Henry Whiting

Henry Whiting was born 10 December 1748 in Gloucester County, Virginia, a lineal descendant of Colonel Henry Whiting, Treasurer of Virginia 1692-93 ^[1] Source 1 R. H. Spencer, "The Carlyle Family" (W&M Quarterly, January 1910) Book .

In 1777 he married Anne Fairfax Carlyle Person Anne Fairfax Carlyle b. 1761 · d. 1778 Second surviving daughter of and ; married of Gloucester County, Va., in 1777 and died at seventeen the day her only son was born. , second daughter of John Carlyle Person John Carlyle b. 1720 · d. 1780 Scottish-descent merchant born in Carlisle, England, in 1720; one of the eleven founding trustees of Alexandria in 1749, and builder of the stone Carlyle House at the head of what … and Sarah Fairfax Carlyle Person Sarah Fairfax Carlyle b. 1728 · d. 1761 Second daughter of of Belvoir; in 1748 married , anchoring the Carlyles into the Fairfax network. Her sister Anne Fairfax was the wife of Lawrence Washington of Mount Vernon … . Their only son Carlyle Fairfax Whiting Person Carlyle Fairfax Whiting b. 1778 · d. 1831 Only son of (Anne Fairfax Carlyle) and ; inherited the Berkeley County "Limekilns" tract under John Carlyle's 1780 will. Patriarch of the Carlyle-Whiting line down to the … was born 20 March 1778 — the day Anne died, almost certainly in childbirth, at age seventeen. Henry never remarried and died 28 October 1786, leaving the eight-year-old Carlyle Fairfax Whiting orphaned but provided for in John Carlyle’s 1780 will, which had bequeathed him several hundred acres of land in Berkeley County, Virginia, known as “Limekilns” ^[1] Source 1 R. H. Spencer, "The Carlyle Family" (W&M Quarterly, January 1910) Book .