The Founders of Hartford
Rev. John Higginson, 8011 of Rev. Francis Higginson, b. Aug. 6, 1616, at Claybrook, Co. Leicester; came with
his father, in the “Talbot,” 1629, to Salem; freeman, Mass., May 25, 1636 ; chaplain at the Fort at
Saybrook, 1637-8. Porter says lie was one of the first settlers of Hartford, “although he appears not to have
had a house-lot.” He was a schoolmaster in Hartford, and may have occasionally “stepped into the
pulpit.” Mrs. Higginson sold land to Thomas Olcott, before Jan. 1639-40; he was at Guilford in 1641; colleague
with Rev. Henry Whitefield, whose dau., Sarah, he m. He returned in 1659 to Salem, and remained there until his death,
Dec. 9, 1708. He m. (2) ab. 1677, Mary, widow of Joshua Atwater, and dau. of Rev. Adam Blakeman, of Stratford.
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