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- H. Colonel William WhitingEst 1659 -
- W. Ann Cutler (add)
m. 31 Jan 1725/26
Facts and Events
| Name[1][2][3][4] |
Colonel William Whiting |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[3] |
Est 1659 |
Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States |
| Christening[1][5] |
19 Feb 1659/60 |
Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States |
| Marriage |
6 Oct 1686 |
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United Statesto Mary Allyn |
| Marriage |
31 Jan 1725/26 |
Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United StatesTrinity Church (Prot. Ep.)
to Ann Cutler (add) |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Whiting, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. Families of Ancient New Haven. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1974)
8:1971.
"William (Whiting), bp 19 Feb 1659 (church record, Cambridge, Mass.), d 1724; Col.; rem. to Newport, R. I.; …"
- ↑ William Whiting, in Barbour, Lucius Barnes. Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977)
677.
"Col. William Whiting s of Rev. John & Sybil (Collins) bp Feb 19, 1660 … Was a distinguished military officer, fought in all the French and Indian Wars of his time, led a company of 'Fusaleers' to the fight at Pemaquid 1697, and later, a company of Dragoons for the security of the County of Albany."
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 William Whiting, in Brainerd, Dwight, and Donald Lines Jacobus. Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd. (Montreal, Quebec: D. Brainerd, 1948)
314-15.
"Son of John and Sybil (Collins) Whiting, born at Salem, Mass., about 1659, died at Newport, R. I. …
Mar. 6, 1692/3, he was appointed Captain of a company of sixty-four men who were to join the Massachusetts troops in an expedition to Maine., May, 1696 and the following year, he captained a troop sent to defend Albany. He was appointed Captain of the Hartford County Troop, May, 1698. Major and Commander-in-Chief of an army sent against the Indians, May 1704; and May, 1709, became Colonel of the Connecticut troops in the Indian War, and August, 1710, in command against Port Royal.
Clerk of the Connecticut House of Representatives, October, 1698, May, 1699, and October, 1712. Representative for Hartford, May and October, 1712, October 1713, May and October, 1714, being Speaker at the latter session, May and October, 1716, May and October, 1717, and May, 1718. Several times served on a commission to determine the Connecticut-Massachusetts boundary. Also Justice of the Peace a few years.
High Sheriff of Hartford County, May, 1701, and was still holding that office in October, 1722, but was last mentioned in the colonial records in May, 1723."
- ↑ 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, s. of John of the same, was capt. major, col. of the troops in the old (or Queen Ann's) French war, sheriff of the Co. 1722; m. 6 Oct. 1686, Mary, d. of col. John Allyn, had Mary, b. 1 Apr. 1688; Charles, 5 July 1692; and William, 15 Feb. 1694. His w. d. 14 Dec. 1724; and he rem. to Newport, there prob. d."
- ↑ Baldwin, Thomas W. Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the Year of 1850. (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1914-15)
1:761.
"Whyting, … William, s. of John and Sybil, bp. Feb. 19, 1659. (church record. First Congregational, Unitarian)"
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