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Personal data Samuel Whiting 

• He was born on November 21, 1596 in Boston, Lincs.
• He was christened on November 21, 1596 in Boston, Lincs.
• (note1) .Source 1

  Sources: Melissa Leigh Clark, Ann Darling Robinson, Melissa A. Whiting, et al.

• He died on December 11, 1679 in Lynn, Essex Co., MA, he was 83 years old.
• He is buried after December 10, 1679 in Lynn, Essex Co., MA (Western Burial Ground).
• A child of John Whiting and Margaret Bonner
• This information was last updated on July 30, 2025.

Household of Samuel Whiting

He is married to Elizabeth St John.

They got married on August 6, 1629 at Boston, Lincs, he was 32 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Samuel W Whiting  1633-1713 

Notes about Samuel Whiting

Samuel Whiting

Sources: Author: Clark, Melissa Leigh; Robinson, Ann Darling; Whiting, Melissa A. et al.; Title: "Samuel Whiting," (Publication site: Salt Lk. City UT, Publisher: Family Search, Publication date: xxv Mar MMXXV)

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LB4K-GCS

"... Samuel Whiting Last Changed: January 13, 2024 [NN-anonymous, initials D. E. G.] Sex Male Last Changed: August 28, 2021 Jessica Bernard

Birth 21 November 1596 Boston, Lincolnshire, England ... Last Changed: January 1, 2023 Wayne P. Smith

Christening 21 November 1596 Boston, Lincolnshire, England Last Changed: October 30, 2022 Luana Rampton

Death 11 December 1679 Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Bay ... Reason: Find a Grave Memorial 46119653 Last Changed: February 1, 2023 Luana Rampton

Burial Dec 1679 Western Burial Ground, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Bay ... Reason: Find a Grave Memorial 46119653 Last Changed: May 19, 2022 Timm McGory

Alternate Name Also Known As Sam'll

Birth: August 1588 Lincolnshire, England, ...
Entered Emanuel College, Cambridge 1613 Degrees: A.B. in 1616, A.M. in 1620
Immigration 26 May 1636 Arrived at Boston, New England
Occupation 8 November 1636 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay, ... Formally Installed as Pastor at Saugust (later called Lynn)
Military Service 1660 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America Preacher, Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts
Occupation Minister

Spouses & Children
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Samuel Whiting Male 1596-1679 LB4K-GCS [<-ancestor]
Elizabeth St John Female 1604-1677 LC1T-Y7N [<-ancestress]
Marriage 6 August 1629 Boston, Lincolnshire, England

Children (9)

[1] Dorothy Whiting Female 1627-1694 LZNT-DN3
[2] Samuel W Whiting Jr. Male 1633-1713 K2LB-RNF [<-ancestor]
[3] Elizabeth Whiting Female 1633-1733 L4YB-FMK
[4] Joseph Whiting Male 1641-1723 L4TQ-GZB
[5] John Whiting Male 1664-1697 GTV7-16V 1644 Adoptive-Elizabeth St John
[6] Unice Whiting Female 1667-1672 GTVV-KWV 1667 Adoptive-Elizabeth St John
[7] James Whiting Male -1658 GFK5-V8P
[8] Child 1 Whiting Male Deceased GX96-P6W
[9] Child 2 Whiting Male Deceased GX96-JXW

Dorcas Chester Female 1637-1713 MBTZ-YX7
Samuel Whiting Male 1596-1679 LB4K-GCS
No Marriage Events

Children (1)

[1] Unice Whiting Female 1667-1672 GTVV-KWV

Parents & Siblings

John Whiting Male 1561-1617 L1MY-KPS [<-ancestor]
Margaret Bonner Female 1566-1602 G8DD-CMY [<-ancestress]
Marriage 22 December 1586 Lincolnshire, England

Children (12)

[1] Elizabeth Whiting Female 1579-Deceased GK91-SM8
[2] Isabella Whiting Female 1587-1603 M3QT-HFG
[3] Joseph Whiting Male 1589-Deceased L1MS-NM6
[4] Stephen Whiting Male 1589-Deceased LWGM-Z8H
[5] Andrew Whiting Male 1589-Deceased KZN6-PJ6
[6] Audrey Whiting Female 1589-Deceased LCCN-BK2
[7] John Whiting Sr Male 1592-1689 8G6R-V91
[8] Margaret Whiting Female 1594-1615 GSZB-C5D
[9] Samuel Whiting Male 1596-1679 LB4K-GCS [<-ancestor]
[10] Robert Whiting Male 1598-Deceased L1MS-K39
[11] James Whiting Male 1599-1648 L1MS-NRY
[12] Isabel Whiting Female 1602-1654 4KR4-2V4

Brief Life History

Reverend Samuel Whiting was born at Boston, England in 1597. He graduated from Cambridge University in 1620 then settled in Lynn, MA Colony in 1636 where he later died in 1679.

Samuel's first wife died in England. Elizabeth St. John was his second wife. Elizabeth was the only daughter of Right Honorable Sir Oliver St. John, Knight of Cayshoe, Bedfordshire, England and sister of Lord Chief Justice Oliver St. John. Elizabeth was born 1605 and died in 1677.
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Rev. Samuel Whiting was the first pastor of the Congregationalist Church in Lynn, Massachusetts, serving there from 8 November 1636 until his death. The town where he settled elected to change its name from Saugus to Lynn in honor of his arrival, since he had departed England from Kings Lynn in Norfolk.

Samuel Whiting received BA and MA degrees from Emmanuel College, Cambridge University. He received holy orders as a priest in the Church of England, and served as a family chaplain and as associate pastor in King's Lynn. His Puritan practices led to parishioners raising complaints about his ministry, and he subsequently moved to the Parish of Skirbeck, near Boston, Lincolnshire. Again, parishioners complained of his Puritan practices. He ultimately chose to emigrate with his family to Massachusetts Bay Colony, arriving in (new) Boston on 26 May 1636.

Rev. Whiting became a prominent minister and theologian in the colony, who had treatises and sermons published in both English and Latin. He was a colleague of Rev. John Cotton, a preeminent religious leader in Massachusetts Bay who had previously been Samuel Whiting's parish priest in Boston, Lincolnshire. Rev. Whiting was also a colleague of Rev. Increase Mather and his son Rev. Cotton Mather, who included an elegy of Samuel Whiting in his major work, "Magnalia Christi Americana." In 1654, Rev. Samuel Whiting was appointed as overseer of Harvard College (predecessor of Harvard University).

Three of Samuel Whiting's sons graduated from Harvard College and also became ministers. Eldest son Samuel Whiting Jr. became the minister of the Congregationalist Church in Billerica, MA. Second son John Whiting chose to emigrate to England and became the Anglican pastor of Butterwick Parish in Lincolnshire. Third son Joseph Whiting succeeded his father as pastor in Lynn, MA. In 1682, Joseph Whiting accepted an invitation to leave Massachusetts and become the pastor in Southampton, Long Island, New York, where he lived the rest of his life.

Samuel and Elizabeth Whiting had four children who lived to adulthood:
Samuel Whiting (1633-1713)
John Whiting (1637-1689)
Joseph Whiting (1641-1723)
Elizabeth Whiting Hobart (1645-1733)

Samuel and his first wife (name unknown at this time) had one child who lived to adulthood:
Dorothy Whiting (1628-1694)"
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