Family:Whitney, Moses (1775-1859)

Gen. Moses⁶ Whitney (Jacob⁵, Jonas⁴, Eleazer³, Thomas², John¹), son of Jacob⁵ and Rachel (Whiting) Whitney, was born 2 Jan 1775, West Roxbury, MA, and died 24 Dec 1859, Milton, MA.

He married firstly, 14 Apr 1797, Milton, MA, Rebecca Dunbar. She died 4 Feb 1824.

He married secondly, Andover, MA, Mary (Plummer) Kittredge, widow of John Kittredge. She died 1865, Milton, MA.

Gen. Moses Whitney was born in Spring street, West Roxbury, MA, on the 20th of Jan., 1775. He was the youngest of six children of Jacob and Rachel (Whiting) Whitney, the dau. of Nathaniel, of the same place. In 1787 he went to Blue Hill, Milton, to learn the leather business. His second wife was the widow of Dr. Thomas Kittredge, of Gloucester, MA; she outlived him several years, dying in Milton, 1865. He commenced business in 1796, moved to Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1797, and removed to Milton in 1805. He purchased the "Rising Sun" estate in 1806, and the Nancy Paine estate in 1809, extending from the Old Plymouth Road to the Neponset River. He enlarged the wharf, and built a tan house in 1810. In 1819 he built the Whitney house on Milton Hill, and purchased Swift's wharf at the same time in part, filling up the dock between the wharves. After this the lumber and wood business was carried on extensively by him for twenty years. He was in active business for sixty-three years, not including his apprenticeship. He was appointed postmaster in Milton, in 1805; resigned in 1816; captain of militia, 1816; colonel, 1821. He was afterward brigadier-general of first brigade, first division, Massachusetts Militia. He died in his house on Milton Hill, 24 Dec 1859; resided Dorchester and Milton, MA.

Children of Moses⁶ and Rebecca (Dunbar) Whitney:

i.	Hannah7 Whitney, b. 19 Nov 1797, Dorchester; d. s.p. 1832.
ii.	Moses Whitney, b. 7 Oct 1802, Dorchester; m. Elizabeth G. Sanderson.
iii.	Mary Whitney, b. 17 Apr 1805, Dorchester; d. 1890; "of Milton" m. 6 Jul 1841, Dorchester, MA, George B. Jones "of Philadelphia".
iv.	Seth Dunbar Whitney, b. 13 Sep 1807, Milton; m. Adeline Dutton Train.
v.	Warren Jacob Whitney, b. 1811; m.; d. 1891.

Census

• 1800: not found.
• 1810, Milton, Norfolk Co., MA: Moses Whitney, 2 males 26-44, 2 males 16-25, 1 male 10-15, and 2 males 0-9, 1 female over 45, 1 female 26-44, 1 female 16-25, 1 female 10-15, 1 female 0-9, and 1 slave.

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. 195.

1.^  "Mary [Whitney] of Milton and George B. Jones of Philadelphia, [married] July 6, 1841," according to Registry Department of the City of Boston, Vital Records of the Town of Dorchester from 1826 to 1849, vol. 36 (Boston, MA: Rockwell and Churchill, 1905), p. 210.

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