Family:Whitney, Abner (1780-1866)
Abner6 Whitney (Abner5, Jonas4, Eleazer3, Thomas2, John1), son of Abner5 and Esther (Jackson) Whitney, was born 19 Jul 1780, Roxbury, MA, and died 27 Dec 1866.
He married, 20 Jan 1805, Springfield, VT, Polly White. She was born about 1786, and died Mar 1851, Orange, MA, aged 64 years, of fits.[1]
He was a farmer and resided Orange, MA.
He was a grantee 1824-1845, and a grantor 1825-1846, New Salem, MA.[2]
Children of Abner6 and Polly (White) Whitney:
i. Mary7 Whitney, b. -----; m. A. Thayer. ii. Arathusa Whitney, b. -----; m. Samuel Adams; son James W. resided Orange, MA. iii. Alexander Whitney, b. -----; m. Mehitable Davis. v. Harrison H. Whitney, b. 31 Oct 1819; m. Onda Kendall. vi. Emily Whitney, b. -----; m. Thomas Tenney; resided -----. vii. Harriett Whitney, b. -----. viii. Charles Whitney, b. ca. 1829; d. Mar 1851, Orange, MA, aged 21 years, of shot accident.[3]
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. 196.
1.^ "Polly [Whitney], sp. Abner, ae 64, of Fitts, [died] Mar. --, 1851," according to Jay Mack Holbrook, "Vital Records of Orange, Massachusetts, to 1891" (Oxford, MA: Holbrook Research Institute, Oxford, MA, 1983).
2.^ "Abner [Whitney], grantee, 1824-1845. FD," and "Abner [Whitney], grantor, 1825-1846. FD," according to Vital Records of New Salem, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1927).
3.^ "Charles [Whitney], s. Abner, ae 21, shot accident, [died] Mar. --, 1851," according to Orange Vital Records.
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