Family:Whitney, Asa (1784-1860)
Capt. Asa6 Whitney (Joshua5, Joshua4, William3, Joshua2, John1), born Canaan Connecticut, 23 Feb 1784; married there 11 Mar 1806, Betsey Childs; born Groton, June, 1782; died 16 Apr 1836.
He was born in Connecticut and moved to Oswego County, New York, in 1807. He was the first man that began clearing up a farm in the town of Volney. Was captain in the state militia and served in the war of 1812. Participated in the battle of Oswego and at other places along the northern lakes. He resided in Volney twenty-six years. In 1830 he sold his farm and moved to the town of Penfield, in Monroe county, state of New York, where he remained four years, then sold his farm; in 1835 moved to Silver Creek, Chautauqua county, New York, bought a farm and kept a public house twenty years; then retired to private life. He died 18 May 1860; resided Silver Creek, New York.
Children of Asa6 Whitney:
i. William C.7 Whitney, born 7 Oct 1807; died unmarried July, 1832. ii. Adaline Whitney, born 11 Oct 1809; married in 1840 and d.s.p. iii. Charlotte Whitney, born 17 Dec 1816; married 1835, ----- Beatty; resided Toledo, Ohio. She died 1876, leaving one dau. Mrs. Bertha Boschert; resided T. iv. Edward B. Whitney, born 7 Feb 1819; married Eliza A. Homan.
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), p. 221.
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