Person:William Whiting (22)

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William Whiting
b.Est 1633
d.1699
m. Bef 1633
  1. William WhitingEst 1633 - 1699
  2. Rev. John WhitingAbt 1635 - 1689
  3. Sarah WhitingEst 1637 -
  4. Mary WhitingEst 1644 - 1709
  5. Captain Joseph Whiting1645 - 1717
  6. _____ WhitingAft 1647 -
Facts and Events
Name[1][2] William Whiting
Gender Male
Birth[1] Est 1633 Rough estimate.
Living[1] 24 Aug 1686 London, England
Death? 1699
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Starr, Frank Farnsworth. Various Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford, Connecticut. (Hartford, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press, 1915)
    351, 366.

    "William (Whiting), b. ____; living in London in April, 1664, and appointed Colonial Agent for Connecticut, Aug. 24, 1686."

    "William Whiting's son William was for a time the London agent of the Connecticut Colony. Some of his letters to the colonial authorities, preserved in the Connecticut State Library, bear his seal showing the family arms which are similar to those of the Whiting families of Leicestershire and Lincolnshire, England."

  2. William Whiting, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    4:522.

    "William (Whiting), Hartford, eldest s. of the preced. b. prob. in Eng. went home perhaps, bef. m. was a merch. in London, honor. by the Assembl. of Conn. in 1686, as their agent to present addr. to the throne a. their charter, and was thank. for this good serv. d. in 1699, leav. Joseph his s. to admin. his est."