WILLIAM LIGHTFOOT/WHITFORD

(b. 1632) - Marblehead, Essex co., MA

(First Generation - Lightfoot/Whitford Family)

FATHER
MOTHER
NOT KNOWN
NOT KNOWN


BIRTH WILLIAM was born in 1632[1].
LEGAL MENTION He is mentioned in the estate inventory of John Bartoll of Marblehead on 29d:9m(November):1664: "William Littfoot" was owed £2 by the estate[2].

William also signed a "Petition Against Imposte" (basically protesting customs duties) with other men of Marblehead in October of 1668...including "Moses Mavericke, Samuell Cheever [and] Samuel Mauericke" Note, he actually signed his name, indicating a good level of education[3].

FIT IN THIS FAMILY William's parentage of John is an educated guess on my part. It looks like this family spent some time in New Hampshire as well, so perhaps the connecting records are there.
MARRIAGE William married [Mary?] [BARTOLL], in Marblehead, Essex co., MA[1,4,5,6] as "Lightfoot, William". Torrey says that she was born in 1642[1] and also provides all the brackets & question marks around her name. She must be a Bartoll, though, as William was mentioned in what would have been her brother John's will.

CHILDREN 1. i. John LIGHTFOOT/WHITFORD Please see his own page.




GENERATION Great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great (G8) Grandfather
FAMILY NUMBER 1916
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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