Col. Joseph WHITING

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He settled in New Haven and was a member of the General Court at the May sessions of 1716, 1722 and 1724 (Col. rec. of Conn, 1706-1716, p. 546; Ibid., 1717-1725, pp. 304, 439.) Clerk of the House at he May sessions of 1716 and 1722; elected to the Upper Chamber where he continued for 21 years from October 1725 to October 1745, inclusive. He was for many years Judge of the Probate and a Judge of the Superior Court. Both he and his wife left large estates and Whiting Street, New Haven, derives its name from them. His gravestone in the center Church Crypt, New Haven is inscribed as follows:

Here
Lyes Interr'd
the body of
the HONOURABLE
COLONEL
JOSEPH WHITING
of New Haven Esq
who died April 4th
1748 Aged 67 Years

Joseph married Hannah TROWBRIDGE on 30 Jan 1709/10. Hannah (daughter of Lieut. Thomas TROWBRIDGE and Hannah NASH) was born on 30 Mar 1690; died on 9 Aug 1748. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Hannah WHITING was born on 21 Feb 1719/20; died on 03 Dec 1786.
2. Mary WHITING was born on 5 Feb 1714/15; died on 30 Apr 1748.
3. Elizabeth WHITING was born on 8 Jun 1717; died on 17 Oct 1751.
4. Phebe WHITING was born on 23 Oct 1720; died on 23 Dec 1751.
5. Deacon John WHITING was born on 1 May 1721/2; died on 21 Jun 1786.
6. Sarah WHITING was born on 15 Apr 1725; died on 1 Aug 1751.
7. Joseph WHITING was born on 28 Jan 1727; died in young.
8. Elisha WHITING was born on 29 Jul 1729; died on 11 Mar 1766.

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He graduated from Harvard in 1653; preached several years at Salem, Mass., and was there in1659, March 8, when the selectmen, with the deacons and Mr. Gedney, all desired "to treat with Mr. Whittinge to know his mind about staying with them." (Salem town records.) He removed with his family from "The Bay" to Hartford, and was ordained pastor over he First Church in 1660, being associated with Rec. Samuel Stone. In 1669, in consequence of dissensions which agitated the church at that time, he and others petitioned the Assembly "for their approbation for a distance walking in Congregational Church order," which was approved and in 1670, a new Church was formed, of which he was chosen pastor and so continued until his death. In King Philip's War he was chaplain. He was twice married; (1) about 1654 to Sybil Collins, dau. of Deacon Edward Collins of Cambridge, mass., by whom he had seven children, one of whom, Col. William, was a distinguished military officer who fought in all the French and Indian Wars of his time, and who m. Oct. 6, 1686, Mary, dau. of Col. John Allyn, grand-daughter of Matthew Allyn, and great-grand-daughter of Hon. Wm. Pynchon. T

John's father, William Whiting, was one of the founders of Hartford. The family emigrated from England to Hartford in 1636. John graduated from Harvard, Class of 1653. He served as minister in Salem, Massachusetts, until about 1660, when he moved to Hartford, and became minister of the First church there. he became a freeman on 11 May 1665. His estate began probate in Hartford in November 1689.

John married Phebe GREGSON in Sep 1673 in Hartford, Hartford County,Connecticut. Phebe was born in 1643; was christened on 15 Oct 1643 in New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut; died on 19 Sep 1730 in At the home of her son Joseph, at New Haven, Conn.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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