [3]

Married 28 Sep 1686 Kingston, New York Colony, British Colonial America [1, 3]

Children

	1. John Biggs, b. 23 Jul 1687, Marbletown, Ulster County, New York Colony, British Colonial America , d. Feb 1761, Frederick County, Maryland, British Colonial America (Age 73 years)
	2. Mary Biggs, b. Bef 16 Nov 1694, Marbletown, Ulster County, New York Colony, British Colonial America , d. Yes, date unknown
	3. Sarah Biggs, b. Bef 31 Jul 1698, Marbletown, Ulster County, New York Colony, British Colonial America , d. Yes, date unknown
	4. Elisabet Biggs, b. Bef 29 Mar 1702, Kingston, Ulster County, New York Colony, British Colonial America , d. Yes, date unknown
	5. Living

Last Modified 16 Jan 2022

Family ID F2235 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Notes

...Ensign John Biggs of Worcestershire, England, immigrated to America in 1664. He was a soldier in the military expedition of Colonel Richard Nicolls who defeated the Dutch and established English rule in New York (then New Amsterdam) and Delaware. On May 25, 1664, Co., Richard Nicolls departed from Portsmouth, England, on four ships with 300 soldiers and 450 men. on August 29, 1664, when the Nicholls' expedition arrived at New Amsterham, Governor Peter Stuyvesant surrendered to them. Not a shot had been fired. Sir Robert Carr, commissioned by Col. Nicolls, pressed on and captured Delaware on September 30, 1664 and Fort Amstel on October 13, 1664. Fort Amstel's name was changed to Newcastle and the British now controlled New York and Delaware.
...John Biggs, John Ogle, Thomas Wollaston, James Crawford and Lieutenant George Hall served together as military comrades in the Nicolls expedition. Ogle, Wollaston and Crawford settled in Delaware as neighbors. John Biggs and George Hall stayed in New York. Members of these families would pioneer, marry and settle together for generations, moving through Delaware and New York, New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia. Some of them ultimately settled in Illinois.
...After his service to the crown, John Biggs settled in New York near the Hudson River at Kingston, about halfway between New York and Albany. No record can be found of his first marriage, but he was a widower on September 28, 1686, when he married Mary Hall, the daughter of George Hall, lieutenant in the Nicolls expedition. The record of their marriage was recorded by a Dutchman. The entry reads:
"Jan Biggs of O. Engeland (Old England) in Oostershire (Worcestershire), widower, resid. In Morbelton (Marbletown) and Mary Hal, J. D., born in Kingstowned (Kingston, NY) and resid. as above."

...In 1666, John Biggs set what was to become a Biggs family tradition and fought the Indians in New York. in april of 1669, the commissioners appointed by Governor Lovelace (Nicolls' successor) formally organized the militia of Hurley and Marbletown under the following commissioned officers: "henry Pawling, Captain; Christopher Beresford, Lieut; John Biggs, Ensign." Most, if not all, of these men were professional soldiers, George Hall, was a soldier in the Marbletown company. In August 1685, the company for Hurley and Marbletown was co-officered by the now Lieutenant John Biggs. In his book "The Skillmans of American", by William J. Skillman, Skillman describes a special contingent of twenty five men sent by the Governor of New York to "chastise the Indians who three years previously had perpetrated the cruel Wiltwyck Massacre." among these were joohn Biggs and George Hall. The twenty five men were promised "a land bounty of ten acres each at Esopus." (Esopus is the old Indian name for present day Kingston, New York.) Mr. Skillman goes on to state that "some of them, the savages having been punished, settled down and made their homes in that region so recently harried." In 1674, George Hall was made "Schout" (Dutch for "Sherriff") of Esopus.

...The Calendar of New York Land Papers 1643-1803 contains the following entries on John Biggs and George Hall:

"p. 6 - 1675 March 1. Minute of a grant from the Court at Marbleton, to Jan Bigg of a small piece of land. V I , p. 58.

March 9. Minute of a grant from the court at Kingston to George Hall of a small piece of land. VI, p. 59.

p. 7 - 1676 March 7. Conveyance from Madam Johanna DeLast, wife of Jeronimus Ebbing to George Hall, for a tract of land lying at the Great Bridge, at Kingston. V. 1, p. 68

p. 14 - 1676 Nov. 13. Description of survey of 20 acres of land being part of a tract known as the Butterfield, lying to ye southwest of Marbletown, laid out for George Hall (with draught). Vol. 1, p. 97.

p. 15 - 1677 May 8. Minute of a grant from the court at Kingston to Lieut. George Hall, of 6 acres of land over the Mill Kill. Vol. 1, p. 112"3
(Source: "The Biggs Family", Janet M. Flynn, p1-2 - Ensign John Biggs; PDF, Family History Books (http://books.familysearch.org/)