John Whittemore (1685 - 1748)

Born 23 Dec 1685 in Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Lloyd) Whittemore — married 8 Nov 1711 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 21 Apr 1748 at age 62 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

• mariner.

• Witnessed a deed in Boston on 15 June 1719 from Jonas Webber to Capt. John Gyles.^[1]

• Sued for a dept of £7 by Thomas Copping, innholder ^[2]

• Bought a house and land on Sheafe St., on 26 May, 1733, in the northerly end of Boston, from Edward Drinker, a joyner, for £410.^[3]

• On 15 July 1737, petitioned the Selectmen of Boston for a Retailer's license, "as he is sick with the gout and can no longer follow the sea as he was brought up to do".^[4][5]

• Signed a petition by the residents of Boston's North End asking that a new road be built from Sheafe St. to the Charles River.^[6]

John was buried at Copp's Hill Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. The inscription on the stone read "Here Lyes Buried the Body of Mr. John Whittemore Aged 63 Years Died April Ye 21st 1748".^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ York Deeds, liber 9, folio 239
2. ↑ Suffolk Court Records, vol. 129, p. 140
3. ↑ Suffolk Deeds, vol. 47, p. 233
4. ↑ Suffolk Court Records, vol. 295, p. 129
5. ↑ Boston Records Commissioners Reports, vol. 15, p. 67
6. ↑ Mass. Historical Soc. misc. papers, vol. 11, 1738-1748
7. ↑ Boston, MA: Old Cemeteries of Boston, 1649-1920. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2007), (Inscriptions and Records of the Old Cemeteries of Boston, Dunkle, Robert J. and Lainhart, Ann S., Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2000.); p. 392

• Boston Record Commissioners. Boston Records Commissioners Reports (Rockwell & Churchill, Boston, 1875)
  • vol. 13, p. 231
  • vol. 14, p. 5
  • vol. 15, p. 67

• Crane, Ellery. Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts (The Lewis Pub. co., New York, Chicago, 1907); Vol.2, p.89-90

• Memorial: Find a Grave (no image)
  Find A Grave: Memorial #13435356 (accessed 8 November 2022) Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13435356/john-whittemore: accessed 08 November 2022), memorial page for John Whittemore (23 Feb 1685–21 Apr 1748), Find a Grave Memorial ID 13435356, citing Copp's Hill Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by Jan Franco (contributor 46625834) .

• Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910, database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCWW-1BS : 4 December 2014), John Whitemoor and Eliza Loyd, 08 Nov 1710; citing reference ; FHL microfilm 818,093.

• Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, database with images, FamilySearch
  • (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC99-NV9 : 13 July 2016), John Whittamore, 23 Dec 1684; citing Birth, Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 892,249.
  • (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHQ7-KLQ : 13 July 2016), John Whitemoor and Eliza Loyd, 08 Nov 1710; citing Marriage, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 818,093.

• Norton, John F. The History of the Town of Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, from 1752-1887 (Burr Printing House, Fitzwilliam, N.H., 1888); Page 772-783

• Suffolk County, MA: Probate File Papers.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017-2019. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized mages provided by FamilySearch.org) ; Case Number: 8984, Case Type: will, Note: page 1 of 11, Volume Name: Suffolk Cases 8000-9999, Page: 8984:1
  • Letter of Testem: Benj? Whittemore, 20 Chapel St. Brookline
  • bequest: son John
  • bequest: son Edward
  • bequest: son Johns' 2 sons and Edwards' son named Edward Lloyd
  • bequest: dau Elizabeth Breed
  • bequest: Elizabeths' 2 children Nathaniel and Elizabeth
  • executor: brother Josiah Whittemore

• Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1862); Vol. 4, pg. 534

• Whittemore Genealogies
  • Whittemore, Bernard. A Genealogy of Several Branches of the Whittemore Family (F. P. Whittemore, Nashua, N.H., 1893); Page 26
  • Bradford Adams Whittemore, Edgar Whittemore ([1]: accessed 02/12/2016) The Whittemore Family in America. The New England Historical AND Genealogical REGISTER, VOL. CVI January 1952 - VOL. CVIII October 1954; VOL. CVI, p. 196, VOL. CVII, pp. 254-255

• Wyman, Thomas Bellows. The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown (D. Clapp, Boston, 1879); p. 1022

• Boston, MA: Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630-1822 (Thwing Collection). Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630–1800 and The Crooked and Narrow Streets of Boston, 1630–1822. CD-ROM. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014.); p. 18709
  • Birth: 1684 1685
  • Father: John Whittemore
  • Mother: Elizabeth Annabel
  • Spouse: 1711 Elizabeth Lloyd, dau of Edward Lloyd and Hannah Griffin of Charlestown, she d1746 age 57
  • Children:
    • 1714 John m1742 Lydia Clough
    • 1716 Elizabeth
    • 1718 Edward
    • 1720 1721 Sarah
  • Home Sheaf St. Salem St.
  • Occupation: Mariner retailer
  • Event June 12, 1733 grantedliberty to dig in Salem St. for a drain from his new house. (TR 13:231). August 24, 1737 permitted to sell strong drink as a retailer; house Sheaf St. (TR 15:67).
  • Office: Help town office (TR14) 1742-57.