Whiting, Addison County, Vermont Genealogy

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Guide to Whiting, Addison ancestry, genealogy and family history, birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records.

Town Information

Description

Whiting, Vermont at Wikipedia

Whiting was chartered on August 6, 1763. For a period of nine years after the grant of its charter nothing was done toward the settlement of Whiting. The first settlers had only been in the town a few years when the Revolution began, and during the war the town was abandoned, as were many other towns in what became Vermont.   [1]  [2]

Parent Towns

Populated Places

Includes Neighborhoods, Villages, Unincorporated Communities,
Districts, and Census-Designated Places:

Boundary Changes

Adjacent Towns

Town Records

In New England most original vital records of birth, marriage, and death can be found at the town clerk's office The following are Whiting town records available online:

Town Clerk Vital and Town Records, 1783-1998, can be found on FamilySearch (browse only images).

The FamilySearch Library has microfilm of original records from the Whiting Town Clerk's Office. These include Land and vital records, 1783-1863; index to land records, 1783-1925, and Land records, 1863-1891.

Whiting Town Clerk

Whiting Town Clerk
29 S Main St
Whiting, VT 05778
Phone: (802) 623-7813
Email: townofwhiting@shoreham.net

Vital Records

FamilySearch Historical Records Collection has Vermont birth, death, and marriage records online.

Births

Marriages

Deaths

Divorce

Town Reports

Resources

For more County and State resources see:

Biographies

  • Biographical Encyclopædia of Vermont of the Nineteenth Century. By H Clay Williams. Boston, Massachusetts: Metropolitan Publishing & Engraving Company, 1885. Salt Lake City, Utah : Family Search International, 2018. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library.
  • Biographical Sketches of Vermonters. By Vermont Historical Society. Montpelier, Vermont : Vermont Historical Society, c1947. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library.
  • Genealogical and Family History of the State of Vermont: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation. By Hiram Carleton. New York, New York: Lewis Pub. Co., 1903. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library, Vols. 1-2.
  • Some Vermont Ancestors: The Bicentennial Project of the Genealogical Society of Vermont. Compiled and ed. by Joann H. Nichols. [S.l.]: Genealogical Society of Vermont, 1976. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library.
  • The Vermont Historical Gazetteer: a Magazine Embracing a History of Each Town, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Biographical and Military. By ed. by Abby Maria Hemenway. Burlington, Vermont: A.M. Hemenway, 1868-1923. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library, Vol. 1-6.
  • The Vermont of Today: With its Historic Background, Attractions and People. By Arthur F. Stone. New York, New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., c1929. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library, Vols. 1-4.
  • Vermonters. By Dorman B.E. Kent. Tucson, Arizona: W.C. Cox & Co., 1974. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library.
  • Vermont Biography at FamilySearch Research Wiki

Cemeteries

The following is a list of cemeteries in present-day Whiting. For location of cemeteries, see Cemeteries of Vermont, Addison County, website at this link.  

  • Whiting Villiage Cemetery - inscriptions found at Find a Grave site.

Census

Church Records

Historically, the largest religious groups in Vermont were the Congregational, Baptist, Roman Catholic, and Methodist churches. For general information about Vermont denominations, view the New Hampshire Church Records wiki page.

To see the churches in Whiting, visit.

Church records and the information they provide vary significantly depending on the denomination and the record keeper. They may contain information about members of the congregation, such as age, date of baptism, christening, or birth; marriage information and maiden names; and death date. The following are church records available online for the town of Whiting:

City Directories

Compiled Genealogies

Court Records

Immigration

Land Records

Local Histories

Our Whiting : the history of the town of Whiting, Vermont, by Harold Webster and Elizabeth Wells Webster (1976) - find this book in a library.

Maps

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Migration

Military

Some Records are Searchable by Town

Revolutionary War, 1775-1783

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Civil War, 1861-1865

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World War I, 1917-1918

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World War II, 1941-1945

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Newspapers

Addison County Independent ($)
Burlington Free Press
Rutland Herald

Obituaries

Other Town Records

In Vermont, most records are kept at the town level and generally began being kept at the founding of the town. These records may include the following:

  • Appointments
  • Earmarks
  • Estrays (stray animals)
  • Freemens' oaths (men eligible to vote)
  • Mortgages
  • Name changes
  • Care of the poor
  • School records
  • Surveys
  • Town meeting minutes
  • Voter registrations
  • Warning outs (of town)

Probate Records

In Vermont, most probate records are kept at the town level. The following are online probate records for the town of Whiting:

The probate district for Whiting is Addison.
Addison Probate Court
7 Mahady Court
Middlebury, VT 05753
Phone: (802) 388-2612

School Records

Tax Records

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FamilySearch Centers & Affiliate Libraries

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Local Centers and Affiliate Libraries

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References