Family:Whitney, John (1747-1776)
John5 Whitney (Nathan4, Nathaniel3, Benjamin2, John1), son of Nathan4 and Lydia (Young) Whitney, was born 4 Apr 1747, Biddeford, ME,[1], was baptized 18 Apr 1747, Biddeford, ME,[2] and died 5 May 1776, in the Army.
He married Elizabeth -----.
Children of John5 and Elizabeth (-----) Whitney (probably incomplete):
i. Hannah Catherine6 Whitney, b. 6 Aug 1766, NH; d. 23 Jul 1861, Bath, ME; m. 12 Nov 1785, Gorham, ME, Noah Rogers. ii. Mary Whitney; b. 18 Jan 1776, Gorham, ME;[3] m. (int. 9 Sep 1798, Clinton, ME) 30 Sep 1798, Clinton, ME, Woodbridge Persons "both of Twenty Five Mile Pond Settlement".[4]
Notes
His widow may be the Elizabeth Whitney who married, 8 Oct 1780, Falmouth, ME, Richard Dutton.[5][6] Elizabeth, widow of Richard Dutton, applied for a pension for Richard's service in the Revolution, # W 24,860. They appear in the 1790 Census at Wells, ME, and possibly in the 1820 Census at Sanford, ME, but not in 1800 or 1810.
An online family tree gives her name as Elizabeth McLellan.
Census
- 1771, Gorham, ME (tax list): John Whitney
References
1.^ "John [Whitney], s. of Nathan and Lydia, b. Apr. 4, 1747," according to Beatty, John D., ed., Vital Records of Biddeford, Prior to 1856; Maine Genealogical Society Special Publication No. 28 (Rockport, ME: Picton Press, 1998), p. 43.
2.^ "John [Whitney], s. of Nathan and Lydia, bap. Apr. 18, 1747," according to Beatty, John D., ed., Vital Records of Biddeford, Prior to 1856; Maine Genealogical Society Special Publication No. 28 (Rockport, ME: Picton Press, 1998), p. 61.
3.^ "Mary [Whitney], s. John and Elizabeth, [born] Jan. 18, 1766," according to Marquis Fayette King, comp., Publishments, marriages, births and deaths from the earlier records of Gorham, Maine (Portland, ME: Maine Genealogical Society, 1897).
4.^ "Mary [Whitney], and Woodbridge Persons, both of Twenty Five Mile Pond Settlement, int. 9 Sept. 1798. [cert. issued 30 Sept.]," according to Fisher, Carleton Edward, comp., Vital records of Clinton, Maine, to the year 1892: births, marriages, and deaths ([S.l.]: published under authority of the Maine Historical society, 1967), pp. 302-303.
5.^ "Oct. 8, 1780, Richard DUTTON & Elisabeth WHITNEY; by Revd. Thomas SMITH, M.G.; Falmouth (2:255)," according to Kelley, Judith Holbrook, ed. and transcr., Clayton Rand Adams, ed., Marriage Returns of Cumberland County, Maine, Prior to 1892, Maine Genealogical Society Special Publication No. 29 (Rockport, ME: Picton Press, 1998), p. 33.
6.^ "Richard Dutton with Eliz. Whitney, married by Mr. Smith, Oct. 8, 1780," according to "Records of Falmouth (now Portland) Me.", NEHGR, vol. XIV (1860), pp. 223-226.
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