Later Life
Nathaniel Higginson returned to England with his wife and four children in the year 1700 and established himself as a merchant in London. In 1706, he affixed his signature to a petition against Joseph Dudley, the Colonial Governor of Massachusetts. But Dudley discarded Higginson's petition with contempt as a complaint from someone who "may be presumed to nothing of the country". The allegations were similarly discarded by the Council as a "wicked and scandalous accusation". Alienated from his home country, Higginson spent the rest of his life in England and died of smallpox on 31 October 1708.
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