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I O_ Memoir of
corporation which has been printed. Its or.
ganization is still preserved; and more than
two centuries later, Col. William Whiting of
Concord, a descendant of the preacher, was
one of its officers.
A letter from the General Court of Connec-
ticut was presented to the General Court of
Massachusetts, I4th October, i656 (together
with several questions of practical concern-
ment in the churches), wherein they desired
the concurrence of the confederated Colonies
in appointing suitable elders to debate and
determine such questions and other inquiries
which might be propounded to them. Mr.
Whiting, with twelve other clergymen, was
appointed to the performance of tha_t duty.*
Under date of _2th November, _659, the
Records of Ma3sachusetts contain the follow-
ing entry: " In answer to the petition of Mr
Samuel Whiting, in behalf of his brother, Mr
John Whiting, and Mr. Richard Westland
aldermen of Boston (England), for this Court
grant of four hundred acres of land apiece, in
* 4 Mass. Rec., 28o.