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Rev. Sa_ue! W/ziti_g. I I
Common Council, and erection bailiff'; and the
first record of the family in the parish register
is the baptism of John Whiting, son of John,
on the 4th of June, I592. John Whiting was
mayor of Boston in I6oo and 16o8 :._ he was
the father of Samuel Whiting, who was born
at Boston, 2oth November, i597, and who was
entered of Emanuel College, Cambridge, I6I 3,
and took his degrees of A.B. and A.M. in I616
and i62o respectively. He soon after received
orders, and became chaplain in a family which
was connected with the Bacons and Townsends
of Norfolk, and continued in that position
three years. He was afterwards settled as a
colleague with Mr. Price at King's Lynn, in the
same county. He remained three years at
Lynn ; but complaints being made to the bishop
of Norwich, of his nonconformity in adminis-
tering the services of the Church, he removed
to the rectory of Skirbeck, near Boston, where
his nonconformity was also complained of, and
* John Whiting, as appears by the records of the corporatlo:_ of
Boston, also held the office of vice-admlral of Lincolnshire in 16o2
(Thompson, p. 459)-