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             Husband: Josiah WHITNEY (1)
                Born:
             Married: 30 OCT 1729 (19)
                Died:
              Father: John WHITNEY
              Mother: Elizabeth SMITH
             Spouses: 
                Wife: Eunice HANFORD (2)
                Born:
                Died:
              Father: 
              Mother: 
             Spouses:
Children
01               (M): John WHITNEY
                Born: 10 FEB 1733 (3)
                Died:
             Spouses: 
02               (M): Stephen WHITNEY (4 5 6 7 8 9)
                Born: 10 FEB 1733 (10)
                Died:
             Spouses: Sarah WHEELER; Eunice KEENEY; Hannah HULL
03               (M): Henry WHITNEY (11 12 13 14)
                Born: 19 FEB 1736 (15)
                Died: 01 MAY 1811 (16)
             Spouses: Eunice CLARK
04               (M): Eliezer WHITNEY
                Born: 07 MAR 1738 (17)
                Died:
             Spouses: 
05               (M): Isaac WHITNEY
                Born: 27 MAR 1741 (18)
                Died:
             Spouses:

Footnotes

  1. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 777.
    ... settled in Norwalk where he died as early as 1750 ...
  2. Ibid., 777.
    ... of Norwalk ...
  3. Ibid., 777.
  4. Ibid., 814-5.
    Here lyes the body of Mrs | Sarah Whitney wife to | Stephen Whitney and daughter to | Capt James and Mrs Sarah Wheeler | and mother of Samuel Isaac and | James Whitney died March ye | 31 1764 in ye 27 year of her age.
    Look on me as you pass by
    As you are now so once was I
    As I am now so you must be
    Prepare for death and follow me.
  5. Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901), 472, 474, 476, 479.
    Church Records.
    [http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/472.html.]
  6. 1790 Derby Census.
  7. 1800 Derby Census.
  8. Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901), 477, 478, 480.
    Church Records.
    [http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/477.html.]
  9. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 777.
    ... settled in Derby, at the Narrows ... started the first store at the Narrows ...
  10. Ibid., 777.
  11. Ibid., 778.
    He was a master-mariner and farmer; founder of King Hiram's Lodge.
  12. Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901), 474, 478, 479, 481, 482.
    Church Records.
    [http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/474.html.]
  13. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 184, 186, 710.
  14. Ibid., 252.
    Here Capt. Henry Whitney, a bitter opponent of the encroachments of England to destroy our commerce, father of the New York millionare, Stephen Whitney, and Archibald Whitney, late of Derby, and one of the ancient worthies who assisted in laying the cornerstone of old King Hiram Lodge, for years carried on an extensive and profitable business of shipping horses to the West Indies ...
  15. Ibid., 777.
  16. Ibid., 824.
  17. Ibid., 777.
  18. Ibid., 777.
  19. Ibid., 777.

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