Family:Whitney, Levi (s1800-a1830)
Levi Whitney, parentage, birth, and death unknown. No death record has been found for him.
He is known only from the marriage record of his son, who lists him and Mary Ann ----- as his parents. Nothing is known of her. No marriage record has been found for them. No death record has been found for him. He does not appear in the 1830 census of Salem, where his son was born in that year, or any other town in Essex County.
The death record of his son calls him "Wm. W.".
Child of Levi and Mary Ann (-----) Whitney:
i. William Whitney, b. 14 Jan 1830, Salem, MA;[1] m. Elizabeth Prescott.
Notes
There was a Levi P. Whitney, morrocco dresser, who contracted a first marriage 10 Oct 1856, South Danvers, MA, at the age of 49, with Sarah E. B. (-----) Floyd, aged 52, of Philadelphia, PA. He was thus born about 1807. Levi Whitney, single, morrocco dresser, died in 11 Aug 1873, Danvers, MA, aged 70 years, from injuries by assault, born Winchendon, MA, son of Hananiah6 and Azubah (Keyes) Whitney.[2] That couple's son Levi Pilsbury7 Whitney was born 19 Aug 1807, Winchendon, MA. Obviously his age at death was overstated. I cannot find Levi Pilsbury7 Whitney in the census records of 1830, 1840, 1860, or 1870. In 1850 he is found in Danvers, MA, aged 43, morrocco dresser, born in NH, living with Sarah E. B. Floyd, aged 53, born in MA. (Of course he was born in Winchendon, MA, not NH.)
He could have been the father of William if either the record is wrong and the marriage was a second one, or if William was born illegitimately by an otherwise unidentified Mary Ann -----.
References
1.^ "William [Whitney], at Salem, [born] Jan. 14, 1830," according to Vital Records of Danvers, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1909-1910).
2.^ "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 256, page 198.
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