Individual Details

1 May 1777 Aaron Higginbotham Sr to Samuel Higginbotham. 300 acres both sides Buffalo River for good will and affection to his son Samuel. Amherst DB D, p.514


Rose to rank of Colonel in the Amherst Militia; served in the Revolution. He was a tax collector, deputy surveyor, deputy sheriff and Justice in Amherst Co. Soon after moving to Elbert Co GA ca 1792, he was chosen a Georgia delegate to the 1795 Constitutional Convention.

In 1779, Samuel and his uncle, Col. James Higginbotham were Vestrymen of Christ Church, Lexington Parish in Amherst County.

Virginia Publick Claims. Hanover County. compiled & transcribed by Janice L. Abercrombie and Richard Slatten. Iberian Publishing Co, Athens, GA
p.11 "John Novell cert. by Saml Higginbotham, Capt. pasturage for 10 horses 1 night, 2s-6; by Caleb Higginbotham MD pasturage for 26 cattle & 3 horses 1 night 7s-3"

Amherst Co DB F, p.124
5 Feb 1787 Benjamin Arnold and wife, Mary Ann, to Samuel Higginbotham and Henry Franklin. Conveys two slaves and personalty. Consideration 40£ and two negroes. [this may have been a mortgage deed or assigning of her future inheritance]

5 Nov 1791 Samuel Higginbotham and Jane his wife to Philip Smith & Zacharias Taliaferro. 300 acres on Buffalo River granted to Aaron Higginbotham by patent 14 Dec 1749 and conveyed by deed 5 May 1777, to Samuel Higginbotham. Amherst DB 9, p.74

5 Dec 1791 Samuel Higginbotham and Jane his wife to Jacob Phillips. Two tracts on Buffalo River. 200 acres granted by patent 10 Apr 1781 to aaron Higginbotham and will to the said Samuel. Another of 140 acres on the side of Cold Mountain, south branches of the Buffalo River granted by patent to Samuel, 10 Apr 1781. Amherst DB 9, p.77

17 Sep 1792 Samuel Higginbotham to Aaron Higginbotham Jr. Three tracts of land, both sides of the Buffalo River. Amherst DB G, p.154 [I suspect the date is the date the deed was recorded.]

NDEX TO THE HEADRIGHT & BOUNTY GRANTS OF GEORGIA 1756-1909; Rev. Silas Emmett Lucas Jr., Vidalia GA, c1970
Samuel Higginbottom, Elbert Co, Grant Book LLLL, #600, 330 1/2 acres, 1794.

Book B, Elbert Co, Loose Records: Folio 157. Richardson Hunt to William H. Tait, 373 acres on Beaverdam Creek. 28 Feb 1795. Samuel Higginbotham, JP. Samuel Higginbotham Jr., Test.

Elbert Co GA Deed Book J, p.195. 16 Apr 1805. The following are named as heirs of Samuel Higginbotham: Jane, John S., Samuel, Aron, Blackley, George Green, Clary, George Turman in right of wife Violette, William Fortson in right of his wife Ann, Claibourne Sandridge in right of wife Jane.

Birth	Abt 1745	Amherst County, Virginia
Marriage	Abt 1768	Amherst County, Virginia - Jane Satterwhite
Military	1776	Colonel Amherst VA Militia, Revolutionary War
Death	Abt 1803	Elbert County, Georgia

Spouse	Jane Satterwhite ( - )
Child	John Satterwhite Higginbotham (1770 - )
Child	Ann Higginbotham (1772 - 1852)
Child	Samuel Higginbotham ( - )
Child	Aaron Higginbotham (1778 - )
Child	Vilata Higginbotham (1778 - )
Child	Blackley Higginbotham (1780 - 1845)
Child	Claryssa Higginbotham (1783 - 1823)
Child	Jane Higginbotham ( - )
Child	George Green Higginbotham (1791 - )

Father	Aaron Higginbotham (1720 - 1784)
Mother	Clara Graves ( - )
Sibling	Frances Graves Higginbotham ( - )
Sibling	Mary Ann Higginbotham (1749 - )
Sibling	Aaron Higginbotham Jr. (1752 - )
Sibling	Margaret Higginbotham ( - )
Sibling	Tamasin Higginbotham ( - )