Family:Whitney, Josiah (1781-1813)

Josiah⁶ Whitney (Abraham⁵, Abraham⁴, Isaiah³, Thomas², John¹), son of Abraham⁵ and Rebecca (Dudley) Whitney, was born 18 Aug 1781, Harvard, MA,^[1] and died 26 Feb 1813, Harvard, MA, aged 31 years.^[2]

He married 6 Feb 1803, Harvard, MA,^[3] Sally Puffer. She married secondly, 17 Apr 1814, Harvard, MA, Ezra Wetherbee.^[4]

He resided Harvard, MA.

Children of Josiah⁶ and Sally (Puffer) Whitney:

i.	Luke7 Whitney, b. 22 Apr 1803, Harvard, MA.[5] Was he perhaps the Luke Whitney, age 46, b. MA, residing in Springfield, Bradford Co., PA in 1850?
ii.	Jefferson Whitney, b. 29 Nov 1804, Harvard, MA;[6] d. 22 Feb 1813, Harvard, MA, aged 8 years.[7]

Census

• 1810: not found.. Enumerated in Harvard was a different Josiah⁷ Whitney.

References

• 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. 200.

1.^  "Josiah [Whitney], s. of Abraham and Rebekah, [born] Aug. 18, 1781," according to Thomas W. Baldwin, ed., Vital Records of Harvard, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1917).

2.^  "Josiah [Whitney], [died] Feb. 26, 1813, a. 31 y. G.R.1," according to Harvard Vital Records.

3.^  "Josiah [Whitney] and Sally Puffer, [married] Feb. 6, 1803," according to Harvard Vital Records.

4.^  "Sally [Whitney] and Ezra Wetherbee, [married] Apr. 17, 1814," according to Harvard Vital Records.

5.^  "Luke [Whitney], s. of Josiah and Sally, [born] Apr. 22, 1803," according to Harvard Vital Records.

6.^  "Jefferson [Whitney], s. of Josiah and Sally, [born] Nov. 29, 1804," according to Harvard Vital Records.

7.^  "Jefferson [Whitney], [died] Feb. 22, 1813, a. 8 y. C.R.1," according to Harvard Vital Records.

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