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co2 Whiting Pamilv.
married two wives : 1st, Sarah Danforth of Cam.
bridge, eldest daughter of Hon. Thomas Dan-
forth, deputy governor of Massachusetts, and
president of Maine. She was born * : : November,
_646; ed, Rebecca Prescott, who died the
same year with him, and by whom he had no
issue, t By Sarah Danforth he had six children,
born at Lynn, all of whom, except the first and
sixth, died within a few weeks of their birth. He
died 7 April, I723, aged 82, having officiated
nearly sixty years, of which forty-three were
passed at Southampton.
Bradford, in his History of Harvard Univer-
sity, mentions him as an eminent scholar, and as
one of those who "shone as lights in the Chris-
tian community throughout New Eng_land."$
An account of Southampton, the names of
its first inhabitants, the civil compact or con-
federation entered into by them, and their rea-
son for selecting that place as the site for a town,
are given in Thompson's " History of Long
Island." It was settled in I64o, principally by
Savage's Gen. Dict. t Shattuck's Hist. Concord, 382.
$ Bradford's Hist. Harv. University, Am. Quar. Reg., vol. ix., pp.
338 -34o.