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216 W/ziling_ Fami/y.
Webster of Salisbur.y. She died 29 May, I73I.
For his second wife he married the widow of
Dr. Jonathan Prescott, by whom he had no
• issue.
FOURTH GENERATION.
Children of Oliver Whiting of Billeriea, son
of Rev. Samuel W. at Billerica, and Ann Dan-
forth : nine in number (Savage, vol. iii., p. 52o),
of whom the fourth was Samuel of Billerica, b.
6 September, 17o2; deacon; d. 22 December,
1736 •
Children of Mary, daughter of Rev. Samuel
W. of Billerica (not given).
Children of Joseph, son of Rev. Samuel W.
of Billerica (not given).
Children of Rev. Thomas Clark of Chelms-
London. Returning to Massachusetts, he served the colony, successively
and successfully, as attorney general, judge, and chief justice.
lie was deeply interested alike in education and religion, and, by his
will, bequeathed ._IOO to Harvard College for the support of an annual
lecture on subjects connected with religion. These lectures are known
to-day as the Dudleian Lectures.
"Roxbury was the home of these eminent men, as indeed it has
been of nearly the entire family through all the generations until now ;
and they not onJy gave their name to some of our principal streets,
squares, and public buildings, but stamped their characteristics, in
greater or less degree, upon the moral and social llfe of the town."