Family:Whitney, Amos (1766-1854)

Amos⁶ Whitney (Levi⁵, Daniel⁴, Jonathan³, Jonathan², John¹), born 11 Feb 1766; married in Concord, 16 Apr 1789, Anna Brown. He was in the coopering business at Chelmsford, now Middlesex village, where he lived, and where he acquired a large property in that trade. He died 2 Oct 1854; resided Chelmsford, Massachusetts.

Children of Amos⁶ Whitney:

i.

Amos7 Whitney, born 1790; died unmarried 19 Oct 1873. Amos Whitney was never married. He was a man of exemplary character, without being particularly enterprising. In 1854 his father died and left him a large anount of wealth, though his means were ample without his inheritance. He left a will at his decease, giving $20,000 to relatives, $2,500 to the "Old Ladies' Home" at Lowell, and made Tuft's college the residuary legatee. His estate was valued at over $50,000.

ii.

Sewell Whitney, born -----; died -----.

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. 201-202.

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