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John Higginson (minister)

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John Higginson (born Claybrooke, Leicester, England, 6 August 1616; died Salem, Massachusetts, 9 December 1708) was a clergyman. [1]

14 relations: Clergy, Cotton Mather, England, Francis Higginson, Giles Firmin, Guilford, Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut, Leicester, Magnalia Christi Americana, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Quakers, Salem witch trials, Salem, Massachusetts, Saybrook Colony.

Clergy

Clergy are some of the main and important formal leaders within certain religions.

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Cotton Mather

Cotton Mather, FRS (February 12, 1663 – February 13, 1728; A.B. 1678, Harvard College; A.M. 1681, honorary doctorate 1710, University of Glasgow) was a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author, and pamphleteer.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Francis Higginson

Francis Higginson (1588 – 1630) was an early Puritan minister in Colonial New England, and the first minister of Salem, Massachusetts.

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Giles Firmin

Giles Firmin (1614–1697) was an English minister and physician, deacon in the first church in Massachusetts of John Cotton, and ejected minister in 1662.

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Guilford, Connecticut

Guilford is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States, that borders Madison, Branford, North Branford and Durham, and is situated on I-95 and the Connecticut seacoast.

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Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford is the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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Leicester

Leicester ("Lester") is a city and unitary authority area in the East Midlands of England, and the county town of Leicestershire.

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Magnalia Christi Americana

Magnalia Christi Americana (roughly, The Glorious Works of Christ in America) is a book published in 1702 by the puritan minister Cotton Mather (1663–1728).

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Massachusetts Bay Colony

The Massachusetts Bay Colony (1628–1691) was an English settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century around the Massachusetts Bay, the northernmost of the several colonies later reorganized as the Province of Massachusetts Bay.

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Quakers

Quakers (or Friends) are members of a historically Christian group of religious movements formally known as the Religious Society of Friends or Friends Church.

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Salem witch trials

The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693.

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Salem, Massachusetts

Salem is a historic, coastal city in Essex County, Massachusetts, in the United States, located on Massachusetts' North Shore.

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Saybrook Colony

The Saybrook Colony was established in late 1635 at the mouth of the Connecticut River in present-day Old Saybrook, Connecticut by John Winthrop, the Younger, son of John Winthrop, the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Higginson_(minister)

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