All, At 07:11 AM 7/23/2007, Noreen LaTour wrote: >I posted a query last weeand no one's responded. I'm trying to determine >which Thomas Whitney was accused of mmurdering his neice's husband. He was >founnd innocent of murder but guilty of manslaughter.I read this in the >Whitney Research Group. Was it Thomas father of John ,the immigrant to the >colonies or a different Thomas? The article just published by myself and Tim Doyle in _The American Genealogist_ identifies Thomas Whitney, father of John-1, the immigrant, as Thomas Whitney of Castleton, Herefordshire. It was the latter who was accused of murder. In other words, if the article is correct, they were one and the same person, so it isn't a different Thomas. By the way, this case may supply a reason for him to have left Herefordshire and to have settled permanently at Westminster. Regards, Robert Mr. Robert L. Ward http://wiki.whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/User:Rlward