Martha WHITING

Martha married Samuel BRYAN on 25 Dec 1683 in Milford, New Haven Co., Connecticut. Samuel (son of Richard BRYAN and Mary PANTRY) was born on 2 Apr 1660 in Milford, New Haven Co., Connecticut; died about 1698. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mary BRYAN was born in 1685 in Milford, New Haven Co., Connecticut.
2. Martha BRYAN was born in 1689 in Milford, New Haven Co., Connecticut; was christened on 26 Aug 1694 in Milford, New Haven Co., Connecticut.
3. Susannah BRYAN was born in 1691.
4. Abigail BRYAN was born in 1693 in Milford, New Haven Co., Connecticut; was christened on 26 Aug 1694 in Milford, New Haven Co., Connecticut.
5. Sybil BRYAN was christened on 9 Jun 1695 in Milford, New Haven Co., Connecticut.
6. Jerusha BRYAN was christened on 4 Jul 1697 in Milford, New Haven Co., Connecticut.

Martha married Col. Samuel EELLS between 6 Dec 1700 and 14 Jan 1700/1 in Milford, New Haven Co., Connecticut. Samuel (son of Maj Samuel EELLS and Anna LENTHAL) was born on 2 Sep 1666 in Milford, New Haven Co., Connecticut; was christened on 5 Jun 1670 in Milford, New Haven Co., Connecticut; died after 28 Oct 1752. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Rev John EELLS was christened on 11 Apr 1703 in Milford, New Haven Co., Connecticut; died on 15 Oct 1785 in New Canaan, Connecticut.
2. Nathaniel EELLS was christened on 22 Jul 1705 in Milford, New Haven Co., Connecticut.

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He graduated from Harvard in 1653; preached several years at Salem, Mass., and was there in1659, March 8, when the selectmen, with the deacons and Mr. Gedney, all desired "to treat with Mr. Whittinge to know his mind about staying with them." (Salem town records.) He removed with his family from "The Bay" to Hartford, and was ordained pastor over he First Church in 1660, being associated with Rec. Samuel Stone. In 1669, in consequence of dissensions which agitated the church at that time, he and others petitioned the Assembly "for their approbation for a distance walking in Congregational Church order," which was approved and in 1670, a new Church was formed, of which he was chosen pastor and so continued until his death. In King Philip's War he was chaplain. He was twice married; (1) about 1654 to Sybil Collins, dau. of Deacon Edward Collins of Cambridge, mass., by whom he had seven children, one of whom, Col. William, was a distinguished military officer who fought in all the French and Indian Wars of his time, and who m. Oct. 6, 1686, Mary, dau. of Col. John Allyn, grand-daughter of Matthew Allyn, and great-grand-daughter of Hon. Wm. Pynchon. T

John's father, William Whiting, was one of the founders of Hartford. The family emigrated from England to Hartford in 1636. John graduated from Harvard, Class of 1653. He served as minister in Salem, Massachusetts, until about 1660, when he moved to Hartford, and became minister of the First church there. he became a freeman on 11 May 1665. His estate began probate in Hartford in November 1689.

John married Sybil COLLINS about 1654. Sybil (daughter of Deacon Edward COLLINS and Martha BAYLIE) was born in 1634. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Dau. of Deacon Edward Collins of Cambridge, Mass.