Family:Whitney, Levi (1739-1809)

Levi⁵ Whitney (Daniel⁴, Jonathan³, Jonathan², John¹), son of Daniel⁴ and Thankful (Allen) Whitney, was born 5 Dec 1739, Shrewsbury, MA,^[1] and died 1809.^[2]

He married, 19 Dec 1764, Rebecca Clark, daughter of Dea. Samuel Clark. She was born circa 1737 (calculated from age at death), and died 11 Apr 1779, Townsend, MA, in her 43rd year.

Marriage intentions were published 16 Oct 1780, Shrewsbury, MA for him and Lydia (Randall) Price "of Townsend". She was born 1742, Lunenburg, MA, and died 1816. She had married firstly, before 1780, Townsend, MA, Maj. Henry Price. Her surname is given as "Rice" in the intentions.

Pierce says the following:^[3]

His second wife was the widow of Major Henry PRICE, the first deputy grand master of Masons in America. During the Revolutionary was Levi was an officer in the commissary department with the rank of lieutenant. He was a man of much mechanical ingenuity and a manufacturer of agricultural tools. His children were all born in Townsend.

Children of Levi⁵ and Rebecca (Clark) Whitney, all born Townsend, MA:

i.	Amos6 Whitney, b. 11 Feb 1766; m. Anna Brown.
ii.	Asa Whitney, b. 1 Jul 1767; m. Mary Wallis.
iii.	Sarah Whitney, b. 18 Dec 1768; m. 3 May 1791, Eleazer Flint "of Reading", son of Eleazer and Abigail (Hartshorn) Flint.
iv.	Sebbel Whitney, b. 27 Aug or Oct 1770; d. 22 Sep 1847, Big Bend, WI; m. 13 Nov 1794, New Ipswich, NH, Cyrus Smith "of New Ipswich, N.H.", son of Capt. Abijah and Abigail (Wheelock) Smith.
v.	Aaron Whitney, b. 13 Sep 1772; m.(1) Phebe Duncklee; m.(2) Olive Lund.
vi.	Sewel Whitney, b. 16 Jun 1774; d. Lansingburgh, NY; "drowned by being accidentally knocked from the deck of a sloop."

Child of Levi⁵ Whitney and Lydia Randall:

i.	Rebeckah6 Whitney, b. 29 Jul 1781, Townsend, MA; m. 18 Sep 1799, Benjamin Wallace "of Townsend".

Census

• 1771, Townsend, MA (tax list): Levy Whitney
• 1790, Townsend, Middlesex Co., MA: Levi Whitney, 2 males over 16 and 2 females.

References

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3.^  Frederick C. Pierce, The Descendants of John Whitney, Who Came from London, England, to Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1635 (Chicago, IL: The Author, 1895), p. 105.

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