921.73 W589w.pdf - Mesa FamilySearch Library

Rev. Samuel H."t_iLing. 13
1679, when he was eighty-two years of age: his
wife died in Lynn, in 1677, aged seventy-two.
Mr. Whiting's second son, John, was a graduate
of Harvard University. He returned to En'g-
land, and was appointed rector of Leverton : he
died in I689. We believe the male line of the
Whitings in this neighborhood became extinct
by the death of the Rev. Samuel Whiting,
rector of Fishtoft, in 1781. e His sister Mary
married James Yorke; their son, James Whi-
ting Yorke, a colonel in the British army,
inherited the Rev. Samuel Whiting's property.
He married Elizabeth, daughter rof Abraham
and Martha Sheath of Boston. His only son,
James Whiting Yorke of Wallingsgate, near
Louth, was sheriff of Lincolnshire in I85O and
185i, and died in July, 1854, without issue."
"The American branch of the Whiting family
is at present represented by William Whiting,
Esq.,... President of the New-England His-
torical Society." t
lie died May 3lst, 178I, aged sixty-seven years, having been appointed
rector of Fishtoft in 1739. The same author thus writes in
another connection, " At his death the family of Whiting, in the male
line, is believed to have become extinct bz EtzgZand."
t "The Endis_ part of this account," says Thompson, " is taken