Family:Whitney, Elisha (1747-1832)
Elisha6 Whitney (Joshua5, Nathaniel4, Nathaniel3, John2, John1), son of Joshua5 and Mehitable (Wilson) Whitney;[1] born 8 Jan 1747, Spencer, Massachusetts;[2] married Esther Clark. He was in the Revolutionary war in the company from Spencer, commanded by Capt Green; resided Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Children of Elisha6 and Esther (Clark) Whitney:
i. Sally7 Whitney, born 12 Oct 1788.
References
All data imported from Frederick Clifton Pierce, The Descendants of John Whitney, Who Came from London, England, to Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1635, (Chicago: 1895), p. 139.
1.^ His parentage is proven by his birth record.
2.^ "Elisha [Whitney], s. Joshua and Mehitable, [born] Jan. 8, 1747," according to Franklin P. Rice, ed., Vital Records of Spencer, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Worcester, Massachusetts: The Systematic History Fund, 1909), pp. 115-116.
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