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     Ruth Wheeler was the daughter of Capt. Thomas Wheeler and Ruth Wood.¹ Ruth Wheeler married Ensign Thomas Brown before 1684.¹ Ruth Wheeler died on 9 February 1740 in Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.¹

     Thomas Wheeler married Mary Hoar, daughter of John Hoar and Elizabeth Coolidge, on 27 March 1788.

     Capt. Thomas Wheeler was christened on 8 April 1620 at Cranfield, Bedfordshire.¹ He married Ruth Wood, daughter of William Wood and Margaret Gibbons, say 1640 in Cranfield, Bedfordshire.¹ Capt. Thomas Wheeler died on 10 December 1676 in Concord, Massachusetts, at the age of 56.¹

     Rev. John Wheelwright was born in 1594 in Saleby, Lincolnshire.² He graduated in 1614 from Cambridge.³ He married firstly Marie Storre, daughter of Rev. Thomas Storre, on 8 November 1621.³ Rev. John Wheelwright married secondly Mary Hutchinson, daughter of Edward Hutchinson and Susanna (Unknown).^1,3 Rev. John Wheelwright died on 15 November 1679 in Salisbury, Massachusetts.²

     Katharine Wheelwright was the daughter of Rev. John Wheelwright and Mary Hutchinson.¹

     Rebecca Wheelwright was the daughter of Rev. John Wheelwright and Mary Hutchinson.¹ Rebecca Wheelwright married firstly Samuel Maverick Jr. on 4 December 1660 at Boston.^2,3 Rebecca Wheelwright married secondly William Bradbury, son of Thomas Bradbury and Mary Perkins, on 12 March 1672 at Salisbury.^1,3 Rebecca Wheelwright died on 20 December 1678.¹

     Samuel Wheelwright was the son of Rev. John Wheelwright and Mary Hutchinson.¹

     Susanna Wheelwright was the daughter of Rev. John Wheelwright and Mary Hutchinson.¹

     Adam de Whethales married Anne de Whethales.¹ Adam de Whethales died before 1315.¹

     Anne de Whethales married firstly Adam de Whethales.¹

     Matthew Whipple married Joanna Appleton, daughter of Samuel Appleton and Mary Oliver.¹ Matthew Whipple died on 30 October 1725.¹

     Sarah Whipple married Henry Short, son of Henry Short and Sarah Glover, on 30 March 1674 in Newbury, Massachusetts.^1,2 Sarah Whipple died on 28 December 1691.³

     George Sterling Whitbeck was born on 4 November 1851 in Mt. Washington, Massachusetts.² He married Hattie A. Spurr on 31 October 1877.

     Harry Spurr Whitbeck was born on 14 July 1880 in Northampton, Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of George Sterling Whitbeck and Hattie A. Spurr.² Harry Spurr Whitbeck married Mary Burnham Sewall, daughter of Rev. John Ladd Sewall and Catherine Mussey Hartwell, on 2 July 1913 in Worcester, Massachusetts.² Harry Spurr Whitbeck died in 1947

After graduation from Northampton High School he attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, where he learned to make fine jewelry. He gained the skills of both a silversmith and a goldsmith. For a few years he taught metal arts at McKinley High School in Washington, D.C. There he met an English teacher and they were married in 1913 in Worcester, Mass. They had four children.
In 1917 Harry was employed at Tiffany on 5th Avenue in New York, where he worked for 16 years. He worked in a shop on the 6th floor of the store where he made and repaired one-of-a-kind pieces of fine jewelry. During the great depression Tiffany was forced to downsize the staff and Harry was among those to become unemployed.
Harry always had a well-equipped shop in his home and continued to make and repair fine jewelry. He fashioned toys for his children and carved elaborate block prints. He made beautiful wooden trays with Chinese tapestries under glass.
In 1936, Harry and his wife moved to Northampton, where they lived for the rest of their lives. Carolyn S. Whitbeck, http://www.925-1000.com/M_whitbeck.html.³

     William Alfred Whitbeck was born on 11 June 1914 in Mt. Washington, Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of Harry Spurr Whitbeck and Mary Burnham Sewall.¹ William Alfred Whitbeck died on 2 January 2005 probably in Norwalk, Connecticut, at the age of 90.²

     Rev. Edward Whitby was the son of Rev. Thomas Whitby and Mabella Turton.

     Capt. Henry Whitby was born on 21 July 1781 in Cresswell Hall, Staffordshire. He was the son of Rev. Thomas Whitby and Mabella Turton. Capt. Henry Whitby died on 5 May 1812 in Rochester ?, Kent, at the age of 30 s.p. He was buried on 11 May 1812 in St. Margaret's Church Yard, Rochester.

He was related to the late Earl St. Vincent. He went to sea towards the close of the year 1794, or early in 1795, as midshipman on board the Excellent, the Hon. Rear-Adm. Cornwallis, whose flag captain, though a very young man, was his brother, Capt. John Whitby. While a youngster in the admiral's ship, he so conducted himself, as to gain the approbation and favour of that officer. At the time of his celebrated retreat on June 17, 1795, young Whitby was confined to his hammock with the measles; but no sooner did he learn that some sharp fighting was expected, than he jumped up, and declared that whatever might be the consequence, he would stand by his gun, and share the dangers and credit of the day, from which he was prevented by positive orders. On June 4, 1799 he was made lieutenant; and on August 1, he was as much concerned in the ever memorable engagement off Aboukir, as any person in a frigate could well be. In 1801, he was appointed to the Leviathan, Rear-Adm. Duckworth, then commanding on the Jamaica station, by whom he was made commander and post captain of the Proselyte frigate. That ship being lost on a reef of sunken rocks, and becoming known to the Admiralty, previously to their confirmation of his rank as post captain, he was put back again into the Leviathan as lieutenant. At length he was made commander, and appointed to the Pelican, in which ship, unaided, he carried on the blockade of Aux Cayes with such unremitting diligence and activity, as to reduce the inhabitants to a state of famine, and to terms of almost unconditional surrender. On February 6, he was made post. In 1805 we find him at Halifax, in North America, commanding the Leander of 50 guns. In April 1806, being off Sandy Hook, as senior officer of a squadron, consisting of the Leander, Cambrian, and Driver sloop of war, with instructions to examine all vessels, a man on board one of the American coasters was said to be killed by a shot from the Leander, as about that time the squadron were firing, to bring-to some homeward-bound American merchantmen, which, fearing the result of a search, obstinately persisted in their course. An uproar of the most violent kind ensued in America; they demanded Capt. Whitby from our government, to try him by their own laws: it was finally resolved that he should be tried by a court-martial, for the wilful murder of this man, John Pierce, for a violation of the rights of a neutral state, in amity with Great Britain. Accordingly on April 16, 1807, he was tried at Portsmouth and acquitted. The president, Adm. Montague, returned him his sword, with his full assurance, " that it had never been stained in his hands." To sooth the Americans, however, he was refused employment. In November 1808, Capt. Whitby obtained intelligence, from a most authentic source, that the man, John Pierce, for whose murder he had been tried, and though acquitted, had been kept unemployed, had not been killed by a shot from the Leander, or from any one of the squadron then acting under his orders. He communicated this intelligence to the first lord of the Admiralty, and, through the secretary of state, to the American minister, resident in London. By him it was admitted, that no objection any longer existed to the ci-devant captain of the Leander being brought into active service against the enemies of his country. In February 1809, he, therefore, received a commission for the Cerberus, of 32 guns; and in this ship, in company with Capt. Hoste of the Amphion, he put the seal to his naval fame in the action off the island of Lissa. On his arrival in England, he was presented by the first lord of the Admiralty with a gold medal and riband, and promised the Briton, a new frigate, shortly to be launched. In April 1812, he attended the launch at Chatham, and commissioned her a few days after. Scarcely had he performed this business, which he regarded as leading to an accession of glory, when he was arrested by a painful disease, to which he had been long occasionally subject; and on May 5 he died, in the thirty-first year of his age. Norrie, J.W., The Naval Gazetteer, 1827.

      He was a Flag Captain to Admiral Cornwallis.¹ Capt. John Whitby RN was born on 7 October 1774 in Stafford.² He was christened on 7 October 1774 at St. Mary's, Stafford.² He was the son of Rev. Thomas Whitby and Mabella Turton. Capt. John Whitby RN married Mary Anne Theresa Symonds, daughter of Capt. Thomas Symonds RN and Elizabeth Mallet, on 13 October 1802. Capt. John Whitby RN died on 7 April 1806 in Newlands, Milford, Hampshire, at the age of 31.³ He was buried on 12 April 1806 in Pennington, Hampshire,,
At Newlands, near Lymington, in the prime of life, Capt. Whitby of the Royal Navy, who lately resigned the command of his Majesty's ship Gibraltar through ill health. He was a very excellent officer, and an intimate companion of the brave Admiral Cornwallis, at whose seat he died. Captain Whitby was the eldest son of the Rev. Thomas Whitby, of Cresswell-hall, near Stafford. He was admitted into the Rovai Nary at the age of 12 years: from which period, a short interval only excepted he was continually engaged for twenty years in the active duties of his profession, till about the 20th of March last, when indisposition, from unrwearied and unremitted attention, compelled him to solicit, from the Lords of the Admiralty, a short leave of absence fiom the Gibraltar of 80 guns; to which ship, from the Ville de Paris, he had been recently appointed. This indisposition, which at first excited no serious apprehension, assumed, after the lapse of some days, a more formidable aspect; and so rapid and overwhelming was its progress, that notwithstanding every effort of medical skill, it soon subdued a very useful and valuable life. So true it is "that in the midst of life we are in death."
Into the Minerva frigate, then bearing the flag of the Hon. Admiral Cornwallis, his patron and friend. Captain Whitby was made Post, in 1793. Of his professional skill, zeal for the naval service, and constant attention to even the most minute parts of his duty, there is very ample testimony from those who, from situation, are the most competent judges. His loyally to his Sovereign, and fhis attachment to his Country and its dearest interests were ardent and sincere. The powers of the mind, which he was cultivating with assiduous care, were such, that few subjects to which he applied his attention readily, could elude their grasp. To speculate upon the product of such powers, thus cultivating, is now, alas ! as useless as it is vain: equally useless too it is to lament the loss of one naval character, however considerable, when every British naval officer, and every seaman, is a Hero. The family, however, and relations, friends, and acquaintances, of such a young man, may be allowed to mourn and lament their loss ; though at the awful dispensation of Providence they dare not, because they are forbidden to murmur. The Naval Chronicle, Vol. 15, p. 352.⁴

     Theresa John Cornwallis Whitby was born on 1 May 1805. She was the daughter of Capt. John Whitby RN and Mary Anne Theresa Symonds.² Theresa John Cornwallis Whitby was christened on 4 May 1805 at Pennington, Hampshire.³ There is a second record of a christening on 9 June 1806 at Pennington, Hampshire.³ She married Frederick Richard West, son of Hon. Frederick West and Maria Myddleton, on 11 September 1827 in Milford Church, near Lymington, the service was conducted by the Rev. Henry Buckley.^4,5 Theresa John Cornwallis Whitby died on 18 September 1886 in Newlands' Manor, Lymington, at the age of 81.⁶

     Rev. Thomas Whitby married Mabella Turton on 1 February 1770 in St. Mary's, Stafford.¹ Rev. Thomas Whitby died in March 1828.²

     Ann White was born on 28 March 1724 in Brookline, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Samuel White and Anna Drew.¹ Ann White married Henry Sewall, son of Samuel Sewall and Rebecca Dudley, on 18 August 1743.² Ann White died on 5 January 1755 in Brookline, Massachusetts, at the age of 30.³

     Ann White was born on 4 July 1685 in Brookline. She married Peter Boylston, son of Thomas Boylston, circa 1704. Ann White died in March 1772 at the age of 86.

     Anna White married Dr. Nathaniel Saltonstall, son of Richard Saltonstall and Mary Cooke.¹

     Anna Ethelwyn White was born circa 1886 in Hamilton, Ontario.¹ She married Archibald Murray Lount, son of George Willets Lount and Annie Laurie Mercer, on 3 September 1913 in Hamilton, Ontario.¹

     Anna Maria White married James Russell Lowell, son of Rev. Charles Lowell and Harriet Brackett Spence.¹

     Elizabeth White was born in 1738.¹ She married Daniel Moor. Elizabeth White died in 1828.¹

     Rev. Henry White was born on 4 January 1792.¹ He graduated in 1823 from Bangor Theological Seminary and was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church of Brooks and Jackson, Maine, 19 October 1825. He was pastor at Loudon Village, New Hampshire, 1835-1838, and for some time prior to his death laboured in St. Albans, Maine.¹ He married Esther Sewall, daughter of Rev. Henry Sewall and Esther Minot Moody, on 25 January 1827 probably in Winthrop, Maine.¹ Rev. Henry White died on 7 December 1858 at the age of 66 s.n.p.¹

     Isabella White was born on 21 February 1771 in Woolwich, Maine.¹ She was the daughter of Robert White and Susannah Sewall.¹ Isabella White died on 9 May 1794 in Woolwich, Maine, at the age of 23.¹

     Isabella White was born circa 1820 in England.² She married Ralph Little Whyte.¹

     John White was born on 15 July 1779 in Woolwich, Maine.¹ He was the son of Robert White and Susannah Sewall.¹ John White married Bethany Curtis, daughter of John Curtis and Mary Farnham, on 29 October 1807 in Woolwich, Maine.¹ John White died in 1822.¹