General Notes

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Individual: John Whitney
Place: Watertown, MA
Year: 1635

Primary Individual: Whitney, John

Source Code: 9448

Source Name:
VIRKUS, FREDERICK A., editor.  Immigrant Ancestors:  A List of 2,500 Immigrants to America before 1750.  Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1964. 75p. Repr. 1986.



Source Page #: 73
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Individual: John Whitney
Place: Watertown, MA
Year: 1636

Primary Individual: Whitney, John

Source Code: 1936

Source Name:
FARMER, JOHN. A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New-England; Containing an Alphabetical List of the Governors, Deputy-Governors, Assistants or Counsellors, and Ministers of the Gospel in the Several Colonies, from 1620 to 1692; Graduates of Harvard College to 1662; Members of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company to 1662; Freemen Admitted to the Massachusetts Colony from 1630 to 1662; With Many Other of the Early Inhabitants of New-England and Long-Island, NY from 1620 to the Year 1675.... Lancaster, Mass.: Carter, Andrews, & Co., 1829. 352p. Reprinted with additions and corrections by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1964. Repr. 1976, 1983.

Source Annotation:
Excellent directory of the first settlers of New England. Drake's additions and corrections (no. 1666) are found in the G.P.C. reprint and in no. 9151, Tepper, Passengers to America, PP. 468-470.

Source Name:
FARMER, JOHN. A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New-England; Containing an Alphabetical List of the Governors, Deputy-Governors, Assistants or Counsellors, and Ministers of the Gospel in the Several Colonies, from 1620 to 1692; Graduates of Harvard College to 1662; Members of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company to 1662; Freemen Admitted to the Massachusetts Colony from 1630 to 1662; With Many Other of the Early Inhabitants of New-England and Long-Island, NY from 1620 to the Year 1675.... Lancaster, Mass.: Carter, Andrews, & Co., 1829. 352p. Reprinted with additions and corrections by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1964. Repr. 1976, 1983.

Source Annotation:
Excellent directory of the first settlers of New England. Drake's additions and corrections (no. 1666) are found in the G.P.C. reprint and in no. 9151, Tepper, Passengers to America, PP. 468-470.

Source Page #: 315

English Origins of New England Families: Series 1, Vol., p. 505 [CD Disk]

"Robert Daniel's widow, Reana Daniel of Cambridge, for a valuable sum of money paid by John Whitney Jr., of Watertown, confirmed unto John Whitney,
in 1556, 40 acres of land in Watertown ..."

His estate was probated 6-4-1673, Watertown; inventory of Mr. John Whitney, Sr. taken by Joseph Underwood, William Bond, and Nathan Fiske, Jr., includes 50 acres of individual land at 1.25,3 acres meadow ay Beaver Brook with a half of upland to it at 1.20, and 1acre of plain meadow at 10#, household goods and stock on the farm; his estate was probated 17 June, 1673 Watertown by William Bond and Sarah, his wife. Inventory was attested to.

His early admission as freeman, and his early election as Selectman, show that he held a respectable social position. Other sources: "The Ancestry of John Whitney", Henry Melville, NY. 1896; Frederick Clifton Pearce, "Whitney   Genealogy", Chicago, 1895; "Finding Forfathers in America" Archibald Bennett, 1957, page 245; will of Josua Whitney, 1704-1713; Parish records at St. Margaret's Westminister, held in the library of Westminister Abbey, says that John and Elinor lived in Isleworth, a 'suburb' of London, was apprenticed to William Pring of the Old Bailey,Feb.2, 1607 [record's of the Merchant Taylor's Company]. Freed of his bond Mar 13, 1614. Nov 8,1624 he too