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White, Paul R., Jr., "Maine Estate Schedules From Revolutionary War Pensions," NEHGR, Volume CXLV (1991), pp. 44-56,

[See also Vol. 142]

[p. 45]

235. Uriel Whitney, 62, North Yarmouth, private, Moors' Co., Prescott's Regt., Mass. Real estate - seventy four acres of land in the back part of North Yarmouth, a small house and barn on it - the house unfinished. About one half of said land is wild and part swampy. Personal estate - 1 yoke of young oxen, 4 cows, 2 yearlings, 16 sheep, a mare and colt, 2 swine - I have no income, but the earnings and labor of two little boys. I am justly owing forty dollars. I have a few necessary utensils in the house. Farmer, not able [due to] the cords of my arme being drawn up and sweeping, and a troublesome and painful difficulty of a swollen scrotum by which I am rendered almost helpless and have been for a number of years. Betsey, wife, 40, very infirm. Betsey, 24, Sally, 22, Harriet, 20, Charlotte, 19, Statira, 18, daughters able to support themselves. Uriel, 15, Lewis, 12, young sons able to work. Stricken, $1169.20. 26 June 1820.

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291. Joshua Whitney, 60, Buxton, private, Banister's Co., Sheppard's Regt., Mass. Real estate, I have none - nine acres of poor land which I mentioned in a former schedule in June last, has been taken from me by execution, in part satisfaction of just debts I was then owing. Personal estate, I have none except a few mean house utensils for family use. I have no income and am still in debt and poor and needy. Laborer, not able [due to] lameness and infirmity of age. Huldah, 28, a daughter who takes care of the family. Almina, 16, not able to support herself now. Samuel, 24, a son lately returned from Canada, sick and unable to help himself. Abigail Barker, 12, Mary Barker, 9, Samuel Barker, 5, grandchildren whom I have to support now living with me. Continued, $5.37. 3 January 1821.

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376. Uriel Whitney, 71, North Yarmouth, Moore's Co., Prescott's Regt., Mass. Real estate, I have seventy four acres of land in North Yarmouth with a house and barn on it. Personal estate, I have two steers, two cows, one horse, one heifer, one swine, one yearling heifer, eight sheep, one sleigh and harness, and a few articles of household furniture. I have no income. Farmer, not able [due to] age and infirmity and losing the use of my arms on account of weeping sinews. Betsey, wife, 50, very feeble woman. Cynthia Soule, an orphan girl, 13, able to wait upon us and work about the house. $900. 14 February 1829.

Carney, John B., "In Search of Fayerweather: The Fayerweather Family of Boston," NEHGR, Volume CXLV (1991), pp. 57-75, 141-158, 241-257.

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29. Hanford5 Fayerweather (Thomas'4, Benjamin3, John2, Thomas1) was born, probably at Norwalk, Connecticut, about 1735. He died at Norwalk 27 August 1795 (Norwalk VRs, Barbour Collection [hereinafter Norwalk VRs], 40 citing LR 18:12).
He married at Norwalk, 26 March 1775, Mary Whitney (ibid.), born 12 August 1755, the daughter of Joseph and Mary (Coit) Whitney; she died at Norwalk 31 October 1827 (S. Whitney Phoenix, The Whitney Family of Connecticut and its Affiliations, Being an Attempt to Trade the Descendants ... of Henry Whitney from 1649 to 1848 ..., 3 vols. [New York, 1878] [hereinafter Whitney Family], 1:23, 48-49). [snip]

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There is some confusion in the list of Hanford and Mary's children. Barbour's Norwalk VRs do not include Sarah, who was baptized in 1783 at Stamford. Another compilation of Norwalk records omits Sarah and Benjamin, but gives Benjamin's birthdate to Betsey (Edwin Hall, comp., The Ancient Historical Records of Norwalk, Conn.: with a Plan of the Ancient Settlement, and of the Town in 1847 [Norwalk and New York, 1847] [hereinafter Ancient Norwalk], 247). The Whitney Genealogy apparently used Barbour, and thus also missed Sarah.
Children (Norwalk VRs, 40); surname Fayerweather:
  i. Anne6, b. 22 Aug. 1775; d. after Oct. 1828; m. (1) ____ Warner (Whitney Genealogy, 132); m. (2) as his second wife, before Oct. 1828, William Stevens (ibid.). He m. (3) Jane (Selleck) Fayerweather, widow of Anne's brother Jedediah (ibid.)
Children (ibid., 366-367); surname Warner:
  1. William, a baker, who settled on Staten Island, N.Y., and in Oct. 1875 was living in Brooklyn.
  2. Susan; m. Henry7 Fayerweather (Jedediah6, Hanford5).
  3. Thomas, a butcher; lived at Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1875.
43. ii. Jedediah, b. 1 Feb. 1779; m. Jane Selleck.
  iii. James Whitney, b. 29 March 1781. It has been suggested that he was the James Fayerweather who died at Bridgeport [? - cannot read] (Betty Fairweather Essex), but he has not been found in the 1810 or 1820 Census.
  iv. Sarah, bp. 6 July 1783, "daughter of Hanford Fairweather, formerly of Norwalk" (Baptisms and Marriages, St. John's Episcopal Church, Spencer P. Mead, Abstracts of Church Records of the Town of Stamford ... to 1850 [typescript, 1924] [hereinafter Stamford Church Abstracts], 250); no further record.
  v. Thomas Coit, b. 17 May 1783; d. 29 May 1785.
44. vi. Thomas, b. 10 Feb. 1786; m. Susan _____.
  vii. Maria, b. 10 Sept. 1788; d. after 1 Feb. 1813 (Whitney Genealogy, 1:133); m. in 1807 Daniel Curtiss, b. at Stratford, Conn., 10 March 1775, d. there 25 Feb. 1849, buried there in Union Cemetery, son of Daniel and Abigail (Osborn) Curtiss (Harlow Dunham Curtis, comp., A Genealogy of the Curtiss-Curtis Family of Stratford, Connecticut - A Supplement to the 1903 Edition [Stratford, 1953] [hereinafter Curtiss Supplement], 85; Whitney Genealogy, 1, 133). On 1 Feb. 1813 they joined her unmarried sister Betsey in mortgaging to Stephen Mott their shares of their father's estate, which then lay in the undivided homestead of their mother, "the widow Mary Fayerweather," in Norwalk (ibid.).
Children (ibid., 1:368); surname Curtiss:
  1. James Langdon, b. 19 Feb. 1808; d. at Stratford 10 Nov. 1903 in 96th yr; m. Clarissa Racey. James was a merchant and founder of New Jersey Zinc Works, living in Yonkers, N.Y., with an office at 68 Wall St., New York City, in 1875. For more information about their daughters, Clara J., Adelaide, Laura, and Julia, see Curtiss Supplement.
  2. Daniel Hanford, d. at New York City in 1868; m. 28 April 1845 Mary Ann (___) Nash, widow of ____ Nash of Stamford, Conn. She was living in Oct. 1875 on 18th St., New York City. His will dated 17 Sept. 1857 named wife Mary, mother Maria, Georgiana Nash [stepdaughter?], and sons Hanford and Charles.
  viii. Betsey, b. 29 March 1790 (Norwalk VRs) or 19 March 1792 (her own record, Whitney Genealogy, 1:133); d. at Brooklyn, N.Y., 4 April 1872; buried in Greenwood Cemetery (ibid.); m. at Ridgefield, Conn., soon after 1 Feb. 1813, Daniel Nash, a blacksmith, b. at Newtown, Conn., ca. 1783, d. at Norwalk in mid-Oct. 1843, aged about 60 yrs, buried there in St. Paul's Churchyard, son of Peter Micajah and Zaidee (Skidmore) Nash (ibid.). For information about their ten children, see Whitney Genealogy, 1:133.
  ix. Benjamin, b. 27 Sept. 1792. According to tradition, he was a mariner, lost at sea.

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45. John5 Fayerweather (Thomas'4, John3-2, Thomas1) was baptized at Old South Church, Boston, 2 July 1769 (Old South Church,CR 1), and died at Westborough, Massachusetts, 24 February 1826 (Vital Records of Westborough, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 [Worcester, 1903] [hereinafter Westborough VRs], 237). He married there, 28 October 1805, Sally Wheelock (ibid., 150), who was born there 21 February 1779 (ibid., 218, 105), and died there 9 May 1855, aged 76, daughter of Moses and Lydia (Bond) Wheelock (Mass. VRs, 1855, 95:167). [snip]

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Children, b. at Westborough, Mass. (Westborough VRs, 43; middle names from Charles H. Reed, "Thomas Fayerweather," in Westboro Chronotype of 11 June 1937, Westborough Public Library; added data from Fayerweather File); surname Fayerweather: [snip]
  1. Sarah Hubbard, b. 7 Jan 1810; d. at Westborough in 1893 (Worcester Co. Probate file 15353); m. (1) at Westborough, 30 March [or 8 May] 1833, Charles Parkman Jones, b. at Boston (Westborough VRs, 150), ca. 1808 (calc.), d. at Westborough 18 Aug. 1835, aged 27 (ibid., 245). Sarah m. there, (2), 22 Jan. 1845, Nathan B. Chamberlain of Boston, a widower and mechanic, son of Jason and Eliza (____) Chamberlain (Mass. VRs, 1845, 13:191).
    2. Child; surname Jones:
    1. Sarah Abigail, b. 21 July 1834 (Westborough VRs, 65); m. at Westborough 19 Jan. 1859 Alfred Tufts, 29, a civil engineer, b. at Charlestown 14 Aug. 1829, son of Joseph Frothingham and Hannah (Whitney) Tufts (Mass. VRs., 1859, 128:235); Wyman, Charlestown Genealogies and Estates, 969), d. at Newtonville, Mass., 24 March 1882 (Newton Directory, 1883); had issue. She m. (2) at Newtonville, 25 Nov. 1886, Moses G. Davis, 68, widower and farmer, bp. at Grafton, Mass., 7 April 1822, son of Joseph J. and Sarah (Maynard) Davis (Grafton VRs, 41,193; Mass. VRs, 1886, Marriages, 371:271; 372:384). [snip]

Nielsen, Donald M., "The Revere Family," NEHGR, Volume CXLV (1991), pp. 291-316.

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5. Paul3 Revere (Paul2, Apollos/Paul1) was born at Boston 6 January 1760 and died there 16 January 1813, aged 53, of consumption (Boston VRs, BCA). He married at Boston 25 July 1782 Sally Edwards (BRC 30:450), who was born there 13 September 1761 and died there 23 August 1808, aged 45, called Sarah in her death record (Boston VRs., BCA), daughter of Dolin and Rebecca (Christie) Edwards.
Paul3 reportedly took part in the Boston Tea Party with his father. [snip]

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Children, (Revere Ms), born at Boston, surname Revere: [snip]

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  1. George, b. 24 April 1795; d. at Somerville, Mass., 10 Jan. 1870 (Mass. Vrs. 230:269). He was a merchant. He m. (1) at Boston, 16 Sept. 1819 Abigail Tufts (Boston VRs, BCA: Marriages 2:237), b. there 23 Feb. 1795, dau. of Ebenezer and Betsey (Tarbox) Tufts, d. there 22 March 1821, aged 26, of consumption, buried Copp's Hill (Herbert Freeman Adams, The Compendium of Tufts Kinsmen [Boston, 1975], 109; Boston VRs, BCA). He m. (2) at Boston, 4 April 1822 Mary Coffin Smith (ibid.: Marriages 2:239), b. there 25 Nov. 1800, d. at Needham, Mass., 29 Sept. 1869 (Mass. VRs 221:269), dau. of Joseph and Rachel (Cary) Smith.
    2. Children by first wife, Abigail Tufts; surname Revere:
    1. Daughter, d. Feb. 1821
    Children by second wife, Mary Coffin Smith, all but last b. at Boston:
    1. George Brigham, b. 26 Jan. 1823; d. at Brockton, Mass., 11 Dec. 1882, a shoe operative (Mass. VRs 338:301); m. (1) at Needham, 9 Nov. 1848 Elizabeth Frances Kingsbury (ibid., 38:147), b. there 28 April 1828, d. there 24 Feb. 1853 (ibid., 76:164), dau. of William Alden and Mary Ann (Shedd) Kingsbury of Lexington, Mass. Two children. He m. (2) at New York, N.Y., 19 Oct. 1854 Lucy Jane Whitney, b. at Boston 16 Dec. 1818, d. at Needham 11 Jan. 1861 (Mass. VRs 148:257), dau. of Daniel and Hannah (Shedd) Whitney. Two children. He m. (3) at Needham, Mass., 4 Oct. 1868 Arbella Groves (ibid., 209:308), b. at Yarmouth 20 Dec. 1838, d. at Brockton 5 Jan. 1924, dau. of John and Jane (Videto) Groves (ibid., 1924:7:6). One child. [snip]

"Kennebec County, Maine, in 1800," NEHGR, Volume CXLV (1991), pp. 346-366.

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Settlement East of Winslow called Freetown [12/27]
John Whitney - year emigrated: 1795; from: Maine
Charles Whitney - year emigrated: 1795; from: Maine

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