John WHITNEY b. 1589 England d. 1 Jun 1673 Watertown, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts: Darlene's Family Genealogy

1589 - 1673 (84 years)

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Name	John WHITNEY [1]
	"Whitney Genealogy": The Whitney family is very numerous in America; not only in New England are they abundant, but in nearly every state and territory in the United States. A very large share of those who bear the name are descendants of John and Elinor Whitney of Watertown, in the Massachusetts colony. No relationship is traced between this family and that of Henry Whitney of Norwalk, Conn., who located there in 1685, and the genealogy of whose descendants, both male and female lines, has been published by S. Whitney Phoenix, being the most exhaustive and expensive work of this kind ever published in America. (The Whitney Family of Connecticut and its Affiliations, Being an attempt to trace the Descendants, as well in the Female as the Male lines, of Henry Whitney, from 1649 to 1878) John Whitney was born in England in 1589, and dwelt in the Parish of Isleworth-on-the-Thames, opposite Richmond, nine miles from London, from may, 1619, to January, 1623-4. The record "of persons permitted to embark at the port of London after Christmas, 1634," manuscript folio page 35 in Rolls office, Chancery Lane, gives the following names and ages: John Whitney 35, Elinor Whitney 30, John 11, Richard 9, Nathaniel 8, thomas 6, Jonathan 1..... They settled in Watertown, in the Massachusetts colony, in June, 1635, where his son Joshua was born the 15th of July following, he being the first of this line born in America. JohnWhitney was admitted freeman 3d of March, 1636, and the following year was for the first time elected by his associates as one of the Select Men of the town. he held the office for many years afterward, until 1655, at which time he was elected town clerk. June 1, 1641, he was appointed constable at Watertown by General Court at their quarter session held in Boston. At that time, constables were appointed by the General Court, and besides the duties attached to the office in latter ties, they were required to collect the taxes of the town and the levies by the General Court; to pay the debts of the colony due to individuals in their respective towns; to supply the town with sealed weights and measures; to set or order in those towns where no captain dwelt, and to inflict the punishments ordered by judicial authority, "where there was not another appointed to do it within his own town, unless he can get another to do it." As a badge of his office a constable was required to carry a black staff five or five and a half feet long, with a tip or head five or six inches long. His very early admission as a freeman and his election as a Select Man show that he held a respectable social position in the community... [1]
Birth	1589	England [1]
Gender	Male
Death	1 Jun 1673	Watertown, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts [1]
Person ID	I69298	Main Tree
Last Modified	29 Sep 2018

Family 1 Elinor UNKNOWN, b. 1599 d. 11 May 1659, Watertown, Massachusetts (Age 60 years)

Children

	1. Mary WHITNEY, c. 23 May 1619, England d. young [Birth]
+	2. John WHITNEY, b. 1620, England d. 12 Oct 1692, Watertown, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts (Age 72 years) [Birth]
	3. Richard WHITNEY, b. 1626, England d. Massachusetts [Birth]
	4. Nathaniel WHITNEY, b. 1627, England [Birth]
+	5. Thomas WHITNEY, b. 1629, England d. 20 Sep 1719, Massachusetts, USA (Age 90 years) [Birth]
	6. Jonathan WHITNEY, b. 1634, England d. 1702, Sherborn, Massachusetts (Age 68 years) [Birth]
+	7. Dea. Joshua WHITNEY, b. 5 Jul 1635, Watertown, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts d. 7 Aug 1719, Massachusetts (Age 84 years) [Birth]
	8. Caleb WHITNEY, b. 12 Jul 1640, Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts bur. 1640 [Birth]
	9. Benjamin WHITNEY, b. 6 Jun 1643, Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts d. 1723 (Age 79 years) [Birth]

Family ID F27909 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 6 Aug 2018

Family 2	Judith CLEMENT d. Bef Jun 1673
Marriage	29 Sep 1659	Watertown, Massachusetts [1]
Family ID	F27910	Group Sheet \| Family Chart
Last Modified	8 Sep 2012

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Birth - 1589 - England

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Sources
[S4980] Frederick Clifton Pierce, "Whitney" The Descendants of John Whitney, Who Came From London, England to Watertown, Mass. in 1635, (Frederick Clifton Pierce, 1895).