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The Reverend Samuel Whiting Jr. (March 25, 1633 – February 28, 1713) was the first minister of
Billerica, Massachusetts Billerica (, ) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 42,119 according to the 2020 census. It takes its name from the town of Billericay in Essex, England. History In the early 1630s, a Praying Indian ...
, from November 11, 1663, to February 28, 1713.


Biography

He was the son of the Reverend Samuel Whiting and his second wife, Elizabeth St. John. Elizabeth belonged to the prominent landowning family of St. John of Lydiard Tregoze; she was the sister of
Oliver St. John Sir Oliver St John (; c. 1598 – 31 December 1673) was an English judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640-53. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War. Early life St John was the son of Oliver St ...
, a leading lawyer and judge who was one of the foremost opponents of King Charles I of England during the English Civil War. When the elder Reverend Samuel Whiting arrived from
King's Lynn King's Lynn, known until 1537 as Bishop's Lynn and colloquially as Lynn, is a port and market town in the borough of King's Lynn and West Norfolk in the county of Norfolk, England. It is located north of London, north-east of Peterborough, no ...
England in 1637, the residents of Lynn, Massachusetts changed the name of their settlement in his honor. Samuel Whiting Jr. graduated from
Harvard Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
in 1653. While some sources indicate he had a brother,
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, this is in error. In his father's memoir it is clear he had no son named Nathaniel.


References


Further reading

* “Elegy on the Rev. Samuel Whiting, Sr.,of Lynn,” by Benjamin Tompson, “ye renowned poet of New England,” printed in
Cotton Mather Cotton Mather (; February 12, 1663 – February 13, 1728) was a New England Puritan clergyman and a prolific writer. Educated at Harvard College, in 1685 he joined his father Increase as minister of the Congregationalist Old North Meeting H ...
's ''
Magnalia ''Magnalia Christi Americana'' (roughly, ''The Glorious Works of Christ in America'') is a book published in 1702 by the puritan minister Cotton Mather (1663–1728). Its title is in Latin, but its subtitle is in English: ''The Ecclesiastical His ...
'' * 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) {{DEFAULTSORT:Whiting, Samuel People from Billerica, Massachusetts 1633 births 1713 deaths Harvard University alumni