John Whitman
John Whitman came from England to Weymouth, in Massachusetts Bay, and was made a freeman in 1638. Where in England he came from is not known; Holt, Coventry and Herefordshire have all been proposed. His wife and some of the children followed him about 1641. His son Thomas was then about twelve.
He became the first deacon of the Weymouth church. He was ensign of the town's militia company until he was relieved in 1680, and he was one of three men appointed by the Governor "to end small controversies", a local commission that settled minor disputes without a court. His wife's name is uncertain. Mitchell thought it was probably Mary, and a Ruth, wife of a John Whitman, died at Weymouth in 1662.
He made his will in 1685. It names his sons Thomas, John, Abiah and Zechariah, and his daughters Sarah Jones, Mary (wife of a Pratt), Elizabeth Green, Hannah French and Judith King. Mary, born in 1634, had married John Pratt on 22 November 1656, the same day her brother Thomas married Abigail Byram. Elizabeth married Joseph Green in 1657. Hannah, born in 1641, married Stephen French in 1660. Judith married Philip King.
His daughter Sarah married Abraham Jones, and their daughter Sarah Jones married Mordecai Lincoln of Hingham, born in 1657, a son of Samuel Lincoln. Farnham notes that their son Mordecai "was great great grandfather of President Abraham Lincoln."
John Whitman died in 1692, aged about ninety.
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Cite: Heirology, "John Whitman (d. 1692)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/john-whitman-1692-62b51a.