Family:Whiton, James (1624-1710)
James1 Whiton (ThomasA), son of ThomasA Whiton, was baptized 20 Mar 1624[/5], Hook Norton, Oxfordshire,[1] and died 26 Apr 1710, Hingham, MA.[2]
He married 30 Dec 1647, Hingham, MA, Mary Beal, daughter of John and Nazareth (Hobart) Beal. She was baptized 28 Oct 1623, Wymondham, Norfolk, and died 12 Dec 1696, Hingham, MA.[3]
On 6 October 1647, "James Wyton of Hingham, mariner, granted a letter of attorney irrevocable to Richard Betscomb of Hingham to ask &c. of the executors of the last will &c. of Thomas Wyton of Hooke Norton in Oxfordshire, yeoman, deceased, a certain legacy or legacies given him by the said last will & of the receipt to give acquittance &c." [Aspinwall 88].[4]
Children of James1 and Mary (Beal) Whiton:
i. James2 Whiton, b. 15 Aug 1649, Hingham, MA; d. 11 Nov 1650. ii. James Whiton, b. 15 Jul 1651, Hingham, MA; d. 20 Dec 1725, Hingham, MA; m. ca. 1675, Abigail Rickard. iii. Mathew Whiton, b. 30 Oct 1653, Hingham, MA; d. 22 Jul 1725, Hingham, MA; m. 27 Dec 1677, Hingham, MA, Deborah (Pitts) Howard. iv. John Whiton, b. 2 Dec 1655, Hingham, MA.; d. young. v. David Whiton, b. 22 Feb 1657/8, Hingham, MA; d. 18 Mar 1657/8. vi. Jonathan Whiton, b. 22 Feb 1657/8, Hingham, MA; d. 12 Mar 1657/8. vii. Enoch Whiton, b. 8 Mar 1659/60, Hingham, MA; d. 5 May 1715, Hingham, MA; m. 11 Jan 1687, Hingham, MA, Mary Lincoln. viii. Thomas Whiton, b. 18 May 1662, Hingham, MA; d. 17 Sep 1708, Hingham, MA; m. 26 Jan 1689/89, Hingham, MA, Joanna (May) Garnet, dau. of Samuel and Abigail (Stanfull) May, and widow of Gohn Garnet. ix. Mary Whiton, b. 29 Apr 1664, Hingham, MA; m.(1) 3 Jan 1688/9, Isaac Wilder; m.(2) 3 Aug 1692, Plymouth, MA, Baruch Jordon; m.(3) 21 May 1713, Hingham, MA, Thomas Sayer.
References
- Augustus Sherrill Whiton, The Whiton Family in America (Whiton Family Association, 1932).
1.^ Walter Faxon, "WHITON, HOBART, TURNER, BEAL, JACOB", Notes and Queries, New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 57 (1903), p. 224.
2.^ Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, from FamilySearch.org.
3.^ Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, from FamilySearch.org.
4.^ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, vol. 1, A-B, p. 272; citing Aspinwall, W., et al.. A Volume Relating to the Early History of Boston Containing the Aspinwall Notarial Records From 1644 to 1651 (Boston: Municipal Printing Office, 1903). p. 88.
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