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He married, October 9, 1860, Clara Rebecca Gates, who was born at Ashby, October 17, 1835, and died at Lexington, August 16, 1884, the daughter of Howard and Clarissa (Ken- dall) Gates, of Ashby. Her father was a farmer, selectman, assessor, and representative to the general courts of 1850-51. Children of
Josiah H. and Clara R. Reed: I. Frank Has- kell, born December 26, 1862, mentioned be- low. 2. Alice Gates, born August 25, 1864, unmarried ; now a resident of Plainfield, New Jersey. 3. Mary Willard, born July 4, 1868, married, September II, 1900, Edward F. Mil- ler, of Cambridge, professor of steam en- gineering in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology of Boston.
(XII) Frank Haskell Reed, son of Josiah Haskell Reed (II), was born in Lexington, December 26, 1862. He was brought up on his father's farm, and attended the public schools of his native town until eighteen years old, when he entered the employ of Cumner Jones & Company, tailors, trimmings, etc., at 85 Summer street, Boston, becoming a sales- man of this firm, in the employ of which he remained seven years. He subsequently en- gaged in the retail milk business in Charles- town, obtaining his supply from D. Whiting & Sons. In the two years during which he had this business he prospered, but he was obliged to dispose of it in 1890, after the death of his father, and return to the home- stead in Lexington. After a time he bought the interests of his sisters in the estate and has since devoted his attention to farming and the dairy. He has an extensive milk route in Arlington. The Reed farm is in the western part of Arlington on the Lexington line, and the old colonial dwelling house was built by Reuben Reed, mentioned above, in 1789. The present farm consists of seventy-five acres of land with well-kept buildings and modern methods. Mr. Reed is progressive and enter- prising. He has thirty-five cows in a model dairy. He is a member of the Unitarian church. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of the Arlington Boat Club and the Old Belfry Club of Lexington.
He married, April 20, 1893, Gertrude Read Fobes, who was born at Roxbury, January 6, 1870, the daughter of Edward and Annie Sho- well (Sturtevant) Fobes, of Somerville, Massachusetts. Her father was in the men's furnishing and tailoring business. Children of Frank Haskell and Gertrude R. Reed: I. Haskell, born June 4, 1894. 2. Malcolm Willard, December 17, 1895. 3. Kendall Sturtevant, August 9, 1898.
This family name seems to WHITING have retained substantially the same pronunciation, though it has been spelled with not less than sixteen
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variations between the years 1085 and 1630. The name has been distinguished in many counties of England. The coat-of-arms used by some of the American family is: Azure, a leopard's head or, between two flaunches ermine; in chief, three plates of the last. Crest : A demi-eagle with two heads displayed proper. The fact that in practically all of the Whiting armorials the leopard's head is the chief emblem, indicates relationship of all the branches.
(I) John Whiting, the English progenitor, lived in Boston, Lincolnshire, England. His ancestor, William Whitting, of Boston, is mentioned on the records in 1333 in the Sub- sidy Record of Edward III. He was a mem- ber of common council and erection bailiff 1590, mayor of Boston 1600 and 1608, and vice-admiral of Lincolnshire in 1602. In his will recorded in the parish register of St. Botolph, in Boston, dated October 20, 1617, two days before his burial, after providing for donations to the poor of parish and to the vicar of Boston, his friend and pastor, Rev. John Cotton, he bequeaths to his wife Isabel; his daughter Margaret, wife of Richard Carter ; sons James and John ; daughter Audrey, wife of Robert Wright; and son Samuel, providing for the latter's education at Harvard College. Children, with dates of baptism: I. Isabel, December 10, 1587, died May 4, 1602. 2. Audrey, September 28, 1589. 3. John, June 4, 1592. 4. Margaret, August 4, 1594. 5. Samuel, mentioned below. 6. James, August 21, 1599. John Whiting, Esq., mayor of Bos- ton, England, and brother of Rev. Samuel Whiting, of Lynn, advanced fifty pounds in aid of the Massachusetts Colony. In return the general court granted him five hundred acres of land which he transferred to his American brother, who gave it to his son, the Billerica pastor. This grant was located on the Salmon Brook, Dunstable.
(II) Rev. Samuel Whiting, son of Hon. John Whiting (I), was born November 20, 1597, and baptized the day following in St. Botolph's Church, Boston, England. Both his brothers were mayors of Boston and the fam- ily was prominent. His kinsman, Atherton Hough, who came to New England in 1633 with Rev. John Cotton, had been mayor of the borough 1628, alderman 1633, and served in the general court of Massachusetts. Rev. John Cotton and Rev. Increase Mather were cousins. He was a pupil at the Boston School, and entered Emanuel College, March 27, 1613, as sizar, and received his degree of
A. B. in 1616. While he was in college his father died, leaving an ample estate. In 1620 he received from the university the degree of A. M., and later the degree of D. D. He took holy orders in the Church of England and be- came chaplain in a family of five ladies and two knights (Sir Nathaniel Bacon and Sir Roger Townsend) in Norfolk county, with whom he resided three years, and then became rector of Lynn Regis as colleague of Rev. Mr. Price. After three years he was com- plained of for non-conformity, and to avoid trouble he resigned his rectorship and left the town, settling in Skirbeck, near Boston, and was made rector of the church there, and preached and practiced non-conformity as much as ever. The old church is still standing on the left bank of the river Witham. He preached there until he left for America early in April, 1636, accompaniel by his wife, son Samuel and daughter Dorothy. He sacrificed all his property in England. Upon his arrival in Boston, May 26, he and his family were welcomed to the hospitable home of Atherton Hough, his kinsman. He was invited to become the pastor of the church at Lynn. In 1654 he was appointed an overseer of Harvard College. Some of his sermons were published. Lynn ( formerly Saugus) was so named as a compliment to him, he having lived in Lynn Regis, England. He was admitted a freeman in December, 1636. "He was scholarly, devoted, liberal and popular, having a strong hold on the affection of his people and highly esteemed by the leaders of the state. He was one of the few brave, disinterested and states- manlike Puritan clergymen to whom we are chiefly indebted for whatever of liberty in government or religion was preserved or main- tained in the colony of Massachusetts Bay. He demanded that the magistrate should not interfere in matters of the church. From the plain duty of Christians to do unto others that which they would have others do to them, he deduced the grand principle of religious toleration. * * Of all the Christian ministers who forsook their native country that they might preserve freedom of conscience, of all who devoted their lives to the service of their heavenly master, no one was more worthy of our love and reverence than the venerable pastor of Lynn." He left a large estate for his day, dying December II, 1679. His will was dated December II, 1679, and proved March 30, 1680. The name of his first wife is not known. He married second, August 6, 1629, Elizabeth St. John, daughter of Right
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Hon. Oliver St John and his wife, Sarah (Bulkeley) St. John. She was of the twen- tieth generation of a noble family, the pedigree of which is of interest to all descendants of this family. (See St. John).
"Mrs. Elizabeth (St. John) Whiting added grace to her name by the beauty of her person and the worth of her character. Her noble and gentle blood proved its true quality by the faithfulness with which she performed the duty and bore the hardships of her position as the wife of the humble country minister. Her rank and wealth did not bind any fetters around the freedom of their religious convic- tions, and when the Puritan minister would leave all that must have made England dear, she was ready to face the hardships and perils of the wilderness with him, and prove herself his true helpmeet."
(III) Rev. Samuel Whiting, son of Rev. Samuel Whiting (2), born in Skirbeck, Eng- land, March 25, 1633, came to America with his father when about five years old. He grad- uated at Harvard College in 1653. His thesis subject at commencement was the question : "An detur Maximum et Minimum in Naturae?" and he spoke on the affirmative. He remained at college a year after gradua- tion, and the fact is noted as peculiar that his quarterly bills were almost always paid in silver. He was admitted a freeman May II, 1656, and in 1658 settled in Billerica as a preacher from year to year until November II, 1663, when he was ordained pastor of the church organized about that time. Here he remained almost fifty years, and was esteemed, as Rev. Cotton Mather, says: "A reverend, holy and faithful minister of the gospel." He preached the artillery election sermon in 1692.
On his settlement the town granted him a ten acre lot or single share with town priv- ileges. His house lot was twenty acres lying upon the township on the south side of it, bounded by land of George Willis on the north, the brook highway on the east, by Charnstaffe Lane on the south, John Stearn's field on the west. The highway known as the Concord road crossed it. The field in which his house stood was owned lately by Miss Susan Hill. He received in various parts of the town at various times grants of twenty- three lots of land, amounting to more than two hundred acres. He was one of the seven- teen ministers opposed to the settlement of Rev. John Davenport in Boston. His manu- script sermons have been lost recently. He married, November 12, 1656, Dorcas Chester,
born in Wethersfield, Connecticut, November I, 1637, daughter of Leonard Chester, who was a nephew of Rev. Thomas Hooker, D. D. Chester lived a year or more at Watertown, and assisted in exploring the Connecticut Valley, and in selecting the site for settlement there when Dr. Hooker removed to Hartford. He died December II, 1648; his widow mar- ried Hon. Richard Russell, one of the fore- most citizens of Charlestown; she died a widow, November 30, 1698, aged eighty.
Rev. Samuel Whiting's house was used as "ye main Garrison house" (Billerica). There is a boulder as marker, at corner of Charn- staff Lane and Old Concord Road, placed there by the Billerica Historical Society. The (Whiting) parish was large, extending from Concord and modern Acton to the Merrimack and Andover. Rev. and Mrs. Whiting were married fifty-six years, and separated by death only thirteen days. She died February 15, 1712-13, and he died February 28. Cotton Mather tells us, and we may thank him for the item, that he died "an hour before Sunset." And, not for their poetry but their truth, we may repeat the lines :
"Whiting, we here behold, a starry light, Burning in Christ's right hand, and shining bright; Years seven times seven sent forth his precious rays, Unto the Gospel's profit and Jehovah's praise."
That he had opinions and convictions far in advance of his century, is pleasantly pre- served in this record : "30 October, 1693. At this meeting our Rev. Paster, Mr. Samuel Whiting, did set at liberty and free from his. service, Simon, Negro, who hath been his ser- vant about thirty and one years." Does the country afford an earlier prophecy of the great Emancipation Proclamation ! "This faithful servant, in his will, which bears date a few days after Mr. Whiting's death, 'in considera- tion of the respect which I have and do bear to my Master's family,' gives them his homestead and land west of Concord river."
. Children of Rev. Samuel Whiting: I. Eliz- abeth, born November 6, 1660 ; married, Octo- ber 14, 1702, Rev. Thomas Clark, pastor of Chelmsford. 2. Samuel, born January 19, 1662-63. 3. John, born August 1, 1664, grad- uate of Harvard College, 1685 ; pastor at Lan- caster ; killed by Indians, September II, 1697. 4. Oliver, born November 8, 1665; mentioned below. 5. Mary, born May 28, 1667. 6. Dorothy, born September 23, 1668. 7. Joseph, born February 7, 1669-70, graduate of Har- vard, 1690. 8. James, born August 20, 1671.
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9. Unis (Eunice), born September, 1672, died September 20. 10. Benjamin, born Septem- ber 26, 1676, died October 18 following. II. Benjamin, born November 5, 1682, died No- vember 15 following.
(IV) Oliver Whiting, son of Rev. Samuel (3), born in Billerica, November 8, 1665; married, January 22, 1689-90, Anna, daughter of Jonathan Danforth. He was a prominent citizen of Billerica-town clerk, selectman, justice of the peace; also deputy to general court. He died December 22, 1736, and his widow August 13, 1737. Children: I. Oliver, born March 29, 1691. 2. Dorcas, born March 21, 1692-93; married Deacon Joshua Abbot. 3. Mary, born May 4, 1695. 4. John, born November II, 1697, died December 17 fol- lowing. 5. John, born October 14, 1699. 6. Samuel, mentioned below. 7. Eleazer, born July 25, 1707. 8. Benjamin, born February 12, 17II-12.
(V) Samuel Whiting, son of Oliver Whit- ing (4), born in Billerica, September 6, 1702; married, May 8, 1729, Deborah Hill, daughter of Samuel. She died September 5, 1745, and he married (second), November 2, 1749, Eliz- abeth Winchester, widow. He was deacon of the church and a leading man in his native town. Children, born in Billerica: I. Sam- uel, May 18, 1730; mentioned below: 2. Tim- othy, February 13, 1731-32. 3. Deborah, born December 8, 1733; died September 15, 1749. 4. Anna, born March 29, 1736; married Heze- kiah Crosby. 5. Martha, born June 14, 1738, died April 29, 1742. 6. Benjamin, born July 3, 1740, died July . 30 following. 7. Achsah, born August 4, 1741 ; married John Phelps, of Lancaster. 8. Zilpah, born September 8, 1743. 9. David, born August 7, 1745, died August 24 following.
(VI) Samuel Whiting, son of Samuel Whiting (5), was born in Billerica, May 18, 1730; married Sarah Stevens; and died No- vember 18, 1769. She married (second), Jonathan Hill. Children, born in Billerica : I. Samuel, born December 12, 1758; mention- ed below. 2. Sarah, born August 20, 1760. 3. Martha, born July 3, 1762; married, No- vember 28, 1782, John Abbot, of Ashburnham, Massachusetts. 4. Caleb, born March 9, 1765. (VII) Samuel Whiting, son of Samuel Whiting (6), was born in Billerica, December 12, 1758. The following sketch is from the 'History of Billerica," written by Dr. John S. Whiting, grandson of Samuel (7): "In 1840 I went to school in Billerica and lived with my grandfather. He was then eighty years
old, somewhat infirm, but able to attend to his usual round of duties. He went to church regularly twice a Sunday, locking up his house and taking his whole family with him, he rid- ing with one of his daughters in his 'one-hoss shay ;' the others walking after with me and the foot-stoves. It was in the winter, I think, that he resigned his deaconship. After com- munion, when this fact was announced, Mr. Preston moved that the church give him a vote of thanks for his forty years of duty, during which time he had not been absent a single service ; which motion, in a few appre- ciative remarks, my grandfather deprecated as unusual and improper, whereupon it was with- drawn. In 1776 he was drafted into the army and served about eight months as a private and sergeant, acting as clerk of his company. He was at the battle of Stillwater and at the taking of Burgoyne. I delight in recalling his narrative of incidents of the campaign as drawn from him by the questions of neighbors and friends, some of whom sat around his walnut fire nearly every winter evening. I well remember a boyish question of mine : 'Grandfather, did you ever shoot a red-coat?' and the very solemn answer, which I did not understand : 'I hope not.' Also, I recall with moistened eye he told of taking deliberate aim and firing at that famous scout Harvey Birch, the hero of Cooper's "Spy," but happily with- out effect. How he managed to get an educa- tion I never knew, but he was well versed in mathematical science-I knew of his calculat- ing eclipses-and became Mr. Pemberton's assistant at his academy as instructor in the English branches. One of his pupils, Hon. Thomas G. Cary, spoke of him at the be- centennial in 1855 as 'that brave old soldier of the Revolution and servant of God, Deacon Whiting, who had practiced the handwriting which he taught us, in making out rolls and returns with benumbed fingers on the drum- head.' Like his ancestor, Jonathan Danforth, he became a surveyor, and many of his plans of Billerica farms are now preserved among the records at East Cambridge. I have in my possession a barometer, marked as made by W. & S. Jones, No. 35 Holbron, London, which hung beside the tall clock in the family room for I don't know how many years before my time. I doubt if there are many older in the country still in going order. There was also an improvised sun-dial upon the window sill arranged , scientifically so as to indicate noon at any season of the year. For him I had and have the greatest veneration as a thor-
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oughly good man, living a simple and blame- less life, and doing kindness wherever it was in his power. Not less do I revere the sainted name of his eldest daughter, my aunt Harriet, then a maiden lady of fifty-one, and the good angel, it seemed to me, of the whole town. Were any seriously ill, she was always ready and first called to watch with them and fur- nish those little comforts and delicacies which sick people are supposed to require; and if any died, it was she who was expected to pre- pare tenderly the remains for the last solemn rites. * * Of my grandfather's personal appearance, I cannot speak very definitely. He was one of medium stature, of a venerable aspect, with white hair worn in a queue tied up in a black sick ribbon, not an eelskin." Deacon Whiting lived south of the Charnstaffe Lane, west of the brook and opposite the place of the Rev. Samuel Whiting. He married, January 22, 1789, Rachel Rogers, daughter of Samuel Rogers. She was born May 23, 1765 ; descended from John Rogers, the immi- grant, who settled at Watertown. Children, born in Billerica: I. Harriet, born October 20, 1789. 2. Anna and 3 Catherine (twins), born October 13, 1792. 4. Augustus, born March 2, 1795; mentioned below. 5. Mary Ann, born May 25, 1801 ; married George P. Elliott.
(VIII) Augustus Whiting, son of Samuel Whiting (7), was born in Billerica, March 2, 1795. He graduated from Harvard College in 1816, and from the Harvard Medical School in 1820. He practiced his profession in Hav- erhill and Charlestown, Massachusetts, and became a prominent physician. He married, May 30, 1822, Catherine Walker, daughter of Major Timothy Walker, of Charlestown. The Rev. Dr. James W. Walker, late president of Harvard College, was a member of this family. Augustus Whiting died May 4, 1867, and his wife died June 6, 1864, aged sixty-five. Chil- dren : I. George Augustus, born March 20, 1823; married Lucy J. Austin. 2. James Henry, born November 25, 1824, died April, 1856. 3. William, born September 13, 1826, mentioned below. 4. John Samuel, born Oc- tober 6, 1828, graduate of Harvard in 1850; physician in Charlestown; married Lucy L. Barker and had children: i. Eleanor Felton, born February 1, 1865; ii. Charles Baker, Oc- tober 15, 1866; iii. Jasper, June 15, 1868. 5. Catherine Augusta, born June 26, 1831 ; mar- ried David C. Lang. 6. Henry, born October IO, 1834. 7. Ellen Louisa, born December 25, 1836; married Francis B. Austin. 8. Eliza-
beth Wheeler, born January 24, 1839, died 1840. 9. Francis Henry, born April 2, 1842, died 1842.
(IX) William Whiting, son of Dr. Augus- tus Whiting (8), was born in Haverhill, Mass- achusetts, September 13, 1826. He attended the public schools of Charlestown, Benjamin Greenleaf school and Bradford Academy. He resided for a time after his marriage at Merri- mac, Massachusetts; he bought a residence on Main street, Andover, where his children were born. Afterward he bought a fine estate of one hundred acres at Billerica, Massachu- setts, which he still retained at the time of his decease. While he and Mrs. Whiting were travelling and spending the winter in Florida, he was accidentally killed on the railroad at Sorrento, January, 1888. His body was brought home to Billerica for burial, and rests in the family lot. He had placed in Billerica Unitarian Church a marble tablet in honor of his ancestor, the Rev .. Samuel Whiting, the first minister of Billerica, 1658. Mr. Whiting was a staunch Republican in politics, and was greatly interested and generous in public affairs, but owing to a difficulty in hearing declined to accept public office. He was a close observer, read widely and thought deeply. He was a faithful member of the Unitarian church and active in church work.
William Whiting married, December 30, 1852, Anne Stickney Brown, of Bradford, Massachusetts, a member of the old families of Kimball-Harton. Children, born at Biller- ica: I. Augustus Harton, died 1889 ; he was interested in medicine, studied at Harvard Medical School and with Dr. Bachelder, of Boston. 2. Millard Weston, died May 4, 1878; he was a student at Phillips Academy, Andover. 3. Wilfred Elton, died 1867. 4. Anna Laura, married, December, 1895, Del- bert Moyer Staley, president of the College of the Spoken Word, Boston, Massachusetts ; their only child, Samuel Whiting Staley, born October 2, 1896, died January 23, 1907; he was a rarely beautiful child, of a lofty and rare spiritual personality. He was a member of the Asa Pollard Society, Children American Revolution. Mrs. Whiting resides at "The Apple Boughs," Old Concord road, Billerica, her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Staley, sharing the home with her. She has in her possession land which has been in the family for over two hundred and fifty'years.
In the "Whiting Memorial" it is stated that the St. John family (see above) is of royal blood, through eleven Kings and Queens of
SAMUEL WHITING STALEY
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England and France. Arms: argent on a chief gules two mullets pierced, or. The fam- ily name is derived from a place called St. John in Normandy.
(I) William de St. John, was one of the barons who accompanied William the Con- queror to England ; was grand master of artil- lery in the invading army ; married Olivia de Fiegiers.
(II) John de St. John, Lord of Stanton, also Henry I.
(III) Roger de St. John married Cicey de Haya.
(IV) Muriel de St. John married Reginald de Aureval.
(V) Mabel de Aureval married Adam de Port, Baron of Basing, county of Southamp- ton, of a prominent Southampton family.
(VI) William de Port assumed the name of his grandmother, St. John, as his surname, and was Baron of St. John of Basing ; mar- ried Godchild Paganal.
(VII) Robert de St. John, second Baron of Basing, married the daughter and heir of Wil- liam de Cantilupe.
(VIII) William St. John married Isabel Cobmartin.
(IX) Sir John St. John, Knt.
(X) Sir John St. John, Knt., married Eliz- abeth Humphreville, co-heiress of the Lord of Penmark.
(XI) Sir Oliver St. John, Knt., Lord of Penmark.
(XII) Sir John St. John, Lord of Pen- mark.
(XIII) Sir Oliver St. John, Knt., married Margaret, sister and sole heir of John de Beauchamp, of Bletsoe; (second) John Beau- fort, Duke of Somerset, and by him had Mar- garet, Countess of Richmond, mother of Henry VII.
(XIV) Sir John St. John married Alice, daughter of Sir Thomas Bradshaw, of Haugh, Lancashire, descendant in the fourteenth gen- eration of Sir John Bradsheagh.
(XV) Sir John de St. John of Bletsoe, married Sybil, daughter of Morgan ap Jenkins ap Philip.
(XVI) Sir John St. John, Knt., married Margery, daughter of Sir William Walde- grave, descendant in the ninth generation from Warine de Walgrave.
(XVII) Oliver St. John created in 1559 Lord Baron St. John of Bletsoe; married Agnes Fisher.
(XVIII) Right Honorable Thomas St. John.
(XIX) Right Honorable Sir Oliver St. John, M. P., of Cayshore in Bedfordshire; married Sarah Buckley, of Odell, in Bedford- shire.
(XX) Oliver St. John, son of Right Hon- orable Sir Oliver (19), was the celebrated chief justice of England during the Common- wealth, and it has been stated that he was the favorite cousin of Oliver Cromwell, the Pro- tector. He was a brother of Elizabeth (St. John) Whiting. "His wife was a right comelie dame, and belonged to a great familie, being Chief Justice St. John his sister. She was a godly woman, and did much to cheer and help her husband. By her learning she was able to give much instruction to the dam- sels of the parish, and they did all love her as she were a tender mother." She died March 3, 1676-77, in her seventy-third year. Chil- dren of first wife: Two sons died young. 3. Daughter, married, June 4, 1650, Thomas Weld. Children of second wife: 4. Rev. Samuel, born in Skirbeck, March 25, 1633, mentioned above. 5. Joseph, born April 6, 1641, assistant to father at Lynn, minister at Southampton, Long Island. 6. John, born at Lynn, graduated at Harvard, 1657; went to England, and was preacher at Butterwick, then rector at Leverton, England. 7. Doro- thy, married Thomas Weld, who also married her elder sister. 8. Elizabeth, married Rev. Jeremiah Hobart, of Topsfield, Massachusetts.
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