Samuel Whiting, Jr.

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

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]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1889). "Whiting, Samuel". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
  2. 2.0 2.1 John Burke and 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.

Further reading

Preceded by
First Pastor
Minister
1663 – 1713
Succeeded by
Samuel Ruggles