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- According to the Book " Memoir of Rev. Samuel Whiting", Joseph was born April 6, 1641. He was ordained a teacher of the church in Lynn 10-6-1680 and was later a minister in Southampton L.I. where he stayed until his death. He had 2 wives - Sarah Danforth, eldest daughter of Hon. Thomas Danforth, deputy governor of MA. She was born 11-11-1646. His second wife was Rebecca Prescott, who died the same year as him. He and Rebecca had no children, but he had 6 kids with Sarah. All except the first and 6th child died within a few weeks of birth. He died April 7, 1723 at age 82. Since Rebecca would have been older when they married, she might have also been a widow with Prescott as her married name.
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ID: IND00161 Name: REV. JOSEPH WHITING Sex: M Birth: 6 APR 1641 Death: 7 APR 1723 Note: BORN- LYNN MA. DIED- SOUTH HAMPTON, N.Y. MARRIED AT CAMBRIDGE MA. 1674 Note: source- http://www.rootsweb.com/~nysuffol/wills5.html "Page 326.--In the name of God, Amen, April 27, 1717. I, JOSEPH WHITING, Minister of the Gospel, of ye town of Southampton, in the County of Suffolk, being sick in body, "Considering the age God hath lengthened out my days into." I leave to my eldest son, John Whiting, all my library of books, excepting a few small books I shall hereafter give. I leave to my eldest daughter, Sarah Sparhawk, €5. I leave to my second son, Samuel, €6. To my third son, Joseph, a certain tract or parcel of land in the town of Stamford, in the Colony of Connecticutt, being 12 acres, lying on the east side of Pine Brook, Bounded west by the Brook, east and north by Town lands, and south by highway, as it is recorded in Stamford. Also a parcel of land in Stamford, lying above the Great Ox Ridge, so called, being 18 acres, bounded as by deed of sale I received from John Bishop of Stamford, October 11, 1714. I also leave to my son Joseph 20 shillings. I leave to my fourth son, Benjamin, 20 shillings, and to my youngest son, Ebenezer, €20 when of age. I leave to my daughters Rebecca Howell and Hannah Ball €5 each, and to my two youngest daughters, Elizabeth and Dorothy, €20 each when 18 years of age. Lastly, I leave and bequeath to my beloved wife, Rebecca, whom I make sole executor, my now dwelling house and buildings and land adjoining in the Town Plot of Southampton, and all the rest of my estate, both real and personal, for the term and time of 2,000 years after my decease, with power to sell as she pleaseth to pay all my just debts and legacies. Witnesses, Daniel Foster, Christopher Foster, Thomas Reed. Proved, June 8, 1726, and the executrix being also dead, and the eldest sons having relinquished their right, Letters of Administration are granted to the son John Whiting. [NOTE.--Rev. Joseph Whiting was born April 6, 1641, and became Minister in Southampton in 1683. He was a graduate of Harvard in 1661. His tombstone, in the old South end burying ground in Southampton, bears the inscription, "Here lyes ye Reverend Joseph Whiting, who died April 7, 1723, in ye 82nd year of his age." His wife Rebecca (a second wife) died April 21, 1726, aged 63 years, 2 months.--W. S. P.] " SOURCE- http://www.nelsonarts.com/Genealogy/all/migration%20history/whiting.htm "A brief biography of Joseph Whiting appears in the book, "The Early History of Southampton, L.I., New York," in which it states, " Joseph, the third son [of Rev. Samuel Whiting], was born April 6, 1641, graduated at Harvard in 1661, and assisted his father several years and was installed as his successor in 1679. He was twice married -- first to Sarah, daughter of Hon. Thomas Danforth, deputy governor of Massachusetts, and president of Maine, and again to Rebecca, who died April 21, 1726." Rev. Joseph Whiting left his parish in Lynn, Massachusetts to settle in Southampton, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York in 1683, where he was th parish pastor until his death in 1723. The marriage between Joseph Whiting and Rebecca Bishop is cited in the book, "The Early Settlement of Stamford, Connecticut 1641-1700," which has a biography of preacher John Bishop. It states, "An event of considerable excitement and rejoicing for the village took place in 1684. This was the marriage of John Bishop's daughter Rebecca. The bridegroom was the Reverend Joseph Whiting of Long Island, a man twenty-one years her senior whose first wife had died."
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Father: REV. SAMUEL WHITING b: 20 NOV 1597 Mother: ELIZABETH ST. JOHN b: 1605 Marriage 1 SARAH DANFORTH b: 11 NOV 1646 Married: 1674 Children REV. JOHN WHITING b: 20 JUN 1681 SARAH WHITING Marriage 2 REBECCA BISHOP b: FEB 1663
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1641 - 1723 (82 years)