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Dr. William Whiting

Male 1731 - 1792  (61 years)


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  • Name William Whiting  [1
    Prefix Dr. 
    Alternate birth 8 Apr 1730  [1, 2
    Birth 17 Apr 1731  Norwich, New London, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Gender Male 
    Death 8 Dec 1792  Great Barrington, Berkshire, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Person ID I7711  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS
    Last Modified 18 Aug 2022 

    Father Col. William Whiting,   b. 22 Jan 1704, Windham, Windham, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 May 1787, Bozrah, New London, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years) 
    Mother Anna Raymond,   b. 1701, New London, New London, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Nov 1773, Norwich, New London, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years) 
    Marriage 5 Mar 1724  Norwich, New London, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4
    Family ID F12648  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Anna Mason,   b. 4 Mar 1738   d. 13 Nov 1821 (Age 83 years) 
    Marriage 1759  [2
    Children 
    +1. Mason Whiting,   b. 8 May 1774, of Great Barrington, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Jan 1849, Binghamton, Broome, New York Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years)
    Family ID F4216  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 23 Nov 2017 

  • Notes 
    • He studied medicine under the direction of Dr. John Bulkeley of Colchester. He was evidently also a talented and largely self-taught musician, and over time constructed musicial instruments for his family, including a parlor organ and a dulcimer. The Puritan authorities of Hartford rebuked him more than once for these indulgences, which was probably one of the reasons he and his family eventually removed to Great Barrington and joined the Episcopal church there.

  • Sources 
    1. [S1545] Memoir of the Life and Character of Mrs. Mary Anna Boardman by John Frederick Schroeder. New Haven, 1849.

    2. [S1559] Autobiography of William Seymour Tyler, With a Genealogy of the Ancestors of Prof. and Mrs. William S. Tyler, prepared by Cornelius B. Tyler. 1912.

    3. [S2252] Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Volume 22, William Bradford by Robert S. Wakefield and Ann Smith Lainhart. Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2004.

    4. [S1559] Autobiography of William Seymour Tyler, With a Genealogy of the Ancestors of Prof. and Mrs. William S. Tyler, prepared by Cornelius B. Tyler. 1912., year only.