John Higginson

1675 - 1718  (42 years)

• Name	John Higginson
  Birth	20 Aug 1675	Salem, Essex, Massachusetts   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Death	26 Apr 1718	Salem, Essex, Massachusetts   [2, 3, 5]
  Person ID	I14544	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TSW
  Last Modified	6 Jul 2018

  
  

  Father	John Higginson,   b. 1646, Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut d. 23 Mar 1719, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 73 years)
  Mother	Sarah Savage,   b. 25 Jun 1653, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. Bef 26 Jun 1713 (Age < 60 years)
  Marriage	9 Oct 1672	Salem, Essex, Massachusetts   [3, 6]
  Family ID	F9547	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hannah Gardner,   b. 4 Apr 1676, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts d. 24 Jun 1713, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 37 years)
  Marriage	11 Sep 1695	Salem, Essex, Massachusetts   [3, 4]
  Children	+ 1. Elizabeth Higginson,   b. 28 Jun 1696, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts d. 20 Mar 1723, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 26 years)
  Family ID	F9064	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Jul 2018

  
  

• Notes

  A merchant. Registrar of probate, 1698-1702; selectman in 1704. A lieutenant in 1797, his estate settlement calls him "captain."

  
  

• Sources

  [S1998] Sherman Genealogy Including Families of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, England: Some Descendants of the Immigrants, Captain John Sherman, Reverend John Sherman, Edmund Sherman and Samuel Sherman, and the Descendants of Honorable Roger Sherman and Honorable Charles R. Sherman by Thomas Townsend Sherman. New York: Tobias A. Wright, 1920., place only. [S2276] Vital Records of Salem, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849. Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1916-25. [S2122] Descendants of the Reverend Francis Higginson by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. 1910. [S2123] The Ancestry of Reverend Henry Whitfield (1590-1657) and His Wife Dorothy Sheafe (159?-1669) of Guilford, Connecticut by John Brooks Threlfall. Madison, Wisconsin: 1989. [S1585] Ancestry and Descendants of Sir Richard Saltonstall by Leverett Saltonstall. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1897., date only. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.