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NOTE 3, P" I8. _ The name of Elliot has usually been spelled
with one 1 ; but Savage gives it as either Eliot, Elliott_ or Elliotte.
The inscription on an ancient portrait of this distinguished philanthropist,
which the author procured many years since, in England, reads
thus: "John Elliot, the apostle of the Indians, nascit. I6O4, obit.
169o."
NOTE 4, P. 205. _ Children of Rev. Samuel Whiting, Jun., of J3illerica,
and Dorcas Chester. The Billerica Records give the following
dates : --
Elizabeth, b. 6th day, 9th month, 166o.
Samuel, b. I9th day, ilth month (Jan.), I662.
John, b. Ist day, 6th month (Aug.), I66J..
Oliver, b. 8th day, 9th month (Nov.), 1665.
Mary, b. 28"th day, 3d month {May), 1667.
Dorritty, b. 23d day, 7th month (Sept.), 1668.
Joseph, b. 7th day, I2th month (Feb.), 1669-7o.
James, b. 2oth day, 6th month, 1671.
Died, ISt day, 7th month, 1671.
Unis, b. 6th day, 7th month, 1672.
Died 2oth day, 7th month, 1672.
Benjamin,
Died,
b. 26th day, 7th month (Sept.),
ISth day, 8th month, 1675.
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Benjamin
Died,
(2d), b. 5th day, 9th month,
2oth day, 9th month, 1682.
1682.
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Joseph, b. 6th day, 7th month (Sept.), I7Ol (unmarried).
Dorcas, the mother, died I6th Feb., i712-i 3.
Rev. Samuel, the father, died 28th Feb., 1712-13.
Some of the above dates differ from those in the text, and in Far-
mer's Register.
NOTE 5, P' 217"_ The children of Rev. Thomas Clark and Elizabeth
Whiting.
Farmer's Register gives the children of Rev. Thomas Clark, second
minister of Chehnsford, by his first wife, but omits his issue by his
second wit_, Elizabeth Whiting, by whom he had one daughter,
Abigail. Mr. Parkhurst, Town Clerk of Chelmsford, thus writes:
"Abigail, daughter of Rev. Thomas Clark and Elizabeth his wife,
was born Jan _. 25, 17o5. Her father died DecL 7, 1704, one month and
twenty-one days prior to her birth. He was twice married, tiis second
wife was Elizabeth Whiting of Billerica. They were married