Dear Merry and the WRG, At 06:44 AM 2/28/01 -0500, MerryJWhit@aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 02/28/01 4:18:45 AM Central Standard Time, >stevenwallace7@hotmail.com writes: > >Does anybody know of evidence to support this Arnold connection? > >I have only John's second marriage, to Judith Clement in 1659 in Watertown, >Mass., with a notation that Judith died before 1673; but I have a silly >question: > >Has it been completely discounted that John (1) Whitney was a son of Thomas >and Mary Bray Whitney? Since that marriage was supposed to have taken place >at St. Margaret's Westminster on May 12, 1583, and Mary Bray's burial date >given as September 25, 1629, it would seem to be not too difficult to refute >or confirm, but I don't understand why that type of false information would >be supplied in the first place? > >Merry Whitney What is known about the ancestry of John-1 WHITNEY can be found on the following web page: <http://www.whitneygen.org/families/johnw/ancestry.html>. The evidence is fairly good, but not certain, that John was son of Thomas and Mary (BRAY) WHITNEY. It is Thomas's long-published parentage which has been disproved. Thomas's parentage is currently unknown. Regards, Robert Robert L. Ward WHITNEY Research Group <http://www.whitneygen.org/home2.html>