Family:Whitney, Elijah (1736-a1770)

Elijah⁵ Whitney (Elijah⁴, Richard³, John², Henry¹), son of Elijah⁴ and Rebecca (Seymour) Whitney, was born 13 Oct 1736, Norwalk, CT, and died after 1770.

He married, date and place unknown, Elizabeth Perry, daughter of Elisha and Anna (Saunders) Perry. She was born in Ridgefield, CT, and died after 1770.

Phoenix says the following:

Elijah Whitney, b. at Norwalk, Conn., 13 Oct 1736; was of Norwalk, 30 Nov. 1752, when he chose John Seymour as his guardian. He married Elizabeth Perry, dau. of Elisha and Anna Perry, of Ridgefield, Conn. They settled in Danbury, Conn., and there sold, 23 Ap. 1770, for £5, to David Perry, ten acres of land in Ridgefield, "it being the whole of our right and interest in the thirds of our Honrd mother, ye Widow Hoyt, of Ridgefield."

Children of

i.

Hannah6 Whitney, b. say 1760, possibly the one who m.(1) ----- Bass, and m.(2) Elijah Whitney. He was of Danbury, a farmer, whose origin is unknown. After the close of the Revolution, they moved to Philipstown, N. Y., thence to Coeymans, N. Y., and from there, about 1793 or 1794, to Leeds, near Gananoqui, Upper Canada, where they died; she, about 1810; he, about 1815. Elijah Whitney, of Danbury, relation not stated, was appointed, 3 Dec. 1760, as administrator of the estate of Seth Whitney, "late of Danbury, deceased." The inventory, dated 16 Dec. 1760, amounted to £7 2s., and indicates that Seth Whitney was an unmarried man.

Census

• 1790: not found.
• 1800: not found.
• 1810: not found.

References

• All data imported from Stephen Whitney Phoenix, The Whitney family of Connecticut, and its affiliations; being an attempt to trace the descendants, as well in the female as the male lines, of Henry Whitney, from 1649 to 1878; to which is prefixed some account of the Whitneys of England. (New York : Priv. Print. [Bradford Press] 1878), p. 84 and p. 245.

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