Person:Harriet Whiting (3)

Name	Harriet Whiting
Married Name	Harriet Backus
Gender	Female
Birth`^?`	14 Sep 1779	Canaan, Columbia, New York, United States
Marriage	Bef 1804	Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States[1st wife] to Eleazer Fitch Backus
Death`^?`	13 Jul 1804	Albany, Albany, New York, United States

References

Family Recorded, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society).

[NEHGR, 15:220, Jul 1861]
... Eleazer Fitch, b. 13 Jan. 1779, at N., m. Harriet Whiting, b. 14 Sept. 1779, youngest dau. of Col. William Bradford Whiting and Amie Lathrop of Canaan, N.Y. They settled at Albany, where she d. 13 July, 1804, leaving one child. He then m. 8 June, 1807, Elizabeth Chester, b. 10 Nov. 1774, at Weathersfield, eldest dau. of Col. John Chester and Elizabeth Huntington, and had by her three children : Rev. Jonathan Trumbull Backus, D.D., Presbyterian clergyman at Schenectady, N.U., Rev. John Backus, D.D., Presbyterian clergyman at Baltimore, Md., and Mary the wife of James Bayard, Esq., of Philadelphia ; ...