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 Rice "of Townsend".^[3] He married Lydia (Randall) Price. She was born 1742, Lunenburg, MA, and died 1816. She had married firstly, before 1780, Townsend, MA, Maj. Henry Price.

Pierce says the following:^[4]

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; "Sally" m. 3 May 1792, Reading, MA, Eleazer Flint[5] "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 and Lydia (Randall)(Price) Whitney:

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.
• 1800, Townsend, Middlesex Co., MA: Levi Whitney, 1 male over 45 and 1 female over 45.

References

1.^  "Levi [Whitney], s. Daniel and Thankful, [born] Dec. 5, 1739," according to Franklin P. Rice, ed., Vital Records of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (1904).

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3.^  "Levi [Whitney] and Lydia Rice of Townsend, int. Oct. 16, 1780," according to Shrewsbury Vital Records.

4.^  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.

5.^  "Sally [Whitney] and Elezer Flint, Jr., [married] May 3, 1792," according to Thomas W. Baldwin, ed., Vital Records of Reading, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: 1912), p. 477.

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