 1600 - 1685 (85 years)
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| Name |
William Witherell |
| Birth |
1600 |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
9 Apr 1685 |
Scituate, Mass.  |
| Person ID |
I24965 |
Cecilie Family |
| Last Modified |
23 Aug 2002 |
| Family |
Mary Fisher, b. 17 Apr 1604, Boughton, Monchelsea, Kent, England d. Bef 1684 (Age 79 years) |
| Marriage |
26 Mar 1627 |
Canterbury, Kent, England |
| Children |
| | 1. Samuel Witherell, b. 7 Dec 1628, Maidstone, Kent, England d. 1683, Scituate, MA (Age 54 years) |
| | 2. Daniel Witherell, b. 29 Nov 1630, Maidstone, Kent, England d. 14 Apr 1719, New London, Hartford, CT (Age 88 years) |
| | 3. Thomas Witherell, b. Bef 28 Aug 1633, Maidstone, Kent, England d. Bef 1684, Plymouth Colony (Age 50 years) |
| | 4. Mary Witherell, b. 1635, Scituate, MA d. 12 Dec 1710, Scituate, MA (Age 75 years) |
| | 5. Elizabeth Witherell, b. Abt 1637, Plymouth, MA d. Jan 1661 (Age 24 years) |
| | 6. Sgt. Theophilus Witherell, b. Abt 1637, Scituate, MA d. Bef 6 Jan 1702, Scituate, MA (Age 65 years) |
| | 7. Lieut. John Witherell, b. Abt 1639, Scituate, Plymouth, MA d. 1690, Quebec, Canada (Age 51 years) |
| | 8. Sarah Witherell, b. 10 Feb 1645, Scituate, Plymouth, MA d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 9. Hannah Witherell, b. 20 Feb 1647, Scituate, Plymouth, MA d. Yes, date unknown |
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| Family ID |
F5894 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
22 Feb 2009 |
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| Notes |
was placed on the list of ministers who had been in that office in England by Cotton Mather, but we have not been able to trace him back to England. Family tradition says that his mother was the daughter of John Rogers, the Smithfield, martyr.
He arrived before 1634 and was employed in a grammar school in Charlestown in 1635 and in Cambridge in 1637. He moved to Duxbury in 1638 and received a grant of a considerable tract of land there in 1640, "on the north-west side of North Hill".
In 1644 affairs at Scituate had become ripened for the settlement of a minister in the Second Church. He was invited to preach, and was ordained pastor in 1645. The record of baptism for the church from 1645 to 1674 was kept in his hand.
There exist but a few printed works of this venerable man. Cotton Mather commends a certain little book of his concerning the life of John Clap of Scituate.
He left his house and orchard to his grandson, Samuel Witherell, Jr in 1684. He left wearing apparel to John and Tehophilus.
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