Dr. William Whiting

1730 - 1792  (62 years)

• Name	William Whiting  [1]
  Prefix	Dr.
  Born	8 Apr 1730  [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	8 Dec 1792	Great Barrington, Berkshire, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I7711	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS
  Last Modified	22 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Col. William Whiting,   b. 22 Jan 1704,   d. Bozrah, New London, Connecticut
  Mother	Anna Raymond,   d. Nov 1773
  Married	1724  [2]
  Family ID	F12648	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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

  
  

• 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

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