Family:Whitney, Joseph Warren (1812-1886)
Joseph Warren7 Whitney (Joel6, Joel5, Abel4, Nathaniel3, Benjamin2, John1), son of Joel6 and Anna (Moore) Whitney, was born 22 Mar 1812, St. Stephen, NB, and died 4 May 1886, Milltown, St. Stephen, NB.
He married, Margaret M. Campbell. She was born about 1829, and died 7 Apr 1891.
Both were buried in St. Stephen Rural Cemetery, St. Stephen Parish, Charlotte Co., NB.
- "Mr. Whitney, though outspoken and independent in his ideas, was yet of quiet and unassuming manners, and was highly prized and respected by his circle of friends and acquaintances. He was a forty-niner, but early returned to the homestead, where, with his good sister for many years and good wife later, their lives rolled on quietly to the end."[1]
Children of Joseph Warren7 and Margaret M. (Campbell) Whitney, if any, unknown.
Census
This family should appear in the 1842, 1861, and 1871 censuses in Charlotte Co., NB.
- 1842, not examined.
- 1850, Curtisville, Tuolumne Co., CA:
310 310 Jos. W. Whitney 35 M W Miner ME
- 1852 State of California, San Francisco, San Francisco Co., CA: Joseph Whitney, 40, male, white, laborer, b. New Brunswick.
- 1861, not examined.
- 1871, Milltown, Charlotte Co., NB, not examined.
- 1881, Milltown, Charlotte Co., NB:
95+ Joseph WHITNEY M Male English 65 New Brunswick Gentleman Methodist Mary WHITNEY M Female English 51 New Brunswick Methodist
120 Joseph WHITNEY M Male English 65 New Brunswick Gentleman Universalist Mary A WHITNEY M Female English 45 New Brunswick Methodist
This appears to be a duplicate enumeration of the above couple. Why his wife is named Mary and not Margaret is unknown.
References
- Census records.
1.^ John Elliott Moore, Memorial of the Loyalist Families of William Moore, Josiah Hitchings and Robert Livingstone Who Settled in Saint David, New Brunswick, About the Year 1785 (Lewiston, ME: The Journal Office, 1898), p. 49. See [2].
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