Letitia (Johnson) Whiting (abt. 1738)

Wife of Maxfield Whiting — married 3 Feb 1753 in Hanover, St. Paul's Parish, Stafford co., Virginia

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Maxfield, who married Letitia Johnson of Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Their children were, James, William, Thomas, Hanna Charles, Elizabeth, Martha and Nancy. James and William were both killed in the Revolutionary War. Thomas married Miss Cunningham, of Fredricksburg, Virginia, and one of their sons was Charles Whiting, better known as "Little" or "Bricklayer" Charles Whiting, to more readily distinguish him from numerous other Whitings by the name of Charles, and one of their daughters was the mother of General John Charles Fremont, the noted historic character -- Pathfinder of the Great West, and once a candidate for president of the United States. It might be in place also, to mention here that along with many other well known cities and towns, Fremont, Nebraska, bears his name.

"Little" or "Bricklayer" Charles Whiting was born before the Revolutionary War, dying at the advanced age of either 92 or 93, and will add with whom I was personally acquainted for a period of twelve years, and from whom a greater part of the material out of which grew this booklet of family history, was personally received by my Uncle, C.C. Whiting and myself, between 1850 and 1857.^[1]

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1. ↑ DAVIS, JOSEPH N., A Brief Genealogy of The Whiting Family of Virginia. WAHOO, NEBRASKA: JUNE 26, 1922. (Print.)

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