Mailing List:2003-06-08 02, children of Amy Whitney & Silas Haines, by Ron Kyser

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From: R R Kyser <sorryken -at- att.net> Subject: [WHITNEY-L] children of Amy Whitney & Silas Haines Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 03:09:19 -0500 Our Henry database shows only one child for this couple: <a href="http://www.whitneygen.org/databases/igmget.cgi/n=Henry?I818">http://www.whitneygen.org/databases/igmget.cgi/n=Henry?I818</a> . Phoenix shows none. But Donald Lines Jacobus has five: "Haynes, Silas born 22 Nov 1745, killed in battle at Fairfield, 8 July 1799; called of North Stratford, he m. at Greenfield, 3 Nov 1768, Amy Whitney, b. 6 June 1747, Children, rec. Weston, bapt. Easton: Molly, b. 15, bapt. 25 Dec. 1769 Amy, b. 12 Nov., bapt. 29 Dec 1771, m. Dec. 1790 Nathaniel-Freeman Seeley Sarah, b. 7 Mar 1774, d. 15 Aug 1794 Ruth, b. 25 Feb. 1776; m. 3 Jan 1798 Nehemiah Lyon Silas, b. 8 Dec 1779; chose Nathaniel F. Seeley for guardian, 1794" (Families of Old Fairfield, p. 442) (Note Silas Jr.'s birth several months after his father's death.) Our file shows Sarah marrying James Redfield, which (I think) the DAR might have accepted. That leaves only Molly with an unknown fate. How best to ferret this fate out? Her Grandpa Whitney dies when she's 26; might his will give a clue? But then, he's got too many grandchildren to single out... Did you ever get the feeling you were being teased from the Great Beyond? A few years back I was given two bits of info about Pardon Worden Sr., whose Jr. married his way into John's database. One was an ordinary, if undemonstrated, assertion that he married this particular Molly; the other was the totally preposterous story that little brother Isaac served as Gen. Washington's page boy. Yeah, right. So, during a search through Dutchess County records in late May, guess which of these claims presents evidence for itself? Why are Mollys so difficult? The hard-headedness of this list is much to be preferred to the Anjouvian mysticism and wishful thinking of the more naïve genealogists. But consider the eerie way I got into this field. Ancestors were the last thing on my mind when, surfing the Web four years ago to the hour, I tripped over a John Whitney descendancy with my dad in it. Other than a little brother of my own, it was the most amazing thing I ever got on my birthday. Cheers, Ron Kyser

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