Family:Whitney, Adam (1817-1891)
Adams8 Whitney (Jonathan7, Jonathan6, Joseph5, Benjamin4, Joseph3, John2, John1), son of Jonathan7 and Lucy (Parks) Whitney, was born 14 Sep 1817, Marshfield, MA, and died 15 Oct 1891, Fitchburg, MA.
He married 17 Jan 1846, Marshfield, MA, Mary Ann Sylvester, daughter of Amasa and Deborah (Damon) Sylvester.[1] She was born 8 Sep 1808.
He resided Fitchburg, MA.
Children of Adams8 and Mary Ann (Sylvester) Whitney:
i. Debora Adams9 Whitney, b. 3 Nov 1847, Cambridge, MA;[2] m. ----- Wilber. ii. Lucy Whitney, b. 13 Nov 1848, Cambridge, MA;[3] d. Jan 1851. iii. Andrew James Whitney, b. 30 Jan 1851; m. 30 Dec 1882; resided Fitchburg. iv. Arthur Eugene Whitney, b. 6 Jan 1852; m. 1 Jul 1874; resided Fitchburg. v. George Benjamin Whitney, b. 27 Oct 1853; m. Annie Louise Tayler.
Census
References
1.^ Information supplied by Tracy McGregor (Whitney) Howe
- All other data imported from Frederick Clifton Pierce, The Descendants of John Whitney, Who Came from London, England, to Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1635, (Chicago: 1895), pp. 470-471.
2.^ Although Pierce gives 2 Nov 1847, we have "Deborah A. [Whitney], d. of Adam and Mary A., in West Cambridge, [born] Nov. 3, 1847," according to Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: 1914-1915).
3.^ Although Pierce gives -- Jun 1849, we have "Lucy [Whitney], d. of Adam and Mary A., [born] Nov. 13, 1848," according to Cambridge Vital Records.
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