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'''JONATHAN<sup>2</sup> WHITNEY''', born England about 1634 (aged about
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'''Samuel<sup>1</sup> Whiting''',
thirty-six in 1671, Suffolk Files
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son of John<sup>A</sup> and Sarah (-----) Whiting,
#1050); died Sherborn, MA 1
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was baptized 20 Nov 1597, St. Botolph’s, Boston, Lincolnshire, and died 11 Dec 1679, Lynn, MA, aged 82 years, per gravestone.
January 1702/3 (SVR, 228);
 
married Watertown 30 October
 
1656 (WVR 1:18) '''LYDIA<sup>2</sup>
 
JONES''', born say 1636, died Sherborn 3 February 1701/2 (SVR, 228),
 
daughter of '''LEWIS<sup>1</sup>''' and '''ANNA (_____) JONES''' (see Jones Chapter).
 
Jonathan Whitney took the oath of fidelity in 1652 (Pulsifer, 301).
 
  
In 1659, Jonathan's father gave him thirty-nine acres in Watertown, five
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He married, 6 Aug 1629, Boston, Lincolnshire '''Elizabeth St. John''', daughter of Sir Oliver St. John, of Cayshoe, Bedfordshire.  She was baptized 12 Jan 1604, Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, and died 3 Mar 1676/7, Lynn, MA.
acres of which Jonathan and Lydia subsequenfly sold to Richard Child on
 
7 November 1664 (Middlesex Deed 3:80-81). Lydia signed her name to
 
this deed, as indicated in the copybook, but no original sample of her
 
writing survives.
 
  
At the March 1664 Watertown selectmen's meeting, it was found that
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Samuel Whiting received BA and MA degrees from Emmanuel College, Cambridge University. He received holy orders as a priest in the Church of England, and served as a family chaplain and as associate pastor in King's Lynn. His Puritan practices led to parishioners raising complaints about his ministry, and he subsequently moved to the Parish of Skirbeck, near Boston, Lincolnshire. Again, parishioners complained of his Puritan practices. He ultimately chose to emigrate with his family to Massachusetts Bay Colony, arriving in (new) Boston on 26 May 1636.
  
:whereas Jonathan whetny & Danill Meddup are intendinge to goe to
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Rev. Whiting became a prominent minister and theologian in the colony, who had treatises and sermons published in both English and Latin. He was a colleague of Rev. John Cotton, a preeminent religious leader in Massachusetts Bay who had previously been Samuel Whiting's parish priest in Boston, Lincolnshire. Rev. Whiting was also a colleague of Rev. Increase Mather and his son Rev. Cotton Mather, who included an elegy of Samuel Whiting in his major work, "Magnalia Christi Americana." In 1654, Rev. Samuel Whiting was appointed as overseer of Harvard College (predecessor of Harvard University).
Cape Pare: & the towne feareinge thir wives or children may be in want
 
in their absence: & thay not beinge willinge to satisfy the select-men
 
upon thefr demand:<br>
 
&nbsp; The town apoynted goodman Baitow goodman Colledge & goodman
 
Tayntor to Call Jonathan whetney & Danili Meddup before Mr Danforth
 
or sum other magistrate<br>
 
&nbsp; which acordingly was done: & Jonathan whetney before mr Danforth
 
ingaged to leave (for his wives & childrens supply in his absence: in the
 
hand of Tho. Flegg) as a debt then due 36£: to be paid yearly in 3 years: &
 
the vallew of 14£ in Cattell in his wives hand (WTR 1:83).
 
  
Nathan Fisk Jr. and Jonathan Whitney were chosen to be Watertown's
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Three of Samuel Whiting's sons graduated from Harvard College and also became ministers. Eldest son Samuel Whiting Jr. became the minister of the Congregationalist Church in Billerica, MA. Second son John Whiting chose to emigrate to England and became the Anglican pastor of Butterwick Parish in Lincolnshire. Third son Joseph Whiting succeeded his father as pastor in Lynn, MA. In 1682, Joseph Whiting accepted an invitation to leave Massachusetts and become the pastor in Southampton, Long Island, New York, where he lived the rest of his life.
hogreeves in the year 1674 (WTR 1:121). In 1676, Jonathan was charged
 
for his share of the fines of hogs and cattle, 12s (WTR 1:126). He may have
 
been away at the time, since his service from Watertown in King Philip's
 
War dated from 24 August 1676 (Bodge, 273,376). He was paid in 1677 for
 
his work on the mill bridge, 8s (WTR 1:132).
 
  
Jonathan Whitney and his son, John, were witnesses in the attempted
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Children of Samuel<sup>1</sup> and Elizabeth (St. John) Whiting:
rape case of Sam, an Indian. On 30 August 1671, Mary Bacon, wife of
 
Daniel Bacon of Cambridge, was returning home with her husband on a
 
horse-drawn cart, when they arrived at the river. Mary and Daniel
 
crossed, but Mary was in a hurry to get home, so she asked Daniel to wait
 
for the cart, while she went on ahead a quarter of a mile to their house.
 
She deposed that "when I was goften within about 20 roods of[f] from the
 
house, a man coming sudingly behind me claping his hands upon my
 
eyes" knocked her down and flipped her clothing over her head. Pinned
 
to the ground she struggled and called out, nearly suffocating, but
 
succeeding in frightening the man away (Suffolk File #1050). Although
 
  
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| '''Dorothy<sup>2</sup> Whiting''', b. ca. 1631, England; d. 31 Jul 1694, Roxbury, MA; m. 4 Jun 1650, Roxbury, MA, Thomas Weld.
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she never actually saw the man who attacked her, she named Sam, an
 
Indian, who lived nearby as her assailant
 
 
 
Among the deponents who came forward in the case was "John
 
Whitney aged about 9 years" who testified that on that day he had been
 
looking for sheep with Sam, son of William Indian, who soon ran up
 
toward Goodman Bacon's, and it getting dark, young Whitney "went
 
home & about one quarter of an houre after the said Sam came to my
 
father's house near the bridge foot at Waftertown mill." Not long after
 
Sam left, John saw a woman pass by towards Goodman Bacon's house on
 
the highway. He told his father, who also came to testify:
 
 
 
:Jonathan Whitney aged about 36 yeares examined sayth that in sd
 
evening upon ye 30 August after it ye day light was Gone, hee being
 
abeute half a mile of[f] hee herd a doleful cry hee suposed a woman's cry
 
& it twas toward ye house of daniel Bacon as I conseive fromm sd plase
 
wher I was; but who it was yt so cried I know not also when he came
 
Hom yt night & hering of the buisnes about Goodman Bacon's wife
 
Asault had examined his sonne John Whitney who the[n] did relate unto
 
me the substance of what is contaned in his examination taken before
 
Capt Gookin (Suffolk File #1050)
 
 
 
Sam the Indian was near the scene of the crime, but no one, not even the
 
victim, saw him attempt the assault. He was committed to prison.
 
 
 
Jonathan Whitney served from Watertown in King Philip's War (Bodge,
 
273, 376).
 
 
 
In 1679 Jonathan became an inhabitant of Sherborn, MA. With five
 
other men, Jonathan Whitney was appointed to lay out highways leading
 
from Sudbury, Sherborne, Marlborough and Framingham, and Falls upon
 
Charles River, "so as may be most convenient for the accommodation of
 
travaillers from Towne to town both for men & beast" (15 December 1684,
 
Pulsifer, 4:139). His involvement with the town and colony roads
 
continued to the end of his life, when on 15 December 1702 the Middlesex
 
Court ordered that Jonathan Whitney Senr be paid for his work in
 
ordering the building of a bridge on the way from Natick to Boston at the
 
falls (Middlesex County General Sessions).
 
 
 
In July of 1683 Jonathan Whitney was unsuccessfully sued by George
 
Fairbanks and others (Inferior Ct. of Pleas, Suffolk Co.).
 
 
 
Several days before his death, Jonathan Whitney made his will:
 
 
 
:In the name of God, amen<br>
 
I Jonathan Whitney of Sherborne in the County of Middx within her
 
Majesties Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England yeom:
 
being weeke of body but in sound & disposing memory Praise be given
 
to god for the same; doe make this my last wrn & testament in manner &
 
forme following, that is to say, first & principally I Resign my Soule into
 
the mercyfull hands of almighty god my Creator, assuredly hoping
 
 
 
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through the merits of my blessed saviour to obtaine pardon & remission
 
of all my sins, and my body I comit to the earth whence it was taken, to
 
be decently buried by the desc[rJ etion of my executors herein after
 
named; and as for the worldly goods and estate the lord hath lent me, I
 
dispose thereof as follows<br>
 
&nbsp; Impr my will is that after my Just dets and funerall charges be paid, that
 
all the rest & residue of my estate both housing lands, chattle & other my
 
movables (ten pounds excepted) be equally divided betwen my children
 
Jonathan Whitney, John Whitney, Josiah Whitney, Joseph Whitney,
 
Benjamin Whitney, Lydia Addams and Abigail Whitney to them & thefr
 
heires for ever.<br>
 
&nbsp; I give & bequeath to my grandchild Benjamin Fisher fower pounds
 
towards his bringing up to be pd to my Daughter Abigaill Whitney
 
within six months after my Deces, to be pd by my executors.<br>
 
&nbsp; I give and bequeath to my grandchild Anna Fisher six pounds to be pd
 
her by my executors when she is of ye age of eighteen years or day of
 
Marriag, which shall first happen, and I doe nominate appoint & ordaine
 
my abovessl Sons Jonathan Whitney & John Whitney my executors to se
 
this my last will & testament performed, making null & voide all former
 
or other wills by me heretofore made. In Witness whereof I have
 
hereunto set my hand & seale this twenty first Day of December one
 
thousand seven hundred & two, and In the first year of her Majesties
 
Reign Anne by ye grace of God of England &c. Queene<br>
 
Signed, Sealed and Published<br>
 
In the Prsence of us    Jonathan Whitney<br>
 
Nathaniel Coilldg<br>
 
Thomas Whitney<br>
 
Munings Sawin<br>
 
(Proved Cambridge 1 March 1702[/3])
 
 
 
An Inventory of the Estate of Jonathan Whitney Late of Sherborne
 
Deceas<sup>d</sup> Jan<sup>y</sup> 1 1702/3 as it was taken by us whose names are
 
underwritten viz.
 
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| Imp: His wareing apparrell, books, money & armes
 
| 04.06.00
 
 
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|-
| Beds and Beding and Houshold ware
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| 11.14.00
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| '''Samuel Whiting''', bapt. 25 Mar 1633, Skirbeck, Lincolnshire; d. 28 Feb 1712/3, Billerica, MA; m. 12 Nov 1656, Billerica, MA, Dorcas Chester.
 
|-
 
|-
| Cart, plow & other utersills
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| align=right valign=top | iii.
| 02.12.00
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| '''Joseph Whiting''', b. 6 Apr 1641, Lynn, MA; d. 9 Apr 1723, Southampton, NY; m.(1) Sarah Danforth; m.(2) Rebecca Bishop.
 
|-
 
|-
| one horse cattell and swine
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| 24.08.00
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| '''John Whiting''', b. ca. 1637, Lynn, MA; d. 16 Oct 1689, Leaverton, Lincolnshire; m. ca. 1662, England, Esther Brown.
 
|-
 
|-
| Buildings & Lands and grain
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| align=right valign=top | v.
| 88.16.00
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| '''Elizabeth Whiting''', b. ca. 1638; d. 1633, Hartford, CT; m. 6 Apr 1659, Topsfield, MA, Jeremiah Hobart.
|-
 
| Totall
 
| 131.16.00
 
 
|}
 
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Benoni Larned<br>
 
John Coollidg<br>
 
March 1 1702[/3] (Middlesex Probate #24690)
 
  
Following his death, on 21 January 1714/5, the heirs of Jonathan
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Whitney Sr., late of Sherborn, being Jonathan, John, Josiah, Joseph, and
 
Benjamin Whitney, and Lydia Adams and Abigail Whitney, all called his
 
"orphants," acknowledged a 1702/3 agreement to leave the real estate to
 
  
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Joseph and Benjamin, with these two paying small sums to their
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remaining siblings (Middlesex Deed 17:167-9). Benjamin had to forfeit
 
some of his portion because he neglected to settle some of the debts of the
 
estate.
 
 
 
Children, surname WHITNEY:
 
{|
 
| valign=top align=right | i.
 
| '''LYDIA<sup>3</sup>''', born Watertown, MA 3 July 1657 (WVR 1:18); died
 
Sherborn, MA 27 May 1719 (SVR, 187); married Sherburn 15 April
 
1684 (SVR, 181) '''MOSES ADAMS''', born 6 October 1654, died 27
 
May 1724 (Whitney genealogy, 24). No probate found.<br>
 
&nbsp; Children, surname ''Adams'':
 
{|
 
| valign=top align=right | 1)
 
| '''Lydia''', born Sherborn 2 Pebruary 1684[15] (SVR, 10)
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | 2)
 
| '''Elizabeth''', born Sherborn 18 September 1686 (SVR, 9)
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | 3)
 
| '''Hannah''', born Sherborn 8 February 1687/8 (SVR, 9)
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | 4)
 
| '''Elizabeth''', born Sherborn 25 October 1689 (SVR, 9)
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | 5)
 
| '''Moses''', born Sherborn 26 November 1691 (SVR, 10)
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | 6)
 
| '''James''', born Sherborn 7 July 1693 (SVR, 9)
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | 7)
 
| '''Isaac''', born Sherborn 4 March 1695[/6J (SVR, 9)
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | 8)
 
| '''Abigail''', born Sherborn 7 September 1697 (SVR, 9)
 
|}
 
|-
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | +&nbsp;&nbsp;ii.
 
| '''JONATHAN''', born Watertown 20 October 1659 (WVR 1:21)
 
|-
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | iii.
 
| '''ANNA''', born Watertown, MA 28 April 1660 (WVR 1:22); died
 
Wrentham 6 March 1700/1 following the birth of her last child
 
(WVR, 442); married as his first wile, before 1691 '''CORNELIUS
 
FISHER''', born 8 February 1660[/1] (Whitney genealogy, 24), died
 
Wrentham 6 June 1743, age 84 years (WVR, 441)<br>
 
&nbsp; Cornelius married second Dedham 29 April 1702 (Wrentham VR,
 
293) Mary Colburn, died Wrentham 20 September 1726 (WVR,
 
444), with whom he had children: Merey and Esther. Cornelius
 
married third Wrentham 13 February 1726/7 (WVR, 293) Mary
 
Ware.<br>
 
&nbsp; Children, surname ''Fisher'':
 
{|
 
| valign=top align=right | 1)
 
| '''Jonathan''', born Wrentham 22 February 169[0/]1 (WVR 1:84)
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | 2)
 
| '''Cornelius''', born Wrentham 29 September 1692 (WVR 1:79)
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | 3)
 
| '''Isaac''', born Wrentham 19 May 1694 (WVR 1:83)
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | 4)
 
| '''Anna''', born Wrentham 28 March 1696 (WVR 1:78)
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | 5)
 
| '''Joseph''', born Wrentham 11 May 1698 (WVR 1:84)
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | 6)
 
| '''Benjamin''', born Wrentham 6 March 1700/1 (WVR 1:78)
 
|}
 
|-
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | iv.
 
| '''JOHN''', born Watertown, MA 27 4mo 1662 (WVR 1:24); died before his
 
inventory was taken 22 May 1735; married first Watertown 10
 
April 1688 (WVR 4:98) '''MARY HAPGOOD''', born Sudbury, MA 2
 
November 1667 (SVR, 62), died Sherborn 13 January 1692[/3J
 
(SVR, 228), daughter of Shadrack1 and Elizabeth (Treadway)
 
Hapgood (see Hapgood Chapter); married second about 1694
 
|}
 
 
 
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| '''SARAH HAVEN''', born Lynn, MA 4 June 1665 (LVR 1:181), died
 
23 April 1718 (Whitney genealogy, M), daughter of Richard and
 
Susanna (_____) Haven; married third 20 November 1718 (ibid.)
 
'''MARTHA WALKER''', died 14 November 1721 (ibid.).<br>
 
&nbsp; Children with first wife, surname ''Whitney'':
 
{|
 
| valign=top align=right | 1)
 
| '''Mary''', born Sherborn 27 March 1689 (SVR, 94)
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | 2)
 
| '''Elizabeth''', born Sherborn 29 January 1690f/1] (SVR, 93)
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | 3)
 
| '''James''', born Sherborn 28 December 1692 (SVR, 93)
 
|}
 
Children with second wife, surname ''Whitney'':
 
{|
 
| valign=top align=right | 4)
 
| '''Lydia''', born Sherborn 18 April 1695 (SVR, 94)
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | 5)
 
| '''Hannah''', born Sherborn 27 September 1697 (SVR, 93)
 
|}
 
|-
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | v.
 
| '''JOSIAH''', born Watertown, MA 19 May 1664 (WVR 1:26); died
 
Wrentham, MA 29 December 1717 "in his 53" year" (WVR, 515);
 
married first by 1686 '''MARY (_____)''', died Wrentham 18 July 1710
 
(WVR, 514); married second Dorchester, MA 3 November 1713
 
(but recorded Wrentham [WVR, 397]) '''ABIGAIL MARTEN''', died
 
Wrentham 6 December 1734 (WVR 514).<br>
 
&nbsp; Children with first wife, 2-5 named in father's division (Suffolk
 
Probate 20:386), surname ''Whitney'':
 
{|
 
| valign=top align=right | 1)
 
| '''Josiah''', baptized Watertown 21 November 1686 (WVR 4:127)
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | 2)
 
| '''Jonathan''', born say 1690
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | 3)
 
| '''Abigail''', born say 1694
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | 4)
 
| '''Mary''', born say 1696
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | 5)
 
| '''Josiah''', born about 1698 (a minor aged about twenty years
 
on 17 April 1718 [Suffolk Probate 20:386]).
 
|}
 
|-
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | vi.
 
| '''ELINOR''', born Watertown, MA 12 October 1666 (WVR 1:28); died
 
Watertown 23 November 1678 (WVR 1:44), about age 12.
 
|-
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | vii.
 
| '''JAMES''', born Watertown 25 9mo 1668 (WVR 1:30); died Sherborn 30
 
November 1690 (SVR, 227), about age 22.
 
|-
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | viii.
 
| '''ISAAC''', born Watertown 12 January 1670/1 (WVR 1:33); died
 
Sherborn 5 December 1690 (SVR, 227), about age 19.
 
|-
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | ix.
 
| '''JOSEPH''', born Watertown 10 March 1672/3 (WVR 1:36); named in his
 
father's will; living in 1716 at bfrth of last child and certainly 4
 
February 1713/4 when his brother Benjamin made him a bequest
 
(Middlesex Probate #24605); probably the Joseph who married
 
'''REBECCA (_____)''' of Sherborn.
 
Children, surname Whitney:
 
{|
 
| valign=top align=right | 1)
 
| '''Jonas''', born Sherborn 7 June 1708 (SVR, 93)
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | 2)
 
| '''Joseph''', born Sherborn 22 March 1710 (SVR, 93)
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | 3)
 
| '''James''', born Sherborn 23 March 1714 (SVR 93)
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | 4)
 
| '''Ephraim''', born Sherborn 11 March 1715/6 (SVR, 93)
 
|-
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | x.
 
| '''ABIGAIL''', born Watertown 18 August 1675 (WVR 1:40); died
 
Sherborn 7 June 1704 (SVR, 227). A deed by the heirs of Jonathan
 
|}
 
  
 
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| Whitney selling land to their brothers Joseph and Josiah, dated 12
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January 1702/3, is supposedly acknowledged 21 January 1714(5 by
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all the heirs, including Abigail, but the casual wording of the
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acknowledgement leaves room for the interpretation that since
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Abigail's only heirs were her siblings, it made no difference
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[[Category:Leaverton, Lincolnshire, England]]
whether she acknowledged or not (Middlesex Deed 17:167-168).
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[[Category:Skirbeck, Lincolnshire, England]]
Consequently, there is no conflict in identifying her as the Abigail
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who died in 1704.
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|-
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|-
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| '''BENJAMIN''', born Watertown, MA 6 January 1678/9 (WVR 1:44); died
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[[Category:Topsfield, Essex County, Massachusetts]]
Sherborn 29 August 1718 in his 40th year (SVR, 227); married
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[[Category:Norfolk County, Massachusetts]]
Sherborn 24 October 1700 (SVR, 180) '''MERCY TRAVIS'''. No
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children (Middlesex Probate #24605).
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[[Category:New York]]
The widow Mercy married second before 31 May 1721 Lt.
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Thomas Frinck.
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Samuel1 Whiting, son of JohnA and Sarah (-----) Whiting, was baptized 20 Nov 1597, St. Botolph’s, Boston, Lincolnshire, and died 11 Dec 1679, Lynn, MA, aged 82 years, per gravestone.

He married, 6 Aug 1629, Boston, Lincolnshire Elizabeth St. John, daughter of Sir Oliver St. John, of Cayshoe, Bedfordshire. She was baptized 12 Jan 1604, Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, and died 3 Mar 1676/7, Lynn, MA.

Samuel Whiting received BA and MA degrees from Emmanuel College, Cambridge University. He received holy orders as a priest in the Church of England, and served as a family chaplain and as associate pastor in King's Lynn. His Puritan practices led to parishioners raising complaints about his ministry, and he subsequently moved to the Parish of Skirbeck, near Boston, Lincolnshire. Again, parishioners complained of his Puritan practices. He ultimately chose to emigrate with his family to Massachusetts Bay Colony, arriving in (new) Boston on 26 May 1636.

Rev. Whiting became a prominent minister and theologian in the colony, who had treatises and sermons published in both English and Latin. He was a colleague of Rev. John Cotton, a preeminent religious leader in Massachusetts Bay who had previously been Samuel Whiting's parish priest in Boston, Lincolnshire. Rev. Whiting was also a colleague of Rev. Increase Mather and his son Rev. Cotton Mather, who included an elegy of Samuel Whiting in his major work, "Magnalia Christi Americana." In 1654, Rev. Samuel Whiting was appointed as overseer of Harvard College (predecessor of Harvard University).

Three of Samuel Whiting's sons graduated from Harvard College and also became ministers. Eldest son Samuel Whiting Jr. became the minister of the Congregationalist Church in Billerica, MA. Second son John Whiting chose to emigrate to England and became the Anglican pastor of Butterwick Parish in Lincolnshire. Third son Joseph Whiting succeeded his father as pastor in Lynn, MA. In 1682, Joseph Whiting accepted an invitation to leave Massachusetts and become the pastor in Southampton, Long Island, New York, where he lived the rest of his life.

Children of Samuel1 and Elizabeth (St. John) Whiting:

i. Dorothy2 Whiting, b. ca. 1631, England; d. 31 Jul 1694, Roxbury, MA; m. 4 Jun 1650, Roxbury, MA, Thomas Weld.
ii. Samuel Whiting, bapt. 25 Mar 1633, Skirbeck, Lincolnshire; d. 28 Feb 1712/3, Billerica, MA; m. 12 Nov 1656, Billerica, MA, Dorcas Chester.
iii. Joseph Whiting, b. 6 Apr 1641, Lynn, MA; d. 9 Apr 1723, Southampton, NY; m.(1) Sarah Danforth; m.(2) Rebecca Bishop.
iv. John Whiting, b. ca. 1637, Lynn, MA; d. 16 Oct 1689, Leaverton, Lincolnshire; m. ca. 1662, England, Esther Brown.
v. Elizabeth Whiting, b. ca. 1638; d. 1633, Hartford, CT; m. 6 Apr 1659, Topsfield, MA, Jeremiah Hobart.

References

  • Ancestral File.
  • FamilySearch.org Family Tree.

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