Mehitabail Whiton (1792)

Born 11 Nov 1792 in Ashford, Windham, Connecticut, United States

Ancestors

Biography

Mehitabail was born 11 Nov 1792 in Ashford, Connecticut.^[1] She is the daughter of Wilson Whiton and Mary Hanks.

Children of Wilson Whiton baptized 30 Sep 1798 in Ashford Connecticut included Mehetable, Tabitha, Persis, Samuel, Jared, James, and Philena.^[2]

After the death of his wife in 1809, Wilson Whiton moved from Ashford, Connecticut to Onondaga County, New York with his 9 children, and changed the spelling of his name from Whiton to Whiting.^[3]

Notes on her first name. Both Connecticut Vital Records and the Barbour Collection, from Ashford, Connecticut Vital Records spell her name Mehitabail. Connecticut Church Record abstracts from Ashford V1, p.220 spell her name Mehetable. The Whiton family genealogy spells her name Mehitable.

Sources

1. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7WP-8J3 : 11 February 2018), Mehitabail Whiton, 11 Nov 1792; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.
2. ↑ "Connecticut, Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920," database on-line, Ancestry.com (: accessed 3 August 2017), Wilson Whiton; Ancestry.com, Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003. Original data: Connecticut. Church Records Index. Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut.; Volume 001 Ashford, p.220.
3. ↑ Whiton: Page 72

• Whiton, Augustus Sherrill. The Whiton Family in America, The Genealogy of the Descendents of Thomas Whiton (1635) (Whiton Family Association, Inc., New London, Conn., 1932)