Family:Whitney, Samuel (1779-1852)

Samuel⁶ Whitney (Benjamin⁵, Daniel⁴, Henry³, John², Henry¹), son of Benjamin⁵ and Sarah (Ketcham) Whitney, was born 16 Nov 1779, Warwick, NY, and died 10 Oct 1852, Shelby, NY.

He married, 1800, Newtown, NY, Hannah Carpenter, daughter of Joshua and Sarah (Burt) Carpenter. She was born 17 Nov 1781, Warwick, NY, and died 22 May 1850, Shelby, NY.

Phoenix says the following:

. . . a farmer; moved to Romulus, N.Y., with his father; . . . . They lived in Romulus till Jan. 1816, and then moved to Shelby, N.Y. . . . . They were buried in a cemetery that was laid out on their own farm, at Mount Pleasant, in West Shelby.

Children of Samuel⁶ and Hannah (Carpenter) Whitney:

i.	Sarah7 Whitney, b. 1801, Romulus, NY; m. John Adams Ross.
ii.	Abigail Whitney, b. 23 Oct 1803, Romulus, NY; m. John Adams Ross, above.
iii.	Job Whitney, b. 16 Jun 1805, Romulus, NY; m.(1) Caroline Porter; m.(2) Catherine Mary Kellogg.
iv.	Nancy Whitney, b. Romulus, NY; d. Romulus, NY, in childhood.
v.	Samuel Carpenter Whitney, b. 20 Dec 1808, Romulus, NY; m. Sarah Lucinda Locklin.
vi.	William Whitney, b. Romulus, NY; d. when "quite young".
vii.	Eliza Ann Whitney, b. 4 Sep 1814, Romulus, NY; m.(1) Willard Post; m.(2) Rensselaer Brace.
viii.	William Thompson Whitney, b. Shelby, NY; d. before 1873.
ix.	Caroline Whitney, b. 2 Jun 1822, Shelby, NY; m. David B. Jackson.

Census

• 1800: not found.
• Romulus, Seneca Co., NY: Samuel Whitny, 1 male 26-44, 2 males 0-9, 1 female 26-44, and 2 females 0-9.

References

• All data imported from Stephen Whitney Phoenix, The Whitney family of Connecticut, and its affiliations; being an attempt to trace the descendants, as well in the female as the male lines, of Henry Whitney, from 1649 to 1878; to which is prefixed some account of the Whitneys of England. (New York : Priv. Print. [Bradford Press] 1878), p. 183 and pp. 497-498.

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