Family:Whitney, Josiah (1698-1748)

Josiah⁴ Whitney (Josiah³, Jonathan², John¹), son of Josiah³ and Mary (----) Whitney,^[1] was born 21 Feb 1698, Wrentham, MA,^[2] and died 17 Nov 1748, Wrentham, MA, aged 51 years.^[3]

He was aged about 20, 1718, Wrentham, MA.^[4]

There is a record of one "Josiah Whitney, formerly of Dedham, now of Weston", who married, 28 Feb 1725/6, Weston, MA, Elizabeth Grant "of Concord",^[5] daughter of Caleb and Elizabeth (Jackson) Grant. She was born 1707, Concord, MA, baptized 11 Dec 1709, Weston, MA, and died unknown. He was not, however, a Whitney, but instead he was Josiah³ Whiting, son of Samuel² and Sarah (Metcalf) Whiting [Nathaniel¹], born 30 May 1701, Dedham, MA.^[6] He had seven children born in Weston: Samuel, Caleb, Jason, Josiah, Elizabeth, Sarah, and Phineas. The baptism of Sarah, 28 Aug 1737, is erroneously listed under "Whitney" in the Weston vital records.^[7] The I.G.I. also erroneously calls Elizabeth and Phineas "Whitney."

There is also a record of one Josiah Whetney who married, 24 Apr 1733, Lancaster, MA, Elisabeth Whetney.^[8] It is extremely likely that the published vital records (and perhaps the originals!) are wrong, and that the record should read Isaiah Whetney instead. See the page for Isaiah⁴ Whitney for more on them.

Josiah⁴ Whitney is not known to have married or to have had children.

References

1.^  His parentage is proven by his birth record.

2.^  Thomas W. Baldwin, ed., Vital Records of Wrentham, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: 1910), vol. I, p. 222.

3.^  Baldwin, op. cit., vol. II, p. 515.

4.^  Whitney, Henry Austin, "The Descendants of John and Elinor Whitney, of Watertown, Mass.," NEHGR, vol. XI (1857), p. 121.

5.^  Mary Frances Peirce, Town of Weston. Births, Deaths and Marriages, 1707-1850. 1703--Gravestones--1900. Church Records, 1709-1825. Appendix and Addenda, Cent Society, Gleanings from the Town Files, Bits of Genealogy, Error, Indexes, &c. (Boston, MA: McIncloe Bros., Printers, 1901)..

6.^  Theodore S. Lazell, Whiting genealogy: Nathaniel Whiting of Dedham, Mass., 1641, and five generations of his descendants (Boston, MA: unknown, 1902), p. 19.

7.^  Peirce, op. cit.

8.^  Henry S. Nourse, ed., The Birth, Marriage and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs, of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1643-1850 (Lancaster, MA: 1890), p. 25.

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