Family:Whitney, John (1764-1813)

John⁵ Whitney (Abraham⁴, Joseph³, John², Henry¹), son of Abraham⁴ and Anne (Plumb) Whitney, was born 17 May 1764, Norwalk, CT, and died Jul 1813, Norwalk, CT.

He married, 5 Feb 1791, Norwalk, CT, Ann Fox, parentage unknown. She was born May 1765, Norwalk, CT, and died 14 Jul 1858, Brooklyn, NY.

Phoenix says the following:

John Whitney, b. in Pudding Lane, Norwalk, Conn., 17 May 1764; a nail-maker and farmer; married in Norwalk, 5 Feb. 1791, Ann Fox, who was born at Wilton, in Norwalk, -- May 1765, "the year in which the meeting-house was built." They settled in Norwalk, where, on a very hot day in July 1813, he went to repair a field-gate near Old Well, now South Norwalk, and was so affected by the heat as to cause his sudden death. He was buried in St. Paul's (Episcopal) Churchyard. She died at the house of her grandson, John William Hobart, 224 (now 296) Livingston Street, Brooklyn, N.Y., 14 July 1858, aged 93 years and 2 months, and was buried, 16 July 1858, in lot 10658, section 93, Leafy Path, Greenwood Cemetery.

Children of John⁵ and Ann (Fox) Whitney, all born Norwalk, CT:

i.	Henry6 Whitney, b. 18 Aug 1791; m.(1) Lucy Grumman; m.(2) Sarah Johnson.
ii.	James Whitney, b. 16 Aug 1792; d. 14 Aug 1793, Norwalk, CT.
iii.	James Whitney, b. 22 Jan 1794; m. Nancy Mascraft.
iv.	Charlotte Whitney, b. 11 Mar 1795, Norwalk, CT; m. Benjamin King Hobart, as his third wife.
v.	Elizabeth Ann Whitney, b. 18 May 1797, Norwalk, CT; m. Joseph Clark.
vi.	Alfred Whitney, b. 31 Mar 1800, Norwalk, CT; m.(1) Rebecca Mayhew; m.(2) Naomi Smith Gray.
vii.	Esther Whitney, b. 1 Apr 1803, Norwalk, CT; m. Thomas Watlington.
viii.	Caroline Whitney, b. about 1804, Norwalk, CT; m. Charles Randolph Gibbons, as his first wife.
ix.	John Whitney, b. 9 Nov 1806, Norwalk, CT; m. Ruth Hutchinson.
x.	Richard Whitney, b. 1808, Norwalk, CT; was living at Albany, N. Y., in 1829; went to New York in 1830, and while at the house of his sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Ann (Whitney) Clark, in Wooster Street, sickened and died, aged 22 years. He was buried near his father, in St Paul's Churchyard, Norwalk.
xi.	(son) Whitney, b. about 1810, Norwalk, CT; d. in early infancy.
xii.	Margaret Whitney, b. 6 Dec 1811, Norwalk, CT; m. John Thomas Walton.

Census

• 1790: not found.
• 1800, Norwalk, Fairfield Co., CT: John Whitney, 1 male over 45, 3 males 0-9, 1 female over 45, and 1 female 26-44.
• 1810, Norwalk, Fairfield Co., CT: John Whitney, 1 male 26-44, 2 males 16-25, 1 male 10-15, 1 male 0-9, 1 female 26-44, 1 female 10-15, 2 females 0-9.
• 1820, Norwalk, Fairfield Co., CT: Ann Whitney, 1 female over 45 and 1 female 0-9.

References

• All data imported from Stephen Whitney Phoenix, The Whitney family of Connecticut, and its affiliations; being an attempt to trace the descendants, as well in the female as the male lines, of Henry Whitney, from 1649 to 1878; to which is prefixed some account of the Whitneys of England. (New York : Priv. Print. [Bradford Press] 1878), p. 54 and pp. 156-160.

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