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Quote: One version that John H. came from Ireland to VA early in the 18th century with 5 children: John, Moses, Aaron, James and Anne and that 4 others were born in VA, Benj. Joseph, Rachel and Thomas. quote "Documentation of this tradition has been difficult to prove". The HIGGINBOTHAM "family tradition" has always said that the parents of Moses, Joseph, Aaron, Benjamin, John, James and Rachel HIGGINBOTHAM were John HIGGINBOTHAM and Frances (Riley) and that they came from from Ireland. To the best of my knowledge, this theory was first advanced in the genealogical literature by William M. and Lenora (Higginbotham) Sweeny in a series of articles in the William and Mary Quarterly (and other genealogical periodicals) in the period 1915-1918. Again, to the best of my knowledge, no one has ever been able to produce *documentary* proof that there ever was a Frances Riley (or Reily) married to a John HIGGINBOTHAM (or to any other HIGGINBOTHAM for that matter). The name Frances Riley (or Reily) has never been found in any church record, civil record, Bible or other contemporaneous document, and exists soley in the oral traditions of our old Virginia HIGGINBOTHAM family and subsequent published genealogies based on those oral traditions.