Person:Valentine Whitman (6)

Will

Wightman, Valentine, of Providence, aged. Will dated 13 Jan 1700/1, he died 26 Jan 1700/1, proved 11 Mar 1700/1, pgs 269-271. Mentions: Wife Mary who to dispose of moveable estate amongst my & her children desiring her my said wife in all love to consider in special such of our children as stay longest with her & help her in her age . . . my 9 children. Son Valentine Whitman. My 8 daughters Mary, Elizabeth, Susanna, Deborah, Alice, Hannah, Esther, & Grace -- no surnames given for any of the daughters, but see 3 grandsons. Daughter Elizabeth given 60A land since she is weakly of body & may not be capable to provide for herself, John & Mary Inman's eldest son, James & Deborah Smith's eldest son. Son Valentine Wightman, son-in-law James Bellue, & friend Richard Arnold overseers. Land of Samuel Wilkenson, David Whipple, David Shippie. Witn: Samuel Wilkenson, Thomas Arnold Jr, Richard Arnold.

1. ↑ Arnold, James N. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636–1850: First series, births, marriages and deaths. A family register for the people. (Narragansett Hist. Publ. Co., 1891).

   WHITMAN Valentine Sr., (1-8), Jan. 26, 1700-1. (Providence deaths)

2.   Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   4:524.

   VALENTINE, Providence, by w. Mary had Mary, b. 16 Nov. 1652; Elizabeth 3 July 1655; Susanna, 28 Feb. 1658; and Valentine, 28 Aug. 1668; perhaps others. He took engagem. of alleg. to Charles II. 31 May 1666; and was much employ. as interpret. with Ind. (See Hutch. Coll. 267) and d. 26 Jan. 1701.