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John Higginson was born on August 6, 1616 at Claybrooke, Leicestershire, England. He was the son of Reverend Francis Higginson and Anna (Herbert) Higginson.
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John Higginson was born on August 6, 1616 at Claybrooke, Leicestershire, England. He was the son of Reverend Francis Higginson and Anna (Herbert) Higginson.
In Leicester Higginson attended the grammar school. He had no university training, however, since his father took him with the rest of the family to New England when he was only thirteen years old, settling at Salem.
After his father's death his education was looked after by John Winthrop, Increase Nowell, John Wilson, John Cotton and others, and besides the usual subjects of that day he learned something of the French and Indian languages.
He was admitted as freeman May 25, 1636, and in the summer of that year was sent to confer with Canonicus about the killing of John Oldham and was also made chaplain at Saybrook Fort, where he continued about four years.
He attended the Cambridge Synod of 1637, at which his knowledge of shorthand secured him the position of secretary.
In 1639 Higginson was enrolled as one of the proprietors of Hartford, where he taught school for a time, but after a few months went to New Haven. Sometime between 1641 and 1643, he moved to Guilford, where he became assistant to Reverend Henry Whitfield.
On the formal organization of the church, June 1643, Higginson was elected "teacher" but seems never to have been ordained, although he considered himself as regularly in the ministry. In 1647 he prepared nearly two hundred of Thomas Hooker's sermons for the press. Soon after the establishment of the Commonwealth in England, most of the more prominent settlers at Guilford returned to that country and the settlement languished. Whitfield was one of the first to leave and three years later, Higginson, who in the meantime had continued as "teacher, " was chosen pastor in his stead.
In October 1654 he contemplated moving to the West Indies in accordance with a plan for New England people suggested by Cromwell, but the defeat of the English fleet which sailed against Hispaniola in December seems to have caused him to give up the idea. In the controversy of 1656, which began in the church of Reverend Samuel Stone of Hartford and spread to the other churches, Higginson strongly opposed Stone, but this fact made no change in their personal relations and he prepared Stone's "Body of Divinity" for the press, though it did not find a publisher.
In 1658, because of his knowledge of the Indian language, efforts were made to induce him to become a missionary, but he declined. He felt, however, that he must leave Guilford since his salary was in arrears. Early in 1659 he sailed for England with his family but the ship was driven back by a storm to his boyhood home of Salem. There he was asked to preach and in the following spring, the pastor having died, he was offered the post at double the salary he had received at Guilford. He accepted the call March 9, 1660, and was installed in August. He was soon in trouble with the Quakers and was in part responsible for the treatment which they received from the Massachusetts colony.
In 1663 he reached the high point of clerical prominence by being asked to preach the annual election sermon before the authorities, the first of such sermons to be printed. The same year he was appointed one of the thirteen elders to draft a reply to a letter from the King, and for forty years thereafter he held one of the leading places among the colony's clergy. In April 1668 he was one of the six chosen to conduct the public disputation which resulted in the conviction of the Anabaptists Goole and others. He was among those who petitioned for the synod called at Boston by the General Court in 1679, and in 1701, with Reverend William Hubbard, published A Testimony, to the Order of the Gospel, in the Churches of New England, a summons to return to the old ways. He held aloof from the witchcraft trials, probably because his own daughter was one of the accused.
He wrote prefaces for Cotton Mather's Winter-Meditation (1693) and The Everlasting Gospel (1700), and a short "Attestation" which was prefixed to Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana (1702). His printed works, about a dozen, are mostly very brief. The preface to his Our Dying Saviour's Legacy of Peace to His Disciples in a Troublesome World (1686) contains autobiographical material. He had much learning, although no great ability, and the prominence to which he attained was almost wholly due to the office which he held.
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Higginson opposed slavery and supported Sewall when the latter published his anti-slavery tract and incurred a certain amount of unpopularity.
He was an active opponent of the Quakers, but subsequently regretted his zeal, and took no part in the witchcraft prosecutions of 1692.
Higginson was married to Reverend Henry Whitfield's daughter, Sarah. She bore him seven children. She died in 1675, and he married Mary Blakeman.