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.Rev. Samuel W/ziting. 59
wife, his eldest living Son Samuel, then three
years old, and his daughter Dorothy, he com-
menced the voyage to America. One of his
companions was John Wheelwright: whose
Preaching afterwards rekindled the Antinomian
controversy in which Mrs. Hutchinson took a
prominent part. The rector of Skirbeck had
but a wretched time of it, and was able to
preach but one sermon on the voyage. "I
would much rather have undergone six weeks'
imprisonment for a good cause," said Mr. Whi-
ting, "than six weeks of such terrible sea-sick-
ness." The weary voyagers arrived at Boston,
New England, May 26, i636 , and were wel-
comed to the hospitable roof of Mr. Atherton
Hough, Mr. Whiting's kinsman, with whom
they spent a month.
Mr. Hough was one of the most prominent
Lincolnshire men who came to Boston in
i633,t in company with John Cotton. He had
held the office of mayor of Boston in I628,
where Bellingham had been recorder, and
Drake's History of Boston, 219, 220; Savage's Gen Dict., vol.
iv., p. 503 ; Annals of Lynn, p. 269; Belknap's N. H., p. 337.
t Young's Chron., 48, note.