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1790 United States Federal Census 1790 United States Federal Census
Name: Nathaniel Whiting
Township: Providence
County: Providence
State: Rhode Island
Number of Free White Males 16 and Over: 1
Number of Free White Females: 2
Number of Household Members: 3
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1800 United States Federal Census 1800 United States Federal Census
Name: Nathaniel Whiting
Township: Providence
County: Providence
State: Rhode Island
Free White Males Under 10: 3
Free White Males 10 to 15: 1
Free White Males 26 to 44: 1
Free White Females 26 to 44 : 1
Number of Household Members Under 16 : 4
Number of Household Members Over 25 : 2
Number of Household Members: 6
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The Fourteenth regiment Rhode Island heavy artillery (colored) in the war to ...
By William H. Chenery
JOSEPH CARY WHITING, Jr.
F1rst L1eutenant And Adjutant Joseph Cary Wh1t1ng, Jr., was born in Providence, R. I., Aug. 2, 1840. His maternal ancestor on this side of the seas was Elizabeth (St. John) Whiting. She was the second wife of Lawrence Whiting, first Congregational minister of Lynn, Mass. (1630). She was a descendant of the Barons of St. John, of Bledsoe, and sister of Oliver St. John, Chief Justice of the English Commonwealth, and cousin of Oliver Cromwell, its Founder and Defender.
The maiden name of Lieutenant Whiting's mother was Patience Borden (family pronunciation Burden) Durfee. Benjamin Durfee, her progenitor, settled at Tiverton, R. I., in 1680. Her mother was Hannah, daughter of Elisha Anthony, of Newport. Elisha Anthony's ancestral tree was planted at Mount Hope by John Anthony, in 1650, or twentyfive years before King Philip was killed there. Lieutenant Whiting's grandmother on the paternal side was Elizabeth Cary, daughter of Joseph Cary, who married in Providence, in 1763, Elizabeth Carey. Joseph Cary came a babe in arms to Providence about 1730, with his father, who moved up from Bristol, where his great grandfather, John Cary, settled in 1640. He crossed to Bristol from South Braintree, Mass., where his father, John, and a few others bought land of the Indians, and settled in 1630. The Carys came from Bristol, England, where the father of John (of Massachusetts) was mayor. Hugh De Kary, the English progenitor of the tribe, crossed into England with the Conqueror.
Lieutenant Whiting's father was born in Providence in 1796, his mother in Newport in 1800. Her family built ships and were of the original proprietors of Long Wharf, and another wharf long since sunk under the waters of the Bay. Lieutenant Whiting's grandfather, Nathaniel Palmer Whiting, was born near Norwich, Conn., at Voluntown. His ancestors were of the Hartford and Windsor colonies. The first expedition against Canada from New England was led from Hartford, in 1690, by a Colonel Whiting, and the family were quite prominent there and at Windsor. The family of Whitings is not a numerous one, but it furnished eleven officers of the line to the Revolutionary forces.
Lieutenant Whiting's mother's family were Quakers, and suffered seriously through the occupation of Newport by the British. Her grandfather, besides his Newport ship-yards, owned about 7,000 acres of timber land,- a tract extending from Fall River to Fairhaven; and of this estate he contributed about one-half, in silver obtained therefrom, to help the Colonists.
The subject of our sketch attended in his youth the Summer Street Primary, Intermediate, and Grammar Schools, and the Providence High School, of the Class of '58. He graduated with the Class of'57, and attended " Chemistry Lectures " at Brown. He was subsequently employed as a clerk in the Merchants Bank, Providence, R. I., from April, 1857, to April, 1859. He was engaged in the survey of Denver, Colorado, in the summer of 1859. He left Brush Creek, the scene of a battle of the Civil War, on the 27th of March, 1859, with an ox team train in charge of A. C. Hunt, who afterwards (under President Andrew Johnson) was Governor of the Territory of Colorado. He reached the then little settlement of Denver, June 27th. He returned to the "States " the same year, leaving Denver November 2d, and reaching Plattsmouth, Nebraska, Dec. 2, 1859. He then went out on the old Santa Fe trail to the crossing of the Arkansas, thence up the river to where Pueblo now is, and thence "over the Divide," and returned via the right bank of the Platte, a journey afoot of about fourteen hundred miles. He cast his first vote at the age of nineteen, for delegates to the first convention of the then unorganized territory of Colorado, and attended the convention. He subsequently returned to Rhode Island, and was a student at home until his entrance into the military service. He was enrolled as a private in Company E, Tenth Rhode Island Infantry, May 26, 1862, and was mustered in the same date. He was afterwards promoted to corporal, and served with his company in the Defences of Washington, D. C. He was mustered out with his regiment at the expiration of its term of service Sept. 1, 1862.
He afterwards assisted in recruiting Company A, Twelfth Rhode Island Infantry, expecting to be its first lieutenant, but was unjustly deprived of his commission, and went out as sergeant, and mustered in as such Oct. 13, 1862. He participated with his regiment in the battle of Fredericksburg. He still retains the musket which, when his own became foul, he crept out from under cover to secure from among the slain.
After the battle of Fredericksburg Lieutenant Whiting was promoted to first sergeant of his company, Jan. 1, 1863, and was subsequently commissioned second lieutenant, May 23, 1863, and mustered in as such to date from June 2, 1863. He participated with the Twelfth in its campaign in Kentucky and the West, where it gained by its severe and harassing marches the sobriquet of the "Trotting Twelfth." He was mustered out July 29, 1863.
In the formation of the Fourteenth on the Dexter Training Ground, he rendered invaluable assistance to Colonel Viall, and served as adjutant of the regiment from the beginning to the end of its organization, rendering conspicuous and faithful service. He was appointed regimental adjutant Aug. 27, 1863, and mustered into service Sept. 14, 1863. When the Third Battalion left Dutch Island, April 3, 1864, he accompanied Colonel Viall to New Orleans. When regimental headquarters were established at Camp Parapet, just above Carrollton, Lieutenant-Colonel Viall assumed command of the post, and Lieutenant Whiting was post adjutant. When Lieutenant-Colonel Viall was in command of the District of Carrollton Lieutenant Whiting was his acting assistant adjutant-general. He served in this capacity till Aug. 22, 1864, when he was summoned by Colonel Sypher to the new regimental headquarters established at Plaquemine, La. He was a member of a military commission from Oct. 26, 1864, until Nov. 21, 1864. He afterwards accompanied Colonel Sypher on his various details for duty, viz.: to New Orleans, to Greenville, back again to Plaquemine, to Donaldsonville, and regimental orders to all the battalions were issued from these points.
Lieutenant Whiting was mustered out with his regiment at Camp Parapet, La., Oct, 2, 1865. After the war he located in Louisiana in 1866, except two months, when he was North recovering from typhoid fever. After convalescing he was elected and accredited one of the two delegates to the first soldiers' and sailors' convention (Pittsburg), 1866. He was Mayor Thomas A. Doyle's secretary from March to October, 1867. From 1867 to 1871 he was in mercantile business in Chicago. From 1871 to June 1, 1876, he was engaged in the same business in St. Louis, Mo. He founded in St. Louis what is now known as The Standard Stamping Company. Retired from same April, 1881. Engaged in mining since in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Montana. He is a member of the California Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States; is also a "Colorado Pioneer."
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