Family:Whitney, Manning (1795-1841)

Manning⁷ Whitney (Daniel⁶, Daniel⁵, Richard⁴, Richard³, Richard², John¹), son of Daniel⁶ and Sarah (Durant) Whitney, was born 8 Sep 1795, Stow, MA,^[1] and died 1841, AL.

He married, 1818, Dolly Brooks, daughter of Luke and Suza (Smith) Whitney. She was born 18 Nov 1795, Stow, MA, and died after 1880.

"MANNING WHITNEY came to this town from Stowe, Mass, in 1818, locating on road 22. He married Dolly Brooks, in 1818, and reared a family of six children, namely, Emeline, Daniel, Henry B., Lydia, Jane and Sally H. He died in Alabama in 1841. Henry B. and Daniel still live in the town."^[2]

Children of Manning⁷ and Dolly (Brooks) Whitney:

i.	Emily8 Whitney, b. ca. 1820; unmarried in 1850, not in family in 1860.
ii.	Daniel Whitney; resided Franconia, NH; not in family in 1850.
iii.	Henry P. Whitney; b. ca. 1825; m. Harriet -----; resided Franconia, NH.
iv.	Lydia Whitney, b. ca. 1828, NH; unmarried 1880.
v.	Jane B. Whitney, b. ca. 1832, NH; unmarried 1900.
vi.	Sally H. Whitney; not in family in 1850.

Census

• 1830, Franconia, Grafton Co., NH
• 1840, Franconia, Grafton Co., NH
• 1850, Franconia, Grafton Co., NH:

84 88 Henry Whitney 26 M - Farmer $1600 N.H. Dolly do 54 F - Mass. Emeline do 30 F - N.H. Lydia do 21 F - do Attended school Jane do 18 F - do Attended school

• 1860, Franconia, Grafton Co., NH:

1012 1081 Henry P. Whitney 36 M - Farmer $5100 $1400 N.H. Harriet " 28 F - House Wife N.H. (Infant) " 4/12 F - N.H. Dolly Whitney 64 F - House Work Massachusetts Lydia " 32 F - House Work N.H. Jane " 28 F - House Work N.H. George Pottle 16 M - Farm Laborer N.H. Attended school

• 1870, Franconia, Grafton Co., NH:

55 65 Whitney, Henry P. 46 M W Farmer $4000 $2150 New Hampshire Male citizen over 21 -----, Harriett 41 F W Keeping House New Hampshire -----, Susan 3 F W New Hampshire -----, Dolly 76 F W Mass. -----, Lydia 42 F W New Hampshire -----, Jane B. 38 F W New Hampshire

• 1880, Franconia, Grafton Co., NH:

Henry P WHITNEY 56 Self M W W NEW HAMP Farmer MASS MASS Susie WHITNEY 12 Dau F S W NEW HAMP N H N H Mary WHITNEY 8 Dau F S W NEW HAMP N H N H Lydia WHITNEY 54 Sis F S W NEW HAMP Keeping House N H N H Jane WHITNEY 52 Sis F S W NEW HAMP Keeping House N H N H Lydia JESSEMAN 71 MotL F W W NEW HAMP N H N H David MCDONALD 21 Oth M S W CANADA Laborer --- --- Delly WHITNEY 85 Moth F W W MASS MASS MASS

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. 324.

1.^  "Manning [Whitney], s. Lt. Daniel and Sarah, [born] Sept. 8, 1795," according to F. Apthorp Foster, ed., Vital Records of Stow, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1911).

2.^  Hamilton Child, Gazetteer of Grafton County, N.H., 1709-1886 (Syracuse, N.Y.: H. Child, June 1886), p. 266 ff., HISTORY OF FRANCONIA NH, BIOGRAPHIES OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT CITIZENS.

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