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Hisforical 2Votes. 275
I73o. James Whiting paid £60 to be released of the office of
alderman.
I733. Mr. Whiting held land in Fishtoft.
I746. James Whiting admitted to his freedom_ 27 Feb._ and
elected to the council, 20 March.
I758. Mr. Samuel Whiting's house in the market-place was rebuilt.
The old house was one of those in which the
upper floors Overhang the lower ones ; and, in rebuilding
it, Mr. Whiting was allowed "both at the front, and
at the north end in the lane, as much space as the up-
permost story projected over."
I758. Sept. 25, the Rev. Samuel Whiting, executor of the late
James Whiting, his brother, surrendered his lease of
outrents, &c., due to the corporation.
176o. Rev. Samuel Whiting admitted a freeman, as being the
eldest son of an alderman, and elected a member of
the council.
_76I. Rev. S. Whiting lent the corporation .£500.
x777. He lent the corporation .£50o more.
t779. Rev. Samuel Whiting resigned his seat in the council of
the borough. "on account of not being able to attend
the meetings so often as he from a sense of duty wished
to do." He died 3I May, I78I, aged 67.
*"At his death the family is believed to have become
extinct in the male line. Samuel Whiting's sister Mary
married James Yorke, and their son, James Whiting
Yorke, inherited the Rev. Samuel Whiting's property ;
he was a colonel in the army, and married Elizabeth,
the daughter of Abraham and Martha Sheath of Boston;
his only son, James Whiting Yorke of Walmegate, near
Louth, was sheriff of Lincolnshire, I85o or 185i , and
died in July, 1854, without issue."
Note by Pishey Thompson, Historian of Boston, England.