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• FamilySearch Id: K2QH-1DQ

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1850; Census Place: District 13, White, Illinois; Roll: M432_132; Page: 277; Image: 24.
144/144 Clem W Whiting 31 male farmer $750 Indiana
Susan C 28 fem Pennsylvania
Sarah J 07 fem Illinois attended school
Aaron 05 male Illinois
Millard F 02 male Illinois
Aaron T 26 male cooper Indiana
William A 20 male cooper Indiana
Dorcus Stewart 18 fem Illinois
Simon 20 male cooper Illinois
Mary A 16 fem Illinois
John Graham 20 male cooper Illinois
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1870; Census Place: Coast Fork, Lane, Oregon; Roll: M593_1286; Page: 514; Image: 360.
26/26 Whiting William A 37 male white farmer /$275 Indiana
Dorcus 36 fem white Keeping House Illinois
Florida A 18 fem white at home Illinois
Dewitt C 16 male white at home Illinois
Kitt Carson 14 male white at home California
Cleopatra 13 fem white at home California
Charles S 06 male white at home California
Jane L 04 fem white at home California
Maranda 01 fem white at home Oregon

William married in 1876. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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1870; Census Place: Grayville, White, Illinois; Roll: M593_289; Page: 405; Image: 287.
201/195 Land Susan 37 fem white keeping house $1000/150 Illinois
Frank 14 male white at home Illinois at school
Mary 11 fem white Illinois at school
George 05 male white Illinois
Whiting, Charles 75 male white Retired Minister of theGospel Virginia

Charles married Endecott, Selina on 17 Sep 1818 in Posey, Indiana, United States. Selina (daughter of Endicott, Aaron and Harman, Phoebe) was born on 6 Dec 1801 in Harrison, Kentucky, United States; died on 12 Apr 1849 in Phillipstown, White, Illinois, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch Id: K2QH-17X

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Hanna married Montague, Sallie on 8 Dec 1773 in Spotsylvania, Virginia, United States. Sallie (daughter of Montague, John and Bartlett, Ann ( Hannah )) was born in 1757 in Of Spotsylvania, Virginia, United States; died in Aug 1832. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch Id: L9PQ-W3Y

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• FamilySearch Id: KJPV-S4G

Aaron married Harman, Phoebe. Phoebe was born in 1767 in Kentucky, United States; died in in Posey, Indiana, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch Id: K8R7-1Y5

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• FamilySearch Id: K2FQ-G6T
• FamilySearch Id: KCPD-3ZD

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Memoir of Rev. Samuel Whiting, D.D., and of His Wife, Elizabeth St. John ...
By William Whiting
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Step # 1:
We start off with a focused goal. In this case study, the question, or focused goal, was to identify the parents of Maxfield Whiting who married Lettice Johnson in 1753.

Step # 2:
Conduct a broad search of time, location, and associates. In this case study, Maxfield and Martha Whiting were witnesses of a will of an associate. According to Tom, two witnesses with the same last name are almost always related; however I’m not sure I agree with that 110%. In this case, it turned out to be a correct assumption.

Step # 3:
Understand the documents and the motivation behind why they were created; follow their creation process through to the finish, especially when dealing with probate, court, and land records; In this case study, we examined 7 distinct documents and wrote our analysis and findings down in our research journals:
1779 court document of Mr Fitzhugh, Maxfield Whiting’s landlord which included a deposition of Maxfield Whiting himself in which he said he was 50 years of age, putting his date of birth around late 1720s, early 1730s
Church record stating marriage of Maxfield Whiting to Lettice Johnson, Feb 3, 1753 – Tom Jones said that most males in VA at this time married in their early 20s, making Maxfield’s date of birth about 1730
An associate’s will written 1757 which Maxfield Whiting and Martha Whiting both witnessed – Tom Jones says they are probably related
1731 Petition of Martha Whiting to use property given her by her father, Maxfield Brown; says she has small children and her husband William Whiting left her – Maxfield Whiting could fit in easily as one of these small children
The will of Maxfield Brown listing daughter by the name of Martha Whiting
Marriage record of Martha Whiting to Daniel Fendleston, 1755
Letter from Maxfield Whiting naming his daughter Martha Whiting – indicates similar naming pattern after his mother, Martha Whiting

Step 4:
After all the documents are understood and analyzed, they must then be correlated. The will of Maxfield Brown above correlates the 1731 petition of Martha Whiting to the court in which she said her father was Maxfield Brown.

In the same token, conflicting documents must also be resolved. Can you see what is conflicting in the documents above?

The 1757 will lists Martha Whiting as the witness along with her son Maxfield Whiting. However Martha Whiting had already remarried to Daniel Fendleston in 1755. How do we resolve this?

Tom Jones suggests that the clerk made an error in the will because he knew both Martha and Maxfield Whiting and probably knew of their relationship and simply wrote both their names as Whiting. Neither of them could probably read or write their own names, so they just placed their marks. It is possible the clerk was not even aware Martha had remarried. I am not sure how I feel about this conclusion, but the rest of the evidence seems to correlate. That leaves us to the next step.
http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2011/06/inferential-genealogy-course-in-second.html
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Maxfield married Johnson, Letitia on 3 Feb 1753 in St. Paul's Parish, Stafford, Virginia, United States. Letitia (daughter of Johnson, John and Powel, Frances) was born on 6 Apr 1732 in Spotsylvania, Spotsylvania, Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch Id: K2FQ-Y5L

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• FamilySearch Id: L448-SLM

John married Bartlett, Ann ( Hannah ). Ann was born on 6 Sep 1737 in Spotsylvania, Spotsylvania, Virginia, United States; died in 1783 in Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch Id: L41L-GBR