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John Whiting, Reverend

Male 1635 - 1689  (54 years)


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  • Name John Whiting 
    Suffix Reverend 
    Birth 1635  London, , England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 8 Sep 1689  Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I7501  Molloy-Remde Family Tree Aug 23
    Last Modified 5 Jun 2022 

    Father William Whiting, Major,   b. , Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Jul 1647, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Susannah,   b. Abt 1612   d. 8 Jul 1673, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 61 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1630 
    Family ID F2671  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Sybil Collins,   b. Abt 1638, , , England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Jun 1672, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 34 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1654  Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Sybil Whiting,   b. 1655
     2. John Whiting,   b. 1657
     3. William Whiting,   b. 1659
     4. Martha Whiting,   b. 1662
     5. Sarah Whiting,   b. 1664
     6. Abigail Whiting,   b. 1666   d. 7 May 1733 (Age 67 years)
     7. Samuel Whiting,   b. 22 Apr 1670, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Sep 1725, Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 55 years)
    Family ID F3036  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Sep 2023 

    Family 2 Phebe Gregson,   b. 1643, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Sep 1730, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 87 years) 
    Marriage 1673  [1
    Children 
     1. Thomas Whiting
     2. Mary Whiting
     3. Elizabeth Whiting
     4. Joseph Whiting
     5. Nathaniel Whiting
     6. John Whiting
    Family ID F3037  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Sep 2023 

  • Notes 
    • !Source: "Register of Pedigrees & Services of Ancestors", The Society of
      Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut. Hartford, CT, 1941. p 38.

      !John Whiting graduated from Harvard in 1653. (same source)

      !"Maternal ancestry of Charles Whiting MacNair", by Hannah Crawford.

      !Check if really born in Hartford, Hartford, Conn. I don't think so.
      !Potter, Rockwell (16th minister), Hartford's First Church. US/CAN
      974.62/H1 K2p. Says John Whiting was born in England.

      !Married (1) Sybil Collins, dau. of Edward Collins, 1654.
      !Married (2) Phebe Gregson, 1673, daughter of Thomas Gregson, of New
      Haven. She was born 1643. She died 19 Sept. 1730. She married in
      1692, Rev. John Russell of Hadley. After he died, she went ot New Haven
      and died there.

      !Goodwin, Nathaniel. Genealogical Notes, or, Contributions to the family
      history of some of the first settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts.
      pub. 1987. p. 330-1. Lists 7 children by first wife and 7 children by
      second wife.

      !see my Whiting file.

      !Roberts, Gary Boyd. Ancestors of American Presidents. Said he died
      Hatfield, Hampshire Co., MA.

      !Collens, Clarence Lyman. Collins memorial. c1959. US/CAN 929.273
      C692cc. p. 157
      !Harvard, 1653, minister at Salem, Mass., and at Hartford.

      !Barbour, Lucius B. Families of early Hartford, Connecticut. pub. 1977.
      US/CAN 974.63 D2b, p. 98
      !Barbour gives source of birth date as Hartford Town Records. Check
      them.
      !Barbour says Sarah Whiting, who married Capt-Major Jonathan Bull, was
      the daughter of Rev. John Whiting & Sybil Collins.

  • Sources 
    1. [S81] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index.
      Phebe Gregson; Female; Birth: 15 OCT 1643 , New Haven, Connecticut; Father: Thomas Gregson; Mother: Mrs. Jane Gregson; Spouse: Rev John Witing; Marriage: 1673; Film Number: 456909
      Record submitted by a member of the LDS Church
      Search performed using PAF Insight on 29 Jun 2004