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Rev. Samuel Whiting. 49
Eliza3el/_ St. yohn kUhiting was born at
Cayshoe, Bedfordshire, England, the family
seat of her father, the Rt. Hon. Sir Oliver St.
John, Knt., A.D. 1605. Of her two brothers,
John died without issue, Oliver was Lord Chief
Justice of England. She had no sister. Her
mother, Sarah Bulkley of Odell, Bedfordshire,
was a sister of Rev. Edward Bulkley, D.D., of
Odell, who was father of Rev. Peter Bulkley, _
the first minister of Concord, Mass. " The
Bulkley family," says Shattuck, in his History
October; I638, was addressed to the wife of Mrs. Whitlng's brother,
the chief justice, 0liver St. John.
* Rev. Peter Bulkley of Concord, by will dated 26 February, i659
(see Middlesex Records), gave his folio Bible to his ne_/zew, Oliver St.
John, "as a thankful acknowledgment of his kindness and bounty
towards me (the testator) ; his liberality having been a great help and
support unto me in these lonely times and my struggles." One of his
remarkable series of sermons, printed in England, I65I, was dedicated
"to the church and congregation at Concord," and "to his nephew, the
Rt. Hon. Oliver St. John, Lord Embassador Extraordinary from the
Parliament of the Commonwealth of England to the High and Mighty
Lords the States General of the United Provinces in the Netherlands,
and Lord Chief Justice at the Common Pleas ; " pp. xvi. and 442,
quarto. President Styles, after reading this book, observes, " He was
a masterly reasoner in theology, and equal to the first characters in all
Christendom and in all ages." Rev. Edward 13ulkley was a progenitor
of l_ev. William Emerson of Concord, and of Ralph Waldo Emerson,
the philosopher and poet. " Bulkley," says Hutchinson (vol. i.,
p. 24), " was of an honorable family." (See Am. Quar. Reg. vol. ix., p.
365. )
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