Whitmore Families of Early New England

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Surname/tag: Whitmore

Related Wikitree Profiles

• John Whitmore (abt.1589-1648)
• John Whitmore (1627-1650)
• Thomas Wetmore (abt.1615-1681)
• Francis Whitmore (aft.1623-1685)
• Anne (Whitmore) Farrow (1611-1687)
• Mary (Whitmore) Brewer (abt.1626-1684)
• Thomas Whittemore (1593-1661)
• Laurence Whittamore (abt.1564-1644)

• Whitmore, W.H. Record of the Descendants of Francis Whitmore, of Cambridge, Mass. 1855. p. 2. https://archive.org/details/recordofdescenda00inwhit/page/2/mode/2up

• Wetmore, James Carnahan. The Wetmore Family of America, and Its Collateral Branches: with Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical Notices. 1861. https://archive.org/details/wetmorefamilyofa00wetm/page/n7/mode/2up

• Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1862). Pages 526-8. HathiTrust

See: Whitmore - Wetmore - Savage, Genealogical Dictionary entry. "WHITMORE, oft. WETMORE" Savage presents John as possible father of all the other Whitmore/Wetmore men. Francis as a probable son of John of Wethersfield, John as perhaps son of John, says of Thomas, that he spells his name Wetmore, "as have all the descend. s. of the first John."

• Whitmore, WIlliam H. Whitmore Tracts. A Collection of Essays on Matters of Interest to Persons Bearing the Name. 1875. pp. 16 an 38 https://archive.org/details/whitmoretractsa00whitgoog/page/n66/mode/2up

• Purdy, Jessie Whitmore Patten. The Whitmore Genealogy. A Record of the Descendants of Francis Whitmore of Cambridge, Massachusetts (1625-1685). 1907. pp. viii-ix https://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t9r210f1g?urlappend=%3Bseq=12

• De Forest, Louis & De Forest, Anne. Moore and Allied Families, The Ancestry of William Henry Moore (De Forest Publishing Co., New York, 1938) page 619. https://archive.org/details/moorealliedfamil00defo/page/618/mode/2up

• Whitmore, Harold. "Y-DNA Tests of Descendants of Three New England Patriarchs: Thomas Whittemore of Malden, Mass., Thomas Wetmore of Middletown, Conn., and Francis Whitmore of Cambridge, Mass." New England Ancestors. Vol. 10, No. 4 (Fall 2009). pp. 47-9. Link to pages at americanancestors.org.

• Great Migration Directory: Whitmore, John: Unknown; 1639; Wethersfield, Stamford [CCCR 1:44, 197; WetLR 1:74, 137; SmTR 4; FOOF 1:336; Moore Anc 619].

• Pope. Page 494 https://archive.org/details/pioneersofmassac00pope/page/494/mode/2up?view=theater

WHITMORE, Francis, tailor, Cambridge, propr. 1648; frm. May 3. 1654. He deposed 18 (10) 1660, ae. about 35 years. [Mdx. Files.] He m. about 1648, Isabel, dau. of Thomas Parks. [Mds. Files, 1672.] She d. March 31, 1665. He m. 2, Margaret Harty; ch. Elizabeth b. 2 (3) 1649, Francis, John, Samuel, Abigail bapt. July 3, 1659, Sarah bapt. March 30, 1662, Margery bapt. March 27, 1664, Hannah (by second wife) bapt. Feb. 15, 1667. [Mi.]

He d. Oct. 12, 1685, [Town Rec] ae. 62. [Gr. St.] Will dated 8 (8) 1685, beq. to wife; eldest son Francis; two youngest sons Thomas and , Joseph; other children; the ch. of his dau. Elizabeth and her husband Daniel Markham; son Samuel has had his portion already. Friends William Locke and Francis Moore execs. The widow Margaret d. March 1, 1685-6. Admin, on both estates was gr. June 17, 1690, to son John and son-in-law William Locke, Jr.; sons-in-law Thomas Carter and Jonathan Thompson united in the petition.