John Whitmore

1683 - 1753  (69 years)

• Name	John Whitmore  [1]
  Birth	27 Aug 1683	Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [2, 3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Death	26 Mar 1753	Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [2, 5, 6]
  Person ID	I13698	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	12 May 2018

  
  

  Father	John Whitmore,   b. 1 Oct 1654, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 22 Feb 1737, Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 82 years)
  Mother	Rachel Eliot,   b. Abt 1643   d. 20 Mar 1723, Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 80 years)
  Marriage	Between 1677 and 1678  [7]
  Family ID	F8578	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Lane,   b. 15 May 1686   d. 27 Mar 1783 (Age 96 years)
  Marriage	1706  [4, 5]
  Children	1. Francis Whitmore,   b. 4 Oct 1714, Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 27 Apr 1794, Bowdoinham, Maine (Age 79 years)
  Family ID	F8577	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 May 2018

  
  

• Notes

  "He was at first a housewright, but afterwards went into business with his brother. He owned much property in Medford; and his oldest son, John, having removed to Bedford, he resided there chiefly in his old age, and was so liberal a benefactor to the church as to be mentioned with gratitude on the records. His daughters all left issue; and one of them, Susanna, left descendants, now living in Lexington, by the name of Chandler, who still preserve some relics of their ancestor. The family of Lane, when it emigrated from England, left property there, the rents of which were paid to the heirs, John Whitmore's descendants included, until within fifty years, when the heirs, being numerous, sold the estate, and divided it." [Record of the Descendants of Francis Whitmore of Cambridge, Massachusetts]

  
  

• Sources

  [S1719] Lane Genealogies, Volume III: English Family, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, 1542-1758; Job Lane, Malden, Mass., 1649; James Lane, Casco Bay, Maine, 1650; Edward Lane, Boston, Mass., 1657 by James Hill Fitts. Exeter, New Hampshire: The News-Letter Press, 1902. [S1797] Vital Records of Medford, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1907. [S1640] Record of the Descendants of Francis Whitmore of Cambridge, Massachusetts by W. H. Whitmore. Boston: John Wilson and Son, 1855., date only. [S1788] The Whitmore Genealogy: A Record of the Descendants of Francis Whitmore of Cambridge, Massachusetts (1625-1685) by Jessie Whitmore Patten Purdy. 1907. [S1939] Alice C. Ayres, "The Whitmores of Medford and Some of Their Descendants." The Medford Historical Register 8:64, July 1905. [S1640] Record of the Descendants of Francis Whitmore of Cambridge, Massachusetts by W. H. Whitmore. Boston: John Wilson and Son, 1855. [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).