Abraham Whittier of Marblehead

• Abraham Whitaker / Whittier
• Birth[1][2][3][4] abt 1609
• Death[1][2][3][4] Oct 1674 Manchester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
• 1st unknown wife married circa 1639
• 2nd wife Mary married circa 1653 she m/2 John Knight

Biography

Abraham Whitaker / Whittier arrived at Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts by 1636.[7] He was a carpenter, fisherman and farmer born about 1609 (deposed aged 60 years old of "Haverhill" in 1669 EQC). He appears on the tax lists in 1637. He had at least three children with a first unrecorded wife. He married second about 1653 to Mary who married second John Knight. Abraham Whitaker had at least five children (although the assignment of children may not be exactly known). He purchased 7 acres for 3 pounds in the Plain Farm in 1645. He was stinted for 1 cow in 1647. He conveyed a 10 acre lot between Darby Fort and Peach's Point in 1652 and removed to Manchester by 1653 where his younger children were probably born. In 1656 he sued Robert Gray for leaving his son John in Virginia. John presumably died there as he had a second son named John shortly thereafter. Another son William in 1711 then of Brookhaven, Long Island deeded his share of his father's estate to his brother Isaac of Manchester. His will was dated 6 Aug 1674 and inventory was taken 22 Aug 1674. His widow, Mary and her second husband John Knight were administrators of his estate in 1682.

Sources

• ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gray, Thomas E. The founding of Marblehead. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Gateway Press, 1984), 130.
• ↑ 2.0 2.1 Perley, Sidney. The History of Salem, Massachusetts. (Salem, Massachusetts: Sidney Perley, 1924-1928), 1:427 .
• ↑ 3.0 3.1 David W Hoyt, "Early Whittiers, Widgers and Whittakers in Essex Counrty", in Essex Institute Historical Collections. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute Press), 49:37-39, 51:68; 54:23; 69:211, 1913+.
• ↑ 4.0 4.1 Roads, Samuel. The history and traditions of Marblehead. (Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton, Osgood and Co., 1880), 13.
• Massachusetts (Colony). Quarterly Courts (Essex County). Records and files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts. (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1911-1925, 1975), 1:13; 7:222.
• ↑ Massachusetts, Probate Court (Essex County). The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts. (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1916, 1917, 1920), 2:418-19.
• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jan 26 2017, 0:00:34 UTC
• Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620–1640 (Boston, Massachusetts. New England Historic and Genealogical Society. 2015)372