Francis Whitmore

1625 - 1685  (60 years)

• Name	Francis Whitmore  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	1625	England   [4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Death	12 Oct 1685	Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [5, 6, 7, 8]
  Burial	Salem Street Burying Ground, Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [6]
  Person ID	I16124	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	8 Apr 2020

  
  

  Family	Isabel Parke,   b. Abt 1628, England d. 31 Mar 1665, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 37 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1649  [2]
  Children	1. Lt. Francis Whitmore,   b. 12 Oct 1650, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 9 Sep 1700, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut (Age 49 years)   2. John Whitmore,   b. 1 Oct 1654, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 22 Feb 1737, Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 82 years)   3. Abigail Whitmore,   b. Bef 3 Jul 1659, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 19 Jul 1687, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut (Age > 28 years)
  Family ID	F10076	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 May 2018

  
  

• Notes

  A miller, he emigrated 1635 with his first wife and their children on the Defense. His English origins are unknown. Also known as Francis Wetmore. From The Whitmore Genealogy (1907), pp. 13-14: "Francis came to this country probably during the 1630’s, and had established his residence at Cambridge prior to 1648, as about this time he married, at that place, Isabel Parke. Brooks, in his history of Medford, tells us he owned property in Cambridge near the Plains, Charlestown near the Menetomie River, near Dendruck Meadows; also in Medford and Lexington. His house stood on the dividing line between Lexington and Cambridge, and is mentioned in the Act of division. His name, with that of his wife, appears on a petition in favor of an old woman charged with being a witch, so he can hardly have been of the extreme Puritan party, though a member of the church. Francis served in King Philip’s war; was Selectman and Constable in 1668 and 1682. In his will he makes provision for the education of his ch., thus early evidencing that regard for edu. that is so marked a family trait." For what it's worth, Francis probably did not arrive in the 1630s, or he'd be covered in Robert Charles Anderson's Great Migration series.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1589] The Wetmore Family of America and Its Collateral Branches by James Carnahan Wetmore. Albany, New York: Munsell & Rowland, 1861. [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. [S1660] William Wyman Fiske, "Ancestry of Bennet Eliot of Nazeing, Essex, Father of Seven Great Migration Immigrants to Massachusetts." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 161:85, 161:186, 161:250 (2007), 162:65, and 162:128 (2008). [S1640] Record of the Descendants of Francis Whitmore of Cambridge, Massachusetts by W. H. Whitmore. Boston: John Wilson and Son, 1855. [S1788] The Whitmore Genealogy: A Record of the Descendants of Francis Whitmore of Cambridge, Massachusetts (1625-1685) by Jessie Whitmore Patten Purdy. 1907. [S1705] Find a Grave page for Lieut. Francis Whitmore. [S1581] Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the Year of 1850 ed. Thomas W. Baldwin. Boston: Wright & Potter, 1914-15. [S1939] Alice C. Ayres, "The Whitmores of Medford and Some of Their Descendants." The Medford Historical Register 8:64, July 1905.