Ancestry of
Sam Waterston

Stage, TV and Movie Actor

Nathaniel Whiting

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Sam Waterston — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 214 
  • Father:
  • Jonathan Whiting 
  • Mother:
  • Rachel Thorp   
  • Birth Date:
  • 20 Mar 1703/1704 
  • Birth Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 19 Jan 1790 
  • Death Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah Lyon
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 May 1729 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Hannah Whiting (Ahnentafel No:107 )

• Sources for Nathaniel Whiting

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Roxbury, Vol. 1, p. 370, Birth record for daughter Hannah Whiting.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Roxbury, Vol. 2, p. 257, Marriage of Nathaniel Whiting and Hannah Lyon.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Roxbury, Vol. 1, p. 370, Birth record for Nathanael Whiting.
  • ⁴ Lazell, Theodore S., comp., Whiting Genealogy: Nathaniel Whiting of Dedham, Mass., 1641, and Five Generations of his Descendants, Boston, Massachusetts: Theodore S. Lazell (1902), 16, 27.
  • ⁵ Lyons, Albert Brown, et. al., Lyon Memorial: Massachusetts Families, Including Descendants of the Immigrants William Lyon, of Roxbury . . ., Detroit, Michigan: Press of Wm. Graham Printing Co. (1905), 36.

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