Family:Whitney, Albert (c1825-a1860)

Albert Whitney, parentage unknown, was born about 1825, and died after 1860.

He married 6 Jun 1852, Sarah Ellis Holmes, daughter of Jonathan and Mahala (Reed) Holmes. She was born 6 Mar 1828, Hartford, ME, and died after 1884. She "Mrs." "of Cambridgeport" married secondly, 7 Aug 1873, Cambridge, MA, "Mr." Daniel K. Hill "of Norway".^[1]

They had no children.

Notes

He was not the same as Albert⁷ Whitney, born 29 Jun 1826 (twin), Springfield, VT, son of Isaac⁶ and Polly (Fairbanks) Whitney. That man had a different history.

Census

• 1850, Roxbury, Norfolk Co., MA:

2207 2959 Benjamin Burroughs 47 M - Broker Massachusetts Amy " 41 F - " Charles Lunt 20 M - Clerk New Hampshire Frederick Brown 12 M - Massachusetts Attended school Arthur W. " 10 M - " Attended school Mary E. 4 F - " Albert Whitney 23 M - Farmer Vermont Bridget Cunningham 24 F - Ireland Illiterate Catherine Carn 19 F - "

• 1855, West Roxbury Ward 2, Norfolk Co., MA:

46 55 Munroe George 31 M - Farmer N.H. Ellen S. George 32 F - Ireland 56 Albert Whitney 30 M - Farmer Vt. Sarah Whitney 27 F - Me.

• 1860, Dorchester, Norfolk Co., MA:

2325 2593 Edmund Boynton 55 M - Merchant $20000 $20000 Mass. Martha E. " 55 F - " Albert Whiting 28 M - Laborer Vt. Sarah Whitney 26 F - House Keeper Maine Lizzie Murphy 25 F - Domestic Ireland

• 1865: not found.
• 1870: not found.
• 1880, Otisfield, Cumberland Co., ME, p. 418A:

4 4 Hill, Daniel K. W M 61 ---- mar Farmer Maine Mass. Mass. -----, Sarah E. W F 52 Wife mar Keeping house Maine Me. Me.

• 1900, Norway, Oxford Co., ME, p. 15A: Sarah E. Hill, b. Mar 1829, aunt in the family of Lizzie F. Sweet; widowed, 0 children, 0 living.

References

• Reed, Axel Hayford, Genealogical record of the Reads, Reeds, the Bisbees, the Bradfords of the United States of America in the line of Esdras Read of Boston and England, 1635-1915. Thomas Besbedge or Bisbee of Scituate, Mass., and England, 1634 to 1915. Governor William Bradford of Plymouth, Mass., and England, 1620 to 1915. And their connections, with biographical sketches, illustrations, military services, etc., etc., etc. (Glencoe, MN: The author, 1915), p. 66.

1.^  "7 August 1873, Mr. Daniel K. Hill, Norway, and Mrs. Sarah E. Whitney, Cambridgeport, Mass., in Cambridge, Mass., by George R. Leavitt.," according to McAllister, Donald L., and Lucille E. Nass, eds., Marriage Returns of Oxford County, Maine Prior to 1892, Maine Genealogical Society Special Publication #16 (Rockport, Me.: Picton Press, c1993). Also "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 254, page 136. Also Lapham, William Berry, and Silas Packard Maxim, History of Paris, Maine: from Its Settlement to 1880, with a History of the Grants of 1736 & 1771 Together with Personal Sketches, a Copious Genealogical Register and an Appendix (Paris, ME: The authors, 1884), p. 633.

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