Family:Whitney, Samuel (b1778-a1810)
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Samuel Whitney, parentage unknown, was born before 1778 and died after 1810.[1]
He married, before 1803, Lydia -----. She was born 1765-1784.[2]
Samuel Whitney is first found in Garrard County, Kentucky, on the 1799 Tax List.
15 September 1800 Samuel Whitney is the bondsman for the marriage of Nancy Ratton to Garland Aken.[3]
13 Nov 1800 "In the History of Garrard County and it's Churches, Samuel Whitney and Michael Dillingham, Separate Baptist Ministers, constituted Freedom Baptist Church, Garrard County, Kentucky." [4] Further information from the Forest Calico book, indicates that Michael Dillingham and Samuel Whitney wrote the Freedom Baptist Church Constitution, using the Salem Baptist Church Constitution as a model, but the Constitution has been lost, as well as, the early membership list.[5]
1802 Benjamin Brown, Sr. to Samuel Whitney, 52 1/4 acres on Bushes Fork (of Sugar Creek) for 50 pounds.[6]
1802 Charles Finnell produced a license of ordination in the Baptist Church and can perform marriages. Bondsmen were Griffin Pond and Samuel Whitney.[7]
1803 Samuel Whitney and Lydia, his wife, of Garrard County, Kentucky to William Proctor, 52 1/4 acres on Bushes Fork (of Sugar Creek) for 60 pounds.[8]
This 52 1/4 acres on Bushes Fork of Sugar Creek, bought and sold by Samuel Whitney, was orginally out of the Alexander St. Clair (Sinclair) Survey made on a treasury warrant from State of Virginia. Others purchasing part of the survey were: Luke Adams, James East, Jerimiah Gibbs, Lehuel Gibbs, John Harris, Joseph Kyler, and William Poe. [9]
23 August, 1804 Garrard County Marriage of Elijah Whitney to Ailcy Childress. Bondsman is Abdon Edwards.[10]
22 August 1805 Garrard County Marriage of Hiram Whitney to Mary Harris.[11]
Elijah Whitney, formerly of Washington County Virginia, and his presumed son, Hiram Whitney, apparently spent some time in Garrard County Kentucky prior to settling in Christian and Warren Counties in Kentucky, by about 1810. There are no land or tax records found for Elijah or Hiram in Garrard County. Goolsby Childress the father of Elijah's wife, Ailsey, settled and remained in Garrard County. The presence of Elijah and Hiram Whitney, in Garrard County, at the same time Samuel Whitney was living there, might suggest some relationship between these three Whitney families; however, this connection cannot be documented at this time.
Other former residents and documented close neighbors of the Francis Whitney Family of Fincastle/Washington County Virginia also documented as living on Sugar Creek, Garrard County Kentucky, 1797 to 1800, are: Henry, Francis, Robert, William and Eldridge Hopkins; Thomas Lewis who married Hannah Hopkins; George Woolsey who married Mary Hopkins. All of the Hopkins' are children of Francis Hopkins Sr. of Rhode Island/New York/ Pennsylvania/Washington County Virginia. George Woolsey is the son of Rev. Thomas Woolsey of New York and Washington County Virginia.[12]
As near as can be determined from available information, Samuel Whitney was in Garrard County until about 1810.
Children of Samuel and Lydia (-----) Whitney (based on a census reconstruction, may not all be their children):
i. (son) Whitney, b. 1784-1794. ii. (son) Whitney, b. 1784-1794. iii. (daughter) Whitney, b. 1784-1794. iv. (daughter) Whitney, b. 1794-1800. v. (daughter) Whitney, b. 1794-1800. vi. (son) Whitney, b. 1800-1810. vii. (daughter) Whitney, b. 1800-1810.
Census
- 1800, Garrard Co., KY: Listed on tax list (census substitute): Samuel Whitney
- 1810, Garrard Co., KY: Saml Whitney, 1 male 26-45, 2 males 16-26, 1 male under 10, 1 female 26-45, 1 female 16-26, 2 females 10-16, 1 female under 10.
Notes
Garrard County Kentucky was created by the Kentucky Legislature on December 17, 1796 from Madison, Lincoln, and Mercer counties.
The Reverend Michael Dillingham, with his father and brothers, immigrated to Kentucky, before 1800, from South Carolina, where they lived on the north bank of the Saluda River. Prior to living in South Carolina, the Dillingham family lived in Patrick and/or Henry County in Virginia. Rev. Dillingham left Garrard County Kentucky soon after founding Freedom Baptist Church and relocated to Christian County Kentucky.
References
1. ^ Age estimated from the 1799 Garrard County Kentucky Tax List.
2. ^ Garrard County Kentucky, Deed Book A, page 561.
3. ^ http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kygarrar/marriages/Marriages1796to1850.html
4. ^ Haile, Margaret Wallis, Dillinghams of Big Ivy, Buncombe County, N.C. and related families, Published by Gateway Press, 1979 Original from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, p.21.
5. ^ Calico, Forest, Index to History of Garrard County, Kentucky and Its Churches, Pblished by s.n., 1994.
6. ^ Garrard County Kentucky Deed Book A, page 443.
7. ^ Garrard County Kentucky, Order Book 1 (1797-1808), pg. 234.
8. ^ Garrard County Kentucky, Deed Book A, p. 561.
9. ^ Simpson, Fred Logan, Back of the Cane: Early Virginia Surveys in Today's Garrard County, Kentucky, 1775-1789, "A project of the Garrard County Bicentennial Committee." Published by F.L. Simpson, 1993.
10. ^ http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kygarrar/marriages/Marriages1796to1850.html
11. ^ Ibid.
12. ^ http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=lefox&id=I01261
Copyright © 2009, Jeanne Neilon, Tim Doyle and the Whitney Research Group.
