My father's name, as I learned from my mother, was George Higgins.

He was a white man, a relative of my master, and connected with some of the first families in Kentucky.
My master owned about forty slaves, twenty-five of whom were field hands.

He removed from Kentucky to Missouri, when I was quite young, and settled thirty or forty miles above St.Charles, on the Missouri, where, in addition to his practice as a physician, he carried on milling, merchandizing and farming.

He had a large farm, the principal productions of which were tobacco and hemp.

The slave cabins were situated on the back part of the farm, with the house of the overseer, whose name was Grove Cook, in their midst.