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Joseph Whittier

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Death: December 25, 1739 (70)
Haverhill, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts
Place of Burial: Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Thomas Whittier and Ruth Whittier
Husband of Mary Whittier
Father of Mary Whittier; Elizabeth Chase; Green Whittier; Ruth Greeley; Susanna Swett and 5 others
Brother of Mary Page; Ruth True; Susannah Morrill; John Whittier; Ensign Thomas Whittier, Jr. and 4 others

Managed by: Andrew Jonathan Smith
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About Joseph Whittier

Joseph [Whittier], s. Thomas and Ruth (Green), May 8, 1669.

Name: Joseph Whittier Surname: Whittier Given Name: Joseph Sex: M Birth: 8 May 1669 in Haverhill, Essex Co., Massachusetts Death: 25 Dec 1739/1740

Note:

   ! (1) "Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts," by David W. Hoyt (New England History Press, Somersworth, NH, 1981) p.358-359.
   (2) "The History of Haverhill, Massachusetts," by George Wingate Chase (1861; rpt. New England History Press, Somersworth, NH, 1983) p.173.
   (3) "Batchelder, Batcheller Genealogy," by Frederick Clifton Pierce (Chicago, Il, 1898; rpt. 1992) p.78.
   (4) "The Descendants of Thomas Whittier and Ruth Green," comp. by Charles Collyer Whittier (Tuttle Pub. Co., Rutland, VT, 1937) p.17.

! Birth: (1,4) 8 May 1669. Haverhill, MA. (1,3,4) s/o Thomas WHITTIER/Ruth GREEN.

   Marriage to Mary PEASLEY: (1,4) 24 May 1694. Haverhill, MA. (3) The Joseph WHITTIER who m. Mary PEASLEY was s/o this Joseph.
   Death: (1,4) 25 Dec 1739, but will dated 25 Dec 1740 and probated 3 Mar 1740/1. (1) Death not recorded in Haverhill, MA records.

(1) Of Haverhill, MA.

   (2) 1697, 5 Jul: Voted in the minority to locate the new church on the site of the old, Haverhill, MA

Father: Thomas Whittier b: ABT 1620/1622 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England Mother: Ruth Green

Marriage 1 Mary Peasley (Peaslee) b: 14 Jul 1672 in Amesbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts

   Married: 24 May 1694 in Haverhill, Essex Co., Massachusetts

Children

   Has No Children Elizabeth Whittier b: 19 Sep 1695 in Haverhill, Essex Co., Massachusetts

Has No Children Green Whittier b: 13 Mar 1696/1697 in Haverhill, Essex Co., Massachusetts
Has No Children Joseph Whittier b: 2 Apr 1699 in Haverhill, Essex Co., Massachusetts
Has No Children Ruth Whittier b: 31 Jul 1701 in Haverhill, Essex Co., Massachusetts
Has No Children Richard Whittier b: 20 Sep 1703 in Haverhill, Essex Co., Massachusetts
Has No Children Ebenezer Whittier b: 29 Dec 1704 in Haverhill, Essex Co., Massachusetts
Has No Children Hannah Whittier b: 2 Jun 1707 in Haverhill, Essex Co., Massachusetts
Has No Children Susanna Whittier b: 25 Jul 1709 in Haverhill, Essex Co., Massachusetts
Has No Children Joseph Whittier b: 21 Mar 1716/1717 in Haverhill, Essex Co., Massachusetts


https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20512221/joseph-whittier

Joseph Whittier

BIRTH 1669 DEATH 1739 (aged 69–70)

BURIAL Pentucket Cemetery Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA

MEMORIAL ID 20512221

Family Members

Parents

Thomas Whittier 1620–1696

Ruth Green Whittier 1626–1710

Spouse

Mary Peasley Whittier 1676 – unknown (m. 1694)

Siblings

Mary Whittier Page 1647–1698

Susannah Whittier Morrill 1656–1726

Elizabeth Whittier Sanders 1665–1730

Children

Ruth Whittier Greely 1700–1745

Joseph Whittier 1717–1796

References

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Joseph Whittier's Timeline

1669
May 8, 1669
Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
1694
July 24, 1694
1695
September 19, 1695
Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts
1697
May 13, 1697
Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts
1701
July 31, 1701
Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts
1703
September 20, 1703
Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts
1704
December 29, 1704
Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts
1707
June 2, 1707
Haverhill ,Essex County, Massahusetts
1708
March 14, 1708
Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts