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Col. Thomas Whiting

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Birthplace: Gloucester County, Virginia, United States
Death: 1781 (68-69)
Elmington, Gloucester County, Virginia, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Maj./Col. Henry Whiting, of Gloucester County and Anne Whiting
Husband of Elizabeth Whiting; Elizabeth Whiting and Elizabeth Cary
Father of Catherine Beverley Lowry; Elizabeth (Whiting) Thruston Fontaine; Thomas Beverly Whiting; Sarah Whiting; Anne Beverly Fremont / Pryor and 1 other
Brother of Elizabeth Clayton; Catherine Davis; Francis Whiting and Henry Whiting
Half brother of Peter Whiting and Col. Beverley Whiting

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About Col. Thomas Whiting

Thomas Whiting

  • Married: Elizabeth Beverly; Elizabeth Thruston and Elizabeth Seawell
  • Whiting, Thomas, of "Gloucestertown" and "Elmington."' was burgess for Glouces- ter from 1755 to 1776, inclusive, and mem- ber of the conventions of 1775 and 1776. He v^as chairman of the X'irginia naval board during the revolution. In his will, dated October 15, 1780, he names his children, Thornas (who was ancestor of the Whitings o^ Hampton), Henry, Horatio, Sarah, Cath- erine. Eliza L., Susanna, who married (first) ir. 1786, Gibson Cluverins and (second) John Lowry ; Jane, who married Charles Grymes. and Anne, who married (first) Major John Pryor and (second) Charles Eremont, father of General John C. Fre- niont.

Children

  • Elizabeth; died 1722, Married her cousin John Thurston birth 1761, died 1802, son of Rev Charles Mynn Thurston, (2) Captain Aaron Fontaine
  • Sarah; married James Hubbard
  • Catherine Beverly; was (1) Lieut Stevenson, of the Revolution; (2) William Lowry and had Thomas Whiting Lowry
  • Thomas Beverly; married (1) unknown Whiting, (2) Elizabeth Kennon widow of Henry Perrin and had Dr. Tom & Kennon Whiting of Gloucester (b 1796) married Ann Wythe Mallory and had General Juilian Wythe Whiting of Mobile Alabama
  • Susannah; married (1) Gibson Cluverious (2) John Lowry

Member of the House of Burgess. (Pre-Revolution.

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Col. Thomas Whiting's Timeline

1712
1712
Gloucester County, Virginia, United States
1756
1756
Gloucester County, Virginia
1763
1763
Gloucester County, Virginia, United States
1764
1764
1764
Virginia, United States
1779
1779
1781
1781
Age 69
Elmington, Gloucester County, Virginia, United States