Family:Whitney, Ebenezer (1729-a1760)

Ebenezer⁵ Whitney (Ezekiel⁴, Ebenezer³, Richard², John¹), son of Ezekiel⁴ and Isabel (Taylor) Whitney was born 22 Oct 1729 at Pomfret, Connecticut; married ----- -----. After his marriage he located in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he afterward resided. Being in Boston he was empressed on a British ship. For seven years he had no communication with his family, nor did he set his foot on land. When he escaped it was with broken health and to find his wife married again; he left her undisturbed, went to his father's(?) and died in eighteen months. He had two children.

Children of Ebenezer⁵ Whitney and an unknown spouse:

i.	Ebenezer6 Whitney, b. circa 1760; calculated from age at death; m. Martha Gates, daughter of John Gates and Violetta (--?--); d. 17 Jun 1836 at Worcester, MA; aged 76 years.
ii.	daughter Whitney, born -----; died young.

References

1. 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. 90.

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