Nathaniel Higginson

Nathaniel Higginson was an English politician and a scion of the Higginson family of Salem, Massachusetts who served as the first Mayor of Madras, and later as the President of the colony fromOctober 1692 toJuly 1698.

Nathaniel Higginson was born at Guilford, Connecticut Colony in a family of American pioneers. His grandfather Francis Higginson was the first Minister of the First Church of Salem, Massachusetts from 1629 to 1630 while his father Rev. John Higginson served as Minister of the First Church from 1660 to 1708. Rev. John Higginson was a leading investigator in the Salem witch trials of 16921693 which witnessed the prosecution of his own daughter and Nathaniels sister Ann Doliver on charges of practising witchcraft.

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