Family:Whitney, Abijah (s1762-c1803)

Abijah⁵ Whitney (Seth⁴, Nathan³, John², Henry¹), son of Seth⁴ and Sarah (Mow) Whitney, was born say 1762, Yorktown, NY, and died about 1803, Yorktown, NY.

He married, date unknown, Melicent Hyatt, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary (Merritt) Hyatt. She was born and died unknown. She married, 1810, Yorktown, NY, John Lounsbury.

Phoenix says the following:

Abijah Whitney, b. at Yorktown, N.Y.; settled near his father, and kept an inn, and was also a farmer, his house being on the corner west of his father's house, where the road turns north to Hallock's Mills; married Melicent Hyatt, dau. of Nathaniel and Mary (Merritt) Hyatt. Rev. Silas Constant, of Crompond, noted in his diary a visit, "26 Feb. 1794 At Bijah Whitney's." He sold to his brother Seth, 3 March 1797, fifty-eight acres of land, being a part of a farm that he bought of his father, Seth Whitney. He died in Yorktown, about 1803. His wife joined the church in Crompond, 11 July 1802; and at the same place, in 1810, she married (2d) John Lounsbury.

Children of Abijah⁵ and Melicent (Hyatt) Whitney:

i.	Sarah Whitney, b. 19 Sep 1787, Yorktown, NY; m. William Pullin.
ii.	Mary Whitney, b. Yorktown, NY; m. David Crane; settled between Cayuga and Seneca Lakes.
iii.	Jane Whitney, b. Yorktown, NY; m. 7 Jul 1807, Yorktown, NY, John Ferguson. They went west, and, it is thought, settled in Schoharie Co., NY.
iv.	Anna Whitney, b. 5 Apr 1793, Yorktown, NY; m. Peter Banker.
v.	Phebe Whitney, b. 24 Mar 1797, Yorktown, NY; m. Thomas Wildey.
vi.	David Hyatt Whitney, b. 11 Feb 1801, Yorktown, NY; m. Mary Williams.

Census

• 1790, York Twp, Westchester Co., NY: Abijah Whitney, 2 males over 16, 5 females.
• 1800, York Twp, Westchester Co., NY: Abijah Whitney, 1 male over 45, 1 male 0-9, 1 female 26-44, 3 females 10-15, and 2 females 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. 111 and pp. 319-320.

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