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Secoml Generation. i95
They had six children, four sons and two daugh-
ters. One son and one daughter died without
issue. Their surviving children were--
SECOND GENERATION.
I. Rev. Samuel Whiting, who, was born at
Skirbeck, in England, 25 March, 1633, studied
with his father at Lynn, and was graduated at
Cambridge in I653., A.M I656.* He was or-
cases where he employs round-about instead of direct phraseology,
and even in this is sometimes careless," &c.
This severe remark upon Mather is one of many which are found
in Savage's voluminous dictionary. IIe flouts as senseless "gabble,"
the simple language in which this minister of the gospel has paid a
just tribute of respect to the religious character of a member of the
Church. Perhaps it did not occur to the learned genealogist, that se n -
timents which exalt and ennoble Christian lives are not comprehended
or measured by rules of arithmetic, and ought not to be regarded as
"senseless gabble," even by those who deem no statements valuable
other than dates of births and marriages, or inscriptions on tomb-stones.
On turning to Mather's Magnalia, from which Savage's quotation purports
to have been made, it is found that he has unfortunately misquoted
Mather's text, and by substituting the word h& referring to Mr.
Whiting's age, instead of her, referring to Mrs. Whiting's age, has
himself introduced all "the cruel confusion of time" he has lald to Dr.
Mather's charge. Mather's statement, as he made it, is accurate. Mrs.
Whiting was married in 1629, lived with her "worthy consort" fortyseven
years, fi'om I629 to 1677,--the date of her death, in the seventythird
year of her (not /ds) age. Mr. Whiting was born I597, and in
I629, the date of his second marriage, was between thirty-two and
thirty-three years old, was in the eightieth year of Ms age when his wife
died. and eighty-two years old when he died.
* Says Savage.