Hannah WHITING

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• Birth: 21 Feb 1712/3
• Death: 8 Oct 1779

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"A Genealogy of the Ingersoll Family" - Hannah is the daughter of the Hon. Col. Joseph Whiting of New Haven. Col. Whiting was the son of the Rev. John Whiting, fourth minister of Hartford, Conn., and Phebe, his wife, daughter of Thomas Gregson of New Haven, and grandson of Hon. William Whiting, one of the first settlers.

Hannah married Hon. Jared INGERSOLL on 01 Aug 1743. Jared (son of Jonathan INGERSOLL and Sarah NEWTON) was born on 03 Jun 1722 in Milford, New Haven Co., Connecticut; died on 25 Aug 1781 in New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. James INGERSOLL was born on 21 Apr 1748 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; died in Infancy.
2. Jonathan INGERSOLL was born on 17 Jun 1741; died in In Childhood.
3. Jared INGERSOLL was born on 24 Oct 1749 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; died on 31 Oct 1822 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
4. Hannah INGERSOLL was born in Dec 1752; died in In Childhood.

Hannah married Joseph BRADLEY in Apr 1786. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He settled in New Haven and was a member of the General Court at the May sessions of 1716, 1722 and 1724 (Col. rec. of Conn, 1706-1716, p. 546; Ibid., 1717-1725, pp. 304, 439.) Clerk of the House at he May sessions of 1716 and 1722; elected to the Upper Chamber where he continued for 21 years from October 1725 to October 1745, inclusive. He was for many years Judge of the Probate and a Judge of the Superior Court. Both he and his wife left large estates and Whiting Street, New Haven, derives its name from them. His gravestone in the center Church Crypt, New Haven is inscribed as follows:

Here
Lyes Interr'd
the body of
the HONOURABLE
COLONEL
JOSEPH WHITING
of New Haven Esq
who died April 4th
1748 Aged 67 Years

Joseph married Hannah TROWBRIDGE on 30 Jan 1709/10. Hannah (daughter of Lieut. Thomas TROWBRIDGE and Hannah NASH) was born on 30 Mar 1690; died on 9 Aug 1748. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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 Phebe GREGSON in Sep 1673 in Hartford, Hartford County,Connecticut. Phebe was born in 1643; was christened on 15 Oct 1643 in New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut; died on 19 Sep 1730 in At the home of her son Joseph, at New Haven, Conn.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Dau. of Thomas and Jane Gregson

Thomas married Hannah NASH. Hannah (daughter of Major John NASH and Elizabeth TAPP) was born on 24 Jul 1655; died on 3 Feb 1708. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Major John Nash and Elizabeth Tapp