Thomas Higginson
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Higginson (1810 – 1884) the son of John Higginson (1780- ) and Eliza Sheriff (1783- ), was an Irish emigrant from County Antrim, Ireland who left for Canada in 1819 and settled in Vankleek Hill in 1829. In 1831, he married Margery Browne.
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“I see you boys of summer in your ruin.
Man in his maggot’s barren.
And boys are full and foreign in the pouch.
I am the man your father was.
We are the sons of flint and pitch.
O see the poles are kissing as they cross.”
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