Family:Whitney, Samuel (1785-1869)

Samuel⁶ Whitney (Moses⁵, Nathaniel⁴, Nathaniel³, Benjamin², John¹), son of Moses⁵ and Mary (Page) Whitney, was born 2 Jul 1785, Gorham, ME, or 8 Jul 1785, Morrill, ME, and died 1869, Morrill, ME, or 27 Mar 1874, Dixmont, ME.

He married, 23 Dec 1810, Belfast or Castine, ME, Margaret Darrow. She was born 15 Mar 1792, Morrill, ME, and died Feb 1883.

He resided Belmont and Morrill, ME.

Children of Samuel⁶ and Margaret (Darrow) Whitney:

i.	Doty L.7 Whitney, b. -----; m. ca. 1830, Vinalhaven, ME, Sarah Burgess. He had two daughters, one, Helen, married Ephraim Sheldon; resided Morrill, ME.
ii.	Lydia Ann Whitney, b. -----; m. George Pratt; resided Charlestown, MA.
iii.	Elizabeth Whitney, b. -----; m. Nathan Carsley; resided ME.
iv.	Harriett Whitney, b. -----; m.(1) Eben Rowe; m.(2) Cyrus Acorn; resided ME.
v.	Henry Whitney, b. 24 Jun 1824; m. Ellen M. Merriam.
vi.	Martha Ann Whitney, b. ca. 1826; "of Waltham" m. (int. 6 Mar 1847, Waltham, MA[1]) 8 Apr 1847, Medford, MA, Richard Dixon;[2] he was b. ca. 1821, son of Samuel and Margaret (-----) Dixon; carpenter; 3 ch.; resided CO.
vii.	Edmund C. Whitney, b. 15 Jun 1831, Morrill, ME; resided Big Timber, MT. Is he the Edmond C Whitney, b. ca. 1832, who resided with his family in Morrill, Waldo Co., ME in 1880?
viii.	Emily Whitney, b. ca. 1833; m. Ephraim Redman; resided Portland, ME.
ix.	George A. Whitney, b. 8 Jan 1835, Morrill, ME; m. Nellie W. Thorne.

Census

• 1800: not found.
• 1810: not found.
• 1820, Belmont, Hancock Co., ME: Sam^l Whitney, 2 male 26-45, 2 males under 10, 1 female 26-45, 1 female under 10, 1 person engaged in manufacturing.
• 1830, Belmont, Waldo Co., ME: Samuel C. Whitney
• 1840, Belmont, Waldo Co., ME: Samuel Whitney
• 1840, Belmont, Waldo Co., ME: Doty L. Whitney (this was his son)

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. 229.

1.^  "Mary Ann [Whitney] and Richard Dixon, int. Mar. 6, 1847," according to Vital Records of Waltham, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1904).

2.^  "Martha Ann [Whitney], 20, of Waltham, and Richard Dickson [int. Dixon], 25, carpenter, s. Margaret and Samuel, [married] Apr. 8, 1847," according to Vital Records of Medford, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1907).

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