JOHN LIGHTFOOT/WHITFORD

(born ca. 1660) - Marblehead and Salem, Essex co., MA

(Second Generation - Lightfoot/Whitford Family)

FATHER
MOTHER
WILLIAM LIGHTFOOT/WHITFORD
[MARY BORTELL]



BIRTH John was born in 1632[1].
RECORDS MENTION All the children of his first marriage had their births registered as Òs. or d. of JohnÓ.
MARRIAGE #1 In May 1680 when John was 20, he first married Elizabeth SWASEY, daughter of Joseph SWASEY & Mary [surname not known], in Salem, Essex co., MA[1,7,8,9,10,11,12] Torrey has them listed as "Lightfoot, John & Elizabeth Swasey& and "Whitfoot/Whitefoot/(Blancpied), John&. The Salem, Essex co., MA vital records list them as "Swasey, Elizabeth and John Lightfoot, John and Elizabeth Swasey,&.

CHILDREN 3. i. Joseph LIGHTFOOT/WHITFORD Joseph was born on 14 April 1683 in Salem, Essex co., MA[16,17]. In the vital records, his birth is recorded as "Whitfoot, Joseph& and "Lightfoot, Joseph, s. John and Elizabeth (Swasey)&.
4. ii. Samuell LIGHTFOOT/WHITFORD Samuell was born on 23 October 1685 in Salem, Essex co., MA[16,17]. In the vital records, his birth is recorded as "Whitfoot, Samll& and "Lightfoot, Samuell, s. John and Elizabeth (Swasey)&.
5. iii. Margery LIGHTFOOT/WHITFORD Please see her own page.

MARRIAGE #2 On 17 November 1692 when John was 32, he second married Elizabeth FORTUNE, in Marblehead, Essex co., MA[1,14,15].
CHILDREN 6. i. William LIGHTFOOT/WHITFORD William was born in 7 [October?] 1694/5 in Marblehead, Essex co., MA[24]. His rather confusing birth record reads, "Lightfoot, W[illia]m, s. John and Elizabeth, 7 br. 8, 1695&.
7. ii. John LIGHTFOOT/WHITFORD John was born on 9 November 16[95] in Marblehead, Essex co., MA as "Lightfoot, John&[24]. John was baptized in Marblehead, Essex co., MA on 11 October 1696[24].
8. iii. Mary LIGHTFOOT/WHITFORD Mary was born on 29 March 16[97] in Marblehead, Essex co., MA[24]. A notation in BR says "after 1696&.





GENERATION Great-great-great-great-great-great-great (G7) Grandfather
FAMILY NUMBER 959
SOURCES 1. Torrey, Charles, New England Marriages Prior to 1700., (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Society). [Torrey].

2. The Probate Records of Essex County, [EssexProb or EPR], 1:457.

3. New England Historic and Genealogical Register. Vols. 1+, (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Register, 1845+), [NEHGR], 9:81-2.

4. Perley, Sidney, The History of Salem, Massachusetts, 3 vols., (Salem: Sidney Perley, 1924), [Salem], 2:107.

5. The Essex Antiquarian, (13 vols.)(n.p., 1897-1909), [EssexAnt], 7:64.

6. Essex Institute Historical Collections, vol. 1+, (Salem, Mass., 1859+), [EIHC], 44:252; 47:344.

7. [Salem], 3:136; 3:7.

8. [EssexAnt], 10:139,165.

9. Tingley, Raymon Meyers, Some Ancestral Lines; Being a Record of Some of the Ancestors of Guilford: Solon Tingley and His Wife, Martha Pamelia Meyers, Collected by Their Son, Raymon Meyers Tingley, (Rutland, Vt.: The Tuttle Publishing Co., 1935), [Tingley-Meyers], 210,225.

10. Noyes, Sybil, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin David, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, (Portland, ME: Anthosensen Press 1928-1939; rpt Baltimore: Gen. Publ. Co., 1972), [GDMNH], 435,749.

11. Salem, Essex co., MA Vital Records. [SalemVR], IV:361 [CT.R].

12. Ibid. III:608 [Ct. R.].

13. Ibid. II:332 [CT.R.].

14. [GDMNH], 435.

15. Marblehead, Essex co., MA Vital Records. [MarbleheadVR], II:266.

16. [SalemVR], II:421 [CT.R].

17. Ibid. I:524 [Ct. R.].

18. Ibid. II:421 [CT.R.].

19. Lynn, Essex co., MA Vital Records, [LynnVR], II:497 [C.R. 2 - Lynnfield 1st Congregational Church Records].

20. [SalemVR], IV:464.

21. [LynnVR], II:177.

22. ??????, "First Book of Intentions of Marriage in the City of Lynn", Essex Institute Historical Collections, vol. 1+, [EIHC-LynnInt], 16:71ff.

23. [LynnVR], II:498.

24. [MarbleheadVR], I:321.




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