Family:Whitney, Samuel (1745-1842)
Samuel6 Whitney (Samuel5, Thomas4, Thomas3, Thomas2, John1), son of Samuel5 and Grace (-----) Whitney, was born 10 Sep 1745, Stow, MA, surely the Samuel Whitney who died 12 Apr 1842, Lancaster, MA, aged 95 years. He was buried in Shirley Shaker Cemetery, Lancaster, MA.[1]
He married, date and place unknown, Lucy -----. She was born about 1752-1755, Grafton, MA, and died 29 Feb 1852, Shirley, MA, aged 97 years, of lung fever.[2] She was buried in the Shirley Shaker Cemetery, Lancaster, MA.[3]
They joined the Shaker Community in Shirley and Lancaster, MA, where both were living when they died.
The 1790 census indicates that he apparently had a wife, a son, and two daughters.
Children of Samuel6 and Lucy (-----) Whitney:
i. Phebe7 Whitney, b. bef. 1790; left the Shaker community in 1815. ii. (son) Whitney, b. bef. 1790. iii. (daughter) Whitney, b. bef. 1790.
Notes
One unidentified Samuel Whitney supposedly married, 1 Dec 1772, Lunenburg, MA, Ruth Goodridge, daughter of Joshua and Lydia (Stearns) Goodridge, born 13 Sep 1751, Lunenburg, MA. Whether this is the above Samuel6 Whitney is unknown.
Census
- 1771, Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA (tax list): Samuel Whitney.
- 1790, Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA: Samuel Whitney, 1 males over 16, 1 males 0-15, and 3 females.
- 1800: not found.
- 1810: not found.
- 1820: not found.
- 1830: not found.
- 1840: not found.
- 1850, Shirley, Middlesex Co., MA:
194 210 Jonas Nutting 48 M - Head Trustee $36400 Mass. Leander Parsons 33 M - Carpenter " Shaker Community 195 -- Daniel Willared 48 M - Gardener " Edward B. Bolton 47 M - Farmer " John Osmant 48 M - Broom Maker " Abram Whitney 64 M - Farmer " ... Lucy Whitney 97 F - " ... Francis Whitney 34 F - " ...
References
1.^ FindAGrave Memorial #127278610, Samuel Whitney.
2.^ "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 67, page 142.
3.^ FindAGrave Memorial #126744591, Lucy Whitney.
Copyright © 2007, 2013, 2016, Robert L. Ward and the Whitney Research Group.
- Missing from 1800 Census
- Missing from 1810 Census
- Missing from 1820 Census
- Missing from 1830 Census
- Missing from 1840 Census
- Massachusetts
- Middlesex County, Massachusetts
- Shirley, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
- Stow, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
- Worcester County, Massachusetts
- Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts