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About Rev. Zachariah Whitman, Sr.
Rev. Zachariah Whitman, Sr.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/206186435/zachariah-whitman
History of the Descendants of John Whitman of Weymouth, Massachusetts
by Charles Farnam 1889
Rev. Zachariah the third son of the Ancestor, was born at Weymouth, 1644. He graduated at Harvard University in 1668, and September 13, 1670, was ordained, upon a salary of £40, as the first minister of Point Alderton, Nantasket or Hull, which in 1673 was taxed more than Medford, Gloucester or Exeter, and one third as much as Roxbury.
Marmaduke Matthews had been preaching at Hull, but for several erroneous expressions" was admonished by the Government, who would not grant the desire of the people to have him return. Soon after his ordination he married Sarah, twin dau. with Anna of Dr. John Alcock (H.U. 1646) of Roxbury, baptized May 26, 1650. The contract of marriage was dated October 26, 1670, and the ceremony probably took place soon after. In May, 1673, he was admitted as a freeman. At the death of his uncle, Zachariah Whitman of Milford, Connecticut, in 1666, he inherited the former's property in that town, and in the right of his wife was possessed of a considerable estate, including lands on the Assabet River at Stow, Massachusetts. With the exception of Mr. Whitman, Hull has never had one whose ministry continued through life.
In Nov. 24, 1725, Ezra Carpenter (H.U. 1720) was ordained as a colleague, though Mr. Whitman continued to perform ministerial duty. He officiated at the Lord's Supper for the last time, May 2, 1725, and died November 5, 1726. Receipts to the town for his salary are recorded from 1705-1723. August 23, 1726, the town voted to pay to his children £25 for his maintenance while he lived and did not preach, and his son Samuel, his executor, gave the receipt "for his honored father, deceased." From a fragment of her gravestone it appears that Mrs. Whitman died "April ye 3rd, 1715, aged 65 yrs." Mr. Whitman " was a good scholar and penman, and wrote most of the wills and legal papers in Hull." He signed the preface to a collection of manuscripts written by Rev. Edward Tompson, published in Boston, 1712. According to the Boston Neivs Letter of date December 15, 1726, "he was well esteemed for his natural and acquired accomplishments; but especially for steady piety, diligent zeal and faithfulness in the discharge of his pastoral office; the exemplariness of his conversation; and his patience and submission to the will of God under his afflictions."
By his will, dated on June 12, 1725, and proved December 16, 1726, he confirms the grants of land already made to his sons and daughters; charges the shares of his sons Zachariah and John with certain payments to their sister, Joanna Hunt; makes his son Samuel and daughters, Sarah Goold, Joanna Hunt and Mary Jacobs, his residuary legatees, and appoints his son Samuel sole and only executor. The will was witnessed by Nehemiah Hobart, John Goold and Samuel Loring.
His records and family papers are supposed to have been in the possession of his son, the Rev. Samuel of Farmington, and later in the hands of the Rev. Elnathan of Hartford, Connecticut, and were destroyed at the time of the destruction of the latter's house by fire about 1780.
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Rev. Zachariah Whitman, Sr.'s Timeline
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January 1644
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Weymouth, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
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| 1672 |
1672
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Hull, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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| 1674 |
April 16, 1674
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Hull, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1675 |
1675
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Hull, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
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| 1677 |
1677
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Hull, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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| 1680 |
1680
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Hull, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
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| 1687 |
1687
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Weymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
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| 1688 |
1688
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Hull, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
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| 1689 |
1689
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Bristol, Hartford County, Connecticut Colony
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