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Whiting Anna or Ann
Female 1673 - 1749

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  • Birth  25 Jan 1672/73  [1, 2] 
    Gender  Female 
    _UPD  17 AUG 2009 18:31:09 GMT-5 
    Died  09 Mar 1749  Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5] 
    Buried  Dedham Cemetery, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Person ID  I4811  Alan Donald Vibber
    Last Modified  08 Dec 2009 
     
    Father  Whiting Nathaniel,   d. 15 Jan 1682/83 
    Mother  Dwight Hannah,   b. Abt 1625, England, U.K. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 04 Nov 1714, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  04 Mar 1643  Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID  F1990  Group Sheet
     
    Family 1  Lewis John,   b. 30 Mar 1660,   d. 01 Sep 1718 
    Married  04 Apr 1700  [1, 5] 
    Children 
     1. Lewis Jonathan,   b. 06 Dec 1708, Dorchester, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Oct 1786
     2. Lewis Mary,   b. 01 Apr 1701,   d. 26 Oct 1740, Walpole, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Lewis John,   b. 18 Jan 1702
     4. Lewis Ebenezer,   b. 29 May 1705
     5. Lewis Barachiah,   b. 28 Oct 1710
    Family ID  F1957  Group Sheet
     
    Family 2  Eaton John,   b. 17 Sep 1671,   d. 28 Oct 1694 
    Married  Abt 1694  [1, 5] 
    Children 
     1. Eaton John,   b. 04 Apr 1695,   d. 23 Feb 1770
    Family ID  F1991  Group Sheet
     
    Family 3  Herring James,   b. Abt 1655,   d. Mar 1732 
    Married  11 Aug 1725  [3, 5] 
    Family ID  F1994  Group Sheet
     
  • Notes 
    • ANN EATON.

      Ann Whiting was the fourteenth and youngest child of Nathaniel and Hannah (Dwight) Whiting, of Dedham, and was born January 25, 1672-3. The birth is recorded twice in the Dedham Records, but the dateof her first marriage is not given. It was probably about 1694 that she was married to John Eaton, Jr., son of John and Alice Eaton, born Sept. 17, 1671. Her young husband died Oct. 28, 1694, and their child, John Eaton, was born four months after his father's death, namely April 4, 1695, thus continuing the line of John Batons. This boy was the fourth, beginning with one of the first settlers ofthe town, and four others have succeeded him, bringing the line to the present day, father and son for eight generations named John Eaton; and a large number of descendants can trace their ancestry to this boy, who was born an orphan.

      Ann and her boy went home and lived with her mother for six years, (see Register, October, 1893, page 142), and then, according to an expression much used in old wills in Middlesex County, " it pleased the Lord to provide for her by a second marriage." The record was "John Lewis of Dorchester and Ann Eaton of Dedham, married April 4, 1700. (The above Ann Eaton, widow of John Eaton, Jr., and daughter of N. and H. Whiting.)"

      They had five children,, viz.

      1. Mary, b. April 1, 1701.
      2. John, b. Jan. 18, 1702-3.
      3. Ebenezer, b. May 29, 1705.
      4. Jonathan, b. Dec. 6, 1708.
      5. Barachiah, b. Oct. 28, 1710.

      The names of the parents at these births were set down in the Dorchester Records, as follows: John Lues; John and An Lewes; John Lewes; John and Anne Lewis ; John and Ann Lewes ; neither entry being exactly right.

      On January 11, 1710, Jonathan Whiting, of Roxbury, the boy's uncle, was appointed " guardian of John Eaton, aged 15 years or upwards, son of John Eaton, late of Dedham, deceased."

      This Jonathan Whiting, son of N. and H. Whiting, was born in Roxbury (see Roxbury Records), probably in what is now West Roxbury, 9 October, 1667.

      Sept. 1 (or 10), 1718, John Lewis died. He owned property in Dorchester and Dedham, of which the widoW received her portion.

      After seven years she married third time, and we find in the Dorchester Records that "James Herring of Roxbury and Ann Lewis of Dorchester were married 11 August, 1725."

      James Herring died March 1732, aged 76, his grave being in the cemetery near the West Roxbury Railroad station. He left a will by which he gives "to my dear and loving wife, Ann Herring, all that estate which she brought with her at our marriage. I also give unto her the ???, Benefit and Improvement of the west end of my dwelling house with the income of one full third part of my whole estate... I also give her Fifty Pounds money, or if she dies... it is to be equally distributed amongst all her children.

      The estate was valued at 788 Pounds. He left no children, and gives the balance of his property to his nephew and namesake, James Herring, son of Thomas Herring, of Dedham.

      Ann (Whiting) Eaton Lewis Herring lived seventeen years longer, and was then laid in the Dedham Demetery, near her first husband, the inscription on her gravestone being:

      "Here lyes buried the body of Mrs. Ann Herring, the wife of Mr. James Herring, died March 9, 1749, in ye 77th year of her age"

      John Eaton Alden - Newton, Mass.
     
  • Sources 
    1. [S239] Dedham historical register, Dedham Historical Society (Mass.), (Name: Dedham Historical Society, 1894;), 41 (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S242] Eaton family of Dedham and the Powder house rock, John Eaton Alden, Daniel Cady Eaton, (Name: Higginson Book Company, 1900;), 57 (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S239] Dedham historical register, Dedham Historical Society (Mass.), (Name: Dedham Historical Society, 1894;), 42 (Reliability: 3).

    4. [S240] Whiting genealogy: Nathaniel Whiting of Dedham, Mass., 1641, and five generations of his descendants, Theodore Studley Lazell, (Name: T.R. Marvin & son, printers, 1902;), 13 (Reliability: 3).

    5. [S242] Eaton family of Dedham and the Powder house rock, John Eaton Alden, Daniel Cady Eaton, (Name: Higginson Book Company, 1900;), 25 (Reliability: 3).

  

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