Mailing List:1998-03-28 18, Whitney Info, by Nedra Kidder
Mailing List Archives > 1998-03-28 18, Whitney Info, by Nedra Kidder
From: Catlover70 <Catlover70 -at- aol.com> Subject: Whitney Info Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 21:35:17 EST I was recently down in Barnsville, Ohio doing research on the Whitney line and I ran across this book on pominent families in Monroe County. If anyone if interested this is what was in the book: Another Monroe County family with a lengthy llineage is the Whitney family. John Whitney, born Feb 10, 1804, family no 100 in the Perry Twonship,Monroe Census in 1850, can be traced back to William, Duke of Normandy, Commonly called " William the Conqueror", King of England 1066-1087, and his wife Matilda, daughter of Baldwin, Earl of Flanders and Grandaughter of Robert, King of France. The Monroe co. John Whitney died Feb 4, 1854 and is buried at Brownsville, Monroe co. He was a Baptist preacher. dr. Joseph M . Cain of 4200 NE 24th Ave, Pompano Bach Fla, 33064 has sent me a detailed lineage of this family. He stated that the records in the lineage from 1653 to 1915 were compiled by his uncle, Wm. Henry His, D.D.S. of Clarksburg, W. Va., who attested to their accuracy and it seems that the genealogy prior to the Whitney's emigration to America was compiled by a genealogist in London. According to Dr. Cain's information, John Whitney was married three times, and he had no children by his first and second wives. His other wife was Sarah Hensel, born Oct 11, 1806,died December 29, 1847, to whom he married February 24, 1922. Srah Hensal Whitney is bured at Brownsville, Monroe County. However, according to the back files of this paper, under date of April 9, 1856, at the time of John Whitney's death, his wife was named Elizabeth as she was names as his widow in a suit brought for partition on real estate By Simon Whitney. According to that suit, the heirs of John Whitney were: Andrew Snyder and Rebecca, his wife; John S. Whitney, Henry Teman and Unice, his wife; Wm. Raper and Margaret; his wife, Enoch Whitney, Joheph Hill and Hannah his wife. dr Cain is descended through Hannah Whitney Hill. John Whitney was a Baptist preacher and he was the son on Nathan Whitney and his wife Eunice Cottle. Nathan was born Sept. 10, 1769 and died June 14, 1852. His wife, Eunice was born Oct. 10, 1778 and died June 14, 1871. Nathan Whitney was the son of David Whitney born August 8, 1732 and his wife Rebecca Edgecomb, to whom he married as his third wife. According to the " DAR Patriot Index" David died after 1790 and he was a private serving in both the Maine and Massachusetts lines. Therefore if this is your family, you have a Revolutionary ancestor in David Whitney. David Whitney was the son of Nathan Whitney, born in Biddleford, Maine in 1704, and the grandson of yet another Nathan Whitney born April 14, 1680 in York, Maine, and the great-grandson of Benjamin Whitney ( youngest son of a John Whitney) with that Benjamin's birthday being June 6, 1643. Dr. Cains charts show that the above John Whitney was the imigrance ancestor to America in 1653, and that he was the great-grandson of Sir Robert Whitney, Knight and Dame Sybil, his wife, as attested by C.E. Gildersome, Grat Turnstile, London, October 1895. At one place in the London Genealogy chart, it notes that prior to the date 1242, there is this notation " three four generations cannot be stated with certainty. *** Don't know if this is any interst to anyone or something you didn't already know, but I thought it to be quite interesting since I am floundering around trying to trace by roots. It doesn't seem like too many of you Whitneys had ties to Ohio unless ( forgive me) I am mistaken. Anyway, just thought I would pass this along. : ) Cat
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