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The Whitney Family of Connecticut
by S. Whitney Phoenix
(New York: 1878)
Transcribed by Robert L. Ward.
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WHITNEY FAMILY.
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FIRST GENERATION
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Henry Whitney, the earliest of this family whom we can trace in America, was born in England, probably about the year 1620. No record of him has been found prior to 8 Oct. 1649, when he was associated with Edward Tredwell and Thomas Benedict in buying three fourths of William Salmon's land and Hashamommock, in Southold, Long Island. These four men made the following agreement, which is recorded in the town records of Southold, Vol. I, p. 89.
"Wee whos names are are vnder written inhabiting vppon the neck of land commonly called Hashamommock1 considering that our Cumfort and quiett setlement would consist et stand in the inioyment of good neigbourhood did make this agreement at our first sitting doune that what man soever should desire to remoue and to endeauor to make sale of his accomodacons should put in such a neighbour as the other Inhabitanc liveinge with him should approve of.
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Entred the 17th of May 1660.
p me WILLM WELLS.
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WILLIAM SALMON. [Mark]
HENRY WHITNEY. [Mark]
EDWARD TREDWELL. [Mark]
THOMAS BENIDICK.
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New Haven Colonial Records, Vol. II, p. 349-50, show that
Anthony Waters, attorney for John Concklin, Tho Osman & Tho Rider, inhabitants on the land called Hashamommock, plainteifs, entred an action of the case agains John Budd, Senior, for breach of
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1 "Examine Chase's Map of Suffolk County, N.Y., and you may see a small body of water marked just north-west point of Shelter Island and almost connecting Peconic Bay and Long Island Sound. The only separation is a level flat of sand and shingle, a few rods widw, and perhaps twenty long, partially covered with sedgy vegetation. Across this flat, the famous Gilford expedition drew their whale boats, when they made their successful descent upon the British post and stores at Sag Harbor. This flat is Hashamommuck Beach. The small body of water is now generally called Mill Creek, a tide-mill to grind grain having been built upon it many years ago, and one is still in use near the old site. . . . The creek is a few rods more than two miles east of the First Church of Southold. It is just two miles east of the Southold station of the Long Island Rail Road. Hashamommuck is about a square mile directly east of this creek." -- (Letter quoted in Benedict Genealogy, p. 5.)
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