Family:Whitney, Abel (1752-1807)
Abel6 Whitney (Timothy5, Jonas4, Moses3, Richard2, John1), son of Aaron5 and ;[1] born 29 Sep 1752, Harvard, Massachusetts;[2] died 7 Aug 1807, Guilford, Vermont, in his 59th year.[3]
He married 1 Nov 1775, Petersham, Massachusetts, Elizabeth Spenny,[4] parentage unknown.[5] She was born about 1753;[6] died 15 Feb 1795, Guilford, Vermont, in her 42nd year.[7]
He resided Harvard, Massachusetts, and Guilford, Vermont.
Children of Abel6 and Elizabeth (Spenny) Whitney:
i. Abel7 Whitney, born about 1778, m.(2) Anna -----, according to Guilford, Windham County, Vermont, vital records. (The Abel Whitney who married Abigail H. Townsend was his cousin).
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. 169.
1.^ His parentage is proven by his birth record.
2.^ "Abel [Whitney], s. of Timothy and Alice, [born] Sept. 19, 1752," according to Thomas W. Baldwin, ed., 'Vital Records of Harvard, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1917), p. 111.
3.^ Vermont Vital Records to 1870.
4.^ "Abel and Elisabeth Spenny, Nov. 1, 1775," according to Franklin P. Rice, ed., Vital Records of Petersham, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Worcester: The Systematic History Fund, 1904), p. 158.
5.^ Nothing has been found concerning her ancestry.
6.^ The date is an estimate based on her age at death.
7.^ Vermont Vital Records to 1870.
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