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Whiting, Mary
1712 - 1736 (23 years)-
Name Whiting, Mary Born 24 Nov 1712 Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States 
Gender Female FamilySearch Id LSSS-R86 Buried Aug 1736 Died 9 Aug 1736 Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States Person ID I1129 USA Last Modified 9 Oct 2019
Father Whiting, Samuel, b. 22 Apr 1670, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States , d. 27 Sep 1725, Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States (Age 55 years) Mother Adams, Elizabeth, b. 23 Feb 1681, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States , d. 21 Dec 1766, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States (Age 85 years) Married 14 Sep 1696 Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States Family ID F647 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Clap, Thomas, b. Abt 1708, Windham, Connecticut, United States , d. 7 Jan 1767, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States (Age ~ 59 years) Married 23 Sep 1727 Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States [1] Children 1. Clap, child, b. Abt 1773, Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States 2. Clapp, b. Abt 1734, Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States , d. 1734 (Age ~ 0 years)3. Clapp, Child - A, b. 1734, Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States 4. Clapp, Child - C, b. 1731, Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States 5. Clap, A Child, b. 25 Jul 1736, Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States , d. 25 Jul 1736, Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States (Age 0 years)6. Clap, Anna, b. 13 May 1734, Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States , d. Apr 1735, Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States (Age 0 years)7. Clap, Temperance, b. 21 Apr 1731, Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States , d. 3 Jun 1731, Windham, Connecticut, United States (Age 0 years)8. Clapp, Mary, b. 1713, Connecticut, United States , d. 6 Jun 1807, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States (Age 94 years)9. Clap, Child, b. 1736, Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States , d. 25 Aug 1736 (Age 0 years)Last Modified 5 Aug 2021 Family ID F665 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Nathan Whiting
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Nathan Whiting (b. 4 May 1724 , Windham, Connecticut - d. 1771was a soldier and merchant in Colonial America .
[edit ] Biography
Whiting's parents died while he was a child, and he was raised by father's sister Mary and her husband, Reverend Thomas Clap . Whiting would graduate from Yale in 1743 while his uncle Thomas was president of the University.[1]
In 1745 Ensign Nathan Whiting joined the New England army being raised to capture Fortress Louisbourg from the French . After his service in King George's War , he became a merchant in New Haven, Connecticut . In 1750 Nathan married Mary Saltonstall. They would have eight children together.
At the start of the French and Indian War , Whiting was appointed as Lieutenant Colonel of the 2nd Connecticut Militia Regiment. During the Battle of Lake George on September 8 , 1755 , Col. Whiting's Regiment and the Massachusetts regiment of Col. Ephraim Williams were marching between Lake George and Fort Edward 14 miles away, when their column was ambushed by an army of French and their Indian allies. With the death of Col. Williams, Col. Whiting led the survivors back to Sir William Johnson 's camp at Lake George.[2] There the Colonial army held off the French attacks until men from Joseph Blanchard 's New Hampshire Provincial Regiment attacked the rear of the French army and captured the French commander Jean Erdman, Baron Dieskau .
In 1756 Whiting was promoted to full Colonel in the Connecticut militia . In 1757 his regiment was at Fort at Number 4 on the Connecticut River in New Hampshire guarding the frontier.
After the war Col. Whiting served in the Connecticut General Assembly until his death on 9 April 1771 .[3] He is buried at the Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven .
[edit ] References
^ Welles, Lemuel Aiken (1900). "Letters of Col. Nathan Whiting, Written from Camp During the French and Indian War". In Papers of the New Haven Colony Historical Society, Vol. VI, p. 133. New Haven: New Haven Colony Historical Society.
^ Welles (1900), p. 139.
^ Welles (1900), p. 150.
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Sources - [S2] International Genealogical Index, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Mary Whiting; Female; Birth: 24 NOV 1712 Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut; Death: 09 AUG 1736; Father: Samuel Whiting; Mother: Elizabeth Adams; Spouse: Thomas Clap; Marriage: 23 SEP 1727; Sealing to Spouse: 11 JUN 1953 Saint George, Washington, Utah; Film Number: 458133 Page Number: Reference number:
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- [S2] International Genealogical Index, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.