John Whiting, sixth child and fourth son of the Rev. Samuel Whiting, of Windham, Connecticut, and grandson of the Rev. John Whiting (Harv. 1653), of Hartford, was born in Windham. February 20, 1705-6. His mother was Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. William Adams (Harv. 1671), of Dedham, Massachusetts. A younger brother, Colonel Nathan Whiting, was graduated in 1743. Rector Clap married his sister. … About 1766, he retired to Plainfield. Connecticut, and a year or two later to Scotland Parish, in Windham. He was appointed Judge of the Windham Probate District, after the death of Judge Conant (Y. C. 1732), in 1775. He died in Windham. August 28, 1786, in his 81st year. …
[This] John Whiting [has been] wrongly identified with Colonel of the same name. The graduate first married, on December 3, 1729, Phebe, daughter, of Edward Greenman, of Westerly, and widow of Amos Hallam, of Stonington. She died in 1763. and he married, on August 6, 1767, Mary, daughter of David and Sarah (Parish) Tracy, of Preston, and successive widow of James Clark, of Norwich, and James Luce, of Scotland Parish. She died on June 24, 1792, in her 74th year."
