Family:Whitney, Samuel (1739-1811)
Capt. Samuel6 Whitney (Samuel5, Nathaniel4, Nathaniel3, John2, John1), born in Weston, Sept 23, 1739; married in Grafton, 1762, Phebe Harrington; born G. 25 May 1740; died Marlboro, Vermont, Mar 6, 1812.
Capt. Samuel Whitney was born in Weston, Massachusetts, and while a young man removed to Grafton, Massachusetts, where he was an early settler. There he was united to his wife, and shortly after moved to Shrewsbury. About the middle of November, 1769, with his brother, Nathaniel, he went to Marlboro, Vermont. In March, 1770, made a quantity of maple sugar and then moved from the east to the west part of the town and began anew on the premises he afterward occupied. In 1770 he opened the forest and erected a log house, in the raising of which he invited his brothers, Nathaniel and Jonas, and James Ball to assist him. In 1772, probably in March, he moved his family from Shrewsbury to Marlboro, consisting of his wife and four children. He was enterprising, laborious, and persevering, bold, resolute, and fearless, bravely surmounting the trials of a pioneer. He had a peculiar voice, better fitted for the sternness of authority than the smooth adulations of flattery. He erected buildings and opened a public house, which he kept till the close of life. The site of this property is now occupied by the West Marlboro postoffice.
Mr. Whitney was a great hunter, and but for the prompt assistance on one occasion rendered by his sons, Moses and Guilford, lads at the time, would undoubtedly have been killed by a bear. Mr. Whitney carried the scar to his grave. He died 1 Feb 1811; resided Grafton and Shrewsbury, Massachusetts and Marlboro, Vermont.
Children of Samuel6 Whitney:
i. Catherine7 Whitney, or Caty, born 5 May 1763; married Samuel Pratt, of Marlboro. ii. Elizabeth Whitney, or Betty, born 26 Aug 1764; married Alvin Pratt, of Marlboro. iii. Moses Whitney, born 20 Oct 1765; died infant, 14 Dec 1765. iv. Moses Whitney, born 26 Jan 1767; married Bernice Locke. v. Guilford Whitney, born 2 Jan 1769; married Anna Locke. vi. Samuel Whitney, born 18 Apr 1772; married Susanna Kimball. vii. Mariam Whitney, born 10 Jun 1776; married Lyman Brown of Jethro. viii. Zenas Whitney, born 14 Mar 1779. ix. Simci Whitney, born 10 Apr 1781; married Silence Tucker. x. Phebe Whitney, born 17 Jan 1786; married Roswell Paddleford. xi. Rupert Whitney, born 27 Jul 1789; died 3 May 1790. He was born when his mother was in her 50th year.
References
1. 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. 135.
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