Family:Whitney, William Bartholomew (1778-1849)
William Bartholomew7 Whitney (Samuel6, Joseph5, Timothy4, John3, John2, John1), born Worcester, Massachusetts, 4 Oct 1778; married in Prince Edwards County, Canada, 6 Jun 1805, Lydia Ann Lawrence; born in 1780; died Apr. 1869.
He was born in Worchester, Massachusetts, in 1778; from 1782-1798 he resided in Gilsum, New Hampshire. During the latter year he went to Littleton, Massachusetts, to learn the trade of Morocco leather dressing. After his marriage they resided in Lynn, Massachusetts, where he worked at his trade until the spring of 1812 when they moved to Lower Cananda and kept a tavern nine miles from St. Johns for three years. They then moved to Burlington, Vermont, and kept a tavern three years and then moved to Kingston's Mills, Upper Canada, and farmed for two years. Later he moved to Hallowell, U.C., and then after five years to Sophiasburg, U.C., where he died, and was buried in Sand Point cemetery. He died in Apr. 1849; resided Belleville, Ontario.
Children of William Bartholomew7 Whitney:
i. Clark8 Whitney, born 7 Jun 1806; married Elizabeth -----. ii. William B. Whitney, born Oct 4, 1808; married Charity Weese. iii. Samuel Whitney, born 18 Dec 1809; married Mary Cole. iv. Lydia Whitney, born 18 Dec 1811; married 28 Jun 1831, John Cole, a farmer, born 8 Mar 1813; resided Nosler, Ontario. v. Joshua Whitney, born 21 Jun 1829; married 14 Mar 1837, Mary Eliza Williston; resided Demorestville, Ontario - Ch.: Ichabod Franklin, born 21 Jan 1858, Mary Lydia, born 9 Nov 1862.
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. 246.
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