William Whittemore (1772)

Born 30 Jun 1772 in Arlington, Menotomy, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Anne (Cutter) Whittemore — married 2 Feb 1796 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died [date unknown] in Chelsea, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

Biography

William Whittemore, Jr. born January 28, 1769, was baptized January 29, 1769, the son of William Whittemore and Abigail Carteret, of Charlestown, Massachusetts.

On February 2, 1796, William married Anna Cutter, also from Charleston. ^[1] Anne and William lived on her father's homestead, where their children were born. Children of William and Anna are:

• Anna (Ann) Whittemore, baptized November 24, 1799, died at Lexington, May 14, 1862, married Samuel Adams of West Cambridge on May 26, 1822

• Eleanor Whittemore, born June 25, 1801, baptized July 5, 1801, died October 5, 1805

• William Augustus Whittemore, born November 30, 1804, baptized March 24, 1805, died in Arlington, MA, April 24, 1867, married Abigail C. Tufts on January 8, 1838

• Susan Francis Whittemore, born May 11, 1807, baptized May 17, 1807, died in West Cambridge on January 17, 1850, married Pascal Sprague on April 15, 1832

• Eleanor Sophia Whittemore, born November 24, 1809, baptized February 25, 1810, died in Arlington, Christmas Day, 1868, married John P. Daniels, on October 18, 1832

• George Washington Whittemore, born May 5, 1812, baptized October 4, 1812, died in Cambridge, July 17, 1870, married Cynthia Richardson, and was the proprietor of Wilde's Hotel, Elm Street, Boston

• Thomas Whittemore, born May 9, 1815, baptized June 16, 1816, married Clara Richardson, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, on July 27, 1837, resided at Chelsea

Anne died October 27, 1849. William died in Chelsea, Massachusetts on October 17, 1854. (Probably at the home of his youngest son, Thomas)

• Fact: Burial Old Burying Ground, Arlington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA

Sources

1. ↑ First Congregational Parish (Unitarian) of Arlington, MA. Records, 1733-1965. Parish Records, 1739-1850. bMS 573/1, Book 1, Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School. (seq. 65).[ https://nrs.lib.harvard.edu/urn-3:div.lib:37099945?n=65]

• Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850; Arlington Births, p. 45-46

• Vital Records of Arlington, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1904)

• Cutter Family of New England, by Dr. Benjamin Cutter, Printed by David Clapp & Son, Boston, 1871, page 164

• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FCWQ-6Y5 : 4 December 2014), William Whittemore, 28 Jan 1769; citing ARLINGTON,MIDDLESEX,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 0874026 IT 2.

• Wyman, Thomas Bellows. The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown (D. Clapp, Boston, 1879); p.1028

• Essex Institute Historical Collections (Salem, Massachusetts); vol.25, p.289

• 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. CVIII, p. 31

• Arlington Historical Society