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     Hilda Thoreau Wheelwright was born on 25 September 1920 in Bangor, Maine.² She married Joseph Sewall, son of James Wingate Sewall Jr. and Louise Belinda Gray, on 28 May 1944 in Maine.³ Hilda Thoreau Wheelwright died on 2 June 2006 in Bangor, Maine, at the age of 85⁴ and is buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine.⁵

     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

     Carolyn Sewall Whitbeck was born on 7 August 1918 in Mt. Vernon, New York.² She was the daughter of Harry Spurr Whitbeck and Mary Burnham Sewall.³ Carolyn Sewall Whitbeck married Stanley Robert Dawson in 1946 in Everett, Washington.² Carolyn Sewall Whitbeck died on 27 March 2015 in Edmonds, Washington, at the age of 96.²

     George Sterling Whitbeck was born on 4 November 1851 in Mt. Washington, Massachusetts.² He married Hattie Adelia Spurr, daughter of Isaac Spurr and Adeline E. Schult, on 31 October 1877.

     George Sterling Whitbeck was born in 1922 in New Jersey.¹ He was the son of Harry Spurr Whitbeck and Mary Burnham Sewall.¹

     Harry Spurr Whitbeck was born on 14 July 1880 in Northampton, Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of George Sterling Whitbeck and Hattie Adelia 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

     Richard Conner Whitbeck was born on 30 January 1922 in Mt. Vernon, New York.^1,2,3 He was the son of Harry Spurr Whitbeck and Mary Burnham Sewall.¹

     William Alfred Whitbeck was born on 11 June 1914 in Mt. Washington, Massachusetts.^1,2 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 90.³

     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. and is 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 Malet, on 13 October 1802. Capt. John Whitby RN died on 7 April 1806 in Newlands, Milford, Hampshire, at the age of 31³ and is 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

     Olive Lincoln Whitcomb married Ezekiel Newton.

     Alfred White married Mary Harper.¹

     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 8 August 1743. Ann White died on 5 January 1755 in Brookline, Massachusetts, at the age of 30.²

     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, on 21 November 1780 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts.²

     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

     Edith E. White was the daughter of R.H. White. Edith E. White married Thomas Crane Wales, son of Thomas Crane Wales and Mary Frances Sewall, on 1 October 1896 in Chestnut Hill, Newton, Massachusetts.^2,3