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Plantation: With the Sea Journal and Other Writings (Classic Reprint)
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New England's Plantation: With The Sea Journal And Other Writings
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New Englands Plantation: Or A Short And True Description Of The Commodities And Discommodities Of That Country (1835)
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Francis Higginson was a Nonconformist clergyman. He served as a Puritan minister in Colonial New England, and became the first minister of Salem, Massachusetts.
Background
Francis Higginson was born 1586 in Claybrooke, England. He was the second of the nine children of Reverend John Higginson of Claybrooke and his wife Elizabeth.
He was probably born in 1588 since he was baptized on August 6 of that year.
Education
In 1610 Higginson received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Jesus College, Cambridge, and that of Master of Arts in 1613. He was ordained deacon at Cawood Castle, September 26, 1614, by the Archbishop of York and by him was admitted to the priesthood at Bishopthorpe, December 8.
Career
The Archbishop conferred upon Higginson the rectory of Barton-in-Fabis, Nottinghamshire, but though instituted, April 20, 1615, he seems never to have been inducted. He settled at Claybrooke, apparently as curate to his father.
In 1617 he became lecturer at St. Nicholas, Leicester, where he soon won the high esteem of the people. For some time he conformed to the practices of the Established Church, but through acquaintance with Thomas Hooker and other Puritans he was led to study the questions which were troubling the Church, and as a consequence he became a non-conformist.
He was obliged to relinquish his lectureship but the people were eager for his ministrations and, tolerated by the Bishop of Lincoln, to whose diocese Leicester belonged, he continued them as opportunities opened. Invited by the promoters of the Massachusetts Bay Company to go to New England, he accepted and set sail from Graves-end, in the Talbot, on April 25, 1629.
The celebrated Generall Considerations for the Plantation in New England, with on Answer to Several Objections, which, on the authority of Thomas Hutchinson, Higginson has been credited with writing before he left England, seems to have been the work of John Winthrop. During the voyage he kept a journal, to which he wrote a continuation after his arrival in Naumkeag (Salem), which, without the account of the voyage, was sent back to England and published (1630) under the title, New-England's Plantation, or, A Short and True Description of the Commodities and Discommodities of that Countrey. It went through three editions within a year.
Although when Higginson left England Higginson disavowed any intention of separating from the Established Church, he soon became practically a separatist. The leading men of the settlement formally elected him to be their teacher and Reverend Samuel Skelton as their pastor, and each was ordained by the laying on of hands. Higginson drew up a confession of faith and covenant for the church which were adopted.
The extreme hardships of the first winter proved too great for him and he died the following summer.