Francis Higginson migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See Great Migration Begins, by R. C. Anderson, Vol. 2, p. 933) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm
06 AUG 1586 Claybrooke, Leicestershire, England[2][3]
Graduation
Jesus College 1609/10 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England[4]
Marriage
Francis HIGGINSON married Anne Herbert on 08 JAN 1615/16 in St Peter's, Nottingham, England.[5][6]
Immigration
Left England on 25 APR 1629 Gravesend, Kent, England[7] and arrived in Salem, MA 29 JUN 1629 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts[8]
Death
of "hectic fever" or "consumption" 06 AUG 1630 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts[9][10]
Life & Occupation
Rev. Francis Higginson came to New England in 1629 with his wife and 8 children. (See his journal in the source). His daughter Mary died during the voyage. He was the founder of that distinguished New England family, was born in England in 1588, and died in Salem, Massachusetts, 15 March 1630 aged 43.[11]
Research Notes
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Below is Copied from Trent and Wells, eds., Colonial Prose and Poetry. 1901. Vol. I. The Transplanting of Culture: 1607–1650: Francis Higginson:https://www.bartleby.com/163/105.html
Like most of the New England divines of his generation, he was a graduate of Cambridge University, and had been an Anglican clergyman before his emigration.
Becoming a Puritan, he gave up his benefice, and supported himself by preparing men for college, till in 1628 he accepted an invitation from the Massachusetts Bay Company, to join their colony.
He reached Salem in the next year (1629), and was almost immediately chosen teacher of the congregation there. The next year he sickened and died, an ironical commentary on the somewhat extravagant praise of the New England climate, that appears in his New-Englands Plantation. Or, a Short and True Description of the Commodities and Discommodities of the Countrey, published in 1630, and reprinted in the first volume of the Massachusetts Historical Society’s Collection.
Rev. Higginson wrote also an account of his voyage, afterwards printed in Hutchinson’s Original Papers (1769).
A Life of Francis Higginson has been written by his eminent descendant, Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1891).
Sources
Phillimore, W.P., Phillimore’s Parish Register Series (Phillimore & Co., London, 1901) "Nottinghamshire Parish Registers", Marriages. St. Peter's Church 1572 to 1812 [PPRS Vol. 25, Notts. Vol 3].
Page 19: 1615, "Franciscus Higginson duxit uxore Ana Herbert Octavo die Januarij."
von Sahler, L. Hasbrouck. "The Earliest Records of Saint James Episcopal Church, Great Barrington, Massachusetts", Putnam's Monthly Historical Magazine (Eben Putnam, Danvers, Mass., 1899) Vol. 7, Page 157
↑ Ancestry of the Higginson Family, by Thomas W. Higginson, NEHGR April, 1892, Vol. 46, p.118, including extract of Parish Register at Claybrooke, Leicester, England; Baptisms: 6 Aug. 1586 [New Style] ffrauncis s. John & Elizabeth Higginson
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Looks like he had a sister and mothers name was Elizabeth
First name(s) Catren
Last name Higginson
Gender Female
Birth year -
Birth place -
Baptism year 1590
Baptism date 18 May 1590
Place Claybrook
County Leicestershire
Country England
Father's first name(s) John
Father's last name Higginson
Mother's first name(s) Elyzabeth
Mother's last name -
Record set England Births & Baptisms 1538-1975
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Subcategory Parish Baptisms
Collections from England, Great Britain
See Saxbe, William B. "Sarah (Gerrish) King (1714-1798) of Salem, Massachusetts, and Her Descent from Nine Puritan Ministers." New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Vol. 175 (2012). pp. 24-27. Link to issue at americanancestors.org.
https://www.geni.com/people/Reverand-Francis-Higginson/6000000003076377363
First name(s) Catren Last name Higginson Gender Female Birth year - Birth place - Baptism year 1590 Baptism date 18 May 1590 Place Claybrook County Leicestershire Country England Father's first name(s) John Father's last name Higginson Mother's first name(s) Elyzabeth Mother's last name - Record set England Births & Baptisms 1538-1975 Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records Subcategory Parish Baptisms Collections from England, Great Britain
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=R_948920490
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