User:Dutchengineer

This WRG Member is a Descendant of the immigrant John Whitney. My Whitney Line ThomasA Whitney, m. Mary Bray John1 Whitney, m. Elinor (-----) Joshua2 Whitney, m. Abigail Tarbell Cornelius3 Whitney, m. Sarah Shepherd Joshua4 Whitney, m. & Joanna (-----) Joseph W.5 Whitney, Sr., m. & Anna Eams Matilda6 Whitney, m. Ezra Dewell Ezra Duell, m. Henrietta Clark Arthur Duell, m. ----- ----- Louis Earl Duell, m. Alice Gertrude Bel Eleanor Miriam Duell, m. Glenn Gudger Sawyer Richard Lewis Sawyer

I am Richard Lewis Sawyer, currently residing in Kingston, MA. During the course of cleaning out some files, I discovered an ancestor chart, probably developed by my aunt, Bernice Duell Tyler who resides in upstate New York. A quick pursual lead to some curosity of what was available on the web. I discovered your group and your fastideous work tracing the Whitney family. While some of the information in the ancestor chart were clearly not accurate, based on your information, it tracked very well. Much of the error was the assumption that "Groton" in the records of Aunt Bernice were assumed to be Groton, Connecticut, not Groton, Massachusetts. I attribute this to her working backwards and running into Killingly, Connecticut and assumed that the roots went to Connecticut, not Massachusetts. It is clear from the preponderance of the other information, the correct path is Groton, Massachusetts - thank you!

Short version of the lineage: All dates are birth dates. Starting with Joshua Whitney (1 Dec 1724, Groton, MA) had a son Joseph Whitney (24 Oct 1753, Killingly, CT). Joseph W. had a daughter Matilda Whitney (20 July 1804, Granville, NY). This is where your records appear to end since the Whitney name was lost in her marriage to Ezra Dewell (10 April 1804, Granville, NY).

Matilda Whitney Dewell had a son, Ezra Duell (note name change)(30 April 1838, Granville, NY).

Ezra Duell (30 April 1838, Granville, NY) married Henrietta Clark (1848) and had son Arthur Duell (no birth date noted, but died in 1908, Walworth, NY).

Arthur Duell had a son Louis Earl Duell (17 Feb 1896, Walworth, NY) who married Alice Gertrude Bel (5 Mar 1901, Walworth, NY).

Louis Earl Duell (17 Feb 1896, Walworth, NY) had a daughter, Eleanor Miriam Duell (12 July 1921, Walworth, NY) who married Glenn Gudger Sawyer (15 January 1912, Stecoah, NC).

Eleanor Duell Sawyer (12 July 1921, Walworth, NY) had a son Richard Lewis Sawyer (7 Oct 1949, Rochester, NY).

Richard Lewis Sawyer has 2 daughters, Julie Kaye Shipe (21 Aug 1979, Manchester, CT), and Wendy Sue Sawyer (10 Nov 1981, Manchester, CT).

Of note: The "Sawyer" name traces back to 1703 in the James Olgethorpe Colony which is now Georgia where it mysteriously appears - We suspect a debtor ran for the hills of North Carolina and took the trade name to cover his tracks. Nice to know the Whitney's were respectable people in England!