Whitten (Toby), Benjamin

Benjamin Whitten alias Toby (c. 1700-)  was the son of John and Jerusha Whitten/Toby of Christiantown on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts and the husband of Jedidiah Abel.    He had two daughters Hannah and Hepzibah.  He and his wife sold parcels of land in 1728, 1731, and 1744 when they lived in Tisbury.   Toby married seconly Sarah Peeksin, daughter of the Sachem Zachariah Peeksin.  In 1741, he and other Christiantown Indians sent a protest to the General Court about the community's wood resources being stolen.  Pierce and Segel, Wampanoag Families of Martha's Vineyard, 1080.  Petition of the Indians at Okokamy or Christiantown, 1741.07.00.00.