Family:Whitney, John (21 Apr 1796-1859)

John⁷ Whitney (Joshua⁶, Caleb⁵, Jonathan⁴, Richard³, Richard², John¹), son of Joshua⁶ and Vashti (Knight) Whitney, was born 21 Apr 1796, Gardner, MA.^[1]

He married, 6 Jul 1817, Gardner, MA, Rachel Holbrook Osgood.^[2]

Children of John⁷ and Rachel (Osgood) Whitney:

i.	Elvira8 Whitney, b. -----; m. ----- Sperry; resided Ann Arbor, MI.

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. 331.

1.^  "John [Whitney], s. Joshua and Vashti, [born] April 21, 1796," according to Franklin P. Rice, ed., Vital Records of Gardner, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (1907).

2.^  "John [Whitney] and Rachel Holbrook Osgood, [married] July 6, 1817," according to Gardner Vital Records.

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