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with the family from which Daniel Webster
the statesman, and Jeremiah Mason the lawyer,
were descended. (See Farmer's Reg., p. 3o7,
and Lewis and Newhall's Lynn, p. 275.)
" 5- Stephen, b. 6 August, 1720.
According to Mr. Shattuckl he had three
other children, who died without issue.
_Tudze T/zornas W/_itin_, as he was generally
called, on account of his being commissioned
and acting as a local magistrate of MiddIe-
sex County, married the grand-dau, of Capt.
Thomas Lake, an eminent merchant, who was
killed by the Indians in 1676. For a memoir
of him, and a full genealogy of his family,
written by one of his descendants, see "Appendix
to Copp's Hill Epitaphs," by J. W. Thorn-
ton, Esq. By the marriage of Judge Whiting
with Miss Lake, who was a great-grand-daugh-
ter of Gov. Goodyear of Connecticut (see
Gen. Reg., 185 I, p. 347), his famil)r were for
the second time connected with that of the
Lakes: the first connection being through
Ann Lake, daughter of Capt. Thomas Lake,"
who married Rev. John Cotton, father-in-law
of Rev. John Whiting. Capt. Lake was de-