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Revision as of 02:43, 31 March 2006
Joshua3 Whitney (Benjamin2, John1)son of Benjamin2 and Jane (--?--) Whitney[1] was born 21 Sep 1687, Sherborn, MA,[2] and died 16 Jun 1771, Ware, MA.[3]
Joshua married, 29 Nov 1709, Medfield, MA, Hannah Rockett/Rockwood,[4] daughter of Josiah and Marie (Twitchell) Rockett/Rockwood.[5] She was born 24 Aug 1691, Medfield, MA,[6] and died 8 Aug 1772, Ware, MA.[7]
For details of his life, see an article about him and his descendants.[8]
He is listed in Ware, MA, at the taking of the 1771 tax list.
Children of Joshua3 and Hannah (Rockett) Whitney:
i. Hannah4 Whitney, b. 12 Oct 1710, Medfield, MA;[9] m. int. Abraham Daniels; m.(1) Moses Tenney; m.(2) Isaac Chase. ii. Joshua Whitney, b. after 27 Nov 1712, Medfield, MA;[10] m. Phebe (?Day?). iii. Ezekiel Whitney, b. 29 Aug 1716, Mendon, MA;[11] m. Jennet Patterson. iv. Bethia Whitney; b. 29 Sep 1720, Mendon, MA;[12] d. before 24 Feb 1726/27, Mendon, MA.[13] v. Bethia Whitney, b. 24 Feb 1726/27, Mendon, MA;[14] m. Thomas Jones. vi. Gershom Whitney, b. ca. 1729, prob. Mendon/Uxbridge, MA;[15] m.(1) Sarah Wood; m.(2) Bathsheba (Thayer) Jackson. vii. Mary Whitney, b. 27 Oct 1732, Uxbridge, MA;[16] m. George Abbott.
References
1.^ His parentage is proven by his birth record.
2.^ "Joshua, s. of Benjamin and Jane, Sept. 21, 1687," according to Thomas W. Baldwin, ed., Vital Records of Sherborn, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: 1911), pp. 92-94.
3.^ Ware, Mass., Congregational Church Records, unpublished, Young Men's Library Association, Ware, p. 224 (examined by Claude W. Barlow, F.A.S.G.).
4.^ "Joshua [Whitne] and Hannah Rockett, [married] Nov. 26, 1709," according to Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903), p. 182.
5.^ Her parentage is proven by her birth record.
6.^ Medfield Vital Records, p. 88.
7.^ Apparently the "----- Whitney" who died on that date, according to Ware Congregational Church Records, p. 224.
8.^ [[Archive:TAG Volume 74|Robert Leigh Ward, "The Footloose Joshua3 Whitney (1687-1771) and Some of His Descendants," The American Genealogist, vol. 74 (1999), pp. 197-207.
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