Nathaniel Whiting (1725 - 1770)

Born 22 Dec 1725 in Medway, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Province

Ancestors

Husband of Lydia (Bump) Whiting — married 23 May 1749 in Medway, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States

Husband of Lydia (Partridge) Whiting — married 17 Jun 1762 in Medway, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 1 Feb 1770 at age 44 in Medway, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Province

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Biography

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Nathaniel and his twin Nathan were born to Nathaniel and Margaret Mann Whiting in Medway on December 22, 1725^[1]

Nathaniel married Lydia Partridge in Medway on June 17, 1762^[2] Intentions filed Arp 24, 1762. ^[3]

Her husband died in Medway, Massachusetts on Feb 1, 1770.

Nathaniel and Lydia had, in Medway:^[4]

• Mercy, b. Mar. 14, 1763, married Luther Metcalf, Apr. 5, 1781
• Lydia, b. Aug. 22, 1764, married Philo Sanford, Mar. 18, 1784
• Lois, b. March 5, 1766, died 45 days later

Nathaniel died in Medway, Massachusetts on Feb. 1, 1770, in his 45th year ^[5] His widow Lydia lived on until 1799.^[6] and is buried in West Medway at Evergreen Cemetery. ^[7]

From Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania:

In it he (Nathaniel Whiting) mentioned his wife Margaret, daughter Margaret Clark, son-in-law Nathaniel Clark, husband of daughter Esther, grandsons Nathaniel Clark Jr. and Simeon Clark, two granddaughters, children of Nathaniel, deceased, and son Nathan Whiting. Nathaniel, born at Medway, December 22, 1725;

Sources

1. ↑ Norfolk, Vital Records of Medway, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, p. 130
2. ↑ Norfolk, Vital Records of Medway, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, p. 274
3. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPZ2-DZP1 : 11 May 2022), Nathaniel Whiting and Lydia Partridge, 17 Jun 1762; citing Marriage, Medway, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007010687.
4. ↑ Norfolk, Vital Records of Medway, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, p. 130, 343
5. ↑ Medway - Deaths - Massachusetts Vital Records
6. ↑ Norfolk, Vital Records of Medway, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, p. 343
7. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13419405/nathaniel-whiting: accessed 29 April 2023), memorial page for Nathaniel Whiting Jr. (22 Dec 1725–1 Feb 1770), Find A Grave: Memorial #13419405, citing Evergreen Cemetery , West Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by Elijah Gray Barton (contributor 47465776).

• Massachusetts, Town Birth Records, 1620-1850

• Jameson, Ephraim Orcutt, The History of Medway, Mass. 1713-1885, (Medway, 1886), page 528
• Jordan, John W. Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., New York, 1915, Vol 1, p. 148-153)