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Thomas Lake, 1615-1676

NEW ENGLAND MARRIAGES Prior to 1700, by Clarence Almon Torrey,
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page 447: LAKE, Thomas (1615-1676) (called "cousin"by Humphrey MILAM0 & Mary [GOODYEAR] (1630-); b1650; London/New Haven/Boston.

page 507: MILLAM, Humphrey (-1667) (Capt. Thomas LAKE called "cousin") & Mary [GORE]; b1652; Boston MILAM, John & Christian/Ann?; b1636; Boston MILAM, Joseph (1652-), Boston & 1/wf Hannah KING (1666-); 31 Oct 1688; Charlestown/Boston.

Powers-Banks Ancestry:
"This reference is found in the account of Sir Edward Lake, advocate general of Ireland, who was buried in Lincoln Cathedral in 1674. We are told that his brother, Thomas Lake, "married Mary daughter of Stephen Goodyer of London Goldsmith." Now this brother was married in America to Mary Goodyear and was slain by the Indians of Maine in 1676; his epitaph is in Copp's Hill, Boston. He was captain and his son Thomas inherited title and estate of Sir Edward Lake. Another fact concerning the Lakes: Anne, daughter to Captain and Mary Lake, was married first to John, grandson of the famous Rev. John Cotton, and on his death to no less a man than the Rev. Increase Mather of Boston. Mary appears to have been eldest child of Stephen and born about 1630. The genealogist says that the arms show that the Goodyears of England were all one family, but she points out no relationship to Sir Henry, the great friend of John Donne.

Stephen Goodyear was one of the company of Davenport and Eaton which landed in Boston 28 June, 1637, proceeded to New Haven in 1638, and there instituted their theocratic government. He was from the start prominent and engaged in foreign trade sometimes by himself, sometimes in company with Eaton and others. He was made deputy governor and thus second only to Eaton in magisterial influence. The most famous incident in his business career was his connection with the ill-fated phantom ship celebrated by Cotton Mather and much later by Longfellow. A chief purpose in the expedition was the securing a charter and perhaps it was in some connection with this that Mrs. Goodyear was on the vessel. After her loss Goodyear married the widow of Thomas Lamberton, the master of the ship. It was perhaps the loss entailed in this ship that began Goodyear's financial difficulties, a condition hinted at in the will of his father's friend Bowlton in 1649 and very clear in the settlement of estate when his debts amounted to over 2400.
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Whiting Memoir:
Judge Thomas Whiting, as he was generally called, on account of his being commissioned and acting as a local magistrate of Middlesex County, married the grand-dau. of Capt. Thomas Lake, an eminent merchant, who was killed by the Indians in 1676. For a memoir of him, and a full genealogy of his family, written by one of his descendants, see "Appendix to Copp's Hill Epitaphs," by J. W. Thornton, Esq. By the marriage of Judge Whiting with Miss Lake, who was a great-grand-daughter of Gov. Goodyear of Connecticut (see Gen. Reg., 1851, p. 347), his family were for the second time connected with that of the Lakes: the first connection being through Ann Lake, daughter of Capt. Thomas Lake, who married Rev. John Cotton, father-in-law of Rev. John Whiting. Capt. Lake was descended from Hugh de Caley, who died 1286, and Agnes, daughter of Hamo de Hamsted (see Bentham's Baronetage, vol. iii., p. 153).
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COTTON, REV. SEABORN, of Hampton, m. DOROTHY BRADSTREET. Their Children, Dorothy, b. Nov. 11, 1656, m. Col. Joseph Smith, of Hampton, N. H.; Rev. John, b. May 8, 1658, was a minister at Hampton, m. Ann Lake, dau. of Capt. Thomas La[ke], of Boston; Sarah, b. Feb. 22, 1660, d. in infancy, April 1, 1660; Ann, b. Aug. 22, 1661, m. Mr. Johnson; Sarah, b. July 2, 1663, m. Richard Peirce, of Boston, Aug. 27, 1680, d. Aug. 2, 1690; Elizabeth, b. Aug. 13, 1665, m. Rev. William Williams, of Hatfield, d. 1698; Mercy, b. Nov. 3, 1666, m. Capt. Peter Tufts, of Medford, d. June 18, 1715; Abiah, b. April 5, 1669; Maria, b. April 22, 1670, m. 1st, Mr. Atwater; 2d, Samuel Partridge, d. 1729.

COTTON, REV. JOHN, m. ANN LAKE. Their Children, Mary, b. Nov. 5, 1689, m. Rev. John Whiting, of Concord, Mass., d. May 29, 1731; John, b. Sept. 5, 1687, d. Sept. 8, 1689; Dorothy, b. July 16, 1693, m. Rev. Nathaniel Gookin, of Hampton, Dec. 21, 1710, d. May 20, 1748, at Kingston, N. H.; Thomas, b. Oct. 28, 1695, l. at Brookline, Mass.; Anna, b. Nov. 13, 1697; Simon, b. Dec. 21, 1701; Samuel and Lydia d. young.
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29 (3) 1649:
Uppon the 29th day of the 3d month called May 1649 according to the Account of Engl. I Wm Aspinwall Not & Tabel. publick by Authority of the Generll Court of the Massachusetts admitted & sworne, at the request of Wm Stretton of Bristoll Mercht. did repaire unto major Robert Sedgwick, Thomas Lake, Thomas Venner & John Trumble wth a Charter ptie made betwixt them and the sd Wm Stretton beareing date 26 (8) 1648. and the same did shew unto the sd Ro: Sedgw. Tho. Lake, Tho. Venner & Jo: Trumble, and in the name of the sd Wm Stretton did prot & by these prsents doe protest against them and every of them for that theire shipp called the Content (wch by Charter ptie ought to have beene ready to sett saile the 10th of Aprill) did not set saile for marblehead untill the 18th of this instant, and for that the said Shipp is not yet sufficient but leaky above water, and for the losse of his market, & Damage in his fish that by this neglect of theires is exposed unto harme both by weather, doggs, & stealing, for all wch the sd owners of the sd vessell shalbe responsall & lyable to make him due reparations in time & place convenient. This protest was thus published unto the sd Robt Sedgwick & his part owners by mee the Not aforesaid.

Having read this protest to Mr Tho: Lake and shewed him the Charter ptie, he owned the Charter partie & acknowledged the breach of it, and that Mr Stretton had just ground to doe what hee did. & wth all gave me his further Answer under his owne hand as followeth. Whereas mr Wm Aspinwall in the name of Mr Wm Stretton made protest against mee Thomas Lake as part owner of the Shipp Content, ffor that the sd Shipp is not fitted p the Owners according to Charter ptie made wth Mr Wm Stretton, Now Know all men that I Thomas Lake being Undertaker & pt owner of the sd shipp for 3/8 pts have from time to time given all diligence to pay the Carpenter for my part of paymt to him due, & also to pvide 3/8 pts of all such pvisions & furniture for the sd shipp according as the mr gave notice of his want or neede thereof, the same was done in my absence when I was at Newhaven p my frend & Agent Mr Joshua Scotto, so as I am in no wayes wanting for my 3/8 pts of the said shipp fitting for sea.

p me Tho: Lake.
May. 29th 1649.

M Tho: Venner answered that the ship was not fitted according to Charter partie, & that the protest was just, but that for his part he was not wanting to pforme his part.

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Family/Spouse: Lake, Mary. Mary was born in 1720 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died in in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Whiting, Thomas was born on 3 Oct 1748 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 28 Sep 1828 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
2. Whiting, John Lake was born on 22 Jul 1754 in Lancaster, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died in in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
3. Whiting, Lucy was born in Jul 1756 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died in in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
4. Whiting, William was born on 30 Sep 1760 in of, Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts; died in 1832 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States; was buried in 1832.
5. Whiting, Lydia was born about 1752 in Mass.; died on 5 Dec 1837.
6. Whiting, Mary

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ID: IND00153 Name: REV. JOHN WHITING Sex: M Birth: 20 JUN 1681 Death: 4 MAY 1752 Note: BORN-LYNN MA. DIED- CONCORD, MA. MARRIED ABOUT 1712. GRADUATED HARVARD 1700 AND WAS ORDAINED AT CONCORD, MA. 14 MAY 1712 Note: Source- History of Concord "The Rev. John Whiting died May 4, 1752, aged 71. He was the son son of the Rev. Joseph Whiting, who was graduated at Harvard College in 1661, and was afterwards minister of South Hampton, Long Island. His mother, I suppose, was daughter of the Hon. Thomas Danforth of Cambridge, deputy governor of Massachusetts colony; and as he died without issue, perhaps a good portion of his estate desended to Mr. Whiting. His grandfather was the Rev. Samuel Whiting of Lynn, whose last wife was Elizabeth St. John, daughter of the Right Honorable Oliver St. John, nephew to the Rev. Peter Bulkeley, and mentioned in the History Of England. The father of Rev. Samuel was John Whiting, Mayor of the city of Boston, Lincolnshire.
The Rev. John of Concord, was the sixth son of the Rev. Joseph Whiting, the five preceeding him having died in infancy. He was born at Lynn, June 20, 1681. He was graduated at Harvard College in 1700, and was subsequently chosen a tutor and fellow of that institution. He was pastor of the church in Concord about Twenty six years. After his dismissal, he resided in this town principally as a private citizen. He was a man of wealth, learning, influence and talents; and, as his modest epitaph informs us, " a gentleman of singular hospitality and generosity, who never detracted from the character of any man, and was a universal lover of mankind."
He married Mary, daughter of Rev. John Cotton of Hampton, New Hampshire, and granddaughter of the Rev. Seaborn Cotton."
Father: REV. JOSEPH WHITING b: 6 APR 1641
Mother: SARAH DANFORTH b: 11 NOV 1646 Marriage 1 MARY COTTON b: 5 NOV 1687 Married: 30 OCT 1712 Note: source- Boston, Massachusetts Marriages, 1700-1809 Spouse1: The Rd. Mr. John Whiting
Spouse2: Mrs. Mary Cotton Married By: Rev. Mr. Benj. Colman Presbytn Date: 30 Oct 1712 Children MARY WHITING b: 3 AUG 1713 ELIZABETH WHITING b: 1718 STEPHEN WHITING b: 6 AUG 1720

John married Cotton, Mary on 10 Oct 1712 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. Mary (daughter of Cotton, John and Lake, Ann) was born on 5 Nov 1687 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States; was christened in Nov 1689 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States; died on 29 May 1731 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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ID: IND00152 Name: MARY COTTON Sex: F Birth: 5 NOV 1687 Death: 29 MAY 1731 Note: BORN- HAMPTON, N.H. DIED- CONCORD, MA.
Father: REV. JOHN COTTON b: 8 MAY 1658 Mother: ANNE LAKE b: 12 OCT 1663 Marriage 1 REV. JOHN WHITING b: 20 JUN 1681
Married: 30 OCT 1712
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source- Boston, Massachusetts Marriages, 1700-1809 Spouse1: The Rd. Mr. John Whiting Spouse2: Mrs. Mary Cotton Married By: Rev. Mr. Benj. Colman Presbytn Date: 30 Oct 1712
Children
MARY WHITING b: 3 AUG 1713
ELIZABETH WHITING b: 1718
STEPHEN WHITING b: 6 AUG 1720

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source- Boston, Massachusetts Marriages, 1700-1809 Spouse1: The Rd. Mr. John Whiting Spouse2: Mrs. Mary Cotton Married By: Rev. Mr. Benj. Colman Presbytn Date: 30 Oct 1712

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According to the Book " Memoir of Rev. Samuel Whiting", Joseph was born April 6, 1641. He was ordained a teacher of the church in Lynn 10-6-1680 and was later a minister in Southampton L.I. where he stayed until his death. He had 2 wives - Sarah Danforth, eldest daughter of Hon. Thomas Danforth, deputy governor of MA. She was born 11-11-1646. His second wife was Rebecca Prescott, who died the same year as him. He and Rebecca had no children, but he had 6 kids with Sarah. All except the first and 6th child died within a few weeks of birth. He died April 7, 1723 at age 82. Since Rebecca would have been older when they married, she might have also been a widow with Prescott as her married name.

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ID: IND00161 Name: REV. JOSEPH WHITING Sex: M Birth: 6 APR 1641 Death: 7 APR 1723 Note: BORN- LYNN MA. DIED- SOUTH HAMPTON, N.Y. MARRIED AT CAMBRIDGE MA. 1674 Note: source- http://www.rootsweb.com/~nysuffol/wills5.html "Page 326.--In the name of God, Amen, April 27, 1717. I, JOSEPH WHITING, Minister of the Gospel, of ye town of Southampton, in the County of Suffolk, being sick in body, "Considering the age God hath lengthened out my days into." I leave to my eldest son, John Whiting, all my library of books, excepting a few small books I shall hereafter give. I leave to my eldest daughter, Sarah Sparhawk, €5. I leave to my second son, Samuel, €6. To my third son, Joseph, a certain tract or parcel of land in the town of Stamford, in the Colony of Connecticutt, being 12 acres, lying on the east side of Pine Brook, Bounded west by the Brook, east and north by Town lands, and south by highway, as it is recorded in Stamford. Also a parcel of land in Stamford, lying above the Great Ox Ridge, so called, being 18 acres, bounded as by deed of sale I received from John Bishop of Stamford, October 11, 1714. I also leave to my son Joseph 20 shillings. I leave to my fourth son, Benjamin, 20 shillings, and to my youngest son, Ebenezer, €20 when of age. I leave to my daughters Rebecca Howell and Hannah Ball €5 each, and to my two youngest daughters, Elizabeth and Dorothy, €20 each when 18 years of age. Lastly, I leave and bequeath to my beloved wife, Rebecca, whom I make sole executor, my now dwelling house and buildings and land adjoining in the Town Plot of Southampton, and all the rest of my estate, both real and personal, for the term and time of 2,000 years after my decease, with power to sell as she pleaseth to pay all my just debts and legacies. Witnesses, Daniel Foster, Christopher Foster, Thomas Reed. Proved, June 8, 1726, and the executrix being also dead, and the eldest sons having relinquished their right, Letters of Administration are granted to the son John Whiting. [NOTE.--Rev. Joseph Whiting was born April 6, 1641, and became Minister in Southampton in 1683. He was a graduate of Harvard in 1661. His tombstone, in the old South end burying ground in Southampton, bears the inscription, "Here lyes ye Reverend Joseph Whiting, who died April 7, 1723, in ye 82nd year of his age." His wife Rebecca (a second wife) died April 21, 1726, aged 63 years, 2 months.--W. S. P.] " SOURCE- http://www.nelsonarts.com/Genealogy/all/migration%20history/whiting.htm "A brief biography of Joseph Whiting appears in the book, "The Early History of Southampton, L.I., New York," in which it states, " Joseph, the third son [of Rev. Samuel Whiting], was born April 6, 1641, graduated at Harvard in 1661, and assisted his father several years and was installed as his successor in 1679. He was twice married -- first to Sarah, daughter of Hon. Thomas Danforth, deputy governor of Massachusetts, and president of Maine, and again to Rebecca, who died April 21, 1726." Rev. Joseph Whiting left his parish in Lynn, Massachusetts to settle in Southampton, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York in 1683, where he was th parish pastor until his death in 1723. The marriage between Joseph Whiting and Rebecca Bishop is cited in the book, "The Early Settlement of Stamford, Connecticut 1641-1700," which has a biography of preacher John Bishop. It states, "An event of considerable excitement and rejoicing for the village took place in 1684. This was the marriage of John Bishop's daughter Rebecca. The bridegroom was the Reverend Joseph Whiting of Long Island, a man twenty-one years her senior whose first wife had died."
Ancestry Hints for REV. JOSEPH WHITING 1 possible matches found on Ancestry.com
Father: REV. SAMUEL WHITING b: 20 NOV 1597 Mother: ELIZABETH ST. JOHN b: 1605 Marriage 1 SARAH DANFORTH b: 11 NOV 1646 Married: 1674 Children REV. JOHN WHITING b: 20 JUN 1681 SARAH WHITING Marriage 2 REBECCA BISHOP b: FEB 1663

Joseph married Danforth, Sarah in 1661 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Sarah (daughter of Danforth, Deputy Governor Thomas and Withington, Mary or Marie) was born on 11 Nov 1646 in Massachusetts, United States; died in 1682. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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John married Lake, Ann. Ann was born on 12 Oct 1663 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States; died on 1 Apr 1760 in Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States; was buried in 1736 in Walnut Street Cemetery, Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Samuel Whiting
WHITING, Samuel, clergyman, born in Boston, Lincolnshire, England, 20 November, 1597; died in Lynn, Massachusetts, 11 December, 1679. His father, John, was mayor of his native city. The son was graduated at Cambridge in 1616, entered the ministry, and officiated at Lynn, in Norfolk, and in Skirbeck, near his native place, but, after two prosecutions for nonconformity, he emigrated to this country, where he was the first minister of Lynn, Massachusetts, serving from 8 November, 1636, till his death. He was a close student and an accomplished Hebrew and Latin scholar. " In his preaching," says Cotton Mather, "his design was not to please but to profit ; to bring forth, not high things, but fit things." He published "Oratio quam Comitiis Cantab. Americanis" (1649) ; "Treatise on the Last Judgment" (1664) ; and a volume of sermons on " Abraham Interceding for Sodom" (1666). His second wife was the daughter of Oliver St. John, chief justice of England under Cromwell, and their son, SAMUEL (1633--1713), was graduated at Harvard in 1653 and became the first minister of Billerica, Massachusetts An " Elegy on the Reverend Samuel Whiting, of Lynn," by Benjamin Tompson, "ye renowned poet of New England," is printed in Cotton Mather's "Magnalia." See also " Memoirs of Reverend Samuel Whiting and of his Wife, Elizabeth St. John, with Reference to some of their English Ancestors and American Descendants," by William Whiting, LL. D. (printed privately, Boston, 1871).--His descendant William, lawyer, born in Concord, Massachusetts, 3 March, 1813; died in Boston, Massachusetts, 29 June, 1873, was graduated at Harvard in 1833, and, after teaching at Plymouth and Concord, studied law in Boston and at Harvard law-school, where he was graduated in 1838. He then began practice in Boston, where he soon attained eminence at the bar, and was engaged in many important cases. In 1862 he became solicitor of the war department in Washington, where he served three years. In 1868 he was a presidential elector, and in 1872 he was elected to congress as a Republican, but he died before he could take his seat. Colby university gave him the degree of LL.D. in 1872. He left $5,000 to Harvard for a scholarship. Mr. Whiting was for five years president of the New England historic-genealogical society. His principal work is " The War Powers of the President and the Legislative Powers of Congress in Relation to Rebellion, Treason, and Slavery" (Boston, 1862; 10th ed., with large additions, 1863: 43d ed., 1871). In this he formulated views that he had urged at the opening of the civil war, namely, that the United States government had full belligerent rights against the inhabitants of seceded states, and without going beyond the constitution could confiscate their property, emancipate their slaves, and treat them as public enemies. These opinions were at first received with caution by most public men, but they were finally sanctioned and adopted by the government. The book had a large sale in this country and abroad. Besides this, he published various pamphlets, chiefly legal arguments before the United States courts, and a "Memoir of Reverend Joseph Harrington," prefixed to a volume of his sermons (Boston, 1854), and was the author of the privately printed memoir of his ancestor, Samuel, mentioned above.

Memoir of Rev Samuel Whiting, D.D. and of His Wife Elizabeth St. John; with reference to some of their English Ancestors and American Descendants by William Whiting FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE New-ENgIand HISTORIC-GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY,AUTHOR OF "WAR POWERS UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES," ETC. 1873
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" The family of Whiting," says Thompson (pp. 430, 431), "was very early connected with Boston and the neighborhood. William Whytinge of Boston is mentioned in the Subsidy Roll of Edward III. (1333). William Whyting of Deeping occurs in Dugdale, under the date 1352; and John and Robert Whiting of Thorpe, near Wainfleet, are named by the same authority as living in 1560." The earliest mention of this family in the corporation records is in 1590, when John Whiting was a member of the Common Council, and erection bailiff; and the first record of the family in the parish register is the baptism of John Whiting, son of John, on the 4th of June, 1592. John Whiting was mayor of Boston in 1600 and 1608:* he was the father of Samuel Whiting, who was born at Boston, aoth November, 1597, and who was entered of Emanuel College, Cambridge, 1613, and took his degrees of A.B. and A.M. in 1616 and 1620 respectively. He soon after received orders, and became chaplain in a family which was connected with the Bacons and Townsends of Norfolk, and continued in that position three years. He was afterwards settled as a colleague with Mr. Price at King's Lynn, in the same county. He remained three years at Lynn ; but complaints being made to the bishop of Norwich, of his nonconformity in administering the services of the Church, he removed to the rectory of Skirbeck, near Boston, where his nonconformity was also complained of, and led subsequently to his emigration to the American colonies." " He was married to his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter* of Oliver St. John, own cousin of Oliver Cromwell, and afterwards chief justice of England, at Boston, on the 6th of August, 1629. His brother John was mayor of Boston in 1626, 1633, 1644, and 1645.t James, another brother, was mayor in 1640. Robert Whiting surrendered the office of sergeant-at-mace, 28th June, 1631, and was elected marshal of die admiralty, which office he resigned 17th November, 1632. \ The Rev. Samuel Whiting resigned the rectory of Skirbeck in 1636, and emigrated to America. He arrived in Boston (N.E.) May 26, and in the following November removed to Lynn, in Massachusetts, where he officiated as minister until his death there, on the 1 1th December, 1679, when he was eighty-two years of age: his wife died in Lynn, in 1677, aged seventy-two. Mr. Whiting's second son, John, was a graduate of Harvard University. He returned to England, and was appointed rector of Leverton : he died in 1689. We believe the male line of the Whitings in this neighborhood became extinct by the death of the Rev. Samuel Whiting, rector of Fishtoft, in 1781.* His sister Mary married James Yorke; their son, James Whiting Yorke, a colonel in the British army, inherited the Rev. Samuel Whiting's property. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Abraham and Martha Sheath of Boston. His only son, James Whiting Yorke of Wallingsgate, near Louth, was sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1850 and 1851, and died in July, 1854, without issue." "The American branch of the Whiting family is at present represented by William Whiting, Esq., . . . President of the New-England Historical Society." t

* John Whiting, as appears by the records of the corporation of Boston, also held the office of vice-admiral of Lincolnshire in 1602 (Thompson, p. 459).
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REV. SAMUEL WHITING, D.D.

The family name of Whiting seems to have retained substantially the same pronunciation, though it has been spelled with not less than sixteen variations, between the years 1085 and 1630, as will be seen by the following extracts from English records, in which the dates and spellings have been carefully copied : —

1085. Roger Witen.

Alan de Witting (grandfather).

Alan de Witting (father).
1195. Everard de Witting, Yorkshire (son).
1202. Hugo Witeng, Dorset.
1207. Magister Johannes Witeing.
1214. Giffardo Witeng, Somerset.
1199-1216. WJllus de Witon, Yorkshire.

1217. Adam de Wyten, Yorkshire.

1276. Thomas de Whitene, Nottinghamshire.

1279. Wills. Whitingh, Oxfordshire.

1280. Agnes de Wyten, prioress of St. Clements,

city of York. 1306. Rogerus de Whitene, manucaptor of Williel

mus Ball, burgess returned for Cricklade. 1306. Walterus de Whiten, manucaptor of Johannes

de Graham and Rogerus de Reston, citizens

returned for York.

1312. Johannes Whyting, manucaptor of Richardus

Elyot, burgess returned for Portsmouth.

1313. John Whyting.

1316. Walterus Whilyng, certified pursuant to writ tested at Clipston, 5 March, 1316, as one of the lords of the townships of Seaton cum mcmbris and Merton cum membris in the county of York.

1321. Thomas Whityng, accused of having joined

with many others in forcibly entering upon the manors of Spene, &c., in the county of Berks; special commission of Oyer and Terminer issued for trying him .as well at the suit of Hugh le Despencer, Earl of Winchester, as at the suit of the king, fasted at Hurry, 28 May, 15 Edw. II.

1322. Thomas Whyting.

1326. Johannes de Whyten, de Lincoln, manucaptor

of Will. de Hakethorn, citizen returned for
Lincoln.

1327. Johannes de Whyten, de Lincoln.
1333- William Whytynge of Boston.

1352. William Whyting of Deeping, Lincolnshire. 1326-1377. Robtus de Whitene, Nottinghamshire.

1384. Thomas Whiten et Katerine uxor, Meltonby

and Grymethorpe manors, co. York. 1405. John de Wyten, sheriff of the city of York. 1421. John Wyton, 8 Henry V. 1450. Robert Whiting. 1455. Robert Whitingh, armiger, Bucks. 1509—1547. Thomas Whiting, Lincoln.

1524. Frater Johannes Whytyng, obt. 24 Junii, White

Friars Carmelite, diocese of Norwich. (See

Weaver's Funeral Monuments, p. 533.) 1526. Henry Wystyng, or Whytyng, principal of St.

Mary Magdalen College, Oxford. 1560. John and Robert Whiting of Thorpe, near

Wainfleet.

1600. John Whiting, mayor of Boston. •
1630. Rev. Samuel Whiting, D.D., the subject of

this memoir.

His name, as written by himself on the records of Emanuel College, Cambridge, when he entered as a student, was Samuel Whitingc, and this was undoubtedly the mode of writing it used by his family at that date: but he dropped the last letter after he came to this country; and his English and American descendants have, without exception it is believed, followed his example.

The author of the History and Antiquities of Boston, England,* writes as follows : —

" The earliest mention which I find of the Whiting family, in this district, is that of 'William Whytyng,' whose name is recorded A.D. 1333> as an inhabitant of Boston at that time." " In a very old mansion-house," says the same author, " situated within the parish of Leake, near Boston, and which old house is known by the name of St. Lawrence's Chantry, otherwise the Lesser Chantry, or the Moat House, are several old ' skutcheons' of arms over one of the chimney (mantle) pieces; and those are alluded to in my Collections, published in 1820. I have lately (1853) paid close attention to these coats, or scutcheons, and find the Whiting arms quartered upon two of them. They cannot be less than two hundred and fifty or three hundred years old, probably older. The first is the coat borne by the Hunston family of Leake, who were settled in that parish as early as temp. Richard I., perhaps earlier, and afterwards intermarried into the Sutton, Stickney, Whiting, Gedney, and Endefby families, all of whose arms are quartered on that shield; they being respectively, 1. Hunston; 2. Sutton; 3. Stickney; 4. Whytyng; 5 and 7. Gedney; 6 and 8. Enderby.

* Pishey Thompson, Esq., who, in his invaluable work, has garnered up the fruit of fifty years' research.

" The second shield" of which he gives a sketch drawn from the same mantle-piece, "quarters the arms of Smith of Elsham, in place of those of Gedney and Enderby, with the arms of Hunston, Sutton, Stickney, and Whiting."

" The Whiting arms, as quartered by the Hunstons in the old house at Leake, are the arms of the ancient family of Whiting of Lincolnshire."* This coat-of-arms, as shown in the engraving presented in this memoir, was borne by the ancestors of Rev. Samuel Whiting, and has been transmitted through him to his American descendants.*

* See Thompson's History of Boston, p. 585, where he gives a further account of St. Lawrence's Chantry, and of the armorial quarterings above referred to.

The residence t of the Lincolnshire Whitings of this family from the year 1333, and probably from a much earlier date, was at Boston, where William Whytynge was at that date taxed as a citizen.J The following extract from Thompson's work (pp. 160, 161), refers to the great church of St. Botolph, where, for several centuries, they have worshipped, and where the famous John Cotton preached, in memory of whom his English and American descendant? have recently adorned one of its most bcauti ful chapels.

" The foundation of the present steeple of Boston church is said to have been laid in 1309, although the tower was not carried up

* Sec appendix p. 265.

t In Thompson's History, p. 243, may be found an engraving of Hussey Tmvcr ; and in a note on that page, he says,—

"The Whiting family occupied this property from 1627 to 1668,except for a short period ; " but, as they were owners of several estates in and near Boston, it is not certain that this was at any time their principal homestead.

t See Subsidy Roll, temp. Edw. III., 1333, at Boston.

PREFIX: Also shown as Rev.

DEATH: Also shown as Died Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.

DEATH: Also shown as Died 11 Dec 1679

Samuel married St. John, Elizabeth on 6 Aug 1629 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England. Elizabeth (daughter of St. John, Oliver and Bulkely, Sarah) was born on 12 Jan 1604 in Cayshoe, Bedfordshire, England; was christened on 12 Jan 1604 in Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, England; died on 3 Mar 1677 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; was buried in Old Western Burial Ground, Lynn, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• FamilySearch Id: KF29-YS9

Notes:

Samuel Whiting, Jr.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Reverend Samuel Whiting, Jr. (March 25, 1633 – February 28, 1713)[citation needed] was the first minister of Billerica, Massachusetts,[1] from November 11, 1663, to February 28, 1713.[citation needed]

Biography[edit]
He was the son of the Reverend Samuel Whiting and his second wife,[1] Elizabeth[2] St. John. Elizabeth belonged to the prominent landowning family of St. John of Lydiard Tregoze; she was the sister[2] of Oliver St. John, a leading lawyer and judge who was one of the foremost opponents of King Charles I of England during the English Civil War.

Samuel Whiting, Jr., graduated from Harvard in 1653.[1]

References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b c Wikisource-logo.svg One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1889). "Whiting, Samuel". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
^ Jump up to: a b John Burke and John Bernard Burke (1838). "St. John of Longthorpe". A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies of England. Scott, Webster and Geary. p. 462.
Further reading[edit]
“Elegy on the Rev. Samuel Whiting,[ Sr.,] of Lynn,” by Benjamin Tompson, “ye renowned poet of New England,” printed in Cotton Mather's Magnalia
William Whiting, LL. D., Memoirs of Rev. Samuel Whiting and of his Wife, Elizabeth St. John, with Reference to some of their English Ancestors and American Descendants (printed privately, Boston, 1871)
Preceded by
First Pastor Minister
1663 – 1713 Succeeded by
Samuel Ruggles[citation needed]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Whiting,_Jr.
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https://goodgentlewoman.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/elizabeth-st-john-puritan-pioneer/

SURNAME: Also shown as John

GIVEN NAMES: Also shown as Elizabeth Saint

BIRTH RITE: Also shown as Christening Cayshoe, Bedford, England.

Other Events:

• Naturalization: 1643, Freeman papers

Thomas married Withington, Mary or Marie on 23 Mar 1642/1643 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Mary was born about 1623 in Of London, Middlesex, England; died in 1697; was buried in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]