Family:Whitney, Ephraim (1787-1821)

Ephraim⁷ Whitney (Silas⁶, Daniel⁵, Richard⁴, Richard³, Richard², John¹), son of Silas⁶ and Patience (Goodnow) Whitney, was born 29 Feb 1787 [sic], Stow, MA,^[1], and died in the West Indies.

He married, 19 May 1808, Boston, MA,^[2] Eunice Hayden, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Vinton) Hayden. She was born 17 Sep 1787, Braintree, MA.

He was a large contractor in Boston, MA, where he resided.

Census

• 1810: not found.

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. 325.

1.^  "Ephraim [Whitney], s. Silas and Patience, [born] at Stow, Feb. 29, 1787 [sic]," according to Jeannette D. Pingrey, comp., Birth, Marriage, and Death Records in the Town of Ashby, Massachusetts, from 1754 to 1890 (Decorah, IA: Anundsen Publishing Company, c. 1989), pp. 88-90.

2.^  "Ephriam [Whitney] and Eunice Haden [int. reads (Hayden)], [married] May. 19, 1808", according to Registry Department of the City of Boston, A Volume of Records Relating to the Early History of Boston, Containing Boston Marriages from 1752 to 1809 (Boston, MA: Rockwell and Churchill, 1903), p. 279.

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