Mary Whiting
Probably the elder of the two children of Joseph Whiting, then a merchant at Westfield, Massachusetts, and his first wife, Mary Pynchon, born in 1672. She married Joseph Sheldon of Northampton, who took the family to Suffield and died at Boston in 1708, and as his widow married John Ashley of Westfield. Probably the mother of Mary (Sheldon) Hitchcock, to whom her Pynchon inheritance passed.
Life
- 1672Born19 Aug 1672
WikiTree has 1677, the year her half-sister Anna was born.
compiledprobableSources
- 1735Died17 Mar 1735
WikiTree only.
Family
- Father
- Joseph Whitingcompiledprobable
Sources
- William Inglis Morse, ed., Genealogiae; or, Data Concerning the Families of Morse, Chipman, Phinney, Ensign and Whiting (1925)
- Benjamin W. Dwight, The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass. (New York, 1874)
- Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England
- Mrs. Edward Hitchcock, The Genealogy of the Hitchcock Family, Who Are Descended from Matthias Hitchcock of East Haven, Conn., and Luke Hitchcock of Wethersfield, Conn. (Amherst, 1894)
- Reasoning:
research/hatten/Browne_Chapin_Cumins.md
- Mother
- Mary Pynchoncompiledprobable
Sources
- William Inglis Morse, ed., Genealogiae; or, Data Concerning the Families of Morse, Chipman, Phinney, Ensign and Whiting (1925)
- Benjamin W. Dwight, The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass. (New York, 1874)
- Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England
- Mrs. Edward Hitchcock, The Genealogy of the Hitchcock Family, Who Are Descended from Matthias Hitchcock of East Haven, Conn., and Luke Hitchcock of Wethersfield, Conn. (Amherst, 1894)
- Reasoning:
research/hatten/Browne_Chapin_Cumins.md
- Spouse 1
- Joseph Sheldoncompiledprobable
Sources
- Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England
- William Inglis Morse, ed., Genealogiae; or, Data Concerning the Families of Morse, Chipman, Phinney, Ensign and Whiting (1925)
- Mrs. Edward Hitchcock, The Genealogy of the Hitchcock Family, Who Are Descended from Matthias Hitchcock of East Haven, Conn., and Luke Hitchcock of Wethersfield, Conn. (Amherst, 1894)
1 child
- Spouse 2
- John Ashley
Of Westfield; her second husband, after Joseph Sheldon's death in 1708.
Pedigree
Notes
Mother of Mary (Sheldon) Hitchcock. She was the elder of the two children of Joseph Whiting, then a merchant at Westfield, and his first wife Mary Pynchon: “Children of Joseph and Mary Pynchon Whiting — Mary born Aug. 19, 1672, married Joseph Sheldon and second John Ashley” (source). Dwight and Savage give the same birth (source). Her mother died soon after her brother’s birth in 1674, and her father took a second wife, Anne Allyn, in 1676 and went back to Hartford.
She married Joseph Sheldon of Northampton, who took the family to Suffield and died at Boston in 1708 while serving in the General Court; as his widow she married John Ashley of Westfield (source). Her inheritance from the Pynchons passed in time to her daughter Mary (Sheldon) Hitchcock.
Research: research/hatten/Browne_Chapin_Cumins.md.