This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Whiting / Worden / Peck / Nugent / Babcock / Packard / Eastland / Hutchins Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RRB.2ACE/6004 Message Board Post: James Whiting was born 1786 Lovell, Maine; married Esther Hutchins 1808 in Lovell, Maine. 1850 Federal Census for Yorkshire, Cattaraugus County, NY James Whiting - 64 yrs b Maine Esther Whiting - 62 yrs b Maine James Whiting - 25 yrs b NY Will written Dec. 15, 1866--given to be proved Oct. 22, 1867--executor James Whiting Jr.--witnesses Hiram Thornton and Samuel Eastland--80 years old--everything to wife Esther--after her death everything goes to son James Jr, $500 to son William, $25 to daughter Hannah Smith, $25 to daughter Alvira Packard, $10 to daughter Lucy Wood, $5 to daughter Esther. <This would be Esther Worden, wife of John Worden.> James and Esther (Hutchins) Whiting had 10 children -- so far I have identified their children as: *Alvina b 1809 - married Benjamin Packard (Packard children Caroline/Lucinda/Lyman) *Esther b 1811 - married John Worden (Worden children Lois Elvira / Lydia Jane / Hannah Minerva / Alsophina / Benjamin / Esther Ann / Ehlert Clark / Saryan / Amelia Palina) *Lydia b 1813 *James Jr. b 1824 (married Betsey E. - child James Jr.) William *Hannah (married ___ Smith) *Lucy (married ___ Wood) Notes on John Worden and Esther (Whiting) Worden): John Worden was born about 1807/8 in New York. 1830 Federal Census - Hanover, Chautauqua County, NY 1840 Federal Census - Poland, Chautauqua County, NY 1850 Federal Census - Yorkshire, Cattaraugus Co, NY 1850 Census - Yorkshire, Cattaraugus County, NY Page 264 - John Worden - 42 yrs old, farmer, b NY Esther Worden - 38 yrs old, b VT (note: census says children all b VT, but I believe they were born Cattaraugus) Lois A - 19 yrs old (married Miles Colton) Minerva - 15 yrs old (married Asa Eastland; Charles Babcock) Alsophina - 13 yrs old (married John Peck) Benjamin - 10 yrs old (married Prudence Martin; Kate Hawkins) Clark - 4 yrs old Esther A - 2 yrs old (married ___ Nugent) I have more information on above families -- willing to share -- hope to find other descendants.