Higginson Mockbee (d.1779) married (it is believed) Rebecca Lamar, daughter of John Lamar, Jr. (1716-1756) and Sarah Marshall. They were the parents of four children: Marean, Sarah Price, Priscilla and Thomas Hickison. Their son Marean married Elizabeth West of Montgomery Co. in 1788 in Baltimore Co., MD and moved to Kentucky by 1799. The only other Mockbee men that were in Frederick Co., MD during the 1771-1780 period were James and Jeremiah Mockbee. They located in Bracken Co., KY. It is believed that Henson Mockbee and Hickerson Mockbee were their sons. By 1830, they were living in Brown Co., Ohio. Several generations of descendants are given.

The present work is the result of consultation and cooperation. Those engaged in its composition have had but one purpose, and that was to give to the people of Kentucky a social and political account of their state, based on contemporaneous history, as nearly as the accomplishment of such an undertaking were possible. It has not been the purpose of those who have labored in concert to follow any line of precedent. While omitting no important event in the history of the state, there has been a decided inclination to rather stress those events that have not hitherto engaged the attention of other writers and historians, than to indulge in a mere repetitionot that which is common knowledge. How far they have succeded in this purpose a critical public must determine.