Ancestry of
Bette Davis

Movie Actress

Samuel Whiting Jr.

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Bette Davis — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 984 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Whiting 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth St. John   
  • Birth Date:
  • 25 Mar 1633 
  • Birth Location:
  • Skirbeck, Lincolnshire, England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 27 or 28 FEB 1712/1713 
  • Death Location:
  • Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Dorcas Chester
  • Marriage Date:
  • 12 Nov 1656 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Charlestown (now Boston), Suffolk, England 
  • Children:
  
  

  Samuel Whiting

  Oliver Whiting (Ahnentafel No:492 )

• Sources for Samuel Whiting Jr.

  • ¹ Charlestown, MA: Vital Records to 1850, Vol. 1, p. 20, Marriage record for Samuel Whiting and Dorcas Chester.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Billerica Births, Vol. 1, p. 200, Birth record for son Samuel Whiting.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Billerica Deaths, Vol. 1, p. 402.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1969, Vol. 123, p. 162.
  • ⁵ The American Genealogist, 1977, Vol. 53, p. 74.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 348.
  • ⁷ 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.
  • 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), 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.
  • 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), 758.
  • 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), 195-200, 205-206.