Samuel Whiting Jr.

The Reverend Samuel Whiting Jr. (March 25, 1633 – February 28, 1713)^{[citation needed]} was the first minister of Billerica, Massachusetts,^[1] from November 11, 1663, to February 28, 1713.^{[citation needed]}

Biography[]

He was the son of the Reverend Samuel Whiting and his second wife,^[1] Elizabeth^[2] St. John. Elizabeth belonged to the prominent landowning family of St. John of Lydiard Tregoze; she was the sister^[2] of Oliver St. John, a leading lawyer and judge who was one of the foremost opponents of King Charles I of England during the English Civil War.

Samuel Whiting Jr. graduated from Harvard in 1653.^[1] He had a brother, Nathaniel.^[3]

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1889). "Whiting, Samuel" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b John Burke & John Bernard Burke (1838). "St. John of Longthorpe". A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies of England. Scott, Webster and Geary. p. 462.
^ Cutter, William Richard (1910). Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts. Lewis historical Publishing Company. pp. 1875–1876. Retrieved April 17, 2021.

Further reading[]

“Elegy on the Rev. Samuel Whiting,[ Sr.,] of Lynn,” by Benjamin Tompson, “ye renowned poet of New England,” printed in Cotton Mather's Magnalia
William Whiting, LL. D., Memoirs of Rev. Samuel Whiting and of his Wife, Elizabeth St. John, with Reference to some of their English Ancestors and American Descendants (printed privately, Boston, 1871)

Preceded by First Pastor	Minister 1663 – 1713	Succeeded by Samuel Ruggles^{[citation needed]}

[acab-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1889). "Whiting, Samuel" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.

[heraldic-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b John Burke & John Bernard Burke (1838). "St. John of Longthorpe". A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies of England. Scott, Webster and Geary. p. 462.

[Cutter1910-3] Cutter, William Richard (1910). Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts. Lewis historical Publishing Company. pp. 1875–1876. Retrieved April 17, 2021.

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