FEINBERG/WHITMAN NOTES and NOTEBOOKS NOTES -- Personal July 31, 1881 Genealogical notes (DCN68)
Box 41 Folder 641881 July     GENEALOGICAL NOTES ON THE ORIGINAL WHITMAN IMMIGRATION. 
A.MS. with envelope (6p. 18 1/2 x 13 cm.)
Notes taken "from the New Eng  <land>] Hist <orical> Reg <ister>:, from
Genealogical Dict: of New Eng, Savage's," etc. Whitman's findings go back
as far as 1635, when "Rob' Whitman came in the Abigail" and "the vessel 
True Love was the vessel that brought over some of the original Whitman
(1640) from London." The envelope contains autograph inscription stating
that these notes were "written at West Hills, L. I. July 31, 1881."    {68}as fragments in prose and poetry written on versos of some of the leaves.
The first volume contains also an excerpt of an "Interview with the author
of Leaves of Grass and autographed portrait dated Sept. 22, 1880. The
second volume includes three maps and two tables which were used by 
Walt Whitman on his trip; also six views and a signed portrait. A description
of Quebec City and province, probably written for some newspaper, was not
printed in the published form. It reads in part: "Walt Whitman is at Quebec,
delighted with the queer old French city . . . He especially admires, all
through the province . . . the perpetual recurrence of pretty towns and
villages . . ." .{63}Genealogical Notes
(original Whitman
immigration)
written at West Hills LI
July 31 1881

WALT WHITMAN,
CAMDEN,
NEW JERSEYAt West Hills LI            West Hills
at Henry Lloyd's     July 31 '81

On our way we passed the
second Presbytery 

Speculations

Weymouth Mass [is] seems to be the American settlement source of
the Whitman
Accord'g to [NG] 
Abijah Whitman - married Mary Ford
and John Whitman (his son)
of Weymouth Mass: were
registered freemen in 1681
? from the same in the early
records of Weeymouth is found
[th] a memorandum of the birth of
of Experienc , daugh of John &
Abigail W in 1673

from the New Eng Hist Reg:from New Eng Hist Reg
from early records of Boston
Hannah daughter of 
John Whitman born
24th 6th Month 1641
Genealogical Dict: of New Eng
Savages Vol 4 says
gets the Whitman family
established at Huntington
L.I. per Joseph probably
before 1664 as in that year
he was admitted freeman
of connected (registered)
I suppose as a denizen of Huntington
he was the son of RevZachariah Whitman of
Milford Conn: & Joseph
probably died before his
father

Mr L Lloyd adds - [Joseph is] quite certainly 
[probably] the L I group
of Whitmans started & radiates
from this Joseph
Son of Rev [Zebulon] Zachariah
(son of John)Whitman in early days
often spelt Whiteman
far back. first of all
John Whiteman (undoubtedly born in England) died 1692
1639 freemen of Dorchester
Mass: soon after goes
to Weymouth Mass:
no doubt [he] as far back
as we can go -- he leaves
nine children ? & 1685
his (John's) son Zachariah
born 1644 --
in Harvard College 1668

four or five of these were
born in England -- Zachariah
the youngest (ordained minister 1670) father of
[John] Joseph- he John deceased 1692. aged little
if any short of 90 years, & may well
seem to be the ancestor of the
larger portion of the thousands
bearing the name" of Whitman
in America.

- (the ministry deacons, clergymen &c & a good
education are features of those
old Whitmans)  -- also great longevity
many graduates of      
John
Zachariah
Joseph - 
Whitmans - 
[Graduates in 1834] Farmer (1834)
Notes, that [the] of Whitman graduates
12 at Harvard
5 at Yale
& 9 at other NE Colleges
- in times pastRobert Whitman of
Ipswich, Mass came in
the Abigail, 1635, aged
20, and had a wife Susannah
whom he married 1648, and she
Died 1664 -
Thomas, eldest son of John first
born in England in 1629
one is mentioned as a great
linguist interpreter with Indians
- the vessel True Love was the
vessel that brought over
some of the original Whitmans
- (1640) from London