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Whiting, Colonel William

Male 1659 - 1724  (65 years)


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  • Name Whiting, William 
    Prefix Colonel 
    Born 1659  Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christened 19 Feb 1659  Congregational, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    FamilySearch Id LZDG-HY4 
    Died 14 Dec 1724 
    Person ID I5389  USA
    Last Modified 9 Oct 2019 

    Father Whiting, Reverend John,   b. 1635, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Sep 1689, Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 54 years) 
    Mother Collins, Sybil,   b. Nov 1637, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Jun 1672, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 34 years) 
    Married 1654  Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F657  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Allyn, Mary,   b. 3 Apr 1657,   d. 14 Dec 1724, Newport, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years) 
    Married 5 Oct 1686  Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Children 
     1. Whiting, Sarah,   b. Abt 1680, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Whiting, William,   b. 14 Mar 1683, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1702  (Age 18 years)
     3. Whiting, Mary,   b. 1 Apr 1688, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Nov 1714, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 26 years)
     4. Whiting, John,   b. Abt 1687, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
     5. Whiting, Samuel,   b. Abt 1689, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
     6. Whiting, Joseph,   b. Abt 1690, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
     7. Allen, Sarah,   b. 1691, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
     8. Whiting, Lieutenant Charles,   b. 5 Jul 1692, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Mar 1738, Montville, New London, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 45 years)
     9. Whiting, Joseph,   b. Abt 1693, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 5 Aug 2021 
    Family ID F2518  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • (Rev John, William and Susannah immigrants)

      Maternal ancestry of Charles Whiting MacNair
      By Hannah Louise MacNair Crawford

      https://books.google.com/books?id=QppbAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA18&lpg=PA18&dq=gamaliel+whiting&source=bl&ots=GkKXkpZBeD&sig=NjNLzg_tMQKzVpIh0lSFkWELGpg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ie6pVLexEIOkyASgi4CgAw&ved=0CDQQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=gamaliel%20whiting&f=false

      COLONEL WILLIAM WHITING

      WILLIAM WHITING. third son of John Whiting and Sybil
      Col1ins, was born in 1659. Goodwin's Genealogical Notes,
      p, 331, gives the following account of him:

      “William Whiting represented Hartford in the General
      Court from 1710 to 1715 and speaker in 1714. In 1693 he
      went as Captain of a company of whites and Indians to Maine.
      "In 1705 he held the title of Major.
      "In 1709 he bore the rank of Colonel and led a body of
      horse and infantry into the county of Hampshire to repel the
      French and Indians. In 1710 he was in command of the troops
      at Port Royal in 1711 in the expedition against Canada.
      Colonel Whiting was sheriff of Hartford County in 1722.

      P 17
      He removed to Newport, R. I., late in life and probably died
      there."
      William. Whiting married October 6, 1686, Mary Allyn
      ( 1657-1724), the daughter of Colonel John Allyn and the
      great-granddaughter of William Pynchon.

      CHILDREN OV WILLIAM: Whiting AND Mary ALLYN
      Mary, born April 1, 1689; died November 6, 1714-
      Charles, born July 5, 1692; died at Montville, March 7, 1780
      William, born February 15,1694

      COLONIAL RECORD OF WILLIAM WlIITING

      Colonel William iWhiting,~ 1659-1724; Deputy 1710-1715;
      Speaker 1714., Captain, Major and Colonel in the French and
      Indian Wars, 1693-1709; Commanded expedition to Port
      Royal 1710."
      (Sons of Colonial Wars, 1899-1902, p. 809.)
      (See Mass. Register of Colonial Dames, 1905, p. 400.)

  • Sources 
    1. [S2] International Genealogical Index, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
      William Whiting; Male; Birth: 03 APR 1659 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts; Death: 11 DEC 1724; Spouse: Mary Allyn; Marriage: 05 OCT 1686 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts; Film Number: 184646 Page Number: Reference number: 19976
      Record submitted by a member of the LDS Church
      Search performed using PAF Insight on 11/24/2007