["John was a great-grandson of Sir Robert Whitney, of Whitney, dubbed a knight the day after Queen Mary's coronation, October 2, 1553."]
V.
TITLES OF SEVERAL BOOKS CONCERNING THE FAMILY AND KINDRED OF PROFESSOR WHITNEY.
1. The history of the descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass. By Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight. Printed for the author. New York, 1874. 2 vols. 8°, paged continuously, xxix + 1144 pages.
2. Whitney. The descendants of John Whitney, who came from London, England, to Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1635. By Frederick Clifton Pierce. Published by the author at Chicago, Illinois, 1895. Royal 8°. Pages 692.
3. The ancestry of John Whitney, who, with his wife Elinor, and sons John, Richard, Nathaniel, Thomas, and Jonathan, emigrated from London, England, in the year 1635, and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts; the first of the name in America, and the one from whom a great majority of the Whitneys now living in the United States are descended. By Henry Melville, of the city of New York. New York: Printed at the De Vinne Press, 1896. Pages 295.["John was a great-grandson of Sir Robert Whitney, of Whitney, dubbed a knight the day after Queen Mary's coronation, October 2, 1553."]