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From: Shawn Whitney <>
Subject: [WHITNEY-L] Mary E. F. Hall
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 19:51:51 -0800

I am enjoying my time in Boston and today I visited the Public Library
and spent about 4 hours digging through books and maps so that I will be
educated before my trek to Watertown tomorrow. While I was digging I
found a book that I would like some input on.

To Robert Ward and Allen Green specifically:
Have you reviewed?
"Some Ancestors of John Prescott of Lancaster, Mass and John Whitney of
Watertown, Mass" Compiled by Mary E.F. Hall, Brookline 1900.

This is a very war-torn, typewritten, bound compilation. She has some
very interesting statements regarding proving that "the John Whitney who
lived at Islesworth and emigrated to America in 1635 was identical with
the John Whitney who livd in Westminster and was son of Thomas and Mary
born 1592."

And of course she goes up the family tree to William 7th D. Normandy and
Conqueror of England b. 1027!

Since she typed this manuscript cir 1900, did she already have her hands
on Melville by then? Wasn't his book published cir 1896?

Let me know if this is old hat or if I need to go back to the library
before I leave on Friday.

Thanks, Shawn

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