Joseph Whittington

Joseph Whittington[1]

Male Abt 1774 - 1838  (~ 64 years)

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  • Name Joseph Whittington 
    Born Abt. 1774  Anne Arundel County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • US Census Xenia, Greene, OH 1880: "Frank [Francis Asbury] Whittington . . . father b. Maryland, mother b. Virginia . . ."
    Gender Male 
    Died 06 Mar 1838  Frederick County, Virginia, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • U.S. Census Frederick, VA 1810: "Joseph Whittington: males under 10 2, 10-16 3, 16-26 2, 26-45 1 45 & up 0; females under 10 2 10-16 1 16-26 0 26-45 1 45 & up 0 slaves 1."

      Will Book No. 9, 1810-1816: "Berry, Enoch Inventory & Appraisal of Slaves, 3 Feb 1812. . . . Appraisers: . . . Joseph Whittington."

      U.S. Census Eastern District, Frederick, VA 1830: "Joseph Whittington."
    Person ID I13581  Complete
    Last Modified 2 Oct 2011 

    Father James Whittington,   b. Abt. 1753, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Elizabeth Batson,   b. Abt. 1753, PROBABLY, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 10 Apr 1773  Anne Arundel, MD Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Maryland Marriages, 1634-1777, p. 194: "Whittington, James, 10 Apr 1773, Elizabeth Batson, St. James Parish, p. 411; copy made in 1891 by Harrison, at MD Hist Society."
    Family ID F18039458  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Sarah Russell,   d. Bef. 1815, Virginia, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 15 Dec 1791  Anne Arundel County, Maryland, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Maryland Marriages, 1655-1850: "Joseph Whittington, 15 Dec 1791, Sarah Russsell, Anne Arundel, MD"
    Children 
    +1. Jane Whittington,   b. Abt. 1794, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Elizabeth Whittington,   b. Abt. 1795
    +3. Benjamin Whittington,   b. Abt. 1796, Virginia, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef. 1870  (Age ~ 74 years)
    +4. William Whittington,   b. 15 Feb 1799, Frederick County, Virginia, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 07 Dec 1885, Shenandoah County, Virginia, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 86 years)
     5. James Whittington,   b. Abt. 1803
    +6. Joseph Alfred Whittington,   b. Abt. 1805, Virginia, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Jun 1880, Jefferson County, West Virginia, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 75 years)
    +7. Nancy Whittington,   b. Abt. 1806, Frederick, VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 06 Sep 1873, Clay City, Clay County, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 67 years)
    +8. Richard Whittington,   b. Abt. 1809, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location
    +9. John Wesley Whittington,   b. 10 Oct 1810, Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Mar 1892, Hoosierville, Clay County, Indiana, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 81 years)
    Last Modified 20 Jul 2011 
    Family ID F18039434  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Susannah Gibbons,   b. Abt. 1783, Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt. 1850, Frederick County, Virginia, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 67 years) 
    Married 16 Sep 1815  Winchester, Frederick, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Marriages of Frederick, VA, 1771-1825 & Virginia Marriages, 1740-1850: "Joseph Whittington & Susannah Gibbons, 25 Sep 1815, Frederick VA"
    Children 
    +1. Francis Asbury Whittington,   b. 29 May 1816, Frederick County, Virginia, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Dec 1888, Caesar's Creek, Greene County, Ohio, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 72 years)
    +2. Albert C. Whittington,   b. Jul 1818, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft. 1900, PROBABLY, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 82 years)
    +3. Thomas B. Whittington,   b. 28 Mar 1820, Frederick County, Virginia, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Feb 1898, Greene County, Ohio, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years)
    +4. Mary Susan Whittington,   b. Abt. 1823, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Jan 1898, Clifton, Clark, OH Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 75 years)
     5. Matilda C. Whittington,   b. Abt. 1825, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Nov 1890  (Age ~ 65 years)
    +6. Lydia Margaret Whittington,   b. Abt. 1827, Virginia, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 9 Oct 1897, Greene County, Ohio, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 70 years)
    +7. Robert W. Whittington,   b. Mar 1831, Frederick County, Virginia, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt. 1915, Fauquier County, Virginia, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 83 years)
    +8. Martha Amanda Whittington,   b. Oct 1833, Frederick county, Virginia, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Mar 1912, Cedarville, Greene County, Ohio, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 78 years)
    Last Modified 26 Sep 2010 
    Family ID F6122  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - Abt. 1774 - Anne Arundel County, Maryland Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 15 Dec 1791 - Anne Arundel County, Maryland, U.S.A. Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 16 Sep 1815 - Winchester, Frederick, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 06 Mar 1838 - Frederick County, Virginia, U.S.A. Link to Google Earth
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  • Documents
    Joseph Whittington (1771-1838) 1838 Will
    Joseph Whittington (1771-1838) 1838 Will

    (Photograph of will by Matthew Stein, a Whittington descendant.)

    ". . . Now I will and devise that all my children which I had by my beloved and deceased wife, Sarah, to wit: Benjamin, Richard, Jane (now Jane Reed), Elizabeth (now Elizabeth Gibbons), Joseph, Nancy (now Nancy Kidd), James, William, and John be paid one dollar each out of my Estate . . . "



    Index to Wills, Frederick & Other Counties, Virginia:  Whittington surname
    Index to Wills, Frederick & Other Counties, Virginia: Whittington surname

    (Photograph by Matthew Stein, a Whittington descendant)

    ◦Index to Wills & Administrations:

    Frederick County, Virginia,

    "Whittington, John, Roanna, & Susan (child of William), Guardian, 1808, GB2 (np)."

    Wills & Administrations, 1795-1816 (M.N. Kangas, D.E. Payne, comps.): "Whittington, William, Inventory & appraisal, 4 Sep 1809 [Will Book #8, pp. 484-485]. Account 1808/4 Feb 1811 by Joseph Whittington, [Will Book #9, pp 25-26]."

    "Whittington, Lydia M., Martha A., Mary, Matilda C., Robert W. (child of Joseph), Guardian, 1841, GB 5 (np)."


  • Sources 
    1. [S45] Pioneers of Old Frederick County Virginia, Cecil O'Dell, (Marceline MO: Walsworth, 1995, 623 pp.).
      Cecil O'Dell aimed to "locate and record all the residents of old Frederick County VA who came there from the mid-1720s up to November 1743, when old Frederick County began keeping records." O'Dell searched "court records, wills, deeds, road petitions, land patents, land surveys, [lawsuits], warrants, grants, and Quaker parish records" in Orange and Spotsylvania Counties VA, the predecessors of Frederick County. O'Dell then searched colonial land records from Fredericksburg VA to New York state and London, England to determine when some 400-500 individuals sold their lands in order to move to Old Frederick County VA. He found that 85% of the original settlers in the Northern Neck, as old Frederick County is known, came from William Penn's colonization in Pennsylvania and as far south as Delaware and northern Maryland, while 5% each came "from New York, lower Maryland, and Virginia east of the Blue Ridge."

      (Old Frederick County/Northern Neck VA was subdivided over the years into twelve counties of today's Virginia and West Virginia.)

      The surname "Whittington" is not listed in the index, so it is likely that the first Whittington arrived in old Frederick County/Northern Neck VA after 1740.