1William Richard Cutter, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Vol. 3, p. 1663 (1910), New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1908.
URL = http://books.google.com/books?id=qaK9Vz1UdDcC&pg=PA1663&lpg=PA1663&dq=%22Joanna+Gay%22+%22Nathaniel+Whiting%22#v=onepage&q=%22Joanna%20Gay%22%20%22Nathaniel%20Whiting%22&f=false This is part of an attempt to show that Ephraim Whiting was not the son of Samuel Whiting Jr. and Elizabeth Reed. Many internet sites think that that were 2 Ephraim Whitings with identical birth and death records.
"(II) Nathaniel Whiting, son of Nathaniel and Hannah (Dwight) Whitin, was born in Dedham, September 26, 1644, settled in Dedham and is first mentioned there in 1666, when he was paid a bounty for killing a wolf. He had a grant of a small tract of land adjoining his houselot. He had been a subscriber to the fund in support of the college and in the report of collections it is stated that his house had been burned by Indians during King Philip's war. He died about that time, for in 1676 Joanna Whiting was appointed to administer his estate. She was a daughter of John Gay, of Dedham, and after his death she married for her second husband, 1680, John Ware of Wrentham. Nathaniel and Joanna (Gay) Whiting had five children, born probably in Medfield; 1. Joanna. 1665. 2. Nathaniel, 1667. 3. John, 1669. 4. Samuel, 1671. 5. Hezekiah, 1673.
(III) Samuel Whiting, son of Nathaniel and Joanna (Gay) Whiting, was born in Medfield in 1671, and about the time of destruction of his father's house he was probably taken with others of the family to Roxbury, where they lived until their widowed mother maried John Ware, when they went to live in Wrentham. He married Mary ---- , about 1698/99, and by her had, according to the Wrentham records, four children. 1. Ephraim, born December 14, 1699. 2. Samuel, Mar 24, 1701. 3. Joseph, December 7, 1702. 4. Abiell, September 1704."
Also Samuel Jr. never married Mary Clark.2Theodore Studley Lazell, Whiting genealogy. Nathaniel Whiting of Dedham. Mass., 1641, and five generations of his descendants, p. 13, pub. 1902.
URL = http://www.archive.org/stream/whitinggenealogy01laze/whitinggenealogy01laze_djvu.txt.
"2 Nathaniel2 Whiting {Nathaniel1) married, Dedham, Mch. 29, 1664, Joanna Gay, daughter of John and Joanna Gay. She was born, Dedham, 23 of the i mo., 1645, and died, Wrentham, Oct. 26, 1708, having married 2d, Dedham, 24 : i ! 1678-9, John Ware. (See Ware GeneaL, p. 26.) Admin- istration on Nathaniel Whiting's estate was granted to widow Joanna, Oct. 31, 1676. (Suffolk Probate Records, xii: 113.)
Their children, recorded in Medfield, were :
i. Joanna,3 Sept. 26, 1665 ; m. Wrentham, Feb. 6, 1680 John Blake. ^
ii. Nathaniel,3 9th 7 mo., 1667. He was a carpenter at Wrentham. Administration was granted on his estate Mch. ID, 1692-3, to his brother Samuel Whiting. (Suffolk Probate Records, xiii : 133.)
iii. John,3 Sept. 14, 1669; d. Sept. 27, 1669.
7. iv. Samuel,3 June 18, 1671.
V. Hezekiah,3 Aug. 25, 1673. (Nothing further found.)
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7 Samuel3 Whiting {Nathaniel,2 Nathaniel1), died in Wrentham, Apl. 2, 1705 ; married Mary Clark, daughter of Ephraim and Mary (Bullen) Clark. She was born, Medfield, Aug. 10, 1671; married 2d, Darling, and died before 1741. Administration on his estate was granted, Apl. 10, 1705, to widow Mary. Division was made May 14, 1720, between the widow and children Ephraim, Samuel, Joseph and Abiel. (Suffolk Probate Records, xxii : 75.) Ephraim Whiting (21) in a deed dated Apl. 27, 1741, mentions land that belonged to his mother, Mary Darling, deceased. (Suffolk Deeds, Ix : 226.)
Their children, all born in Wrentham, were :
21. i. Ephraim,4 Dec. 14, 1699.
22. ii. Samuel,4 Mch. 24, 1 700-1.
23. iii. Joseph,4 Dec. 7, 1702.
iv. Abiel,4 Sept., 1704."