Ancestry of
Melville Fuller

8th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

Samuel Whiting

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Melville Fuller — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 146 
  • Father:
  • John Whiting 
  • Mother:
  • Isabel -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 20 Nov 1597 
  • Birth Location:
  • Boston, Lincolnshire, England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Dec 1679 
  • Death Location:
  • Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  Dorothy Whiting (Ahnentafel No:73 )

  • Notes: 

  • The history regarding the Rev. Samuel Whiting has been clouded by a hoax perpetrated by James Robinson Newhall in 1862 when he published a fabricated diary of a non-existent Obadiah Turner, an alleged parishioner of the Rev. Samuel Whiting. Unfortunately, subsequent histories of the Whiting family used extracts from this fake diary to describe the life of the Rev. Samuel Whiting.

• Additional marriages for Samuel Whiting

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth St. John
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 Aug 1629
  • Marriage Location:
  • Boston, Lincolnshire, England

• Sources for Samuel Whiting

  • ¹ Early New England Families, 1641-1700, Peter Hobart (m. 1628), p. 5.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1969, Vol. 123, pp. 161-169.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1977, Vol. 53, p. 163.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1963.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. I, A-B, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1999), 463.
  • ⁶ Browning, Charles H., Americans of Royal Descent: A Collection of Genealogies of American Families Whose Lineage is Traced to . . ., 2nd Ed., Philadelphia: Porter and Coates (1891), 448.
  • ⁷ Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, editor, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011), 480.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 193.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 11, 118.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 443, 574.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 924.
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 498.
  • ¹³ Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650, Lancaster, Mass: (1950), 88.
  • ¹⁴ Whiting, William, Memoir of Rev. Samuel Whiting, D.D., and of his wife, Elizabeth St. John, Boston: Press of Rand, Avery, and Company (1873).