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'''JONATHAN<sup>2</sup> WHITNEY''', born England about 1634 (aged about thirty-six in 1671, Suffolk Files #1050); died Sherborn, MA 1 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).
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'''JONATHAN<sup>3</sup> WHITNEY''', born Watertown 20 October 1659 (WVR
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1:21); died Concord 17 March 1734/5, age 76 years, 4 months, 28
  
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In 1659, Jonathan's father gave him thirty-nine acres in Watertown, five 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.
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At the March 1664 Watertown selectmen's meeting, it was found that
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days "husband of Mrs Sarah" (CVR, 128); married say 1692 '''SARAH<sup>2</sup> HAPGOOD''', born Sudbury say 1672 (age five at the time her mother gave a final account of Shadrack Hapgood's estate, 1677, Middlesex Probate #10315), died Townsend 26 July
  
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:whereas Jonathan whetny & Danill Meddup are intendinge to goe to 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>
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:&nbsp; The town apoynted goodman Baitow goodman Colledge & goodman Tayntor to Call Jonathan whetney & Danili Meddup before Mr Danforth or sum other magistrate<br>
 
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:&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).
 
  
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Nathan Fisk Jr. and Jonathan Whitney were chosen to be Watertown's 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).
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1746 "in her 75th year, relict of John [sic], late of Concord" (TVR 348), daughter of '''SHADRACK''' and '''ELIZABETH (TREADWAY) HAPGOOD''' (See Hapgood Chapter).
  
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Jonathan Whitney and his son, John, were witnesses in the attempted 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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In December 1701, Jonathan Whitney, Hopestill Lealand, Jonathan Fairbanks and Daniel Sheffield of Sherborn, and John Whitney and Benjamin Whitney of Framingham, were ordered to be brought to court for having "with force & arms & strong hands" gone into the dwelling house of Isaac Bowen of Framingham and "riotously assaulted" Bowen (Middlesex County Court files 2X 1701). Although the depositions assert that Jonathan Whitney and Hopestill Lealand went into the house, there are no clues here regarding the reasons for the conflict. The jury hearing the case found the defendants not guilty (Middlesex County General Sessions, 9 December 1701).
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It is possible that Jonathan Whitney of Concord, husbandman, was the man whom David Church of Marlborough, weaver, owed &pound;15 and promised to pay in a bond dated 13 March 1715/6 (Middlesex County Court files 247-1715/6). In 1727 Ephraim Sawtell and Samuel Jones sued Jonathan Whitney for a modest debt (Middlesex County Court files F301-1727).
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On 24 July 1734 Jonathan Whitney sued in the County court over the failure of the town of Sherborn to acknowledge his inhabitancy and include him in all the division of lands that were his right since 30 May 1681 (Middlesex County Court 1681-1734-103A). He won the first case, heard by the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, but the judgment was appealled (Middlesex County Court 1734-106A-4). To the County court he brought an affidavit that stated that "Jonathan Whitney Junr" had been authorized to "take up his house lot according to Town Grant at Chestnut Brook according to his invoyce, so to take up his Divident on that which was granted to Isaac Learned..." and yet another copy of a town document showing that he was one of the first twenty families to settle in Sherbom (Middlesex County Court files 1734-106A-4). His grants were also recorded as: "twenty acres of upland for a houselot"; "five acres and a half of meadowland"; "eighteen acres and a half" of Divident land (ibid.).
  
 
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His will was proved in 1735:
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:In the Name of god amen the fourteenth Day of March 1734/5 I Jonathan Whitney of Concord in the County of Middx and Province of the Masechusets Bay in New England Husbandman being very sick and weak in body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be given unto god therefor Cling unto mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is apointed for all men once to Die do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament that is to say: Principally and first of all I give and Recomend my soul into the Hands of god that gave it and my body I Recommend to the Earth to be buried in Decent Christan burial at the Discresion of my Executors nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection I shall Receive the same again by the Mighty Power of god. and as touching such Worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to Bless me in this life I give Demise and Dispose of the same in the following manner and form:<br>
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:&nbsp; Imprimis I given and bequeath to Sarah my Dearly beloved wife all my Beds & beding Putter and Brass with all other of my houshold goods also to have annually of my Estate for her maintainance the sum of sixteen pounds in money Dureing her Natural Life and at her Decease a Decent Christian Burial<br>
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:&nbsp; Itm I give and bequeath unto my son Isaac Whitney all the bonds and wrightings obligatory that I have from under his hand and seal with all the Rights or tenements of land that I hold in the Town of Sherburn Except those that have been afready sued for in Cort for his portion in full.<br>
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:&nbsp; Item I give to my son Shadrach Whitney the sum of Ten pounds in money to be paid at the End of two years after my Decease:<br>
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:&nbsp; Item I give to my son Jonathan Whitney the sum of four pounds in money to be paid at the End of one year after my Decease;<br>
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:&nbsp; Item I give to my son Amos Whitney the sum of four pounds in money to be paid at the end of one year after my Decease<br>
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&nbsp; Item I give to my son Zacheus Whitney the sum of five pounds in money to be paid at the End of one year after my Decease<br>
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:&nbsp; Item I give to my son Timothy Whitney the sum of five pounds in money to be paid at the End of one year after my Decease
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:&nbsp; Item I give to my Daughter Sarah Warrin the sum of one pound in money to be paid at the End of one year after my Decease
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:&nbsp; Item I give to my Daughter Tabitha Parks the sum of one pound in money to be paid at the End of one year after my Decease
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:&nbsp; Item I give to my Daughter Anna Cutfier the sum of one pound in money to be paid at the End of one year after my Decease
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:&nbsp; Item I give unto my son Daniel Whitney whom I likewise Constitute make and Ordain my Sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament all and singular my lands messuages and Tenements by him freely to be possesed and Injoyed and all other of my Estate both Real and personal I do hereby Reqire my Executor to pay all my Just Debts funeral Charges and Legacies Whatso Ever. And I do hereby utterly disallow Revoke and
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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:
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:Disannal all and Every other former Testaments Wills Legacies and bequests and Executors by me in anny ways before have willed and Bequeathed Ratifying and Confirming this and no other to be my Last will and Testament in Witness Whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and seal the :Day and year above writen
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:Signed Sealed published
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:and Declared by the same &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Jonathan Whitney
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:Jonathan Whitney as his
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:Last Will and Testament
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:In presence of us
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:Joseph Pefrce
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:Thomas Whelor
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:Timothy Wesson
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:(Proved 28 March 1735)
  
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: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)
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:To the Honr Jonathan Remington Esqr Judge of Probate for Wills these are to Certifie that Whereas Jonathan Whitney of Concord Deceased my Late Husband Did upon his Deathbed make a Will and Testament bareing Date the fourteenth of this Instant march and there in due order and Dispose of his Whole Estate both Real & Personal that I am fully Satisfied there with and Desire your Honr will proced and Prove the sd Will as Witness my hand &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Sarah Whitney
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:Concord March 28:1735
  
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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.
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:(Middlesex Probate 1735 #24691])
  
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Jonathan Whitney served from Watertown in King Philip's War (Bodge, 273, 376).
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:Wheraas Sarah Whitney late of Townshend in the County of Middlesex deceasd Relict of Jonathan Whitney of Concord in the County aforesaid died siezed of sundry Goods & moneys not dispos'd of in her life time whereof Administration is not taken; and the Heirs at law being all of Age, and capacitated to divide the same as hereafter expressed and having mutually and amicably agreed, distributed and seffled the same, being the Estate enumerated, in the Schedule hereunto annexed, The Subscribers being the Children and Heirs as afores'd & Guardians & Rpresentatives of the s<sup>d</sup> Heirs, viz<sup>t</sup> Shadrech Whitney, ye Eldest son who appears for himself & the Heirs of Zaccheus Whitney deceased as their Guardian; Jonathan Whitney for himself, Amos Whitney for himself and as Guardian for the Heirs of Timothy Whitney deceased, Daniel Whitney for himself, Sarah Warren widow for herself and Samuel Hunt and Tabitha, his Wife for the sd Tabitha; Ebenezer Cufler & Anna his Wife for the said Anna, being all the Heirs at Law to the Estate afores'd, Do hereby conclude, condescend & agree to divide the same to and among us the said Subscribers, and the parties we appear for as above in equal Shares; and do hereby acknowledge and declare that we have divided and received the same according thereunto Each one respectively his full and whole part as a final Settlement of the same being nine equal Shares in the whole. In Testimony whereof we have hereunto sett our hands and Seals this 10 Day of Octor A:D: 1746
  
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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).
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In July of 1683 Jonathan Whitney was unsuccessfully sued by George Fairbanks and others (Inferior Ct. of Pleas, Suffolk Co.).
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:Shadrach Whitney
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:Jonathan Whitney
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:Amos Whitney
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:Daniel Whitney
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:Sarah Warren
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:Tabitha her X mark Hunt
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:Annah her O mark Cutler
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:In the presence of us
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:Samuel Taylor
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:William Fletcher
  
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Several days before his death, Jonathan Whitney made his will:
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:The following Articles is a Schedule or Inventory of all the Estate that Sarah Whitney late deceased mentioned in the within Instrument died seized of, and that is divided to and among her heirs as within mentioned
  
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:In the name of God, amen<br>
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: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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| One Bond
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| 15.11.1
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| One Bond
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| 6.0.0
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| One Bond
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| 7.3.6
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| One Bond
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| 8.0.11
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| One Bond
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| 5.0.0
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| Dept Due
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| 5.0.0
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| more Due
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| 5.2.0
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| more Due
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| 1.0.0
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| Dept Due
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| 5.0.0
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| Dept Due
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| 1.15.5
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| To Silver Claspts &c
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| 1.5.6
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| To Cash
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| 0.6.8
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|-
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| To one Grate Bible
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| 3.10.0
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| One Greate Book
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| 3.10.0
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|-
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| One Book of Nineteen Sermons
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| 0.8.0
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| One Book of Mr Farwells
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| 0.10.0
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|-
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| One Book of Mr Vincens
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| 0.4.0
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| One Book of Mr Henrys
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| 0.3.0
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| To Three Small Books
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| 0.3.0
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| To One Camblit Gown
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| 6.10.0
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| To three Low Ditto
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| 3.10.0
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| To five old Ditto
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| 2.10.0
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| one old Woollen Blankit
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| 0.15.0
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| one Cotten Table cloath
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| 1.6.0
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|-
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| To Six Cotten Napkins
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| 2.5.0
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| To 2 Table cloaths
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| 0.14.3
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| To three Towels & 3 old Cloaths
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| 0.14.6
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| To Two Cotten Pillow cloaths
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| 1.4.6
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| To old Cotten Ditto
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| 0.7.6
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| To Two Pillow cloaths & 4 old cloths
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| 0.15.0
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| one old wallet
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| 0.2.6
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| To five Baskits & Two Boxes
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| 0.14.0
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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
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:&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 & their heires for ever.
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:&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.
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:&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
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:Signed, Sealed and Published
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| One Brass Cittle
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:In the Prsence of us    Jonathan Whitney
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| 4.0.0
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:Nathaniel Coilldg
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:Thomas Whitney
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| one Small Brass Ditto
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:Munings Sawin
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| 1.0.0
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:(Proved Cambridge 1 March 1702[/3])
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| One warming Pan
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| 1.0.0
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| One Brass Skilllt
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| 1.0.0
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| One Brass Skimer
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| 0.50.
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| One Iron Kittle
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| 1.6.6
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|-
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| One Box Iron & heaters candle melt stick & fork
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| 0.11.0
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|-
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| one Tramiel
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| 0.10.0
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| one Rale & Tongues
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| 0.16.0
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|-
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| To Two Earthen Plates and Poringer
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| 0.4.0
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|-
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| To Glasses
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| 0.6.6
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|-
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| To Tin wair
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| 0.2.6
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|-
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| One Chaping knife
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| 0.5.0
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|-
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| To knives & forks
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| 0.6.0
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|-
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| one Earthen pott & Jugg
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| 0.2.2
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| One chest of Draws
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| 2.5.0
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| one old Chest & Box
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| 0.16.0
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| One Table
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| 0.16.0
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|-
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| To four old Chairs
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| 0.16.0
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|-
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| To one Harthell
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| 01.15.0
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|-
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| To one Churn
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| 0.15.0
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|-
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| One Barrill
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| 0.5.0
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|-
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| Scails & Wait
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| 0.5.0
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|-
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| One Tunrel
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| 0.3.0
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|-
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| one Ramel
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| 0.5.0
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|-
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| One Sillicrape Gown
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| 3.0.0
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| One Drudgit Gown
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| 3.0.0
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| One Rideing Wood
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| 2.10.0
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| One old Rieding Wood & Gown
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| 0.10.0
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|-
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| One Quilted Peticoat
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| 3.0.0
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|-
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| One Quilted Coat
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| 1.15.0
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| Two Stript Ditto
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| 2.0.0
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| One Pair of old Slays
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| 0.10.0
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| To Three apperns
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| 0.15.0
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| Tow Two Wascotts
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| 0.6.0
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| One Pair of Stockins
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| 0.9.0
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|-
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| Old Stocki Pockits & Garters
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| 0.4.6
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|-
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| One Cotten Shift
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| 1.12.0
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|-
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| To four old Ditto
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| 0.10.0
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| To one fine Ditto
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| 1.19.0
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| To Two fine aprons
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| 2.3.0
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| To one fistion wescoot
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| 1.0.0
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| one fine Hankerchief
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| 0.15.0
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|-
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| one Silk moslen Ditto
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| 0.8.0
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|-
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| To Two Strip<sup>t</sup> Ditto
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| 0.7.0
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|-
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| one pair of white Gloves
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| 0.9.0
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|-
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| To Three pair old Lather Ditto
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| 0.9.0
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: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
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| one whit Hankerchief
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| 04.06.00
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| 0.4.0
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| To Caps
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| 2.7.0
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| One pair of thread Stokins
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| 0.10.0
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| to bonhits
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| 0.9.0
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| To Two pair of Shoes
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| 1.1.0
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| To flax yarn & thread
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| 0.17.9
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|-
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| To cysors kniting nedles & comb
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| 0.8.0
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| To one Bead bolster & Two Pillers
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| 18.10.0
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| one Bedstead under Bed & Cord
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| 1.18.0
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|-
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| To Two Dimond Coverlids
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| 5.0.0
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|-
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| one Rugg
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| 1.15.0
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|-
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| one Ragg Coverlid
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| 1.10.0
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|-
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| one flock Bed & Two Pillows
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| 6.8.0
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|-
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| Pair of Curtains & vollence
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| 1.11.3
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| To her Cotten Sheats
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| 5.0.0
 
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| Beds and Beding and Houshold ware
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| one Pillion
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| 11.14.00
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| 0.12.0
 
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| Cart, plow & other utersills
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| one Pair of Cards
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| 02.12.00
+
| 0.3.0
 
|-
 
|-
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| one horse cattell and swine
+
| To Two old Wheals spindle & Real
−
| 24.08.00
+
| 0.18.0
 
|-
 
|-
−
| Buildings & Lands and grain
+
| To Black Silk
−
| 88.16.00
+
| 2.10.0
 
|-
 
|-
−
| Totall
+
| [untotalled but in old tenor]
−
| 131.16.00
+
|-
 +
| Dated this 10 day of Octor A.D 1746
 +
|-
 +
| Daniel Taylor
 +
|-
 +
| William Thacher
 
|}
 
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:Benoni Larned
 
−
:John Coollidg
 
−
:March 1 1702[/3] (Middlesex Probate #24690)
 
  
−
Following his death, on 21 January 1714/5, the heirs of Jonathan 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
+
This inventory implies a refined and well-educated household.
 +
 
 +
Children, surname ''WHITNEY'':
 +
{|
 +
| valign=top align=right | +&nbsp;&nbsp;i.
 +
| '''SARAH<sup>4</sup>''', born Watertown 2 March 1692/3 (Bond, 646); died Weston 10 April 1752, age 59 (WVR, 297); married November 1712 (Bond, 646) '''JONATHAN<sup>4</sup> WARREN''', born Watertown 26 April 1688 (WVR 1:59), died Weston, MA 10 April 1732 (WVR, 30) (see Warren Chapter).
 +
|-
 +
|-
 +
| valign=top align=right | ii.
 +
| '''JONATHAN''', born Watertown 27 September 1694 (WVR 2:19); died young.
 +
|-
 +
|-
 +
| valign=top align=right | iii.
 +
| '''TABITHA''', born Watertown 22 August 1696; died Harvard, MA 2 November 1762; married first Weston 28 February 1715/6 (WVR, 4) '''JACOB FULHAM''', born Watertown 19 November 1692 (WVR 2:7), died in "Lovewell's Fight" at Pigwacket (Fryesburg) 8 May 1725 Middlesex Probate #8716, son of Major Francis and Sarah (Livermore) Fullam; married second Weston by Rev. William Williams 19 April 1726 (WVR, 19) '''GEORGE PARKHURST''', born Watertown 17 January 1685 (WVR 1:56), died Weston 17 March 1734/5 (WVR, 35) Middlesex Probate #16865, son of John and Abigail (_____) Parkhurst; married third Weston by Rev. William Williams 10 August 1736 (WVR, 39) '''SAMUEL HUNT''', born
 +
|}
  
 
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| width=80% align=center | ANCESTRY OF EVA BELLE KEMPTON
 
| width=10% |
 
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| width=80% align=center | WHITNEY
 
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| width=10% align=right | 539
 
 
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−
Joseph and Benjamin, with these two paying small sums to their 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'':
+
| Cambridge 11 January 1709[/10] (CVR 1:383), died Harvard 4 July 1775 "of advanced years" (HVR, 281), son of Isaac and Mary (Willard) Hunt.<br>
 +
&nbsp; Samuel Hunt married second 19 January 1764 (HVR, 184) Lydia Willard.<br>
 +
&nbsp; Children, surname ''Fulham'':
 
{|
 
{|
 
| valign=top align=right | 1)
 
| valign=top align=right | 1)
−
| '''Lydia''', born Sherborn 2 February 1684[15] (SVR, 10)
+
| '''Francis''', born Weston 20 March 1716/7 (WVR, 6)
 
|-
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | 2)
 
| valign=top align=right | 2)
−
| '''Elizabeth''', born Sherborn 18 September 1686 (SVR, 9)
+
| '''Jacob''', born Weston 22 December 1718 (WVR, 6)
 
|-
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | 3)
 
| valign=top align=right | 3)
−
| '''Hannah''', born Sherborn 8 February 1687/8 (SVR, 9)
+
| '''Tabitha''', born Weston 12 May 1722 (WVR, 12)
 
|-
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | 4)
 
| valign=top align=right | 4)
−
| '''Elizabeth''', born Sherborn 25 October 1689 (SVR, 9)
+
| '''Elisha''' (posthumous), born 26 June 1725 (WVR, 16)
−
|-
+
|}<br>
 +
&nbsp; Children, surname ''Parkhurst'':
 +
{|
 
| valign=top align=right | 5)
 
| valign=top align=right | 5)
−
| '''Moses''', born Sherborn 26 November 1691 (SVR, 10)
+
| '''Daniel''', born Weston 11 February 1726/7 (WVR, 20)
 
|-
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | 6)
 
| valign=top align=right | 6)
−
| '''James''', born Sherborn 7 July 1693 (SVR, 9)
+
| '''Jonathan''', born Weston 16 November 1728 (WVR, 23)
 
|-
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | 7)
 
| valign=top align=right | 7)
−
| '''Isaac''', born Sherborn 4 March 1695[/6J (SVR, 9)
+
| '''William''', born Weston 11 April 1731 (WVR, 28)
 
|-
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | 8)
 
| valign=top align=right | 8)
−
| '''Abigail''', born Sherborn 7 September 1697 (SVR, 9)
+
| '''George''', born Weston 25 April 1733 (WVR, 35)
 +
|}<br>
 +
&nbsp; Child, surname ''Hunt'':
 +
{|
 +
| valign=top align=right | 9)
 +
| '''Mary''', born Weston 29 June 1741 (WVR, 53)
 
|}
 
|}
 
|-
 
|-
 
|-
 
|-
−
| valign=top align=right | +&nbsp;&nbsp;ii.
+
| valign=top align=right | iv.
−
| '''JONATHAN''', born Watertown 20 October 1659 (WVR 1:21)
+
| '''SHADRACH''', born Watertown 12 October 1698 (WVR 2:12); died Groton, MA 8 August 1764, in his 67th year (GVR, 279); married Groton "of North Town" 5 January 1731[/2] (GVR, 181) '''PRUDENCE (_____) LAWRENCE''', born circa 1694 (calculated from age at death), died Groton 25 December 1762, in her 68th year (GVR, 279).<br>
 +
&nbsp; Prudence had married first Thomas Lawrence of Groton (Middlesex Deed 35:205). Lawrence died Groton 4 October 1729, aged 37 years, 9 months 19 days (GVR, 240).<br>
 +
&nbsp; The will of Shadrach Whitney named many of his siblings' children (Middlesex Probate #24750).
 
|-
 
|-
 
|-
 
|-
−
| valign=top align=right | iii.
+
| valign=top align=right | v.
−
| '''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>
+
| '''JONATHAN''', born Watertown 25 November 1700 (WVR 2:19); died Milford 28 January 1755 in his 51st year (MVR, 376, which makes him slightly younger than his birth record would indicate); married '''LYDIA (_____)''', died Milford 4 May 1783 in her 77th year (MVR, 376).<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 ''Whitney'':
−
&nbsp; Children, surname ''Fisher'':
 
 
{|
 
{|
 
| valign=top align=right | 1)
 
| valign=top align=right | 1)
−
| '''Jonathan''', born Wrentham 22 February 169[0/]1 (WVR 1:84)
+
| '''Susanna''', born Mendon 12 February 1727/8 (MVR, 212)
 
|-
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | 2)
 
| valign=top align=right | 2)
−
| '''Cornelius''', born Wrentham 29 September 1692 (WVR 1:79)
+
| '''Jonathan''', born Mendon 18 October 1729 (MVR, 212)
 
|-
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | 3)
 
| valign=top align=right | 3)
−
| '''Isaac''', born Wrentham 19 May 1694 (WVR 1:83)
+
| '''Jesse''', born Mendon 24 November 1730 (MVR, 212)
 
|-
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | 4)
 
| valign=top align=right | 4)
−
| '''Anna''', born Wrentham 28 March 1696 (WVR 1:78)
+
| '''Lydia''', born Mendon 18 November 1732 (MVR, 212)
 
|-
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | 5)
 
| valign=top align=right | 5)
−
| '''Joseph''', born Wrentham 11 May 1698 (WVR 1:84)
+
| '''Sarah''', born Mendon 14 March 1735/6 (MVR, 212)
 
|-
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | 6)
 
| valign=top align=right | 6)
−
| '''Benjamin''', born Wrentham 6 March 1700/1 (WVR 1:78)
+
| '''Jonathan''', born Mendon 26 July 1737 (MVR, 212)
 +
|-
 +
| valign=top align=right | 7)
 +
| '''Ruth''', baptized Milford 1 April 1742 (MVR, 182)
 +
|-
 +
| valign=top align=right | 8)
 +
| '''David''', born Milford 2 September 1746 (MVR, 181)
 
|}
 
|}
 
|-
 
|-
 
|-
 
|-
−
| valign=top align=right | iv.
+
| valign=top align=right | vi.
−
| '''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[/3] (SVR, 228), daughter of Shadrack<sup>1</sup> and Elizabeth (Treadway) Hapgood (see Hapgood Chapter); married second about 1694
+
| '''ANNE''', born Watertown 24 May 1702 (WVR 2:22); died Lincoln, MA 24 August 1793 (LVR, 159); married by Francis Fullam, J.P. Weston 3 March 1723/4 (WVR, 14) Capt. '''EBENEZER CUTLER''', born 24
 
|}
 
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| width=80% align=center | ANCESTRY OF EVA BELLE KEMPTON
 
 
| width=10% |
 
| width=10% |
 +
| width=80% align=center | WHITNEY
 +
| align=right | 549
 
|}
 
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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>
+
| July 1700, died Lincoln, MA 17 January 1777, age 77 years (LVR, 159), son of John and Mary (Stearns) Cutler.<br>
−
&nbsp; Children with first wife, surname ''Whitney'':
+
&nbsp; Children, all baptized together on 15 January 1748[/9], surname ''Cutler'':
 
{|
 
{|
 
| valign=top align=right | 1)
 
| valign=top align=right | 1)
−
| '''Mary''', born Sherborn 27 March 1689 (SVR, 94)
+
| '''Elisha''', born Weston 30 April 1725 (WVR, 18)
 
|-
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | 2)
 
| valign=top align=right | 2)
−
| '''Elizabeth''', born Sherborn 29 January 1690f/1] (SVR, 93)
+
| '''Jonas''', born Weston 16 October 1727 (WVR, 22)
 
|-
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | 3)
 
| valign=top align=right | 3)
−
| '''James''', born Sherborn 28 December 1692 (SVR, 93)
+
| '''Anne''', born Weston 6 March 1729/30 (WVR, 28)
−
|}
+
|-
−
&nbsp; Children with second wife, surname ''Whitney'':
 
−
{|
 
 
| valign=top align=right | 4)
 
| valign=top align=right | 4)
−
| '''Lydia''', born Sherborn 18 April 1695 (SVR, 94)
+
| '''Mary''', born Weston 23 December 1732 (WVR, 42)
 
|-
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | 5)
 
| valign=top align=right | 5)
−
| '''Hannah''', born Sherborn 27 September 1697 (SVR, 93)
+
| '''Sarah''', born Weston 15 September 1735 (WVR, 42)
−
|}
 
 
|-
 
|-
 +
| valign=top align=right | 6)
 +
| '''Mellicot''', born Weston 31 March 1738 (WVR, 43)
 
|-
 
|-
−
| valign=top align=right | v.
+
| valign=top align=right | 7)
−
| '''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>
+
| '''Eliakim''', born Weston 10 July 1745 (WVR, 84)
−
&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)
+
| valign=top align=right | 8)
−
| '''Jonathan''', born say 1690
+
| '''Ebenezer''', baptized Weston 15 January 1748[/9]
−
|-
 
−
| valign=top align=right | 3)
 
−
| '''Abigail''', born say 1694
 
−
|-
 
−
| valign=top align=right | 4)
 
−
| '''Mary''', born say 1696
 
 
|-
 
|-
−
| valign=top align=right | 5)
+
| valign=top align=right | 9)
−
| '''Josiah''', born about 1698 (a minor aged about twenty years on 17 April 1718 [Suffolk Probate 20:386]).
+
| '''Zaccheus''', baptized Weston 15 January 1748[/9]
 
|}
 
|}
−
|-
 
−
|-
 
−
| 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.
 
| valign=top align=right | vii.
−
| '''JAMES''', born Watertown 25 9mo 1668 (WVR 1:30); died Sherborn 30 November 1690 (SVR, 227), about age 22.
+
| '''Lieut. AMOS''', born Watertown 1 May 1705 (WVR 2:30); died Townsend 31 October 1770 in his 66th year (TVR, 348); unmarried.
 
|-
 
|-
 
|-
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | viii.
 
| 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.
+
| '''ZACCHEUS''', glazier, born Sudbury, MA 16 November 1707 (SVR, 151); died Bedford, MA 14 March 1739/40 (BVR, 139); married Concord by Justice Minott 23 May 1734 (CVR 131) '''MARY WHEELER'''.<br>
−
|-
+
&nbsp; Widow Mary likely married second Bedford 1 January 1740/1 (BVR, 106) William Grimes, and if so, she died Bedford 15 July 1742 (BVR, 122).<br>
−
|-
 
−
| 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.<br>
 
 
&nbsp; Children, surname Whitney:
 
&nbsp; Children, surname Whitney:
 
{|
 
{|
 
| valign=top align=right | 1)
 
| valign=top align=right | 1)
−
| '''Jonas''', born Sherborn 7 June 1708 (SVR, 93)
+
| '''Zacheus''', born Bedford 15 March 1734/5 (BVR, 55)
 
|-
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | 2)
 
| valign=top align=right | 2)
−
| '''Joseph''', born Sherborn 22 March 1710 (SVR, 93)
+
| '''Jonathan''', born Bedford 12 January 1736/7 (BVR, 55)
 
|-
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | 3)
 
| valign=top align=right | 3)
−
| '''James''', born Sherborn 23 March 1714 (SVR 93)
+
| '''Shadrack''', born Bedford 17 May 1739 (BVR, 55)
 +
|}
 +
|-
 
|-
 
|-
−
| valign=top align=right | 4)
+
| valign=top align=right | ix.
−
| '''Ephraim''', born Sherborn 11 March 1715/6 (SVR, 93)
+
| '''ISAAC''', named in father's will; one of Lovewell's men; died Concord, MA before 17 January 1744 when his probate was begun; possibly the Isaac Whitney of Weston who confessed to fornication with Elizabeth his wife in court 9 March 1730/31 (Middlesex General Sessions), she predeceased him or this was another Isaac because he was apparently unmarried at his death when his brothers Amos and Shadrach declined administration of his insolvent estate and no widow was asked to administer (Middlesex Probate #24657). Notice of this administration had to be mailed to two of the brothers.
 
|-
 
|-
 
|-
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | x.
 
| 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
+
| '''TIMOTHY''', born Concord, MA 20 February 1708/9 (CVR, 72); died Groton before 18 June 1740 when his estate was probated (Middlesex Probate #24758); married Townsend by Rev. Phinehas Hemenway 24 May 1738 (TVR, 15) '''SUBMIT PARKER''', born Groton 10 September 1715 (GVR, 178), who survived him (ibid.), daughter of John and Abigail  Parker.
−
|}
 
  
 
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 +
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| width=10% |
 
| width=10% |
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| width=80% align=center | WHITNEY
 
−
| width=10% align=right | 541
 
 
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|}
  
 
{|
 
{|
 
|
 
|
−
| Whitney selling land to their brothers Joseph and Josiah, dated 12 January 1702/3, is supposedly acknowledged 21 January 1714(5 by all the heirs, including Abigail, but the casual wording of the acknowledgement leaves room for the interpretation that since Abigail's only heirs were her siblings, it made no difference whether she acknowledged or not (Middlesex Deed 17:167-168). Consequently, there is no conflict in identifying her as the Abigail who died in 1704.
+
| Widow Submit (Parker) Whitney married second Groton 11 [blank] 1740 Reuben Woods (GVR, 189) and this couple had ten children.<br>
 +
&nbsp; Child, surname ''Whitney'':
 +
{|
 +
| valign=top align=right | 1)
 +
| '''Sybil''' [Seabill in VRs, sic], born Groton 31 March 1739 (GVR, 252) and named in her uncle Shadrack's will.
 +
|}
 
|-
 
|-
 
|-
 
|-
 
| valign=top align=right | xi.
 
| valign=top align=right | xi.
−
| '''BENJAMIN''', born Watertown, MA 6 January 1678/9 (WVR 1:44); died Sherborn 29 August 1718 in his 40th year (SVR, 227); married Sherborn 24 October 1700 (SVR, 180) '''MERCY TRAVIS'''. No children (Middlesex Probate #24605).<br>
+
| '''DANIEL''', born Concord, MA 12 September 1710 (CVR, 75); llving 1771 when he was notified of the probate of his brother Amos' will (Middlesex Probate #24603); married Shrewsbury 8 March 1738/9 (SVR, 233) '''THANKFUL ALLEN''', born Hoplinton, MA 9 December 1713, daughter of Elnathan and Mary (_____) Allen. Daniel and his family were warned out of Townsend in 1770, lately from Westford (IVR, 441).<br>
−
&nbsp; The widow Mercy married second before 31 May 1721 Lt. Thomas Frinck.
+
&nbsp; Children, surname Whitney:
 +
{|
 +
| valign=top align=right | 1)
 +
| '''Levi''', born Slrrewsbury 5 December 1739 (SVR, 112)
 +
|-
 +
| valign=top align=right | 2)
 +
| '''Timothy''', born Shrewsbury 25 October 1743 (SVR, 112), also named in his uncle Shadrach's will (Middlesex Probate #24750)
 +
|-
 +
| valign=top align=right | 3)
 +
| '''Daniel''', born Shrewsbury 4 September 1746 (SVR, 111)
 +
|-
 +
| valign=top align=right | 4)
 +
| '''Sarah''', born Slrrewsbury 9 September 1749 (SVR, 112)
 +
|-
 +
| valign=top align=right | 5)
 +
| '''Daniel''', born Westford 20 February 1757 (WVR, 116)
 
|}
 
|}
  
 
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542 ANCESTRY OF EVA BELLE KEMPTON

JONATHAN3 WHITNEY, born Watertown 20 October 1659 (WVR 1:21); died Concord 17 March 1734/5, age 76 years, 4 months, 28

[Signature omitted]

days "husband of Mrs Sarah" (CVR, 128); married say 1692 SARAH2 HAPGOOD, born Sudbury say 1672 (age five at the time her mother gave a final account of Shadrack Hapgood's estate, 1677, Middlesex Probate #10315), died Townsend 26 July

[Signature omitted]

1746 "in her 75th year, relict of John [sic], late of Concord" (TVR 348), daughter of SHADRACK and ELIZABETH (TREADWAY) HAPGOOD (See Hapgood Chapter).

In December 1701, Jonathan Whitney, Hopestill Lealand, Jonathan Fairbanks and Daniel Sheffield of Sherborn, and John Whitney and Benjamin Whitney of Framingham, were ordered to be brought to court for having "with force & arms & strong hands" gone into the dwelling house of Isaac Bowen of Framingham and "riotously assaulted" Bowen (Middlesex County Court files 2X 1701). Although the depositions assert that Jonathan Whitney and Hopestill Lealand went into the house, there are no clues here regarding the reasons for the conflict. The jury hearing the case found the defendants not guilty (Middlesex County General Sessions, 9 December 1701).

It is possible that Jonathan Whitney of Concord, husbandman, was the man whom David Church of Marlborough, weaver, owed £15 and promised to pay in a bond dated 13 March 1715/6 (Middlesex County Court files 247-1715/6). In 1727 Ephraim Sawtell and Samuel Jones sued Jonathan Whitney for a modest debt (Middlesex County Court files F301-1727).

On 24 July 1734 Jonathan Whitney sued in the County court over the failure of the town of Sherborn to acknowledge his inhabitancy and include him in all the division of lands that were his right since 30 May 1681 (Middlesex County Court 1681-1734-103A). He won the first case, heard by the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, but the judgment was appealled (Middlesex County Court 1734-106A-4). To the County court he brought an affidavit that stated that "Jonathan Whitney Junr" had been authorized to "take up his house lot according to Town Grant at Chestnut Brook according to his invoyce, so to take up his Divident on that which was granted to Isaac Learned..." and yet another copy of a town document showing that he was one of the first twenty families to settle in Sherbom (Middlesex County Court files 1734-106A-4). His grants were also recorded as: "twenty acres of upland for a houselot"; "five acres and a half of meadowland"; "eighteen acres and a half" of Divident land (ibid.).

WHITNEY 543

His will was proved in 1735:

In the Name of god amen the fourteenth Day of March 1734/5 I Jonathan Whitney of Concord in the County of Middx and Province of the Masechusets Bay in New England Husbandman being very sick and weak in body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be given unto god therefor Cling unto mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is apointed for all men once to Die do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament that is to say: Principally and first of all I give and Recomend my soul into the Hands of god that gave it and my body I Recommend to the Earth to be buried in Decent Christan burial at the Discresion of my Executors nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection I shall Receive the same again by the Mighty Power of god. and as touching such Worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to Bless me in this life I give Demise and Dispose of the same in the following manner and form:
  Imprimis I given and bequeath to Sarah my Dearly beloved wife all my Beds & beding Putter and Brass with all other of my houshold goods also to have annually of my Estate for her maintainance the sum of sixteen pounds in money Dureing her Natural Life and at her Decease a Decent Christian Burial
  Itm I give and bequeath unto my son Isaac Whitney all the bonds and wrightings obligatory that I have from under his hand and seal with all the Rights or tenements of land that I hold in the Town of Sherburn Except those that have been afready sued for in Cort for his portion in full.
  Item I give to my son Shadrach Whitney the sum of Ten pounds in money to be paid at the End of two years after my Decease:
  Item I give to my son Jonathan Whitney the sum of four pounds in money to be paid at the End of one year after my Decease;
  Item I give to my son Amos Whitney the sum of four pounds in money to be paid at the end of one year after my Decease

  Item I give to my son Zacheus Whitney the sum of five pounds in money to be paid at the End of one year after my Decease

  Item I give to my son Timothy Whitney the sum of five pounds in money to be paid at the End of one year after my Decease
  Item I give to my Daughter Sarah Warrin the sum of one pound in money to be paid at the End of one year after my Decease
  Item I give to my Daughter Tabitha Parks the sum of one pound in money to be paid at the End of one year after my Decease
  Item I give to my Daughter Anna Cutfier the sum of one pound in money to be paid at the End of one year after my Decease
  Item I give unto my son Daniel Whitney whom I likewise Constitute make and Ordain my Sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament all and singular my lands messuages and Tenements by him freely to be possesed and Injoyed and all other of my Estate both Real and personal I do hereby Reqire my Executor to pay all my Just Debts funeral Charges and Legacies Whatso Ever. And I do hereby utterly disallow Revoke and
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Disannal all and Every other former Testaments Wills Legacies and bequests and Executors by me in anny ways before have willed and Bequeathed Ratifying and Confirming this and no other to be my Last will and Testament in Witness Whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and seal the :Day and year above writen
Signed Sealed published
and Declared by the same               Jonathan Whitney
Jonathan Whitney as his
Last Will and Testament
In presence of us
Joseph Pefrce
Thomas Whelor
Timothy Wesson
(Proved 28 March 1735)
To the Honr Jonathan Remington Esqr Judge of Probate for Wills these are to Certifie that Whereas Jonathan Whitney of Concord Deceased my Late Husband Did upon his Deathbed make a Will and Testament bareing Date the fourteenth of this Instant march and there in due order and Dispose of his Whole Estate both Real & Personal that I am fully Satisfied there with and Desire your Honr will proced and Prove the sd Will as Witness my hand       Sarah Whitney
Concord March 28:1735
(Middlesex Probate 1735 #24691])
Wheraas Sarah Whitney late of Townshend in the County of Middlesex deceasd Relict of Jonathan Whitney of Concord in the County aforesaid died siezed of sundry Goods & moneys not dispos'd of in her life time whereof Administration is not taken; and the Heirs at law being all of Age, and capacitated to divide the same as hereafter expressed and having mutually and amicably agreed, distributed and seffled the same, being the Estate enumerated, in the Schedule hereunto annexed, The Subscribers being the Children and Heirs as afores'd & Guardians & Rpresentatives of the sd Heirs, vizt Shadrech Whitney, ye Eldest son who appears for himself & the Heirs of Zaccheus Whitney deceased as their Guardian; Jonathan Whitney for himself, Amos Whitney for himself and as Guardian for the Heirs of Timothy Whitney deceased, Daniel Whitney for himself, Sarah Warren widow for herself and Samuel Hunt and Tabitha, his Wife for the sd Tabitha; Ebenezer Cufler & Anna his Wife for the said Anna, being all the Heirs at Law to the Estate afores'd, Do hereby conclude, condescend & agree to divide the same to and among us the said Subscribers, and the parties we appear for as above in equal Shares; and do hereby acknowledge and declare that we have divided and received the same according thereunto Each one respectively his full and whole part as a final Settlement of the same being nine equal Shares in the whole. In Testimony whereof we have hereunto sett our hands and Seals this 10 Day of Octor A:D: 1746
WHITNEY 545
Shadrach Whitney
Jonathan Whitney
Amos Whitney
Daniel Whitney
Sarah Warren
Tabitha her X mark Hunt
Annah her O mark Cutler
In the presence of us
Samuel Taylor
William Fletcher
The following Articles is a Schedule or Inventory of all the Estate that Sarah Whitney late deceased mentioned in the within Instrument died seized of, and that is divided to and among her heirs as within mentioned
One Bond 15.11.1
One Bond 6.0.0
One Bond 7.3.6
One Bond 8.0.11
One Bond 5.0.0
Dept Due 5.0.0
more Due 5.2.0
more Due 1.0.0
Dept Due 5.0.0
Dept Due 1.15.5
To Silver Claspts &c 1.5.6
To Cash 0.6.8
To one Grate Bible 3.10.0
One Greate Book 3.10.0
One Book of Nineteen Sermons 0.8.0
One Book of Mr Farwells 0.10.0
One Book of Mr Vincens 0.4.0
One Book of Mr Henrys 0.3.0
To Three Small Books 0.3.0
To One Camblit Gown 6.10.0
To three Low Ditto 3.10.0
To five old Ditto 2.10.0
one old Woollen Blankit 0.15.0
one Cotten Table cloath 1.6.0
To Six Cotten Napkins 2.5.0
To 2 Table cloaths 0.14.3
To three Towels & 3 old Cloaths 0.14.6
To Two Cotten Pillow cloaths 1.4.6
To old Cotten Ditto 0.7.6
To Two Pillow cloaths & 4 old cloths 0.15.0
one old wallet 0.2.6
To five Baskits & Two Boxes 0.14.0
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To thj one pound & 3/4 pewter 12.14.0
One Brass Cittle 4.0.0
one Small Brass Ditto 1.0.0
One warming Pan 1.0.0
One Brass Skilllt 1.0.0
One Brass Skimer 0.50.
One Iron Kittle 1.6.6
One Box Iron & heaters candle melt stick & fork 0.11.0
one Tramiel 0.10.0
one Rale & Tongues 0.16.0
To Two Earthen Plates and Poringer 0.4.0
To Glasses 0.6.6
To Tin wair 0.2.6
One Chaping knife 0.5.0
To knives & forks 0.6.0
one Earthen pott & Jugg 0.2.2
One chest of Draws 2.5.0
one old Chest & Box 0.16.0
One Table 0.16.0
To four old Chairs 0.16.0
To one Harthell 01.15.0
To one Churn 0.15.0
One Barrill 0.5.0
Scails & Wait 0.5.0
One Tunrel 0.3.0
one Ramel 0.5.0
One Sillicrape Gown 3.0.0
One Drudgit Gown 3.0.0
One Rideing Wood 2.10.0
One old Rieding Wood & Gown 0.10.0
One Quilted Peticoat 3.0.0
One Quilted Coat 1.15.0
Two Stript Ditto 2.0.0
One Pair of old Slays 0.10.0
To Three apperns 0.15.0
Tow Two Wascotts 0.6.0
One Pair of Stockins 0.9.0
Old Stocki Pockits & Garters 0.4.6
One Cotten Shift 1.12.0
To four old Ditto 0.10.0
To one fine Ditto 1.19.0
To Two fine aprons 2.3.0
To one fistion wescoot 1.0.0
one fine Hankerchief 0.15.0
one Silk moslen Ditto 0.8.0
To Two Stript Ditto 0.7.0
one pair of white Gloves 0.9.0
To Three pair old Lather Ditto 0.9.0
WHITNEY 547
one whit Hankerchief 0.4.0
To Caps 2.7.0
One pair of thread Stokins 0.10.0
to bonhits 0.9.0
To Two pair of Shoes 1.1.0
To flax yarn & thread 0.17.9
To cysors kniting nedles & comb 0.8.0
To one Bead bolster & Two Pillers 18.10.0
one Bedstead under Bed & Cord 1.18.0
To Two Dimond Coverlids 5.0.0
one Rugg 1.15.0
one Ragg Coverlid 1.10.0
one flock Bed & Two Pillows 6.8.0
Pair of Curtains & vollence 1.11.3
To her Cotten Sheats 5.0.0
one Pillion 0.12.0
one Pair of Cards 0.3.0
To Two old Wheals spindle & Real 0.18.0
To Black Silk 2.10.0
[untotalled but in old tenor]
Dated this 10 day of Octor A.D 1746
Daniel Taylor
William Thacher

This inventory implies a refined and well-educated household.

Children, surname WHITNEY:

+  i. SARAH4, born Watertown 2 March 1692/3 (Bond, 646); died Weston 10 April 1752, age 59 (WVR, 297); married November 1712 (Bond, 646) JONATHAN4 WARREN, born Watertown 26 April 1688 (WVR 1:59), died Weston, MA 10 April 1732 (WVR, 30) (see Warren Chapter).
ii. JONATHAN, born Watertown 27 September 1694 (WVR 2:19); died young.
iii. TABITHA, born Watertown 22 August 1696; died Harvard, MA 2 November 1762; married first Weston 28 February 1715/6 (WVR, 4) JACOB FULHAM, born Watertown 19 November 1692 (WVR 2:7), died in "Lovewell's Fight" at Pigwacket (Fryesburg) 8 May 1725 Middlesex Probate #8716, son of Major Francis and Sarah (Livermore) Fullam; married second Weston by Rev. William Williams 19 April 1726 (WVR, 19) GEORGE PARKHURST, born Watertown 17 January 1685 (WVR 1:56), died Weston 17 March 1734/5 (WVR, 35) Middlesex Probate #16865, son of John and Abigail (_____) Parkhurst; married third Weston by Rev. William Williams 10 August 1736 (WVR, 39) SAMUEL HUNT, born
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Cambridge 11 January 1709[/10] (CVR 1:383), died Harvard 4 July 1775 "of advanced years" (HVR, 281), son of Isaac and Mary (Willard) Hunt.

  Samuel Hunt married second 19 January 1764 (HVR, 184) Lydia Willard.
  Children, surname Fulham:

1) Francis, born Weston 20 March 1716/7 (WVR, 6)
2) Jacob, born Weston 22 December 1718 (WVR, 6)
3) Tabitha, born Weston 12 May 1722 (WVR, 12)
4) Elisha (posthumous), born 26 June 1725 (WVR, 16)

  Children, surname Parkhurst:

5) Daniel, born Weston 11 February 1726/7 (WVR, 20)
6) Jonathan, born Weston 16 November 1728 (WVR, 23)
7) William, born Weston 11 April 1731 (WVR, 28)
8) George, born Weston 25 April 1733 (WVR, 35)

  Child, surname Hunt:

9) Mary, born Weston 29 June 1741 (WVR, 53)
iv. SHADRACH, born Watertown 12 October 1698 (WVR 2:12); died Groton, MA 8 August 1764, in his 67th year (GVR, 279); married Groton "of North Town" 5 January 1731[/2] (GVR, 181) PRUDENCE (_____) LAWRENCE, born circa 1694 (calculated from age at death), died Groton 25 December 1762, in her 68th year (GVR, 279).

  Prudence had married first Thomas Lawrence of Groton (Middlesex Deed 35:205). Lawrence died Groton 4 October 1729, aged 37 years, 9 months 19 days (GVR, 240).
  The will of Shadrach Whitney named many of his siblings' children (Middlesex Probate #24750).

v. JONATHAN, born Watertown 25 November 1700 (WVR 2:19); died Milford 28 January 1755 in his 51st year (MVR, 376, which makes him slightly younger than his birth record would indicate); married LYDIA (_____), died Milford 4 May 1783 in her 77th year (MVR, 376).

  Children, surname Whitney:

1) Susanna, born Mendon 12 February 1727/8 (MVR, 212)
2) Jonathan, born Mendon 18 October 1729 (MVR, 212)
3) Jesse, born Mendon 24 November 1730 (MVR, 212)
4) Lydia, born Mendon 18 November 1732 (MVR, 212)
5) Sarah, born Mendon 14 March 1735/6 (MVR, 212)
6) Jonathan, born Mendon 26 July 1737 (MVR, 212)
7) Ruth, baptized Milford 1 April 1742 (MVR, 182)
8) David, born Milford 2 September 1746 (MVR, 181)
vi. ANNE, born Watertown 24 May 1702 (WVR 2:22); died Lincoln, MA 24 August 1793 (LVR, 159); married by Francis Fullam, J.P. Weston 3 March 1723/4 (WVR, 14) Capt. EBENEZER CUTLER, born 24
WHITNEY 549
July 1700, died Lincoln, MA 17 January 1777, age 77 years (LVR, 159), son of John and Mary (Stearns) Cutler.

  Children, all baptized together on 15 January 1748[/9], surname Cutler:

1) Elisha, born Weston 30 April 1725 (WVR, 18)
2) Jonas, born Weston 16 October 1727 (WVR, 22)
3) Anne, born Weston 6 March 1729/30 (WVR, 28)
4) Mary, born Weston 23 December 1732 (WVR, 42)
5) Sarah, born Weston 15 September 1735 (WVR, 42)
6) Mellicot, born Weston 31 March 1738 (WVR, 43)
7) Eliakim, born Weston 10 July 1745 (WVR, 84)
8) Ebenezer, baptized Weston 15 January 1748[/9]
9) Zaccheus, baptized Weston 15 January 1748[/9]
vii. Lieut. AMOS, born Watertown 1 May 1705 (WVR 2:30); died Townsend 31 October 1770 in his 66th year (TVR, 348); unmarried.
viii. ZACCHEUS, glazier, born Sudbury, MA 16 November 1707 (SVR, 151); died Bedford, MA 14 March 1739/40 (BVR, 139); married Concord by Justice Minott 23 May 1734 (CVR 131) MARY WHEELER.

  Widow Mary likely married second Bedford 1 January 1740/1 (BVR, 106) William Grimes, and if so, she died Bedford 15 July 1742 (BVR, 122).
  Children, surname Whitney:

1) Zacheus, born Bedford 15 March 1734/5 (BVR, 55)
2) Jonathan, born Bedford 12 January 1736/7 (BVR, 55)
3) Shadrack, born Bedford 17 May 1739 (BVR, 55)
ix. ISAAC, named in father's will; one of Lovewell's men; died Concord, MA before 17 January 1744 when his probate was begun; possibly the Isaac Whitney of Weston who confessed to fornication with Elizabeth his wife in court 9 March 1730/31 (Middlesex General Sessions), she predeceased him or this was another Isaac because he was apparently unmarried at his death when his brothers Amos and Shadrach declined administration of his insolvent estate and no widow was asked to administer (Middlesex Probate #24657). Notice of this administration had to be mailed to two of the brothers.
x. TIMOTHY, born Concord, MA 20 February 1708/9 (CVR, 72); died Groton before 18 June 1740 when his estate was probated (Middlesex Probate #24758); married Townsend by Rev. Phinehas Hemenway 24 May 1738 (TVR, 15) SUBMIT PARKER, born Groton 10 September 1715 (GVR, 178), who survived him (ibid.), daughter of John and Abigail Parker.
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Widow Submit (Parker) Whitney married second Groton 11 [blank] 1740 Reuben Woods (GVR, 189) and this couple had ten children.

  Child, surname Whitney:

1) Sybil [Seabill in VRs, sic], born Groton 31 March 1739 (GVR, 252) and named in her uncle Shadrack's will.
xi. DANIEL, born Concord, MA 12 September 1710 (CVR, 75); llving 1771 when he was notified of the probate of his brother Amos' will (Middlesex Probate #24603); married Shrewsbury 8 March 1738/9 (SVR, 233) THANKFUL ALLEN, born Hoplinton, MA 9 December 1713, daughter of Elnathan and Mary (_____) Allen. Daniel and his family were warned out of Townsend in 1770, lately from Westford (IVR, 441).

  Children, surname Whitney:

1) Levi, born Slrrewsbury 5 December 1739 (SVR, 112)
2) Timothy, born Shrewsbury 25 October 1743 (SVR, 112), also named in his uncle Shadrach's will (Middlesex Probate #24750)
3) Daniel, born Shrewsbury 4 September 1746 (SVR, 111)
4) Sarah, born Slrrewsbury 9 September 1749 (SVR, 112)
5) Daniel, born Westford 20 February 1757 (WVR, 116)
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