John Whiting, Mayor of Boston, Lincolnshire

- 1617

• Name	John Whiting  [1]
  Suffix	Mayor of Boston, Lincolnshire
  Born	of Boston, Lincolnshire, England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	Oct 1617  [3]
  Person ID	I15532	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS
  Last Modified	1 Sep 2020

  
  

  Children	+ 1. Rev. Samuel Whiting,   b. 20 Nov 1597, Boston, Lincolnshire, England ,   d. 11 Dec 1679, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age 82 years)
  Last Modified	30 Aug 2020
  Family ID	F9785	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  He was a merchant of Boston, Lincolnshire. Member of the common council, and erection bailiff, 1590. Vice-admiral of Lincolnshire, 1602. Mayor of Boston in 1600 and 1608. According to the unreliable Memoir of Rev. Samuel Whiting, D.D., and of His Wife, Elizabeth St. John by William Whiting (second edition, Boston: Rand, Avery, & Company, 1873), he made his will on 20 Oct 1617 and was buried at St. Botolph's in Boston, Lincolnshire on 22 Oct. His will is said to mention a wife named Isabel.

  
  

• Sources

  [S317] The Bulkeley Genealogy by Donald Lines Jacobus. New Haven, Connecticut: 1933. [S142] Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson. Kimball G. Everingham, editor. 2013. [S1559] Autobiography of William Seymour Tyler, With a Genealogy of the Ancestors of Prof. and Mrs. William S. Tyler, prepared by Cornelius B. Tyler. 1912.