John Whitney

Bef 1592 - 1673  (> 80 years)

• Name	John Whitney
  Birth	Bef 20 Jul 1592  [1, 2, 3]
  Baptism	20 Jul 1592	St. Margaret, Westminster, Middlesex, England   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1 Jun 1673	Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I33633	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DGH
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2021

  
  

  Father	Thomas Whitney,   b. Abt 1550   d. Bef 20 May 1637 (Age ~ 87 years)
  Mother	Mary Bray,   b. Bef 24 Dec 1564   d. Bef 25 Sep 1629 (Age < 64 years)
  Marriage	12 May 1583	St. Margaret, Westminster, Middlesex, England   [3]
  Family ID	F19828	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Eleanor,   b. Abt 1600   d. 11 May 1659, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 59 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1619  [1]
  Children	+ 1. John Whitney,   b. Bef 14 Sep 1621   d. 12 Oct 1692, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age > 71 years)
  Family ID	F19827	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2021

  
  

• Notes

  He arrived in 1635 on the Elizabeth & Ann. He was a tailor. "He was of comfortable social standing and had a better than average education, but claims to a stunning royal descent have been disproven." [Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S595] The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908, Part I: The Ancestry of Warren Frances Kempton 1817-1879 by Dean Crawford Smith; edited by Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996. [S5362] Robert Leigh Ward and Tim Doyle, "The Whitney Lineage of John1 Whitney of Watertown, Massachusetts." The American Genealogist 81:249, 2006.