Family:Whitney, James (1799-1858)

James⁶ Whitney (Samuel⁵, Abraham⁴, Joseph³, John², Henry¹), son of Samuel⁵ and Anne (Guire) Whitney, was born 28 Jun 1799, St. John, NB, and died 10 Jul 1858, St. John, NB.

He married, 2 Feb 1826, St. John, NB, Henrietta Alexis Williams, daughter of Thomas and Anna Maria (-----) Williams. She was born 22 Aug 1805, Annapolis, NS, and died 26 Jul 1873, Sussex Vale, NB.

Phoenix says the following:

". . . a shipping merchant . . . . He . . . was buried in St John. She . . . was buried in the Church of England burying-ground in St John."

Child of James⁶ and Henrietta Alexis (Williams) Whitney:

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Charlotte Gibbons7 Whitney, b. 20 Sep 1839, St. John, NB; m. Apr 1858, St. John, NB, Watkin Owen Pell Smith, a physician. They settled in New York City. She died, without children, at St. John, 22 Jan. 1860, and was buried in the cemetery of the Church of England. After her death, he removed to St. George's Island, Bermudas, where he was living in 1874.

Census

• 1855 State, Brooklyn Ward 10, Kings Co., NY:

701 Brick $3000 680 Armstrong, Elizabeth 43 F - - St. Lawrence - 1 3 - 1 - - - - 1 - Lucian R. 17 M - Chld do - - 3 Carpenter - - - - - - - Jerusha 16 F - do do - - 3 - - - - - - - - Sarah E. 9 F - do do - - 3 - - - - - - - - 681 Whitney, James 55 M - - New Brunswick 1 - 7m Merchant - - 1 - - - - Henrietta 60 F - Wife do 1 - 7m - - - 1 - - - - Charlotte 15 F - Chld do - - 7m - - - 1 - - - - Cavanagh, Eliza 16 F - Srvt Ireland - - 1 - - - 1 - - - -

References

• All data imported from Stephen Whitney Phoenix, The Whitney family of Connecticut, and its affiliations; being an attempt to trace the descendants, as well in the female as the male lines, of Henry Whitney, from 1649 to 1878; to which is prefixed some account of the Whitneys of England. (New York : Priv. Print. [Bradford Press] 1878), p. 155 and pp. 421-422.

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