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The Whitney Family of Connecticut

by S. Whitney Phoenix
(New York: 1878)

Transcribed by Robert L. Ward.

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Whitney Family.
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Washington, D. C., where he was married (2d), by Rev. Andrew A. Lipscomb, Methodist Protestant, 6 Aug. 1842, to Eveline Cogswell, born at Clinton, N. J., 9 Feb. 1814, sister of his first wife. "In November 1812, when on board of the 'Union,' of Branford, Capt. Archibald Barker, he was captured by a British cruiser, off Charleston, S. C., and five days later, after being separated from the British fleet, in a gale, was recaptured by the American Privateer, 'Mary Ann,' of New York."
1167 VI. Joseph Whitney, b. in Branford, Conn., 19 Oct. 1802; married in Washington, D. C., Margaret Ball, of Virginia; settled in Washington, where he kept a shoe-store on Pennsylvania Avenue, and died there, 18 July 1867, in the 65th year of his age. She died at Washington, 18 July 1868. They were buried in the Congressional burying-ground. An obituary notice of him shows that he was a member of Columbia Lodge, No. 10, I. O. O. F.; and that his house, at the time of his death, was "between 14th and 15th, and P and Q, Streets." 3880
1168 VII. Lucy Bindy Whitney, b. in Branford, Conn., 16 Dec. 1805; married, 8 Jan. 1826, at the house of her brother, Jared Whitney, in Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D. C., by Rev. Daniel Baker, Presbyterian, to William Godkin Erety; married (2d), 20 Jan. 1840, at Mobile, Ala., by Rev. W. T. Hamilton, to John Hartwell, a carpenter, whose parents, Timothy and Lucy (Davies) Hartwell, lived in Ashby, Mass., where he was born, 6 Nov. 1807. They were living at Toulmainville, four miles north of the city of Mobile, Ala., in Sept. 1874. 3889
1169 VIII. Harriet Whitney, b. at Branford, Conn., 2 Ap. 1808; bap. at Branford, 17 July 1808; married in Washington, D. C., Waynder Taylor, an engineer, and settled at Washington, D. C., where she died in 1831. He died in Mobile, Ala., about 1836, and was buried there, in the old graveyard. 3896
1170 IX. Catharine Whitney, b. at Branford, Conn., 4 Ap. 1810; bap. at Branford, 3 June 1810; married Thomas Short, of Ohio; settled at Mobile, Ala., where he died about 1870, and where she still lives, Sept 1874, without children.
1171 X. George Whitney, b. at Branford, Conn., 4 June 1813; bap. at Branford, 4 Sept. 1813; died at Washington, D. C., 30 Oct. 1830.



Chil. of George and Margaret (Whitney) Farrell. 300

1172 I. William Farrell, b. at Guilford, Conn.; a shoemaker; left Guilford, and did not return; is thought to have died unmarried.
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