Family:Whitney, Walter (1760-1846)

Walter⁵ Whitney (Samuel⁴, Richard³, John², Henry¹), son of Samuel⁴ and Amy (Northrup) Whitney, was born

He married

Phoenix says the following:

Walter Whitney, b. at Fairfield, Conn., 23 Jan. 1760, according to family-record, while the town-record says, 3 Feb. 1760; served from 1 Ap. 1777 to 15 Dec. 1779, in a company of artillery, and was, in later life, a school-teacher and farmer; married, 21 Ap. 1784, at Fairfield, Anah Wells, who was born in Connecticut, 23 Aug. 1759. They dwelt at Fairfield, till 1788; at New Milford, Conn., till Oct. 1789; then settled on the Helderberg Mountains, in the present town of Bern, N. Y., after which they dwelt in Bethlehem, N. Y., New Scotland, N. Y., and, in June 1796, at Watervliet, N. Y.; then, for several years, in Meredith, N. Y., till about 1825 or 1828, when they settled in Albany, N. Y. There they died; she, at 16 Jackson Street, 30 Jan. 1845, aged 85 years, 5 months, and 7 days; he, at 26 DeWitt Street, in consequence of a fall, 18 July 1846, in his 87th year. They were buried at the head of State Street, but now rest in one grave, in lot 159, section 92, on Long Ridge, in Albany Rural Cemetery, covered by a large slab of marble, which, besides the usual inscriptions, bears the American Eagle, the motto "E Pluribus Unum," and various military insignia, to commemorate his service in the Revolutionary War. They were members of the Presbyterian Church. The census of 1840 exaggerates his age to 87 years.

Children of

i.	6 Whitney, b.
ii.	Whitney, b.
iii.	Whitney, b.
iv.	Whitney, b.
v.	Whitney, b.
vi.	Whitney, b.
vii.	Whitney, b.
viii.	Whitney, b.

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), pp. 87-88 and pp. 250-252.

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