Family:Whitney, Ephraim (1787-1821)

Ephraim⁷ Whitney (Silas⁶, Daniel⁵, Richard⁴, Richard³, Richard², John¹), son of Silas⁶ and Patience (Goodnow) Whitney, was born 29 Feb 1787 [sic], Stow, MA,^[1], and "Capt." died 23 Apr 1821, St. Barts, West Indies.

He married, 19 May 1808, Boston, MA,^[2] Eunice Hayden, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Vinton) Hayden. She was born 17 Sep 1787, Braintree, MA.

Probably she was the Mrs. Eunice Whitney "of Cambridge" who married, (int. 17 Aug 1826, Ashburnham, MA) 5 Sep 1826, Cambridge, MA, John Woods "of Ashburnham",^[3] as his second wife. That woman died 8 Nov 1827, Ashburnham, MA, aged 40 years, which tallies with Eunice Hayden's birth date.

He was a large contractor in Boston, MA, where he resided.

Census

• 1810: not found.

References

• All data imported from Frederick Clifton Pierce, The Descendants of John Whitney, Who Came from London, England, to Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1635, (Chicago: 1895), p. 325.

1.^  "Ephraim [Whitney], s. Silas and Patience, [born] at Stow, Feb. 29, 1787 [sic]," according to Jeannette D. Pingrey, comp., Birth, Marriage, and Death Records in the Town of Ashby, Massachusetts, from 1754 to 1890 (Decorah, IA: Anundsen Publishing Company, c. 1989), pp. 88-90.

2.^  "Ephriam [Whitney] and Eunice Haden [int. reads (Hayden)], [married] May. 19, 1808", according to Registry Department of the City of Boston, A Volume of Records Relating to the Early History of Boston, Containing Boston Marriages from 1752 to 1809 (Boston, MA: Rockwell and Churchill, 1903), p. 279.

3.^  "Eunice [Whitney], Mrs., and John Woods of Ashburnham, [married] Sept. 5, 1826," according to Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: 1914-1915).

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