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John Lithgow

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Samuel Whittemore

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of John Lithgow — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 312 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Whittemore 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Rice   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 Jul 1696 
  • Birth Location:
  • Charlestown (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  • 9 May 1697 
  • Christening Location:
  • Charlestown (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • 2 Feb 1793 
  • Death Location:
  • Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  • Old Burying Ground, Arlington, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Spring
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1721 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  Thomas Whittemore (Ahnentafel No:156 )

• Additional marriages for Samuel Whittemore

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  • Spouse:
  • Esther Green

• Sources for Samuel Whittemore

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/20/2021).
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1953, Vol. 107, pp. 28-30, 97.
  • ³ Cutter, Dr. Benjamin and William Richard Cutter, A History of the Cutter Family of New England, Boston: David Clapp and Son (1871), 231.
  • ⁴ Whittemore, Henry, The Founders and Builders of the Oranges: Comprising a History of the Outlying District of Newark, Subsequently . . ., Newark, New Jersey: L. J. Hardham, Printer and Bookbinder (1896), 433.

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