HENCHMAN, Maurice (b. ABT 1595, d. ?)

Source: (Name)
Title: Ancestral File (R)
Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Publication: Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998
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Note:

NAME Family History Library
ADDR 35 N West Temple Street
CONT Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA

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Title: HOAR.FTW
Media: Other

Data:
Text: Date of Import: 24 Jun 2003

Source: (Name)
Title: Ancestral File (R)
Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Publication: Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998
Media: Book
Note:

NAME Family History Library
ADDR 35 N West Temple Street
CONT Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA

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Title: HOAR.FTW
Media: Other

Data:
Text: Date of Import: 24 Jun 2003

Source: (Name)
Title: Ancestral File (R)
Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Publication: Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998
Media: Book
Note:

NAME Family History Library
ADDR 35 N West Temple Street
CONT Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA

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Title: HOAR.FTW
Media: Other

Data:
Text: Date of Import: 24 Jun 2003

Source: (Name)
Title: Ancestral File (R)
Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Publication: Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998
Media: Book
Note:

NAME Family History Library
ADDR 35 N West Temple Street
CONT Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA

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Title: HOAR.FTW
Media: Other

Data:
Text: Date of Import: 24 Jun 2003

Source: (Name)
Title: Ancestral File (R)
Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Publication: Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998
Media: Book
Note:

NAME Family History Library
ADDR 35 N West Temple Street
CONT Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA

Source: (Name)
Title: HOAR.FTW
Media: Other

Data:
Text: Date of Import: 24 Jun 2003

Source: (Name)
Title: Ancestral File (R)
Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Publication: Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998
Media: Book
Note:

NAME Family History Library
ADDR 35 N West Temple Street
CONT Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA

Source: (Name)
Title: HOAR.FTW
Media: Other

Data:
Text: Date of Import: 24 Jun 2003

Source: (Name)
Title: Ancestral File (R)
Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Publication: Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998
Media: Book
Note:

NAME Family History Library
ADDR 35 N West Temple Street
CONT Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA

Source: (Name)
Title: HOAR.FTW
Media: Other

Data:
Text: Date of Import: 24 Jun 2003

Source: (Name)
Title: Ancestral File (R)
Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Publication: Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998
Media: Book
Note:

NAME Family History Library
ADDR 35 N West Temple Street
CONT Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA

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Title: HOAR.FTW
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Text: Date of Import: 24 Jun 2003

Note: In the 1910 and 1920 Census records, Stanley lived in Detroit Ward 18, and in Dearborn in 1930. His father was William Henry Gamber, his mother's maiden name was Delcamp, and he had a sister named Lynn W. Gamber.

Source: (Death)
Title: California Death Index

Note: Will # 23820. Stow, Middlesex, Mass.

Possibilites for Abijah's parents:

Abijah Warren born in May 30, 1757 in Upton, Worcester, Mass. son of Elijah and Rebeccah Warren
Abijah Warren born 8 August 1754 in Weston, Middlesex, Mass, baptized Aug. 11, 1754, son of Elisha and Sarah Warren

Weston is about 13 miles from Stow; Upton about 25 miles.

Abijah death record (19 sept 1824) says age 70 years, making Elisha and Sarah Warren of Weston the most likely candidates. This Abijah would have also had an older brother named and a grandfather named Nehemiah (The name of his first-born son) I really think this is the right fit and am entering Elisha Warren's line but know that this particular link between Abijah son of Elisha and Abijah who married Rebecca Hubbard is not proven.

Source: (Birth)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Data:
Text: Weston VR., p.90

Source: (Death)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Page: Stow Deaths, p. 263

Note: Stow Vital Records show a Levi Warren born to Abijah and Rebecca in 1791. Then children are born to Abijah and Anna beginning in 1794. Concord vitals records have Abijah marrying Anna Heywood (probably the daughter of Jonas) in 1793. So Rebecca must have died in between Nov. 21, 1791 and Feb. 28, 1793.

Source: (Birth)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Page: Concord Register, Book II, p. 197

Source: (Death)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Page: Stow Death, p. 263.
Data:
Text: "age 34."

Source: (Birth)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Page: Stow Births, p. 103

Note: Dates are correct Marcy Perry Whitney was 102 years old when she died. A considerable feat in the 1700's.

Source: (Birth)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Page: Stow Births, p. 101

Event: Type: Will proven
Date: 8 MAY 1782

Will: Date: 13 MAY 1768

Note: Widow of John Shed.

Note: [from "The Descendants of John Whitney," by Frederick C. Pierce. 1895. Page 30.]
"Moses WHITNEY served as a soldier in King Philip's war in 1676. The following year he "was released," whether from duty or as a prisoner I am not able to learn. He had land granted him at Stow,
Apr. 8, 1681. June 4, 1708, he purchased 30 acres of land, swamp and meadow, of Richard BURCK, of Sudbury, which had been granted him by the town of Stow. In 1692 he sold 4 1/2 acres of meadow and 10 acres of upland in Sudbury, as per deed to Benj. WHITTEMORE. He d. -----; res. Sudbury and Stow, Mass."

Source: (Birth)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Page: Watertown records, volume 1, page 17

Note: [from "The Descendants of John Whitney," by Frederick C. Pierce. 1895. Page 22.]

"He was admitted freeman May 7, 1651. He was proprietor of Stow June 3, 1680, and probably moved there when it was a part of Concord or belonged to it. His eight children were born in Watertown.
"Apr. 7, 1697, Richard WHITNEY of Stow, being 70 years of age, was released from training by the court. He d. -----; res. Concord and Stow, Mass. "


Bond gives the date of his release from training as 7 Apr 1691, not 7 Apr 1697, and which might be correct I cannot now say.

Note: [from "The Descendants of John Whitney" by Frederick C. Pierce.]
John Whitney was born in England in 1589, and dwelt in the Parish of Isleworth-on-the-Thames, opposite Richmond, nine miles from London, from May, 1619, to January, 1623-4. The record "of persons permitted to embark at the port of London after Christmas, 1634," manuscript folio page 35 in Rolls office, Chancery Lane, gives the following names and ages: John Whitney 35, Elinor Whitney 30, John 11, Richard 9, Nathaniel 8, Thomas 6, Jonathan 1.
The record reads as follows:
The Elizabeth and Ann, Roger Cooper Master., April, 1635.
These p'ties hereunder expressed are to be imbarqued for New England, having taken the oaths of Allegeance and Supremacie and likewise brought Certificate both from the Ministers and Justices when their abidings were latlie, of their conformitie to the Discipline and order of the Church of England, and yet they are no Subsedy Men. Jo. Whitney, 35; Jo. Whitney, 11; Richard Whitney, 9; Nathaniel Whitney, 8; Tho. Whitney, 6; Jonathan Whitney, 1; Ellen Whitney, 30.
The ages of John Whitney and his five sons, as thus given, were all too young.
The parish resister of Isleworth contains the following entries:
1621, Sept. 14, John Whitne and Ellin had John their son baptized.
1623-4, Jan. 6, John Whitne and Elinor his wife had their son Richard baptized.
It is suggested that the non-conformity acts might have had some influence in making the ages of the several members of the family younger than they were.
They settled in Watertown, in the Massachusetts colony, in June, 1635, where his son Joshua was born the 15th of July following, he being the first of this line born in America. John Whitney was admitted freeman 3d of March, 1636, and the following year was for the first time elected by his associates as one of the Select Men of the town. He held the office for many years afterward, until 1655, at which time he was elected town clerk. June 1, 1641, he was appointed constable at Watertown by the General Court at their quarter session held in Boston.
At that time constables were appointed by the General Court, and, besides the duties attached to the office in latter times, they were required to collect the taxes of the town and the levies by the General Court; to pay the debts of the colony due to individuals in their respective towns; to supply the town with sealed weights and measures; to set or order in those towns where no captain dwelt, and to inflict the punishments ordered by judicial authority, "where there was not another appointed to do it within his own town, unless he can get another to do it." As a badge of his office a constable was required to carry a black staff five or five and a half feet long, with a tip or head five or six inches long.
His very early admission as a freeman and his election as a Select Man show that he held a respectable social position in the community.
He was grantee of eight lots in Watertown and purchaser of 16 acres, his homestall lot, where he continued to reside. This latter property was granted to John Strickland, and was bounded east and south by William Jennison, west by Martin Underwood, north by Isaac Mixer. His eight lots amounted to 212 acres, to which he subsequently made additions, as shown by the Registry of Deeds. Later the homestall became the property of his son, Joshua, of Groton, who sold it to Dea. Nathan Fiske, Oct. 29, 1697.
The death of John Whitney is registered in the church record of Watertown, 1673, thus: "John Whetny, Widdower, Deceased first of June, aged abought eighty--four years." His wife, Elinor, mother of his eight sons, died in Watertown May 11,1659. He married Judah (Judith) Clement, Sept. 29, 1659.
His will, dated April 3, 1673, is as follows:
I John Whitney senior of Watertowne in ye county of midlesexx being perfect and sound in my memory and understanding blessed be god for it: I do declare this to be my last will and testemant In maner and form as followeth
1ly I committ my spirit into ye hands of god yt gave it: and my body unto the earth from whence it was taken:
2ly I give unto my Son John Whitney: my meadow called beeverbrook meadows with yt upland yt doth appertain thereunto: and a yoke of oxen: or nine pounds ten shillings: and ten acres of my land called devedent and a trunke and one pair of sheets and one pair of pillows beers and two pewter dishes a great one and a small one and ye bed whereon I lie with all the furniture thereunto belonging.
3ly I give unto my son Richard Whitney my ten acres of land called devident and two cowes and a great sea chest
4ly I give unto my son Thomas Whitney ten acres of my land called devident and two cowes and a sad colered sute namely a payer of breeches and a close coate and a puter dish.
5ly I give unto my son Jonathan Whitney an iron kitle and a great brass skilet.
6ly I give unto my son Joshua Whitney twenty acres of my land called devident and a cubbard and a little table and a chest and a great kitle and a warming pan and a skillett.
7ly I give unto my son Benjamin Whitney the old mare if she live.
8ly My will is yt what of my estate be left after all is paid out as ye aboves namely of my moveables yt it be equaly devided between my execeutors and I doe nominate and apoynt my well beloved sones John Whitney and Joshua Whitney to be my execeutors to this my will and testament and I doe desire my loveing friend William Bond sen to se yt this my will be performed acording to ye true intent of it
as is aforesaid and doe set to my hand this 3d of Aprill 1673.
Ye centerline in ye line 24 ye wood devided was don before any subscribing or sealining.
The marks of X
Jon Whitney sen and a seale,
In ye presince of us
William Bond sen
Sarah Bond sen


This is an inventory of the estate of Mr. John Whitnie, sene, taken this 4th of June, 1673, by us whose names are hereunto subscribed.
Impe Wearing Clothes.
A sad coleired sute coats and breeches................................. 001 10 00
The rest of both linin and woollen and shooes stocking hats gloves being much worne..................................................... 002 10 00
The bed wheareon he lay wth all the furniture thereunto belonging....... 05 00 00
Three pillows beers three sheets and three small old table clothes..... 001 00 00
An old feather boulster and feather pillows a sea chest................ 000 10 00
Two old chests an old trunke an old box and an old Cubbard............. 000 14 00
Two old tables one forme 3 old chaires................................. 001 00 00
Three pewter platters one basson a sacer and old great pott and old pewter bottle and a chamber pott..................................... 000 12 00
A brass kitle 2 brass skillets a brass skimer a warming pan a small brass morter a little ladell of brass................................ 001 02 00
An iron pot and pott hooks a tramell a iron kittle a spit a smoothing iron and two old frying pans......................................... 001 05 00
Three earthen vessels a great grater 2 chuny dishes a dozen of trenchers a wooden dish 3 cheese moats............................... 000 03 00
A small trevit a pair of tongs and a small payer of scales pound and half in waits a spindell for a wheelle and an iron bullet........ 000 02 00
A churne and other lumber.............................................. 000 05 00
Four cowes............................................................. 010 00 00
Two oxen............................................................... 009 10 00
A old maer............................................................. 002 10 00
An old sadle an pillion................................................ 000 10 00
An old paire of soops and boxes for a cart a payer of iron pins for the extree a payer of lines pins and washers......................... 000 10 00
A chaine a iron bar a spoone of iron an old adsc a set for a saw two edges and an iron pin for a cart a hay crome and other old iron, 000 12 00
A grind stone with the iron to it................................ 000 04 00
An old haire a cart rope an old bage two old cushins............. 000 02 00
Fifty acres of land caled devident............................... 025 00 00
Three acres of meadow at beaver brooke with an acre and half of ap-- land to it.................................................... 020 00 00
An acre of meadow called plaine meadow........................... 010 00 00
A forke and a shovell............................................ 000 02 00
All so of........................................................ 000 14 00
Joseph UNDERWOOD
William BOND
Nathan FISKE
Massachusetts Colony Records
A quarter Court, held at Boston, the first of the 4th mo., 1641.
John WHITNEY was chosen constable at Watertowne and tooke oath.
There was granted to Goodm. NUTT, Marten UNDERWOOD, John WHITNEY, Henry KEMBALL and John WITHEREDGE alowance for 881/2 yrd. of cloth, valued at 12 d. p. yrd. 1655. In answer to the peticion of Mr. Lymon EIRES, Jno. STONE, Jno. WHITNEY,
Wm. PAGE, etc, the Court judgeth it meete to referre the peticioners to the retourne of the commissiones appointed to settle the matters in difference betweene them those acts this Court doth approove of and continew, as they are presented to this Court, and are on file.

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The English origins of John Whitney as the son of Thomas Whitney and Mary Bray are in doubt. Much has been written about it at http://www.whitneygen.org/families/johnw/doubts.html. A copy of which is also in my files.

Source: (Birth)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Page: Stow Births, p. 110