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From: "Kevin Spaulding, (716)588-3706" <>
Subject: FWD: Re: Royal heritgage of John and Elinor Whitney of Watertown,
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 8:53:09 -0400


Many thanks to all of you that responded to my inquirey last week about the
ancestry of John-1 Whitney. Thanks particularly for the warm welcome many of you
expressed. Several of you asked questions that I will try to answer.

>>Hi,
>>
>>I am new to this group, and in fact to the study of my family's genealogy.
>>I have recently been compiling family tree information that a number of my
>>relatives who have the genealogy bug have collected over the years. One
>>of the branches in my tree can be traced back to John and Elinor (-?-)
>>Whitney of Watertown, MA., through their son John (bap. 14 Sep 1621,
>>Isleworth, England).
>
>Welcome! That makes you a cousin of quite a few of us. We would like you
>to post as much of your line of descent as you would feel comfortable doing.
>
>Robert L. Ward

John WHITNEY (Before 20 Jul 1592 - 1 Jun 1673)
& Elinor (WHITNEY) (1597 - 11 May 1659)
John WHITNEY (Before 14 Sep 1621 - 12 Oct 1692)
& Ruth REYNOLDS (About 1 Jun 1623 - About 1692)
Nathaniel WHITNEY* (1 Feb 1646/1647 - 7 Jan 1732/1733)
& Sarah HAGER (3 Sep 1651 - 7 May 1746)
Nathaniel WHITNEY (25 Mar 1675 - 23 Sep 1730)
& Mercy ROBINSON (6 Sep 1676 - 31 Dec 1740)
Samuel WHITNEY (About Dec 1710 - 2 Aug 1788)
& Elizabeth HASTINGS (4 Mar 1716/1717 - 23 Oct 1800)
Eliphalet WHITNEY (Apr 1757 - 10 Sep 1832)
& Lois HOUGHTON (18 Oct 1756 - 25 Jul 1838)
Betsey WHITNEY (4 Feb 1792 - 22 May 1877)
& Benoni SHAW (8 Feb 1787 - 17 Jul 1857)
Darwin E. SHAW (1814 - 20 Oct 1891)
& Mary REED (14 Mar 1819 - 23 Aug 1875)
Marion Maria SHAW (1836 - 5 Jan 1918)
& Andrew Jackson CHAFFEE (26 Oct 1836 - 21 Mar 1914)
Grace Chloe CHAFFEE (12 Jan 1875 - 20 Oct 1952)
& William Stanley WELCH (6 Sep 1869 - 1 Dec 1934)
Edward Johnson WELCH (19 Dec 1907 - 5 Aug 1983)
& Charlotte Adelaide HILL (1 Oct 1909 - 18 Oct 1975)
Jacqueline Jean WELCH (14 Apr 1938 - )
& Reginald Howard SPAULDING (14 Sep 1937 - )
Kevin Edward SPAULDING (1 Nov 1961 - )
& Deborah Aletha BIEDERMAN (19 Oct 1961 - )
Daniel Robert SPAULDING (31 Jan 1987 - )
Kristen Rebekah SPAULDING (2 Jan 1989 - )
Allison Rachel SPAULDING (29 Mar 1991 - )

(I also posted my children for completeness. Most of my information comes from
my mother's cousin Joyce (Mould) Masterpaul, daughter of Charles E. Mould and Ida
Euretta Welch, who was the daugther of Grace Chloe Chaffee and William Stanley
Welch above.)

>I also encourage you to post to the list your own line and requests for
>specific "most wanted" info. Since your family name is not Whitney, we
>can't guess how you come from John the immigrant. John had lots of
>Whitney children and grandchildren and so the name spread pretty fast at
>first. My own line comes from John's grandson John, son of Jonathan...
>
>John Barry Whitney III

I guess as far as a "most wanted" list, I don't have information about most of
the wifes that married the whitney's in the above list. I don't have any
information about Mercy Robinson lineage, and I only have parents names for Ruth
Reynolds, Sarah Hagar, and Elizabeth Hastings. I have two generations of
information on Lois Houghton. If anyone has more information than this I would
be glad to have it.

>Post any new findings to the group please. The 'royal' lineage as well as
>Elinor's surname are questions I have no answers too.
>
>Lynda McLaughlin

I think alomost everyone agreed that the royal link is quite improbably,
but a few people did hold out a little bit of hope. No one produced any
"new findings," most just quoted the Jacobus and Reed papers as their
sources. I will post anything of interest that does show up...

>I am also a decendant of John Whitney , I have not seen the sites you
>mentioned and would like to . Could you please send me the URL's
>
>Thank you,
>Mike Watts, ()

The most helpful sites that I have found are:

http://www.erols.com/rlward1/whitney/
http://www.rootsweb.com/~gumby/genweb/Whitney/Whitney.html
http://msrad3.med.uth.tmc.edu/holmgen.htm

Thanks Again everyone for your enthusiastic responses!

Kevin E. Spaulding

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