Person:John Whitmore (1)
John Whitmore
b.1589 Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
d.Oct 1648 Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
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  • H.  John Whitmore1589 - 1648
m. Abt 1605
  1. Ann WhitmoreEst 1621 - Aft 1676
  2. Mary WhitmoreEst 1623 - 1684
  3. Francis WhitmoreAbt 1623 - 1685
  4. John WetmoreAbt 1627 -
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Name[1][2] John Whitmore
Gender Male
Birth? 1589 Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Marriage Abt 1605 Englandto Unknown
Death? Oct 1648 Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
References
  1. ↑ 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)
    4:526-527.

    John (Whitmore), Wethersfield 1639, but in what part of Mass. he had first liv. is not found, but prob. he brot. from Eng. all the five ch. he ever had, Thomas, b. a. 1615; Francis, a. 1625; and John, a. 1627; beside two ds. Ann, said to be b. a. 1621; and Mary, a. 1623; rem. a. 1641 to Stamford, and was one of the first sett. At S. he was in good repute, m. a wid. Jessup, was chos. a rep. to New Haven assemb. 1647, and murd. by Ind. in Oct. 1648. The act was not a case of private hatred, but seems to have been the deed of the whole tribe, and the Col. of Conn. was moved to unite with that of N. H. in a just revenge. See Trumbull, Col. Rec. I. 197. JOHN, Hartford 1646, s. perhaps of the preced. had Sarah, b. 16 Dec. 1647; rem. prob. to Stamford bef. or soon after d. of his suppos. father.

  2. ↑ John Whitmore, in Adams, Sherman W. (Sherman Wolcott), and Henry R. (Henry Reed) Stiles. The History of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut: Comprising the Present Towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington; and of Glastonbury Prior to its Incorporation in 1693, from Date of Earliest Settlement Until the Present Time with Extensive Genealogies and Genealogical Notes on Their Early Families. (New York: The Grafton Press, 1904)
    2:785.

    Whitmore, (Whittemore, Whetmore. Wetmore), John, came to Weth., 1639 or earlier, and took a home-lot (See Chapt. VII, Vol. I) which he sold in 1641, having previously rem. to Stamford, where he Is found on the 2d and 3d lists of sett. and in the 1st distrib. of ld. He was murdered by Inds. at Stamford in 1648, acc. to Huntington, or in Sept., 1649, acc. to S. W. A. His invent, of est. am't'g to £217 04-02, presented to Connecticut., at New Haven, 26 May, 1656; he rep. S. in N. H. Col, Ct.; was prob. related to Thomas of Midd. See Hazard's State Papers, 127, and there is an affid, in St. Rec. in which Goodwife Whittemore, wife of John, affirms that he sold a certain piece of Id, to his son, John.

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