Jonathan WHITCOMB

14 Feb 1627 - 25 Feb 1689

• BIRTH: 14 Feb 1627, Taunton, Somerset, England [1021]
• DEATH: 25 Feb 1689, Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA [1022]

• MARRIAGE: 25 Nov 1667 [4979]

                                    _William WHETCOMB _+
                   _John WHETCOMB _|
                  |                |_Dorothy TAYLOR ___+
 _John WHITCOMB __|
|                 |                 _John HARPER ______
|                 |_Ann HARPER ____|
|                                  |_Frances SMYTH ____
|
|--Jonathan WHITCOMB 
|
|                                   _Henry COGAN ______
|                  _Henry COGAN ___|
|                 |                |_Elizabeth CARYE __
|_Frances COGGAN _|
                  |                 ___________________
                  |_Joan BORIDGE __|
                                   |___________________

[1023] "Early Massachusetts Marriages Prior to 1800"
Rev. Frederick W. Bailey, Worcester, MA, 1897
"Hannah ____ & Jonathan Whetcome - Nov. 25, 1667 at Lancaster"

Source: The Whitcomb Family In America; Charlotte Whitcomb; Minneapolis,
MN, 1904; pp. 185-187

With his brother, Robert Whitcomb, his brother-in-law, Rodolphus Ellems,
John Hoar and others, Jonathan Whitcomb served on the jury of inquest
upon the death of Richard Mann of Scituate, MA, 16 February 1655, and
must have been at least 21 years of age if the common law of England
fixing the legal age held in the Colonies then. He removed from Scituate
to Lancaster, MA with his father in 1654, and seems to have exercised the
rights of a freeman thereafter. He, with others, signed a petition to
the governor and council for aid after the Indian raid of 1675-76 and,
excepting a temporary absence from the town because of its devastation by
the savages, he spent the remainder of his life in Lancaster.

From the death of his father in 1662 he shared the home lot with his
brother John until the death of the latter in 1683, when it became wholly
his.

[1021] [S48] Jon Noring; 9671 S. 1600 W.; South Jordan, UT 94550

[1022] [S48] Jon Noring; 9671 S. 1600 W.; South Jordan, UT 94550

[4979] [S82] Howard Hickman; P.O. Box 4148; Berkeley, CA 94704