Reverend Samuel Whiting obelisk

Contributor's brother took the picture of the memorial obelisk. In May (28th?) of 2011 some of the descendants of Rev. Samuel Whiting got together at the Western Burying Ground in Lynn to celebrate the 375th anniversary of the arrival of Rev. Whiting in the Lynn area. At the time (1636), the area was known as Saugust - but they changed the name to Lynn in honor of Rev. Whiting, because he had come from Kings Lynn in Norfolk, England. Attendees of the 2011 gathering included descendants, members of the Lynn Historical Commission, as well as the first church in Lynn, now the First Church of Christ in Lynn, Congregational. The territory that is now Reading was part of Lynn, so some of the original European residents of Reading in 1639 would have known Rev. Whiting.

(Western?) side of Lynn Common by Market Square; image and information originally from FindAGrave website: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46119653

Institution: Reading Public Library

Whiting, Carolyn

Massachusetts--Essex (county)--Lynn

Whiting, Lawrence R.

2011?

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Western Burial Ground (Lynn, Massachusetts)

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