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of Old Lynn
to authorities. And by the same token, while the
scenes are laid in a somewhat circumscribed vicinage,
though one of the most picturesque and diversified in
all New England, it is yet true that most extensive
fields of historic interest are held in survey."
As to the contemporary standing of this book, I
desire to call a witness, first qualifying him as an
expert : Name, William Whiting ; A.B., Harvard,
1833 ;
admitted to the Bar of Massachusetts and of
U.S. Courts, 1838 ;
Presidential Elector, 1868 ; LL.D.,
1872 ; Representative of Third Massachusetts District
in Forty-third Congress ; Honorary Member of Historical
Societies of New York, Pennsylvania, Florida
and Wisconsin ;
Corresponding Member of the Philadelphia
Numismatic and Antiquarian Society, etc.
President of the New England Historic-Genealogical
Society ; Solicitor of the War Department at Washington
during the War of the Rebellion, and author
of an important work, called " The War Powers of
the President."
Mr. Whiting was a lineal descendant of Samuel
Whiting, the first minister of Lynn. As a labor of
love he wrote and printed, not published, an elaborate
and exhaustive " Memoir of Rev. Samuel Whiting,
D.D., and of his Wife, Elizabeth St. John, with
References to some of their English Ancestors and
American Descendants."
Mr. Whiting fortified his statements, like careful
historians and pleaders, by numerous citations from
competent authorities, such as the Massachusetts
Records, the Histories of Hutchinson, Minot, Bancroft,
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