Joseph Whitmore

Joseph married Mary Warner on 16 May 1709 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. Mary (daughter of Seth Warner and Mary Ward) was born in Dec 1687 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut; died on 2 May 1722 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Hannah Whitmore was born on 11 Sep 1715; died on 1 May 1744; was buried in Washington Street Cemetery, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut.

Francis married Hannah Harris on 8 Feb 1674 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. Hannah (daughter of William Harris and Edith) was born about 1652 in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts; died after Aug 1722. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut

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.

Francis married Isabel Parke before 1649. Isabel (daughter of Richard Parke and Margery) was born about 1628 in England; died on 31 Mar 1665 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The ship's manifest for the Defense, on which she emigrated in 1635 with her parents, gives her age as "7".

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 4 Feb 1689, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut

William married Edith before 1642. Edith died on 5 Aug 1685 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Arrived in 1635 on the Defense with his wife and his daughters Isabel and Elizabeth. He was a miller, and literate (his inventory included "2 Books of Martyrs and some other books"). He served as a constable in Cambridge in 1656.

Richard married Margery before 1627. Margery was born about 1595; died before 1657 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The ship's manifest of the Defense gave her age as 40.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef Sep 1634, Winnisimmet, Massachusetts

Notes:

He arrived in or before 1630 and set up the first ferry service in the colonies, the Winnisimmet ferry between what are now Chelsea and Boston's North End. After his death it was taken over by William Stitson, who married Thomas Harris's widow.

Thomas married Elizabeth before 1610. Elizabeth was born between 1577 and 1578; died on 16 Feb 1670 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachussets. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]