Frederick Harding (Jones) Whiting (1759 - 1804)

Born 28 Nov 1759 in Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Rachel (Starr) Whiting — married 18 May 1783 in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA

Descendants

Died 7 Oct 1804 at age 44 in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

Biography

Adjutant Lieutenant Frederick (Jones) Whiting served with 2nd Continental Light Dragoons, Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Frederick (Jones) Whiting is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: 318822
Rank: Lieutenant

Find a Grave Find A Grave: Memorial #42591321 page has an article that states the following: ^[1]

Frederick Whiting was born in eastern Connecticut in 1759. When his mother remarried and moved to North Carolina, Whiting - given the last name of Jones - stayed in Connecticut with his grandparents and adopted their last name.

Whiting came to Danbury because of the British invasion of the city in 1777 to destroy the military stores that had been stockpiled there.

In Danbury, Whiting married Rachel Starr - her father was Maj. Daniel Starr.

After the war, Whiting stayed in Danbury and helped found the local lodge of the Freemasons. he died young, at the age of 45. Rachell Starr is buried next to him; Daniel Starr is a few rows away.

Whiting headstone fell off its base at the Old Burying Ground. New Plaque was installed adding his military service to his resting place.

Father: Harding Jones of Newburn, Carven, NC, deceased before he was born.

Married Rachel Starr, 18 May 1783 @ Danbury, CT

In the 1790 Census, Frederick is listed as owning one slave. This could be the "negro girl Piney" his wife inherited from her father in 1777.

In an affidavit dated 1792, John McLean declared he had negro Samuel, b. 1787, in the household of Frederick J. Whiting, Samuel's parents were Cato & Viny.

He is buried in Wooster Street Cemetery 'Old Burying Ground', Danbury, Fairfield, CT ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Danbury News-Times, Danbury, Connecticut pg A4
2. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (accessed 30 August 2019), memorial page for Maj Frederick Jones Whiting (28 Nov 1759–7 Oct 1801), Find A Grave: Memorial #40451067, Wooster Street Cemetery, Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA ; Maintained by Mary Harrell-Sesniak (contributor 46488639) . duplicate Find A Grave: Memorial #42591321 should be merged

• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 17 Aug 2022), "Record of Frederick Whiting", Ancestor # A124751.
• Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Book : NSDAR : Volume 022 : 1897, page 100. Member #21271, Miss Evelyne M. Avery
• Hill, Susan Benedict. History of Danbury, Conn. 1684-1896 (Burr Printing House, New York, 1896) Page 507
• Starr, Burgis Pratt. A History of the Starr Family of New England (Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., Hartford, Conn., 1879) Page 407.
• The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records (NEHGS, Boston, 2011) Vol. Danbury, Page 103 & Page 120.

From behind the ancestry.com subscription wall:

• Connecticut Town Records, 1759
• Connecticut Town Records (Barbour Collection), 1783
• Connecticut Town Records (Barbour Collection), 1792
• Connecticut, Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1804