Family:Whitney, William (s1529-a1590)
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William Whitney (Robert, James, Robert, Eustace, Robert, Robert, Robert, Eustace, Eustace, Robert, ...), son of Robert and Margaret (Wye) Whitney,[1] was born say 1529, Icomb, Gloucestershire,[2] and died after 1590.[3]
William was bequeathed land in Great Rissington in his father's will, dated 1541:
- Also I bequethe to my sonne William when he comythe to the age of XXIIII yeres my lease and ferme called the Chauntery landes in Greate Ryssinton wt the Indenture of the same Remaynyng in my Caskett at Icombe aforesaide wt foure hundred wethers at that age or the price of them as they shalbe praysed in the Inventarye and in the meane tyme my wife to take the proffittes of the same ferme.
William was mentioned in a Barons' Deposition of Richard Bryan of Icomb, dated 1590.[4]
- To the 5[th interrogatory] he sayeth Mr Johnson talked w[i]th this depo[nent] when he was att Widford touchinge Mr Whytney and concerninge his land[es] in great Risington and littell Barrington but what he then said this depo[nent] remembreth not neyther remembrth this depo[nent] what Mr Johnson said touchinge the said Mr Whitney his said dealing[es] w[i]th this depo[nent] in and about the said land[es] yett he sayeth he talked w[i]th this depo[nent] aboute the same
and sayd that Mr lea and he would buy Mr Whytneys interrest and this is all he remembreth touchinge these matters.
Because William was listed in connection with the land at Great Rissington, it is clear that this was almost certainly the same man. In the 1590 deposition, he is listed as "William Whitney of Broadwell".
References
1.^ Henry Melville, The Ancestry of John Whitney: Who, with His Wife Elinor, and Sons John, Richard, Nathaniel, Thomas, and Jonathan, Emigrated from London, England, in the Year 1635, and Settled in Watertown, Massachusetts; the First of the Name in America, and the One from Whom a Great Majority of the Whitneys Now Living in the United States Are Descended (New York, NY: The De Vinne Press, 1896), pp. 265, 269, 271, 275.
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3. ^ E 133/7/971
4. ^ ibid.
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