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Welcome!

Welcome to the Whitney Research Group (WRG). Thanks for posting your lineage back to Mattie Whitney. I have done some research on her, and have found her parents and paternal grandparents. I have entered them on your lineage page. This comes from census records and some undocumented family trees found at Ancestry.com, so could use a little more supporting proof, but is highly probably correct.

Aaron Whitney is a bit of a mystery. The first sure record of him we have found (so far!) is in the 1850 census in Waterville, Kennebec Co., ME. His wife is sometimes called Keziah, but that is wrong. Her name was probably more conventionally spelled Desire, being named after her paternal grandmother, Desire (Tupper) Dillingham. Much is known of Deziah's ancestry, including a line to William Brewster of the "Mayflower", but nothing about Aaron.

I hope this helps.

- Robert Ward - Talk to me 11:35, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Mattie's Siblings

Dear Miniquilts,

I found the following about her siblings, from the book Abbott, Lemuel Abijah, Descendants of George Abbott, of Rowley, Mass.: of his joint descendants with George Abbott, sr., of Andover, Mass., of the descendants of Daniel Abbott, of Providence, R.I., of some of the descendants of Capt. Thomas Abbott, of Andover, Mass., of George Abbott, of Norwalk Ct., of Robert Abbott, of Branford Ct., with brief notes of many others of the name, original settlers in the United States (Boston: Abbott, 1906), 1246 pgs.

In volume 1, on pp. 416-417, it shows:

655 Hannah⁷ Abbott, b. Apr. 14, 1781; d. -----; m. Aaron Whitney, of Watertown, Mass., a desc. of John and Eleanor Whitney, who embarked from Ipswich, Engl, Apr., 1635, and settled in Watertown, where he was selectman and town clerk. Aaron d. in Watertown. [Footnote: Bond's Gens. of Watertown, 1855, p. 642.] She m.(2d), prob. in Fairfield, Me., Mr. Littlefield; had 1 child (8th gen.), b. in Watertown, Mass.:

i. Aaron⁸ Whitney, b. 1806(?); d. in Fairfield, 1873(?); m. there 1844(?), Keziah Dillingham, dau. of Benjamin, prob. of Sandwich, N.H.; blacksmith and laborer; Repub.; Univ.; had 2 chil. (9th gen.), b. in Fairfield, Me.:

a. Joseph Benjamin⁹ Whitney, b. Nov. 30, 1847; m. in Fairfield, May 22, 1869, Ida Emma Wyman, b. in Cornville, Somerset Co., Me., Sept. 7, 1852, dau. of John, of Skowhegan, Me.; served in the Civ. War, priv. Co. B, 2d Regt., Me. Vol. Cav., Nov. 16, 1863, to Dec. 20, 1865; res. in Cornville; has 12 chil. (10th gen.):

1. George Everett¹⁰ Whitney, b. in Fairfield, Mar 20, 1870; m. in Framingham, Mass., Nellie Dennis.
2. Charles Edwin¹⁰ Whitney, b. in Fairfield, Feb. 19, 1872; m. in Harmony, Me., Sadie Lizzie Ames; res. in Cornville.
3. Ervin¹⁰ Whitney, b. in Fairfield, Nov. 17, 1874; d. there May 2, 1877.
4. Walter¹⁰ Whitney, b. in Fairfield, Mar. 5, 1876; d. there May 7, 1877.
5. Harry¹⁰ Whitney, b. in Fairfield, July 18, 1878; d. there Sept. 20, 1881.
6. Henrietta¹⁰ Whitney, b. in Fairfield, Nov. 6, 1880.
7. Richard¹⁰ Whitney, b. in Canaan, Me., Feb. 11, 1883.
8. Mida Bell¹⁰ Whitney, b. in Fairfield, Dec. 13, 1884.
9. Mattie¹⁰ Whitney, b. in Fairfield, Jan. 31, 1887
10. Frederick Ernest¹⁰ Whitney, b. in Canaan, May 20, 1888.
11. William¹⁰ Whitney, b. in Canaan, Aug. 29, 1891.
12. Grace May¹⁰ Whitney, b. in Canaan, Dec. 19, 1893.

b. Dau.⁹, b. -----; d. in Fairfield, 1852(?).

The book traces the ancestry of Hannah⁷ Abbott back to the immigrant: Joseph⁶ and Ruth (Buckman) Abbott, Joseph⁵ and Hannah (White) Abbott, Nehemiah⁴ and Sarah (Foster) Abbott, Nehemiah³ and Abigail (Lovejoy) Abbott, George² and Sarah (Farnum) Abbott, George¹ and ----- (-----) Abbott of Rowley.

If the book is right about Aaron's parentage, then we can trace his Whitney ancestry starting at this page: Family:Whitney, Aaron (1780-a1810).

I note that the above book is wrong about what is said in Bond's book. There it just gives the birth of Aaron in 1780 and his ancestry, but nothing about a marriage or death.

- Robert Ward - Talk to me 19:58, 27 November 2011 (UTC)