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288 W_iti_s of Hatford.
that of Col. William Whiting of Hartford, and
of Nathaniel Whiting of Dedham, according
to Mr. Hunter (3. Mass. Hist. Coll., x., 7 I), be-
longed to Boxford, in the County of Suffolk.
Mr. Savage (in his Geneal. Dict.) conjec-
tures that this stock might include that of Rev.
Samuel Whiting, although, he says, he came last
from the county of Lincoln. Mr. Savage was
probably not aware that this clergyman, instead
of having come "last" from Boston, belonged
to a family which had been settled there for
several centuries before the first Pilgrim came
to these colonies. Although no connection
between these ancient contemporaries has
yet been shown, it by no means follows that
none exists. It will be left for other genealogists
to make further examinations in the English
records, and to ascertain whether they were descendants
from the same ancestor.
There is some reason to believe that the
Virginia family of Whiting are of the same
stock as that of Rev. Samuel Whiting; but the
proofs have not been sufficiently developed to
warrant a positive assertion of that fact.