Family:Whitney, Aaron (1746-1790)

Aaron⁶ Whitney (Aaron⁵, Moses⁴, Moses³, Richard², John¹), son of Aaron⁵ and Alice (Baker) Whitney; born Petersham, 5 Sep 1746; married 1772, Hannah Stearns, born 14 Nov 1748; died 1 Feb 1784; married 2d Sep 1784, Hannah Willard; born 14 Oct 1754; died 28 Sep 1812.

He was the fourth son of Rev. Aaron Whitney, of Petersham, Massachusetts. His first wife was dauughter of Rev. David Stearns, of Lunenburg, Massachusetts. After his death his widow married 16 Mar 1794, Asahel Pomeroy, of Northampton, Massachusetts, by whom she had one child, Hannah, born 31 Jan 1795, who married Robert Edwards. Aaron was a merchant in Northfield, Massachusetts. He died Apr 1790; resided Northfield, Massachusetts.

Children of Aaron⁶ and Hannah (Stearns) Whitney:

i.	Aaron Stearns Whitney, born 27 Aug 1773; died Charleston, South Carolina, Aug. 6, 1796.
ii.	Sally Baker Whitney, born 28 Feb 1775; married Erastus Barnard; resided Canandaigua, New York. She died 15 Jul 1825. Ch.; Maria Augusta, born Nov., 1800; Sally, born Sep 1803; Erastus Stearns, born May, 1805; died New Orleans, Louisiana, 1834; Charles Backus, born Apr., 1807; Selah Ebenezer, born July, 1809; Ann Elizabeth, born Sep 1812; David, born June, 1815; Manning Goodwin, born Apr 1818.
iii.	William Henry7 Whitney, born 22 Jan 1779; married Clarissa Wolcott.
iv.	Nahum H. Whitney, born 15 Aug 1781; resided Vermont; unmarried
v.	David S. Whitney, born 22 Dec 1783; died young.

Children of Aaron⁶ and Hannah (Willard) Whitney:

vi.	Susanna W. Whitney, born 17 Sep 1785; died Jan., 1786.
vii.	Susanna W. Whitney, born 14 Dec 1786; married Theodore Lyman; 10 ch.; see Lyman Gen.
viii.	David Stearns Whitney, born 22 Aug 1788; married Hannah H. Partridge.
ix.	Hannah Stearns Whitney, born 27 Mar 1777; married 3 Nov 1798, Oliver Sparhawk, Esq., of Walpole. He was born in Walpole, 16 Jul 1771; died 6 Jul 1824; gr. Dartmouth College, 1793, a lawyer and for many years clerk of the court. He married his cousin, Hannah Stearns Whitney, who died 25 Aug 1818; married 2d his cousin, Sept. 5, 1819, Naomi Sparhawk. Ch: Marietta, born 12 Aug 1801; died unmarried 4 Dec 1840; Thomas O., born ----- 16, 1803; a druggist; resided Greenfield; Julianna, born 4 Sep 1804; married Calvin Carter; resided Lapeer County, Michigan; Hannah S., born 22 Jul 1806; resided G.; unmarried; William, born 12 May 1808; died 24 Jun 1834; Lucius H., born Oct. 11, 1810; died June 1813; Sarah Whitney, born 15 Sep 1812; married Thomas S. Speed; resided Bardstown, Kentucky; she died 1843; 3 ch.; Rebecca S., born 20 Oct 1814; died 14 Oct 1833; Sophia Ann, born 4 Dec 1816; died Elba, Michigan, 13 Oct 1844.

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), pp. 164-165.

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