View source for Archive:Some More Descendants of John and Elinor Whitney

{{Breadcrumb2|Archives|Archive:Extracts}}

Sandiford, Edward Raymond, ''Some More Descendants of John and Elinor Whitney'' (Bloomfield, NJ: The author, 1941)
----
<p id="Plaintext">
 
          <u>SOME MORE DESCENDANTS OF [[Family:Whitney, John (1592-1673)|JOHN AND ELINOR WHITNEY]]</u>
 
                        By Edward Raymond Sandiford
</p>
----
<p id="Plaintext">
          <u>SOME MORE DESCENDANTS OF [[Family:Whitney, John (1592-1673)|JOHN AND ELINOR WHITNEY]]</u>
 
                 By Edward Raymond Sandiford
 
 
 A deed recorded at Pomfret, Conn., dated Nov. 18, 1728, a copy of
 which is appended to this article, affords the link by which a
 numerous group of Whitney and related families are joined to the
 parent stem of [[Family:Whitney, John (1592-1673)|John and Elinor Whitney]]'s already much-branched and
 fruitful tree whose roots, according to Henry Melville in his "Ancestry
 of John Whitney", go back to the year 1066 to Turstin the Fleming,
 son of Rolf, one of the followers of William the Conqueror, who was
 given, among nine different tracts of land, the castle and lands of
 Wytteneye on the Welsh border.  For a few generations the family
 name was "de Wytteneye", later "de Whitney" but the "de" was later
 dropped, the name persisting as "Whitney".
 
 In the deed mentioned, [[Family:Whitney, Ezekiel (s1703-1751)|Ezekiel]] Whitney pays his respects to his
 mother, Anna Whitney, relict of [[Family:Whitney, Ebenezer (1672-1727)|Ebenezer Whitney]], deceased, and
 quit claims certain rights to his brothers and sister, sons and
 daughter of [[Family:Whitney, Ebenezer (1672-1727)|Ebenezer Whitney]], whom he names as follows:  [[Family:Whitney, Zachariah (s1701-a1750)|Zachariah]],
 [[Family:Whitney, Enoch (s1708-a1756)|Enoch]], [[Family:Whitney, Israel (b1709-b1746)|Israel]], Ebenezer and [[Family:Whitney, Anna (b1713-a1746)|Anna]].
 
 Pierce, in his "Whitney Genealogy", lists [[Family:Whitney, Ebenezer (1672-1727)|Ebenezer<sup>3</sup> Whitney]], ([[Family:Whitney, Richard (1624-a1691)|Richard<sup>2</sup>]],
 [[Family:Whitney, John (1592-1673)|John<sup>1</sup>]]) and records that he married Anna _____ and had [[Family:Whitney, Zachariah (s1701-a1750)|Zachariah]]
 and Esther, who married Wm. Bigginton and died Oct. 19, 1727.  This
 death record of Esther is found at Pomfret, Conn., accompanied by the
 statement that her death and the fact that she was daughter of
 [[Family:Whitney, Ebenezer (1672-1727)|Ebenezer Whitney]] were recorded at the request of both [[Family:Whitney, Zachariah (s1701-a1750)|Zachariah Whitney]]
 and William Bigginton.
 
 It is shown, therefore, that [[Family:Whitney, Ezekiel (s1703-1751)|Ezekiel]], [[Family:Whitney, Enoch (s1708-a1756)|Enoch]], [[Family:Whitney, Israel (b1709-b1746)|Israel]], Ebenezer and
 [[Family:Whitney, Anna (b1713-a1746)|Anna]] may now be added to Pierce's record of [[Family:Whitney, Zachariah (s1701-a1750)|Zachariah]] and Esther as
 the children of [[Family:Whitney, Ebenezer (1672-1727)|Ebenezer]] and Anna.
 
 It is [[Family:Whitney, Enoch (s1708-a1756)|Enoch]] among these children of [[Family:Whitney, Ebenezer (1672-1727)|Ebenezer]] in whom the writer is
 especially interested.  For several years he was the earliest known
 progenitor of this group of families.  He was married in Plainfield,
 Conn., and lived in that town, in Preston and later in Kent.  The
 records of his marriage and of the births of his children were in the
 </p>
----
<p id="Plaintext">
                             -2-
 
 vital records but his own origin was shrouded in mystery until the
 existence of the deed mentioned was recently discovered at Pomfret
 by the writer.
 
 The writer's record of the line from [[Family:Whitney, Enoch (s1708-a1756)|Enoch]] Whitney down follows:
 
     References:
 
       (v)  Vital Records of town named;  (a) Pension Papers of
            [[Family:Whitney, Hezekiah (1748-1827)|Hezekiah Whitney]]
       (b)  Record written in 1874 by [[Family:Whitney, Jason Frost (1841-1882)|Jason Frost Whitney]] in
            possession of writer.  (f) Family Records in
            possession of writer.
 
 [[Family:Whitney, Enoch (s1708-a1756)|Enoch<sup>4</sup> Whitney]] ([[Family:Whitney, Ebenezer (1672-1727)|Ebenezer<sup>3</sup>]], [[Family:Whitney, Richard (1624-a1691)|Richard<sup>2</sup>]],
 [[Family:Whitney, John (1592-1673)|John<sup>1</sup>]])
 
               b.        c 1708 (He deeded certain rights April 30,1730 
                                 hence must have been of age then)
               d. ___________
               m. Dec. 21, 1732 at Plainfield, Conn., Thankful Park (v) d.
                  of William and Jane (Bordwyn) Parke of Plainfield, Conn.
                  She b. June 27, 1717 at Plainfield, Conn. (v)
 
 Children:
   (1) [[Family:Whitney, Samuel (1734-?)|Samuel]], b. May 24, 1734, Plainfield, Conn. (v)
               d. Sept. 30, 1812, Woodbury, Conn. (Age 77) (v)
               m. --------, Sarah ------- (d.Sept. 14, 1796, Woodbury. (v)
                  Ch: Samuel, b. 1772, d. 1776, Woodbury. (v)
                      Reuben, b. 1777, d. 1796, Woodbury. (v)
   (2) Susanna b. Mar. 13, 1739 at Plainfield, Conn. (v)
   (3) Rosanna b. Aug. 29, 1740 at Plainfield, Conn. (v)
   (4) [[Family:Whitney, Asa (1742-a1800)|Asa]]     b. July 19, 1742 at Preston, Conn. (v)
   (5) Thankful b. Apr. 8, 1747 at Preston, Conn. (v)
   (6) [[Family:Whitney, Hezekiah (1748-1827)|Hezekiah]]        (see below)
   (7) [[Family:Whitney, Joseph (1753-a1837)|Joseph]]  b. June 18, 1753 at Kent, Conn. (v)
   (8) Sarah   b. June 18, 1756 at Kent, Conn. (v)
 
       Note:    That the [[Family:Whitney, Hezekiah (1748-1827)|Hezekiah Whitney]] of Washington, Conn., was the
             [[Family:Whitney, Hezekiah (1748-1827)|Hezekiah]] born to [[Family:Whitney, Enoch (s1708-a1756)|Enoch]] Whitney is covered by an affadavit
             among the pension papers of [[Family:Whitney, Hezekiah (1748-1827)|Hezekiah Whitney]] at Washington,
             D.C.
 
 [[Family:Whitney, Hezekiah (1748-1827)|Hezekiah<sup>5</sup> Whitney]]
 
               b. Dec. 26, 1748 at Preston, Conn. Cv)
               d. Dec. 20, 1827 at Washington, Conn. Ca)
               m. Olive Knight "in Fall of 1774 at Plainfield, Conn., by
               Rev. Alexander Miller" (a)  She b. Mar. 17, 1756 at
               Norwich (v) dau. of John and Eleanor (Wood) Knight.
               d. Dec. 7, 1849 at Washington, Conn. (v)
 
        Note:  [[Family:Whitney, Hezekiah (1748-1827)|Hezekiah's]] Pension papers at Washington, D.C. give the
               information marked (a) above and below and the informa-
 </p>
----
<p id="Plaintext">
                             -3-
 
               tion that after his marriage he removed from Plainfield
               to that part of the Society of New Preston that in 1779
               became part of Washington, Conn.; that he served two
               consecutive enlistments in the Revolution, a total of 6
               years; that he was at the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga
               and at West Point when Major Andre was captured.  In their 
               later years both he and his wife were badly crippled with
               rheumatism.  In 1818 he applied for and got a pension.  In
               1837 his widow applied for and received his pension, giving
               her age as 81.  [[Family:Whitney, Joseph (1753-a1837)|Joseph]] Whitney of Warren, Conn., by
               affidavit attested to his brother [[Family:Whitney, Hezekiah (1748-1827)|Hesekiah's]] war service
               and thereby identified himself as a son of [[Family:Whitney, Enoch (s1708-a1756)|Enoch]].
 
 Children:
 
   (1) [[Family:Whitney, Elisha (c1775-1862)|E1isha]]  (see below)
 
       Note:  Affidavit of the Town Clerk of Washington, Conn., in
              Hezekiah's Pension papers mentions Elisha (whose birth
              was not recorded) as being Hezekiah's son and older
              than [[Family:Whitney, Squire (1778-1824)|Squire]] whose birth was recorded.
 
   (2) [[Family:Whitney, Squire (1778-1824)|Squire]]:  b. Sept. 3, 1778 at Washington, Conn. (v)
                d. June 27, 1824 at New Preston, Conn. (church record)
                m. __________ (wife's name not known but death of
                   his child is recorded at the church at New Preston)
 
       Note: He enlisted from New Milford and served in the War of
             1812.
 
   (3) [[Family:Whitney, Thomas (1779-a1815)|Thomas]]:  b. Apr. 19, 1779 at Washington, Conn. (v)
                (was living at New Preston in Oct. 1815 when a child
                 of his, 7 mos. old, died.  Recorded at church in
                 New Preston).
 
   (4) Betsey:  b. Nov. 4, 1782 at Washington, Conn. (v)
 
   (5) [[Family:Whitney, Abial (c1784-1877)|Abial]]:   b. _______
                d. 1877 at New Milford, Conn.  (v)
                m. June 21, 1842 at Warren, Conn. (v) Fanny M. Gary
                   of Fishkill, N.Y.  (Had at least one child, Emily,
                   m. __________ Fredenburg.  (Probate Records of
                                               New Milford)
 
   (6) [[Family:Whitney, David (c1793-1858)|David]]:   b. _________ at Washington, Conn.
                d. Apr. 23, 1858 at Washington, Conn. (age 65) (v)
                   (Was living at New Preston 1828 when his child
                    died.  Rec. at church at New Preston)
 
   (7) Diadama: b. _________ (living with parents in 1818 as mentioned
                              in her father's pension affidavit)
 </p>
----
<p id="Plaintext">
                            -4-
 
 [[Family:Whitney, Elisha (c1775-1862)|Elisha<sup>6</sup> Whitney]]
 
                b. c 1775 at Washington, Conn.
                   (In 1800 Census he was under 26 years but at
                    death in 1862, his age was given as 89)
                d. April 12, 1862 at Naugatuck, Conn. (age 89) (v)
                m. c 1800 at Washington, Conn., Rachel Frost (v) dau.
                   of Samuel and Sarah (Cooper) Frost (b) Mar. 27,1772
                   at Waterbury, Conn. (v) d. June 23, 1838 at
                   Washington, Conn. (Age 66) (v) (At Washington the
                   fact of his marriage to Rachel Frost is registered
                   but the date is not given.  He was married at time
                   of the 1800 Census.
 
   Children:
 
      (1)  [[Family:Whitney, Marshall Frost (1802-1871)|Marshall Frost]]  (see below)
 
      (2)  Laura Marilla:  b. Mar. 9, 1805 at Washington, Conn. (v)
                           d. Sept. 30, 1826 at Washington, Conn. (Age 22) (v)
 
 [[Family:Whitney, Marshall Frost (1802-1871)|Marshall Frost<sup>7</sup> Whitney]]
 
          b. Nov. 9, 1802, Washington, Conn. (v)
          d. Jane 6, 1871 at Naugatuck, Conn. (v)
          m. (1) Apr. 12, 1826 at Litchfield, Conn. Esther Betsey
             Warner (v) dau. of Daniel Henderson and Hannah Jennette
             (Mitchell) Warner (b) b. May 10, 1807 at Woodbury,
             Conn. (b) d. July 28, 1828 at Washington, Conn. (v)
 
 Children:
 
   (1)  Oscar F.:  b. Feb. 13, 1827, Washington, Conn. (b)
                   d. Feb. 21, 1827, Washington, Conn. (v)
 
   (2)  Esther Betsey:  b. July 6, 1828, Litchfield, Conn. (b)
                        d. June 16, 1891, Torrington, Conn. (v)
                        m. Feb. 21, 1853, Naugatuck, Conn.   Hollis Wooster (v)
        m. (2) Oct. 7, 1829 at Woodbury, Conn. (by Mr. Chas. Shermen)
           Roxy (Huldah Roxanna) Warner (v) dau. of Daniel Henderson
           and Hannah Jennette (Mitchell) Warner b. Jan. 24, 1810
           at Hazel Plain, Woodbury, Conn. d. June 22, 1886 at
           Naugatuck, Conn. (Age 76) (v)
 
 Children:  (by second marriage)
   (1)  Laura Marilla:  b. Dec. 22, 1830 (b) at Washington, Conn. (v Naug.)
                        d. Dec. 2, 1914 at Naugatuck, Conn. (v)
                        m. Oct. 13, 1855 at Naugatuck, Goodell Lines (v)
 </p>
----
<p id="Plaintext">
                                 -5-
 
         Ch: (1)  Charles Fremont:  b. Aug. 6, 1856
                                    d. _____ at Laredo, Tex.
                                    m. Oct. 28, 1881, Naugatuck, Conn.
                                       Alice Crich
                                          ch:  May, m. M.H. Morgan, Laredo;
                                          Carl, d. about 1938 at Wash-
                                          ington, D.C.
                                          Alice, m. ______ living at
                                          Bridgeport, Conn., in 1940. (f)
             (2)  Carrie Edith:  b. Aug. 3, 1858 at Naugatuck (v);
                                 m. (1) Nov. 15, 1883 at Naugatuck,
                                    Dr. Manaton (v)
                                 m. (2)  June 7, 1900 at Naugatuck,
                                    Archie Egan (v)
 
   (2)  Antoinette Rachel:  b. May 18, 1833 at Washington, Conn. (b)
                            d. about 1908 at Torrington, Conn.
                            m. Dec. 1, 1856 at Naugatuck, Conn. (David Tucker) (v)
 
        ch.  (1)  Mary Louise, b. Oct. 21, 1866 at Seymour, Conn.
                               d. Dec. 28, 1926, Torrington, Conn.
                               m. (1) Major William Spittle, Jan. 1893
                                  (2) Walter Hopkins, 1920,Torrington. Conn. (f)
 
             (2)  Jennie Augusta, b. Mar. 4, 1871, Seymour, Conn.
                                  m. (1) Joseph Jarvis, Dec. 28, 1887
                                     ch. Ethel Corrine and Oreita Antoinette
                                     Both died young; Earl T., b. June 2, 1894
                                     at Torrington. m. Elmina A. Robertson,
                                     July 15, 1924 at Danbury, Conn. (f)
                                  m. (2) George Thomas
                                  m. (3) William Weatherbee, April 7, 1909
                                     at Bridgeport, Conn. (f)
 
             (3) Harry Sheldon, b. May 4, 1876 at Seymour, Conn.
                                d. Jan. 30, 1940 at Bridgeport, Conn.
                                m. Jennie MacLaughlin, Nov. 29, 1905
                                   at Bridgeport. (f)
 
   (3) Hannah Marcella  b. Feb.  3, 1835 at Washington, Conn. (b)
                        d. Mar. 11, 1886 at Naugatuck, Conn. (v)
                        m. Dec. 24, 1857 at Naugatuck, Conn. Luther M. Baldwin (v)
                                                             (No children)
 
   (4) Marshall M.      b. June 14, 1838 at Litch£ield, Conn. (b)
                        d. Dec. 31, 1912 at Naugatuck, Conn. (v)
                        m. Jan. 21, 1860 at Naugatuck, Conn. Ann Howgate (v)
 
                Ch.:  Frederick, b. at Naugatuck, m. Mary Leonard at Naugatuck
                      (ch. Laura and Frederick)
 
   (5) [[Family:Whitney, Jason Frost (1841-1882)|Jason Frost]]  (see below)
 </p>
----
<p id="Plaintext">
                               -6-
 
   (6) Frederick C.     b. May 31, 1846 at Naugatuck, Conn. (v)
                        d. Oct.16, 1847 at Naugatuck, Conn. (v)
 
   (7) Mary Elizabeth   b. May 13, 1850 at Naugatuck, Conn. (v)
                        d. April 30, 1935 at Torrington, Conn. (v)
                        m. Oct.20, 1868 at Naugatuck, Conn.  Edward T. Miller (v)
 
                Ch.: (1) Katherine Louige, b. Aug. 14, 1871, Torrington,Conn.
                         m. May 15, 1890, Edwin R. Fellows, Torrington, Conn.
                            ch.:  Russell Miller, b. May 10, 1892, Springfield,
                                  Vt., m. June 29, 1916 Margaret (Pearl) Angell
                                    (ch.: Edwin Russell 2nd, b. Aug. 4, 1917,
                                          Springfield, Vt.)
 
                     (2) Maude Edith, b. Dec. 18, 1873, m. May 18, 1892,
                         Charles H. Lawton, Torrington, Conn. (f)
                            ch.:  a. Charles Kenneth, b. Feb. 2, 1893,
                                  m (1) April, 1914, Laura M. Brooks, Waterbury,
                                    Conn.
                                      (ch.:  Whitney Brook., b. Dec. 13, 1917,
                                             Torrington, Conn.)
                                  m (2) Nov. 1925, Ethel Handorf, Toronto, Canada
                                      (ch.:  Charles Richard, b. Aug. 23, 1926,
                                             Toronto) b. Katherine Miller,
                                    b. March 17, 1895, Torrington, m. Oct. 28, 1917,
                                    Floyd Thoms, Torrington.  (ch.:  Adeline V.,
                                    b. Nov. 15, 1922, Torrington) c. Virginia
                                    Florence, b. Jan. 29, 1914,m. Dec. 15, 1934,
                                    Torrington, Charles B. Cheney (ch.:  Benjamin
                                    Lawton, b. April 16, 1937) (f)
 
                     (3) Edward Whitney b. May 26, 1880, Torrington, Conn.
                         m. June 20, 1907, Grace Spencer, (ch.:  a. Edward
                         Spencer, b. April 23, 1908, Springfield, Vt.,
                         m. May 20, 1938, Juanita Fownes (ch.: Edward Fownes,
                         b. Feb. 19, 1939, Lynn, Mass.) b. Adrianne,
                         b. Jan. 2, 1912, Springfield, Vt. m. Oct. 15, 1938,
                         David O. Collins; c. Marilyn, b. March 18, 1919.
                         Springfield, Vt.; d. Marjory, b. July 19, 1923,
                         Springfield, Vt. (f)
 
 [[Family:Whitney, Jason Frost (1841-1882)|Jason Frost<sup>8</sup> Whitney]]
 
             b. May 13, 1841 at Litchfield, Conn. (b)
             d. Oct. 16, 1882 at Torrington, Conn. (v)
             m. Oct. 27, 1862 at Montrose, Pa. (by Rev. R. Van Valkenburg) (b)
                Ellen Lucena Tyler, dau. of Ansel and Isabella (Young) Tyler
                of Montrose, Pa. and gr-d. of Simeon Tyler whose descent from
                John and Priscilla Alden is on record with the "Mayflower
                Descendants".
 
         She b. Sept. 6, 1839 at East Bridgewater, Pa. (b)
             d. Sept. 29, 1914 at Bridgeport, Conn. (v)
 </p>
----
<p id="Plaintext">
                       -7-
 
 Children: (1)  Ernest Jay, b. Nov. 28, 1863, Naugatuck, Conn. (v)
                m. Nov. 16, 1893, Waterbury, Conn. Annie Mary (Mott)
                Watkins, widow, she d. June 1931, St. Petersburg,
                Fla.  Ch.: a. Robert Judd, b. Aug. 10, 1894, Melrose,
                Fla. m. Cora Althouse, Perkasie, Pa. (ch.: Bruce,
                May, Keith, Harlan, Bird and Patricia Ann) b.
                Hazel Ellen, b. June 2, 1896, New Milford, N.Y.
                d. March 27, 1933, Unmarried. (f)
 
            (2) [[Family:Whitney, Andrew Clarence (1865-1901)|Andrew Clarence]], b. Aug. 21, 1865, E. Bridgewater,
                Pa. (b) d. Mar. 14, 1901, Fairhaven, Conn.
                m. Dec. 30, 1885, New York, N.Y., Amelia Newman
                Parrish. (ch.: (1) Jay Hudson, b. Oct. 13, 1886,
                Torrington, Conn. m. Nov. 5, 1911, Jacksonville,
                Fla.  Emma Regina Wiesenfeld.  Ch. a. Moritz,
                Stillborn, Jan. 18, 1914, Jacksonville;
                b. Ellen Louisa, b. Feb. 28, 1916, Jacksonville,
                m. April 18, 1937, Ocala, Fla., Francis Horton
                Emerson; c. Rosemary, b. Mar. 16, 1918, Jacksonville,
                m. Sept. 30,1939, Jacksonville, Hurdy Edward Stack;
                d. Fanny Amelia, b. Nov. 3, 1925, Melrose, Fla.
                (2) Clinton Graff, b. Dec. 16, 1888, West Spring-
                field (Merrick), Mass. m. Oct. 19, 1912, Detroit,
                Mich. Margaret Schoenfelner.  Ch.:  a. Mary,
                b. May 24, 1914, Detroit, m. Herman Content,
                Sept. 17, 1936, Grand Rapids, Mich.; b. Margaret
                Marian, b. Nov. 21, 1916, Ludington, Mich.
                m. July 2, 1936, Grand Rapids, Donald V. Clay
                (ch. Donald Clinton, b. Nov. 8, 1938; Mary
                Margaret, b. May 11, 1940) c. Barbara Nina,
                b. Dec. 10, 1929.
                (3) [[Family:Whitney, Ernest Frost (1891-1983)|Ernest Frost]], b. May 16, 1891, Springfield,
                Mass. m. Elizabeth Cargill Bruce, East Haven,
                Conn. Nov. 27, 1913.  Ch.: a. Catherine Lynn
                (twin) b. July 1, 1916, East Haven, Conn.
                m. Dec. 25, 1936, Melrose, Fla. Robert Montay
                Vickers (ch.: Gloria Carol, b. Aug. 15, 1938).
                b. [[Family:Whitney, Marian Elizabeth (1916-1980)|Marian Elizabeth]] (twin) b. July 1, 1916,
                East Haven, Conn. m. Aug. 22, 1937, Melrose,
                Fla. Albert Edward Durrell, Jr. (ch. Marian
                Elizabeth, b. Aug. 4, 1938). c. Iva June,
                b. Nov. 11, 1919, Melrose, Fla.; d. Margery
                Ruth, b. Aug. 30, 1922, d. April 9, 1923;
                e. Andrew Clarence, b. April 7, 1924, Melrose;
                f. Dorothy Tyler, b. Nov. 16, 1926, Melrose;
                g. Ernestine, b. July 30, 1928.
 
                (4) Marian, b. Jan. 8, 1894, Melrose, Fla. m.
                Hiram Alderman, April 2, 1913.  ch.:  a.
                Rua May, b. Louise. (f)
 
            (3) [[Family:Whitney, Mary Winona (1867-1913)|Mary Winona]] (see below)
 
            (4) Samuel Frost, b. Mar. 23, 1873, Torrington, Conn. (v)
                d. Sept. 23, 1874, Torrington, Conn. (v) (drowned)
 
 </p>
----
<p id="Plaintext">
                      -8-
 
 [[Family:Whitney, Mary Winona (1867-1913)|Mary Winona9 Whitney]]
 
            b. Dec. 25, 1867, Waterbury, Conn. (registered as Alice in
                                                Vital Records)
            d. June 7, 1913, Fairfield, Conn. (v)
            m. Mar. 29, 1885, Melrose Fla., Joseph Ebenezer Sandiford
               (f) b. Sept. 27, 1861, Barnwell County, So. Carolina (f)
 
            Ch.: (1) Winona, b. Sept. 7, 1886, Torrington,Conn. (v)
                     d. June, 1887 (f)
 
                 (2) Edward Raymond, b. Aug.24, 1888, Waterbury,
                     Conn. (v) m. Mar. 30, 1917, Newark, N.J.
                     Clara Marie Hose (v) dau. of Henry and Leopoldina
                     (Rummer) Hose.  Ch.:  Edward Raymond,
                     b. Dec. 21, 1917, Newark, N.J. (v);
                     Roberta Lucille, b. Mar. 24, 1923, Orange, N.J. (v)
                     d. April 2, 1923, Orange, N.J. (v); Robert Eugene,
                     b. April 5, 1926, Glen Ridge, N.J. (v)
 
                 (3) Josephine Edith, b. Jan. 12, 1892, Waterbury,
                     Conn. (v) m. (1) July 31, 1913, New Haven, Conn.
                     Albert Cullingford. (v) (ch.: Dorothy,
                     b. Mar. 1, 1914, Bridgeport, Conn.
                     m. Oct. 27, 1939, Bridgeport, Conn., Harold
                     Savage (v)) m. (2) Feb. 1, 1935, Miami, Fla.,
                     William Albert Kabel. (f)
 
 
                 (4) Etola, b. Feb. 5, 1894, Waterbury, Conn. (v)
                     m. Feb. 6, 1915, New York, N.Y., Edward Columbus
                     Stowell (v).  Ch.:  Lillian Floravel, b.
                     Aug. 29. 1918; Arlene Etola, b. July 5, 1921;
                     Muriel Lucille, b. July 28, 1924 -- all b. at
                     Stratford, Conn. (f)
 
                 (5) Edna lone, b. July 15, 1896, Waterbury, Conn. (v)
                     m. (1) Sept. 12, 1916, Fairfield, Conn., Edward
                     Root (v)  Ch.: Frederic Sterling, b. May 23, 1917,
                     Bridgeport, Conn. d., unmarried, Oct. 10, 1939,
                     Bridgeport, Conn.; Heloise, b. Dec. 5, 1918,
                     Bridgeport, m. Sept. 28, 1940, Frank Masse,
                     Bridgeport, Conn.; Winona, b. Nov. 8, 1923,
                     Bridgeport, Conn. (f)
 
                 (6) Irene Winona, b. July 8, 1898, Waterbury, Conn. (v)
                     m. (1) Sept. 10, 1915, Fairfield, Conn., Jean
                     Crawford Lackie (v) (ch.: Robert, b. March 12, 1916,
                     Boston, Mass. m. (2) Feb. 6, 1927, Washington, D.C.
                     Vern Dushayne. (v) m. (3) June 9, 1940, New York,
                     N.Y., Edwin Katz (f)
 
                 (7) Joseph Ernest, b. August 25, 1905, Waterbury,
                     Conn. (v) m. (1) Gladys O'Briant, m. (2)
                     Aug. 24, 1940, Galveston, Texas, Gladys Theriot.
 
                 (8) Ralph, b. June 1, 1913, Fairfield, Conn.
                     d. Jan., 1920, Fairfield, Conn. (drowned) (v)
 </p>
----
<p id="Plaintext">
                          WILLIS COVELL                           Telephone
                        JUDGE OF PROBATE                      PUTNAM DIV. 236-5
                    TOWN CLERK AND TREASURER
                  TOWN AND DISTRICT OF POMFRET
 
 
                                              POMFRET CENTER, CONNECTICUT
                                                     Aug. 24, 1940.
 
 Mr E.R.Sandiford,
 103 Fulton Street,
 Bloomfield, N.J.
 
 My Dear Sir,-- In reply to yours just received I hand you the copy of
 a deed that I think you want.
      I have tried to use the same capital letters and same spelling
 as is in the deed, but some of the words are so abreviated in the deed
 that I cannot make them on the typewriter, but I think it gives what
 you want to know.
                          Yours very truly,
 
                          [Willis Covell signature]
 </p>
----
<p id="Plaintext">
 
    Deed from [[Family:Whitney, Ezekiel (s1703-1751)|Ezekiel Whitney]] to Anna Whitney et al.
    Recorded in Pomfret Land Records, Vol. 2 Page 6.
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 Know All Men By These Presents, that I, [[Family:Whitney, Ezekiel (s1703-1751)|Ezekiel Whitney]] of Pomfret in
 the County of Windham,in his Majesties Colony of Connecticut in
 New England,for the love and affection whic I have and do bare to-
 wards my Honoured Mother Anna Whitney Relique of [[Family:Whitney, Ebenezer (1672-1727)|Ebenezer Whitney]]
 of said Pomfrett,dec'd and my Brothers and Sisters hereafter Named
 Sons and Daughters to said [[Family:Whitney, Ebenezer (1672-1727)|Ebenezer Whitney]] Deceas'd Viz:
 [[Family:Whitney, Zachariah (s1701-a1750)|Zachariah Whitney]]-[[Family:Whitney, Enoch (s1708-a1756)|Enoch Whitney]]-[[Family:Whitney, Israel (b1709-b1746)|Israel Whitney]]-Ebenezer Whitney-
 [[Family:Whitney, Anna (b1713-a1746)|Anna Whitney]] all of said Pomfrett have Given Granted and forever
 Quitt Claimed all my right title interest in and unto all the estate
 of my Honoured father [[Family:Whitney, Ebenezer (1672-1727)|Ebenezer Whitney]] of said Pomfrett Died Seized
 on both Real and personal as I the said [[Family:Whitney, Ezekiel (s1703-1751)|Ezekiel Whitney]] am Eldest
 Son to said Deceased always to be understood I the said [[Family:Whitney, Ezekiel (s1703-1751)|Ezekiel]]
 Reserving to myself two Shares or a Double portion out of said
 estate forever and all the remaining part to be Equally Divided
 and setled to And amongest them the said Anna Whitney-[[Family:Whitney, Zachariah (s1701-a1750)|Zachrriah]]
 [[Family:Whitney, Zachariah (s1701-a1750)|Whitney]]-[[Family:Whitney, Enoch (s1708-a1756)|Enoch Whitney]]-[[Family:Whitney, Israel (b1709-b1746)|Israel Whitney]]-Ebenezer Whitney and [[Family:Whitney, Anna (b1713-a1746)|Anna]]
 [[Family:Whitney, Anna (b1713-a1746)|Whitney]] to be and to them and their Heirs and Assigns forEver from
 the day of the date hereof and to be Settled according to the usual
 Custom and Practice of settling of intestate estates in said
 Government and further to be understood that the above named
 persons their Heirs  Executors and Administrators shall and may
 forEver Hold all the above mentioned Estate from me my heirs
 Executors Administrators forever or anyother person by from or under
 ne whatsoever laying any claim thereunto and further I the said
 [[Family:Whitney, Ezekiel (s1703-1751)|Ezekiel Whitney]] Do hereby Declare all the above Given and Granted
 premises to be free from all manner of incumbrances whatsoever
 by me or by my means whatsoever as witnesses my Hand and Seal
 this Eighteenth day of November and in the Second Year of his
 Majesties Reign Anno Dom: l728.
 Signed, sealed and delivered
      in the presence of                      his
      Timo-Peirce                     [[Family:Whitney, Ezekiel (s1703-1751)|Ezekiel X Whitney]] (S)
      William Mansfield                     mark
 
                               In Plainfield the year and day
                               above mentioned
      then the subscriber hereunto [[Family:Whitney, Ezekiel (s1703-1751)|Ezekiel Whitney]] personally
 appeared and freely acknowledged this instrument to be his act and
 deed,before me,
                                     Timo Peirce
                                      Assistant
 
      Recorded November l9th,l728 By Jehosaphatt Holmes,Town Clerk.
 </p>
----
<p id="Plaintext">
                           [[Family:Whitney, John (1592-1673)|JOHN WHITNEY]]
                           (c 1592-1675)
 
 [[Family:Whitney, John (1592-1673)|John Whitney]] was born at Westminster (now part of London) in 1592
 according to Melville's "Ancestry of John Whitney".  His parents
 were [[Family:Whitney, Thomas (s1550-1637)|Thomas and Mary (Bray) Whitney]].  He lived for a number of
 years at Islesworth, about seven miles up the Thames from London
 but returned to London for a few years before his emigration to
 the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
 
 In April, 1635; he, with his wife, Elinor, together with their
 sons, [[Family:Whitney, John (1621-1692)|John]], [[Family:Whitney, Richard (1624-a1691)|Richard]], Nathaniel, [[Family:Whitney, Thomas (1627-1719)|Thomas]] and [[Family:Whitney, Jonathan (c1634-1703)|Jonathan]], ranging in
 age from about fifteen years to one year, registered for passage
 to New England on the ship "Elizabeth and Ann".
 
 They settled at the new town of Watertown in June, 1635, when he
 bought a 16 acre "home stall" of a settler who was leaving with
 the group that established the settlement at Wethersfield, Conn.
 
 Before 1642 the town had granted him nine other parcels of land
 totalling 198 acres.  He was made a Freeman of the colony, March 3,
 1635-6; was appointed Constable of Watertown by the General Court
 of the Colony on June 1, 1641.  He was Selectman continuously from
 1638 to 1665 and in 1655 was Town Clerk.
 
 He died at Watertown, June 1, 1675, aged 84. His wife, Elinor, had
 died May 11, 1659.
 
 For the many branched tree of descent that has proceeded from this
 worthy man and Elinor, his wife, who faced with him the hardships
 of life in the new world, see Pierce's, "Whitney Genealogy".  For
 his ancestry and the ancestry of us who claim him as our progenitor
 refer to Mellville's excellent and exhaustive, "Ancestry of
 John Whitney".
 
 It is with genuine pleasure that the writer offers to those who are
 descendants of [[Family:Whitney, John (1592-1673)|John Whitney]] through his great-grandson, [[Family:Whitney, Enoch (s1708-a1756)|Enoch Whitney]],
 this report of the data establishing our position as part of John
 Whitney's posterity.
 
 
 
 Bloomfield, N.J.
 Edward Raymond Sandiford
 1941.
 </p>
----
Copyright &copy; 2001, 2006 The [[Whitney Research Group]]