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Revision as of 20:34, 7 July 2006
Silas6 Whitney (David5, Benjamin4, Thomas3, Thomas2, John1), born prob. 1737; married in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, Mar, 1758, Jane Pearson, of that place.
He was born probably in 1737. In 1758 he went to No Town (Princeton) and purchased land. He was a blacksmith and followed that trade. His wife, whom he married soon after going to No Town, was from Shrewsbury, where they were married. In 1763 he moved to Winchendon, and soon after, in Feb 1773, to Rindge, New Hampshire, from which place he was warned out of town. While residing in Winchendon he kept hotel at the center, and in 1764 was chosen church warden and surveyor of boards and shingles. Later he moved to Clarendon, Vermont. In the county of Worcester, Massachusetts, Registry of Deeds, lib.57, fol.50. There is a record of a deed of Silas Whitney and wife Jane, of Princeton, to one Jones, 2 Jul 1762. This is the land he had purchased four years before. Resided Princeton and Winchendon, Massachusetts, Rindge, New Hampshire. Clarendon, Vermont.
Children of Silas6 Whitney:
i. Love7 Whitney, born Dec 18, 1758. ii. David Whitney, born Aug 31, 1761; married Sarah Wilson. iii. Silas Whitney, born 12 Jun 1762; resided St Armand, Quebec, where he died and was buried. iv. Oliver Whitney, born in W., Sept 16,1764; married Abigail Crampton. v. Bartholomew Whitney, born 30 Jun 1766; married Lois -----; resided Clarendon, Vermont, and had a son, Joel, born Sept 9, 1791. vi. Jane Whitney, born 6 Jun 1768. vii. Phebe Whitney, born Dec 1, 1770. viii. Samuel Whitney, born Winchendon, 1771 or 1772; married Eunice Whitney and Martha Parmetuer. ix. Mercy Whitney, born Rindge, Nh., 1772. x. Benjamin Whitney, born Dec 16, 1777; married Mary -----. xi. Solomon Whitney, born -----. xii. Lucy Whitney, born -----; married ----- Brown.
References
1. All data imported from Frederick Clifton Pierce, The Descendants of John Whitney, Who Came from London, England, to Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1635, (Chicago: 1895), pp. 189-190.
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