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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Higginson, Francis 1588- (search)
Higginson, Francis 1588- Clergyman; born in England in 1588; was an eloquent Puritan divine, and accepted an invitation to the new Puritan settlement at Salem, to which place he emigrated in the summer of 1629, and where he died Aug. 6, 1630. His son John succeeded, became a teacher, chaplain of the fort at Saybrook, one of the seven pillars of the church at Guildford, and pastor of his father's church at Salem in 1660, where he continued until his death, Dec. 9, 1708. Francis Higginson was among the carefully selected company of pioneers in the founding of the colony of Massachusetts Bay, who landed at Naumkeag (afterwards named Salem), with John tt, in 1629. It was late in June when the little company arrived at their destination, where the corruptions of the English Church were never to be planted, and Higginson served the people in spiritual matters faithfully until his death. With the same company came two excellent brothers, John and Samuel Browne. Both were members
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
o Plymouth and from there sent to England (upon this incident Hawthorne writes, The Maypole at Merry Mount)......June, 1628 A second and larger company, numbering sixty women and maids, twenty-six children, and 300 men, among whom is the Rev. Francis Higginson, on several vessels, leave England for Salem, bringing food, arms, tools, and 140 cattle......May, 1629 Ralph, Richard, and William Sprague, with others conmmence a settlement at Mishawums, now Charlestown......June 24, 1629 A church established at Salem with Mr. Skelton as ordained pastor and Mr. Higginson as teacher......August, 1629 John and Samuel Browne, members of the colonial council and of the Massachusetts Company, are sent back to England by Governor Endicott for their opposition to the church and advocacy of Episcopacy......1629 Transfer of the Massachusetts colony's government from London to New England......August, 1629 John Winthrop chosen governor and Thomas Dudley lieutenant-governor of the Mas
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vinland (search)
tion impossible; and no genuine Norse remains have ever been discovered in New England. The claim that Columbus knew of these discoveries of the Northmen is quite improbable. He simply set out to find a western route to Asia. The course of his voyage was not such as he would have taken had he had in mind the Vinland of the Northmen; and he made no mention of Vinland in favor of his expedition at the Spanish Court. Had he known of it, he certainly would have mentioned it; for, as Colonel Higginson so well says (see his Larger history of the United States), for the purpose of his argument, an ounce of Vinland would have been worth a pound of cosmography. The voyages to Vinland. From the saga of Eric the Red. Translated by Arthur Middleton Reeves. After that sixteen winters had elapsed, from the time when Eric the Red went to colonize Greenland, Leif, Eric's son, sailed Ancient Viking ship out from Greenland to Norway. He arrived in Drontheim in the autumn, when Ki