Rev. Francis Higginson arrives in Salem on board the Talbot.

Higginson arrives on one of five ships carrying the second group of Massachusetts Bay Company settlers, after having been “informed against” in England by agents of Bishop Laud. Although Higginson subsequently writes in his journal, “a sup of New England’s air is better than a whole draught of old England’s ale,” he dies less than a year later at age 43. His son John serves as Salem’s minister for 50 years and dies at the age of 93. John’s son and grandson are successful merchants, and his great grandson, Stephen, marries Elizabeth Cabot. Their son, Stephen, amasses a fortune in trade, then suffers great losses in the War of 1812. His son George, with John Clarke Lee, founds Lee Higginson in 1848.*