Family:Whitney, Josiah (1741-1810)

Josiah⁵ Whitney (John⁴, Nathaniel³, Benjamin², John¹), son of John⁴ and Jerusha (Knowles) Whitney, was born 7 Nov 1741, Eastham, MA, died Salmon River, Queens County, New Brunswick, 1810.

He married, 24 Jan 1771, Brookline, MA, Hannah Turner,^[1] daughter of Eliab and Martha (Barstow) Turner. She was born 1732, Cambridge, MA, and died 1807, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.

He resided Gaspé, Nova Scotia, and Salmon River, New Brunswick.

Children of Josiah⁵ and Hannah (Turner) Whitney:

i.	Seth6 Whitney, born -----. He is perhaps the same as John Seth Whitney (c1789-1871).
ii.	John Whitney, b. 1781; m.(1) Isabel -----; m.(2) Margaret -----.
iii.	Knowles [Noals] Whitney, born -----. In 1804 he resided on Cape Breton Island, NS, with his wife Sarah and their daughter Lydia Whitney, b. 16 Sep 1804, Cape Breton Island, NS. Nothing more has been found.
iv.	Eliab T. Whitney, b. 17 Dec 1789; m.(1) Lydia Butterworth; m.(2) Lydia Williams.
v.	Hannah Whitney born -----.
vi.	Margaret Hannah Whitney, born -----, possibly in Plymouth, MA; m. bef. 1793, William Samuel Lucas, b. in Plymouth, MA, the son of Abiel and Deziah (Sturtivant) Lucas of Plympton and Plymouth, MA, and Gaspe, Lower Canada (now Quebec). They had three children: a. Hannah Lucas, b. 10 Aug 1793, Malbay, Gaspe, Lower Canada. b. Abel Lucas, b. 1797, Malbay, Gaspe, Lower Canada. c. George Lucas, b. 1809, Lobster Bay, Gaspe, Lower Canada.
vii.	Sally Whitney, born -----.
viii.	Martha Whitney, born -----.

Notes

• For more information, see My Elusive Josiah Whitney.

References

• Some data imported from Frederick Clifton Pierce, The Descendants of John Whitney, Who Came from London, England, to Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1635, (Chicago: 1895), p. 120.

1.^  "Josiaah and Hannah Turner [int. reads (Josiah)], Jan. 24, 1771. In Brookline," according to Registry Department of the City of Boston, A Volume of Records Relating to the Early History of Boston, Containing Boston Marriages from 1752 to 1809 (Boston, MA: Rockwell and Churchill, 1903), p. 349.

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