Historical records matching Reverend John Higginson
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About Reverend John Higginson
Open access journal from the Massachusetts Historical Society. Biography of Rev. John Higginson on pages 478-521.
link to start of bio: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25079885?seq=2
Journal Article
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December Meeting, 1902. Gifts to the Society; Rev. John Higginson, of Salem; Suicide in Massachusetts; Letters of John Quincy Adams; Memoir of Lincoln F. Brigham'
Simeon E. Baldwin, John Noble, Grenville H. Norcross, Solomon Lincoln
Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Second Series, Vol. 16, [Vol. 36 of continuous numbering] (1902), pp. 477-538 (63 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25079885
https://www.foundersofhartford.org/the-founders/reverend-john-higgi...
Reverend John Higginson, Hartford Founder‹ Back to The Founders Compiled by Timothy Lester Jacobs, SDFH Genealogist
JOHN1 HIGGINSON, REV., HARTFORD FOUNDER (FRANCISA) was born 06 Aug 1616 in Claybrooke, Leicestershire, England, and died 09 Dec 1708 in Salem, MA.
He married (1) SARAH WHITFIELD bef. 1646, daughter of HENRY WHITFIELD and DOROTHY SHEAFE. She was baptized 01 Nov 1620 in Okley, Surrey, England, and died 08 Jul 1675 in Salem, MA.
He married (2) MARY BLAKEMAN, WIDOW OF JOSHUA ATWATER aft. 1676, daughter of ADAM BLAKEMAN and JANE _______. She was born abt. 1637, and died 09 Mar 1708/09 in Salem, MA.
John Higginson emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay colony aboard the ship “Talbot” from Claybrooke, Leicestershire, England in 1629 with his father Francis who participated in the organization of the church in Salem and was made teacher there. John Higginson was the stenographer of the synod which was held at Cambridge in 1637, being employed by magistrates and ministers of the Colony and make a report of the meetings and write out the material parts for printing, which report was accepted by the General Court at Boston in May 1639.
He is considered a founder of Hartford although it is uncertain precisely when he arrived there, and he appears to never have had a home lot in Hartford. He studied under Rev. Thomas Hooker, and taught grammar school in Hartford. He was also was minister at the fort at Saybrook by 1641, so it is possible that he journeyed from Saybrook to Hartford and back, staying at Hooker’s residence when he was in Hartford.
Although there is no direct listing of his holdings in Hartford in the land inventory of February 1639/40, the lands he owned are discernable by virtue of those lands which abutted his, which were: a parcel in the North Meadow; a parcel in the Neck of Land; twenty-six acres east of the Great River; and another parcel east of the Great River.
He removed to Guilford about 1641, where he became the assistant of Rev. Henry Whitfield, whose daughter he married, and he became minister of Guilford when Whitfield went back to England in 1651. In 1659 he boarded ship himself to return to England, but because of the severity of the weather the ship was forced to put into the harbor at Boston. He was there soon after the death of Rev. Norris of Salem, and was asked to become the minister at Salem, which he did in the spring of 1660, remaining in that position until his death 9 December 1708.
Genealogy: “Descendants of the Reverend Francis Higginson: First ‘Teacher’ in the Massachusetts Bay Colony of Salem, Massachusetts and author of ‘New-England’s Plantation’ 1630”, Thomas W. Higginson, 1910
Biographical Summary:
Rev. John Higginson, son of Rev. Francis Higginson, born August 6,1616, at Claybrook, Co. Leicester; came with his father, in the "Talbot," 1629, to Salem; freeman, Massachusetts, May 25, 1636; chaplain at the Fort at Saybrook, 1637-8. Porter says he was one of the first settlers of Hartford, "although he appears not to have had a house-lot." He was a schoolmaster in Hartford, and may have occasionally "stepped into the pulpit." Mrs. Higginson sold land to Thomas Olcott, before Jan. 1639-40; he was at Guilford in 1641; colleague with Rev. Henry Whitefield, whose daughter, Sarah, he married. He returned in 1659 to Salem, and remained there until his death, December 9, 1708. He married (2) about 1677, Mary, widow of Joshua Atwater, and daughter of Rev. Adam Blakeman, of Stratford.
SOURCE: James Hammond Trumbull, editor, The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884, Volume 1 (Boston, Massachusetts: Edward L. Osgood, 1886), page 244. Retrieved: 3 May 2011 from Google Books
"REV. JOHN HIGGINSON, OF SALEM, MASS.
At a meeting of the Massachusetts Historical
Society, held in Boston, on Thursday, May 14, 1896,
Dr. Samuel A. Green said : —
Since the last meeting of the Society, our associate Colonel
Thomas W. Higginson has given to the Library a rare volume entitled " Our Dying Saviour's Legacy of Peace to His Dis- ciples in a troublesome World" (Boston, 1686), which was written by his ancestor the Rev. John Higginson, of Salem. It is of special interest at the present time, as it adds another title to the List of Early American Imprints belonging to the Society, which appears in the Proceedings (second series, IX. 410-540). This little book has more historical value than usually attaches to such productions, as the preface con- tains some biographical matter which far outweighs in import- ance the doctrinal views so common in early theological works. Mr. Higginson, the author, came over from England in 1629 with his father, who died during the next year. Though a mere lad at the time, the care and maintenance of his mother and seven other children fell largely upon him, the eldest of the family ; and he soon developed those traits of character for which he afterward became distinguished. For some years he lived in the Colony of Connecticut, but in the summer of 1660 was ordained over the same church at Salem which his father had planted ; and here he remained for nearly half a century. He published several occasional discourses ; and among them is the Election Sermon of 1663, the first one printed in that long series of annual addresses. While he was a relentless opponent of the Quakers, he [subsequently regretted his zeal, and] took no part in the terrible tragedy of 1692 at Salem, where he was then settled. "
Source: Retrieved 18 Jan. 2018 from: https://archive.org/stream/revjohnhigginson00gree/revjohnhigginson0...
Links
- Wikipedia
- http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:John_Higginson_%283%29_
- http://foundersofhartford.org/founders/higginson_john.htm
Sources
- John Brooks Threlfall, Fifty great migration colonists to New England, p. 517.
- Francis Higginson, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 2:934.
- Descendants of the Reverend Francis Higginson, first "teacher" in the Massachusetts Bay colony of Salem, Massachusetts and author of "New-Englands plantation" (1630) by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Published 1910 by Priv. print. in [Cambridge? Mass.] . Written in English. Page 6-7
Letter (transcribed) from Rev. John Higginson to his son Nathaniel Higginson (Aug. 31, 1698):
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Reverend John Higginson's Timeline
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August 6, 1616
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Leicestershire, England (United Kingdom)
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August 31, 1616
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Claybrooke, Leicestershire, England (United Kingdom)
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1646
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Guilford, Hartford County, Connecticut, British Colonial America
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October 11, 1652
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Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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October 11, 1652
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Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut
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Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut
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1655
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Guildford, Hartford, Connecticut
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April 9, 1660
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October 18, 1661
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