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Volume One: Lucy Mary Kellogg, FASG, ed., Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1975, 1978). This volume includes the families of Francis Eaton, Samuel Fuller, and William White.

No Whitneys found.


Volume Two: Robert M. Sherman, F.A.S.G., ed., Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1978). This volume includes the families of James Chilton, Richard More, and Thomas Rogers.

No Whitneys found.


Volume Three: John E. Soule, Col., and Milton E. Terry, Ph.D., Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1980). This volume includes the family of George Soule.

No Whitneys found.


Volume Four: Bruce Campbell MacGunnigle, C. G., ed., Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620 (2nd ed.; Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1995). This volume includes the family of Edward Fuller.

page 124: 
John Roath-5 (Sarah Williams-4, Mary-3 Fuller, Samuel-2, Edward-1), b.
Norwich CT b. Nov. 1697, d. aft. 24 April 1760.

On 24 April 1760 John Roath ... sold 17 acres in Norwich East Society he
had bought from William Whitney.

Volume Five: L.M. Kellogg, ed., Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1991). This volume includes the families of Edward Winslow and John Billington.

page 56:
Mercy/Marcy Sabin-4 (Mary-3 Billington, Francis-2, John-1) b. Rehoboth 8
March 1665/6, d. aft. 18 June 1728, undoubtedly in Connecticut.

The inventory [of her husband James Welch], taken by Joshua Whitney, Philip
Bump and Joseph Lawrence, was recorded 10 Feb. 1726/7 [in Plainfield, CT].

Volume Six: John D. Austin, F.A.S.G., Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620 (2nd ed.; Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1995). This volume includes the family of Stephen Hopkins.

page 250:
Joseph Brown-5 (Ruth Snow-4, Joseph-3, Constance-2 Hopkins, Stephen-1) ...
m. Susanna Cole ...
Children (BROWN)
ii. Joseph b. 2 June 1745 [in Eastham, ME]; m. Hannah Whitney.

[The father was of Eastham and Gorham, Maine, so I would suspect that the
marriage may have taken place in this area.]

page 251:
Jesse Brown-5  (Ruth Snow-4, Joseph-3, Constance-2 Hopkins, Stephen-1) ...
m. Elizabeth Walker ...
children (BROWN)
ii. Hannah b. 24 May 1731; m. David Whitney at Gorham ME.

page 471:
Constant-5 Hopkins (Caleb-4, Caleb-3, Giles-2, Stephen-1) ... m. Phebe
Paine ...
Children (HOPKINS) all rec. Truro:
vi. Phebe b. 17 May 1759; m. (1) Elijah Davis of Gorham ME; m. (2) Asa
Whitney of Gorham.

Volume Seven: Robert S. Wakefield, F.A.S.G., Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1992). This volume includes the family of Peter Brown.

No Whitneys found.


Volume Eight: Robert S. Wakefield, F.A.S.G., ed., Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1994). This volume includes the family of Degory Priest.

page 25:
Jeremiah Holman-4 (Mercy Pratt-3, Mary-2 Priest, Degory-1) ... m. Abigail
----- ...
On 4 Feb. 1722/3 Jeremiah Holman and wife Abigail sold two tracts in Stow
to Nathan Whitney.
On 5 March 1739/40 Jeremiah Holman, Nathan Whitney of Stow and wife Mary
and Gabriel Priest of Harvard and wife Abigail sold to Samuel Nurse of
Salem two tracts of land in Bolton which was owned by Jeremiah Holman when
he died.

page 66:
Mary Holman-5 (Jeremiah-4, Mercy Pratt-3, Mary-2 Priest, Degory-1) b.
Sudbury; d. aft. 17 May 1763.
She m. Lancaster 18 Nov. 1719 Nathan Whitney, b. prob. Stow ca. 1689; d.
there bef. 15 June 1761; son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Laurence) Whitney.
The will of Nathan Whitney, husbandman of Stow, dated 18 June 1755, proved
15 June 1761, about "to March in an Expedition against the Enemy" names
wife Mary, sons Nathan and Jeremiah; three daus. Phebe Warner, Mary Priest
and Eunice Warner. The widow Mary and son Nathan had a falling out; Mary
wrote the Judge 22 April 1763 and Nathan answered 17 May 1763.

Children (WHITNEY) b. Stow:

  i. Phebe (named in will)
 ii. Nathan b. 6 March 1723/4
iii. Mary b. 4 June 1727
 iv. Jeremiah b. 1 April 1729
  v. Eunice (named in will).

References: LANCASTER VR p. 17(m.); STOW pp. 94 (b. Nathan), 103(b.
Jeremiah), 104(b. Mary). Middlesex Co. PR #24726(Nathan Whitney). MA MARR
3:61.

Volume Nine: Lee Douglas Van Antwerp, M.D., C.G., and Robert S. Wakefield, F.A.S.G., ed., Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1994). This volume includes the family of Francis Eaton.

pages 131-132:
EBENEZER LAKE-5 (Mercy-4 Eaton, Ebenezer-3, Benjamin-2,
Francis-1) b. No. Yarmouth, ME 17 Sept. 1734; d. bef. 14 Oct.
1811.
   He m. prob. No. Yarmouth, ME 18 Oct. 1759 SARAH
MERRILL, b. Salisbury 5 Jan. 1736/7; living 13 April 1807
(deed); dau. of Samuel and Anna (Evans) Merrill.
   ...
   On 4 Feb. 1817 Samuel Whitney of Readfield, yeoman,
and wife Anna; John Walker of Pejepscot, yeoman, and wife
Jane; John Stinchfield of Pejepscot, yeoman, and wife Sarah;
Simeon Wilbour of New Gloucester, yeoman, and wife Elizabeth;
and John Lake of Jay, yeoman, sold half a lot in New Glou-
cester to Joseph Thrasher.
   ...
   Children (LAKE):
      i JOANNA (or JANE)<sup>6</sup> b. 15 Feb. 1760; bp. No. Yar-
         mouth ME 15 June 1760
     ii SARAH b. New Gloucester ME 25 Oct. 1767
    iii HANNAH b. New Gloucester ME ca. 1770
     iv ELIZABETH b. New Gloucester ME ca. 1775
      v ANNA b. New Gloucester ME ca. 1780
<pre>
----
Volume Ten:  Katharine Warner Radasch, Arthur Hitchcock Radasch, Margaret
Harris Stover, C.G., and Robert S. Wakefield, F.A.S.G, ed., <i>Mayflower Families
through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth,
Mass. December 1620</i> (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower
Descendants, 1994). This volume includes the family of Samuel Fuller.
<pre>
page 105:
   The will of Daniel Edson of Springfield, Windsor Co.
VT dated 4 Jan. 1813, proved 27 July 1816, names wife Eleanor;
eldest son Isaiah, eldest daughter Silva Hooker wife of John
Hooker; Olive wife of Moses Bacon; dau. Lawrana Edson; dau.
Mable Whitney wife of Isaac Whitney and youngest son Asa
Bacon.

Volume Eleven, Part I: Peter B. Hill, comp., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1996). This volume includes part of the family of Edward Doty, through sons Edward and John.

No Whitneys found.


Volume Eleven, Part I: Peter B. Hill, comp., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1996). This volume includes part of the family of Edward Doty, through sons Thomas and Samuel and daughters Desire and Elizabeth..

No Whitneys found.


Volume Eleven, Part III: Peter B. Hill, comp., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2000). This volume includes part of the family of Edward Doty, through sons Isaac and Joseph and daughter Mary.

page 162:
923. OLIVE-5 DOTY (Silas-4, Joseph-3-2, Edward-1) bap. Amenia NY 16 Aug. 1761 [1]
     She m. MATHIAS WHITNEY; lived Fort Ann, Washington Co., NY [2].
     No Washington Co. NY probate for Mathias or Olive Whitney has been found.
Children (WHITNEY) [3]:
      i MATHIAS-6 bap. Hancock, Berkshire Co. 30 Oct. 1794
     ii SILAS bap. Hancock 5 Apr. 1798
    iii SUSANNA bap. Hancock 23 Oct. 1800
References:  [1] NYGBR 35:109-11;  [2] DOTY GEN. p. 640;   [3] IGI (C541101)

Volume Twelve: Ralph V. Wood, Jr., Francis Cooke of the Mayflower, The First Five Generations (Rockport, ME: Picton Press, 1996; rev. ed., 1999). This volume includes the family of Francis Cooke.

No Whitneys found.


Volume Thirteen: Ruth Wilder Sherman, F.A.S.G, Robert Moody Sherman, C.G., F.A.S.G, and Robert S. Wakefield, F.A.S.G., ed., Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1997). This volume includes the family of William White.

No Whitneys found.


Volume Fourteen: Russell L. Warner and Robert S. Wakefield, F.A.S.G., ed., Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1997). This volume includes the family of Myles Standish.

No Whitneys found.


Volume Fifteen: Robert Moody Sherman, C.G., F.A.S.G., Verle Delano Vincent, Robert S. Wakefield, F.A.S.G., and Lydia Dow Finlay, C.A.L.S., Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1997). This volume includes the families of James Chilton and Richard More..

No Whitneys found.


Volume Sixteen, Part I: Esther Littleford Woodworth-Barnes and Alicia Crane Williams, Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1999). This volume includes part of the family of John Alden, generations 1 through 4.

No Whitneys found.


Volume Sixteen, Part II: Esther Littleford Woodworth-Barnes and Alicia Crane Williams, Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2002). This volume includes part of the family of John Alden, generation 5 through daughter Elizabeth (Alden) Pabodie.

page 82:
   Ichabod [Simmons] served as a private in the American Revolution in Capt. Calvin
Partridge's company, Col. Josiah Whitney's regiment, which marched 30 July
1778; he was discharged 13 September 1778 with service of 1 month 15 days at
Rhode Island.

Volume Sixteen, Part III: Esther Littleford Woodworth-Barnes and Alicia Crane Williams, Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1997). This volume includes part of the family of John Alden, generation 5 through sons John, Joseph, and Jonathan.

pages 10-11:
   John [Bridgham] was a captain in the American Revolution in Whitney's
Mass. division (<i>DAR Patriot Index</i>).  He was a Captain in the 23rd
Regiment of Foot under Col. John Baily (son John's pension record,
S18,742).  John Bridgham of Plumpton served as the captain of a company
in Col. Theophilus Cotton's regiment, which marched on the alarm of 19
April 1775 to Marshfield with service of 12 days.  He also served in the
same regiment and appears on a return of officers stationed at Roxbury,
commissioned 26 May 1775; also on a return for provisions dated at
Roxbury, 5 June 1775, and a muster roll dated 1 August 1775.  He enlisted
2 May 1775 with service of 3 months 7 days; and appears on a company
return dated 7 October 1775.  He also served as volunteer captain in Capt.
William Crow Cotton's company, Col. Josiah Whitney's regiment; engaged
19 July 1778 and was discharged 13 September 1778 with service of 1
month 16 days, at Rhode Island (MSSR, 2:493).

pages 33-34:
   On 7 March 1863 Lydia S. Gale wrote a will that included 53
bequests and on the same day added a codicil with eight more bequests.
... She included ... Sarah Whitney and her daughters Sarah and
Caroline of West Roxbury; ... (Suffolk Co PR, #46554, 163-2:219).

Volume Seventeen: Robert S. Wakefield, F.A.S.G., and Margaret Harris Stover, C.G., Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1998). This volume includes the family of Isaac Allerton.

No Whitneys found.


Volume Eighteen, Part I: Robert S. Wakefield, F.A.S.G., Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1999). This volume includes part of the family of Richard Warren, generations 1 through 4.

No Whitneys found.


Volume Eighteen, Part II: Robert S. Wakefield, F.A.S.G., Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1999). This volume includes part of the family of Richard Warren, generation 5 descendants from daughters Mary, Anna, and Elizabeth.

page 252:
NOTE: HISTORY OF MARLBORO claims the wife of BENJAMIN TUCKER
is MARY WARREN, dau. of Daniel and Elizabeth (Whitney) Warren,
but note the will of Joshua Warren (#140) names dau. Mary Tucker.

Volume Eighteen, Part III: Robert S. Wakefield, F.A.S.G., Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2001). This volume includes part of the family of Richard Warren, generation 5 descendants from daughter Abigail and sons Nathaniel and Joseph.

No Whitneys found.


Volume Nineteen: Alice W. A. Westgate and Ann T. Reeves, Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2000). This volume includes the family of Thomas Rogers.

No Whitneys found.


Volume Twenty, Part I: Robert Moody Sherman, F.A.S.G., Ruth Wilder Sherman, F.A.S.G., and Robert S. Wakefield, F.A.S.G., Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2000). This volume includes part of the family of Henry Samson.

No Whitneys found.


Volume Twenty-one: Harriet W. Hodge and Robert S. Wakefield, F.A.S.G., Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2001). This volume includes the family of John Billington.

pages 27-28:
   On 22 Nov. 1726 administration on the estate of James
Welch was granted to eldest son, James.  The inventory taken
by Joshua Whitney, Philip Bump and Joseph Lawrence, was
recorded 10 Feb. 1726/7. ...
References:  ... Plainfield CT Dist PR 3:249, 251, 253, 268, 287;
#2206 (Ebenezer Welch).

Volume Twenty-two: Ann Smith Lainhart and Robert S. Wakefield, F.A.S.G., Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2004). This volume includes the family of William Bradford.

page 62:
   On 9 Nov. 1744 Daniel and Abigail Fitch of Pomfret sold 10 acres in
Preston deeded to her by Joshua Whitney to James Fitch of Pomfret.

page 133:
...  In 1759 he [Dr. Lazarus Le Baron] was on a committee to entreat Mr.
Job Whitney to become pastor of the Plymouth church, then later that year
to entreat Mr. Potter; neither accepted.

page 253:
"...  Among his [Rev. James Cogswell's] pupils were Josiah Whitney, afterwards
pastor of Brooklyn Parish, and Naphtali Daggett, subsequently the President
of Yale College." (<i>Cogswell Fam.</i> p. 117)

page 340:
On 9 Feb. 1805 the estate [of Bradford Steele of Derby] was divided among the
widow Sarah Steel, Ashbel [<i>sic</i>] Steel, Bradford Steel, Daniel Steel, George
Steel, heirs of Susanah Flowers, Mille wife of William Keney, Mary wife of Edward
Warren, and widow Hannah Whitney.
   Children of Bradford and Mary (Perkins) Steele, b. Derby, Conn. (not in
Barbour):
        ...
    vii HANNAH STEELE, b. 4 Aug. 1766
        ...

pages 572-573:
5. JAMES MAVERICK-3 (Martha-2, Robert-1) was bp. Boston 1st Ch. 25 2nd
mo. 1675; d. about 1695.
   He m. Boston ESTHER/HESTER _____.  She m. (2) Boston 7 Aug.
1705 BENJAMIN WHITNEY of Framingham.
   On 18 June 1718 depositions that the children of Hester Whitney, wife of
Benjamin Whitney of Framingham, were James Maverick, born 2 Oct. 1699,
and Martha Maverick, born 17 April 1693.
   ...
   On 10 Sept. 1728 Benjamin Whitney, yeoman, and his wife Esther sold to Thomas
Bellows, carpenter, and James Maverick, cordwainer, a house and land part of
the estate of James Maverick, dec. the former husband of Esther Whitney and
father of James Maverick and Martha Bellows wife of Thomas Bellows.
References: Suffolk Co. LR 33:15(deposition); 46:151(James Maverick, Benjamin Whiting). 
BRC 28:17(her 2nd m.).  NEHGR 11:225; 96:239-40, 364-5.

page 581:
   On 20 May1751 Benjamin Whitney was appointed the guardian of Esther
and Silence Maverick above the age of 14 and on 28 Oct. 1751 he was
appointed the guardian of Bersheba Maverick uner 14 years of age.
[These were children of his step-son, James Maverick.--RLW]

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