Pg 154 Whitney:54949 The English ancestry of John Whitney, the immigrant, who settled at Watertown, MA, has be established by Henry Melville and presented in an exquisitely printed and illustrated volume. (No title given)
Pg 156 Whitney: 16. John Whitney received for the times a good education in the Westminster School, now known as St Peter’s College, and on 22 Feb 1597, at the age of 14 was appointed by his father to William Pring, of the Old Bailey, London, a freeman of the Merchant Tailors’ Company. He was admitted as a freeman 3 Mar 1635/36, and was appointed constable 1 Jun 1641. He was a selectman from 1638-1655, inclusive, and town clerk in 1655; was the grantee of eight lots, and was one of the foremost citizens of Watertown for many years

Pg 1399 MA Census Substitutes 1630-1788153067
John Whitney, Freeman 3 Mar 1636 MA Bay Colony, Original Volume S1a, Original Line No. 3468096

Vol 10 Pg 8547648 Thomas Whitney d: 1637, administration on his estate granted to his sons Francis Whitney (1599-1643) & Robert Whitney (1605-1662).The name of the son John (1592) was not mentioned.
Vol 81 Pg249 Sources listed:
Henry Melville, The Ancestry of John Whitney, Who, with his Wife Elinor, and Sons John, Richard, Nathaniel, Thomas & Jonathan, Emigrated from London, England, in the Year 1635, and Settled in Watertown, MA; the First of the Name in America, and the One from Whom a Great Majority of the Whitneys Now Living in the US Are Descended (New York 1896)
Donald Lines Jacobus, Pre-American Ancestries: John Whitney of Watertown, MA, TAG 10(1933-34):84-88
Paul C. Reed, Whitney Origins Revisited: John1 Whitney of Watertown, MA, & Henry1 Whitney of Long Island and Norwalk, CT, TAG 69(1994):9-14
St Margaret, Westminster, parish register (Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Film # 908,519)

Pg 17 1 John Whitney on 22 Feb 1597 at the age of fourteen was appointed by his father to William Pring, of the Old Bailey, London a freeman of the merchant Tailor’s Company. At the age of twenty-one, 13 Mar 1604, John Whitney became a full-fledged member of the Merchant Tailor’s Company153068

London, England, Baptisms, Marriages & Burials 1538-181247014 (Him?)
John Whitney bapt: 4 Aug 1588 St Mary Parish, Rotherhithe, Surrey County, Burrough: Southwark; Baptism Record; Parish Register

Vol VII Pg 372 John Whitney:66743
In 1855 Henry Bond compiled a concise account of this immigrant and several generations of his agnate descendants (Bond 642-52, 964-66). In 1857 Henry A. Whitney published a similar account (NEHGR 11:113-17).
In 1895 Frederick Clifton Pierce prepared a genealogy of the agnate descendants of John Whitney, Who Came From London, England, to Watertown, MA in 1635 (Chicago 1895)
In 1896 Henry Melville compiled a substantial volume … The Ancestry of John Whitney … (NY 1896)
In 1933 Donald Lines Jacobus carried out a critical analysis of Melville’s claims … (TAG 69:9-14)
In 1996 Dean Crawford Smith and Melinda Lutz Sunburn published an account of the immigrant, his father and a line of descent running through his son Jonathan (Kempton Anc 1:523-51)
In 2006 Robert Leigh Ward and Tim Doyle collected further data on Robert Whitney of Castleton, Herefordshire … (TAG 81:249-62) Chronological problems remain ….