Mary WHITING

Mary married Gershom RAYMOND, Jr. on 4 Jan 1787. Gershom (son of Gershom RAYMOND and Abigail TAYLOR) was born on 13 Nov 1762. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Lewis RAYMOND was born on 4 Jun 1796; died on 10 Feb 1838.

Charles married Mary KELLOGG on 10 Oct 1761 in Stamford, Fairfield Co., Connecticut. Mary (daughter of John KELLOGG and Ann COLEY) was born on 22 Jan 1732/3 in Norwalk, Fairfield Co., Connecticut; died on 30 Dec 127 in Darien, Fairfield Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of John Kellogg and Ann Coley

Notes:

Name:
Joseph Whiting was a petitioner to the "Five Mile River" petition dated the second Thursday of October 1736. This petition was for the creation of a new religious society separating itself from the one in Stamford. This new society eventually became Middlesex Parish and in 1820 the town of Darien, Fairfield County, Connecticut.

He was active in the Middlesex Society's affairs and was one of a committee appointed on 20 April 1741 to "treat" with Mr. David Hudson at Stratford to come and preach for Middlesex on probation.

Joseph Whiting's first wife, Abigail, was buried in the Noroton River Cemetery and her gravestone is located just left of his. Joseph and later, Hannah, also were buried there. Joseph and Hannah's gravestones are quite ornately engaved. Their gravestones read,

Here Lyes Enterrd
the body of Mr Joseph
Whiting Who Departed This
Life The Day of August
Anno Domini 1757
In The 65th Year of His Age

In
Memory of
Hannah Whiting
the wife of
Joseph Whiting
who departed this life
in May 1786
In the 86th Year of her
age.

Hannah Whiting became a member of the Darien Congregational Church on 25 September 1757 shortly after the death of her husband.

When Joseph died, Dorothy and Charles were still minors. The Stamford Probate Court appointed Jacob Waring as guardian on December 28, 1757.

Joseph married Hannah SCOFIELD on 25 Jan 1733/4 in Stamford, Fairfield Co., Connecticut. Hannah (daughter of Richard SCOFIELD and Ruth BRUNDISH) was born on 14 Nov 1700 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died in May 1786 in Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Ann COLEY on 01 Jan 1729/30. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of Samuel Coley of Fairfield
• Baptism: 01 Aug 1709