WHETHAM, Nathaniel I (1604-68), of Chard, Som.

Family and Education

bap. 25 Nov. 1604, 5th s. of Thomas Whetham of Burstock, Dorset, and Dorothy Hooper. educ. appr. to Edward Tirrell, Baker, of London, 1620 or 1621. m. (1) 12 Dec. 1632, Joan, da. of Henry Shorter of Horton, Bucks., wid. of Edward Tirrell, 4s. (2 d.v.p.); (2) bef. Sept. 1663, Elizabeth Gale. bur. 16 Sept. 1668 16 Sept. 1668.Harl. 1444; St Dunstan-in-the-West, London, par. reg.; C.D. Whetham and W.C.D. Whetham, Hist. of the Life of Col. Nathaniel Whetham (1907), 3, 7, 23, 226.

Offices Held

Mercantile: freeman, Bakers’ Co. 4 May 1630; housekpr. 8 Jan. 1633; underwarden, 29 Nov. 1647.GL, MS 5177/4, ff. 130, 168v, 434.

Colonial: member, Plough Co. (E. Maine) June 1630.Whetham, Nathaniel Whetham, 16–22.

Local: lt. regt. of Richard Browne II*, London trained bands bef. summer 1642. 29 May 1650 – bef.Oct. 1660L. Nagel, ‘The Militia of London, 1641–1649’ (London Univ. PhD, 1982), 66. J.p. Hants; Som. 4 Mar. 1657–?Mar. 1660.C231/6, pp. 187, 360; A Perfect List (1660). Commr. assessment, Hants and I.o.W. 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 26 Jan.1660; Som. 8 June 1654, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Act for an Assessment (1654, E.1064.10). ejecting scandalous ministers, Hants 28 Aug. 1654; militia, Hants, Som. 26 July 1659.A. and O.; CJ vii. 822a.

Military: maj. of dragoons (parlian.), 1642–4.Bodl. Carte 103, f. 125; SP28/4, ff. 192, 325; SP28/5, f. 124; SP28/131, pt. 10. Gov. Northampton by 1 July 1644–?46;HMC Portland, iii. 124; CSP Dom. 1656–7, p. 367; SP18/155, f. 27. Portsmouth 17 Sept. 1649 – ?Mar. 1655, May 1659–60.Worcester Coll. Oxf. Clarke MS LXVII (ii), p. 21; CSP Dom. 1658–9, p. 355. Col. militia ft. Hants Jan. 1651.CSP Dom. 1650–1, p. 143; 1651, p. 513; C231/6, pp. 187. Col. of ft. 11 Feb.-June 1660.CJ vii. 840a; Wanklyn, New Model Army ii. 165.

Central: contractor, sale of dean and chapter lands, 30 Apr. 1649. Commr. indemnity, 18 June 1649; high ct. of justice, 26 Mar. 1650, 21 Nov. 1653; relief on articles of war, 29 Sept. 1652.A. and O.

Scottish: cllr. of state, 4 May 1655–60.Nicoll, Diary of Public Transactions, ed. Laing, 159; HMC Leyborne-Popham, 146. Commr. assessment, Edinburgh Shire 31 Dec. 1655, 26 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660.Acts Parl. Scot. vi. pt. 2, p. 838, 839; A. and O. J.p. 1656–?Firth, Scotland and the Protectorate, 311. Commr. security of protector, Scotland 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

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Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

WHETHAM, Nathaniel I (1604-68), of Chard, Som.

Will

8 Sept. 1663, pr. 16 Jan. 1669.PROB11/329/64.

Estates

invested £200 share in Irish Adventure with Francis Allein* and others, July 1642; lot falling in Middlethird, co. Tipperary, assigned in 1654 to Allein to draw.SP63/295, ff. 86-7; SP63/285, f. 280. Purchased manor of Chard, Som. formerly belonging to bpric. of Bath and Wells, 5 Jan. 1649, for £3,718.Bodl. Rawl. B.239, p. 22; C54/3415/2.

Oxford 1644

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