Sarah Whiting

Sarah Ingersoll Whiting

Birth: Oct. 22, 1726 Death: Jul. 4, 1769

Inscription on her tombstone, complete with misspelling (painful):

"consort of John Whitney Esq., married on the 7 Nov 1751, daughter of Jonathan Ingersoll of Milford. the painfull mother of eight children of whom six survive on the fourth day of July 1769"

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Parents:

 Jonathan Ingersoll (1681 - 1760)

 Sarah Newton Ingersoll (1686 - 1748)

Spouse:

 John Whiting (1721 - 1786)*

• Calculated relationship

Burial: Center Church on the Green Churchyard New Haven New Haven County Connecticut, USA

A favorite stone of tour guides and visitors both. There is a New Haven Colony record of a marriage in 1784 between “Sharper Rogers a free negro man & Phillis belonging to John Whiting Esq.” — Sarah’s husband. Sarah was also a sister of New Haven’s infamous Jared Ingersoll, also interred in the crypt.

Her inscription reads:

In Memory of Mrs Sarah Whiting late virtuous & amiable consort of John Whiting Esquire Daughter of Mr Jonathan Ingersoll of Milford, born on the 22d of October 1726, married on the 7th of Novembr 1751 the painful Mother of eight children of whom Six survive. On the 4th day of July 1769 She finished her wearisome pilgrimage in joyful hope & expectation of a glorious immortality.

The hand of the good man fasten on the skies and bids earth roll nor feels her idle whir.