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Second Generaion. 203
families who went fi'om Lynn. The fortunes
they met with in their original attempt to
settle on the western portion of the island,
and the dealings of the Massachusetts authorities
with the Dutch at New York, are fully de-
tailed by this historian, and by Gov. Winthrop,
in his journal of April 4, I64 o.3 The fact that
Mr. Whiting's parishioners were principally
from Lynn, where his father and himself had
been the pastor and teacher, will account for
his settlement in that place.
4. Elizabeth Whiting married Rev. Jeremiah
Hobart of Topsfield. He was born in England,
I63O, was freeman i653, ordained 2 October,
i67a; settled as min. at Hempstead, L.I., I682;
installed at Haddam, I4 November, I7oo, died
6 November, i7I 5, aged 85. She died at Hart-
ford, Conn., aged 88. One of their daughters
married Hezekiah Willis, secretary of the Province
of Connecticut; and another married Hez-
ekiah Brainerd, progenitor of Rev. David Brain-
erd, the famous missionary.
5. Dorothy Whiting, daughter of Rev. Sam-
* See Thompson's Long Island'; Lewis and Newhall's Lynn, p. I9a.