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Rev. Samuel Whiling. 165<br />

honored selves, and yourselves with the<br />

Lord.<br />

"Your humble petitioner, friend ever, and<br />

servant for Christ's sake, though ready to de-<br />

part dieing. SAMUZn<br />

"this 23 of April, ann. 1679. WHITING St."<br />

The General Court, without hesitation, passed<br />

the following order:--<br />

" In answer to the petition of Mr. Samuel<br />

Whiting, Sen _"of Lynn, relating to a deed of<br />

gift of land from Mr. Richard Westland of<br />

Boston, in England, for fifty pounds, by him<br />

said W'estland, put into the country stock, &c.<br />

the Court judgeth it meet to grant to the<br />

said Mr. Samuel Whiting, Sen _ & his heirs,<br />

six hundred acres of land, to be laid out in<br />

any country lands in this jurisdiction."*<br />

For the last ten years of his life, Mr. Whi-<br />

ting was afflicted by a "grinding and painful<br />

disorder," t and endured many periods of great<br />

suffering, and "scarce enjoyed a clay of perfect<br />

* 5 Mass. Records, 232.<br />

t Artmsthetic lithotomy, unfortunately for him, was then unknown.

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