Cleek, Dunmore, Gum, Hill, Stephenson, Suit Family - Person Sheet
Cleek, Dunmore, Gum, Hill, Stephenson, Suit Family - Person Sheet
NameElinor or Ellen Arnold 
152982,152983,152985,152987,153069,135381,152990,152991,135384,153070,152993,152994,153071,153072,153000,153003,135393,153073,153006,153023,153074,153075,153013,153076,153077,153078,153079
152982,152983,152985,152987,153069,135381,152990,152991,135384,153070,152993,152994,153071,153072,153000,153003,135393,153073,153006,153023,153074,153075,153013,153076,153077,153078,153079Birth1599, England153080,152985,152987,152993,152994,153081,153082,153003,153023,153013,153077,153083
Memo1605?
Memoabt Jul 1635?
Research
John Whitney b: 1583 Gloucestershire, England d: MA; Spouse Elinor Bray (Timeline from Ancestry Family Tree-No Source) (Her Surname?)
Middlesex County MA Probate File Papers 1648-187196217 (No Elinor or Ellen Whitney)
Middlesex County MA Probate File Papers 1648-187196217 (No Elinor or Ellen Whitney)
Spouses
1John Whitney Sr 152981,152982,152983,152984,152985,152986,152987,152988,135381,152989,152990,152991,135384,152992,152993,152994,152995,152996,152997,152998,152999,153000,153001,153002,153003,135393,153004,153005,153006,153007,153008,153009,153010,153011,153012,153013,153014,153015,153016,153017
152981,152982,152983,152984,152985,152986,152987,152988,135381,152989,152990,152991,135384,152992,152993,152994,152995,152996,152997,152998,152999,153000,153001,153002,153003,135393,153004,153005,153006,153007,153008,153009,153010,153011,153012,153013,153014,153015,153016,153017Birthbef 20 Jul 1592, England152987,152986,152985,153018,152994,153019,153020,153021,153003,153022,153008,153023,153024,153025,153013,153026,153027
MemoAft 1583? 1600? 1589? 1599?
Baptism20 Jul 1592, St Margaret’s, Westminister Parish, Middlesex, London, England153022,153008,153024,153028,153026
Residenceca 1609, Isleworth-on-the-Thames, Middlesex County, London, England153032
MemoEight miles from Westminster
ResidenceJun 1635, Watertown, Middlesex County, MA152994,153036,153037,153007,153038,153039,153040,153041,153042
Memoabt Jul 1635? bought a 16 ac homestall of John Strickland on what is now Belmont & East Common Streets
MemoGrantee of eight lots (212 acres) and purchaser of 16 acres, has homestall lot, where he continued to reside
Land Soldabt 1659, Watertown, Middlesex County, MA153045
MemoGave to his son, Jonathan Whitney, 39 ac of land which he had purchased of Richard Woodward
Land Sold5 Apr 1670, Watertown, Middlesex County, MA153046
MemoDeeded to his son Benjamin Whitney the homestead
MemoWill Dated
Death1 Jun 1673, Watertown, Middlesex County, MA153018,152989,153053,153054,153021,153003,153001,153055,153056,153057,153058,153059
Memo/1672; age 74 yrs? abt 84 yrs?
MemoInventory
Will Filed17 Jun 1673, Watertown, Middlesex County, MA153048
MemoWill probated
OccupationTailor; Town Clerk 1655; Constable at Watertown by the General Court at their quarter session held in Boston 1 Jun 1641153061,153062,153063,153064,153065
EducationWestminster School, now known as St Peter’s College153066
FatherThomas Whitney (ca1550-<1637)
MotherMary Bray (1570-<1629)
Misc. Notes
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
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
Research
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 ….
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 ….