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From: "Alan C. Wright, Prof. of Chemistry" <>
Subject: Re: Maine Census Indexes
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 19:51:49 -0400 (EDT)


To all WRG:

Whitneyville, New Brunswick was later called Whitney and is a small town to the
west of Newcastle on the Miramichi River, about half way to Sunny Corner and
Red Bank. Probably founded about 1785 by my ancestor Ebenezer WHITNEY (so far
I have not connected him to the CT branch! He seems to have sprung directly
from the soil in NB!) on land owned as a crown grant by William Davidson. I
still have relatives living there. It was once part of North Esk parish and
the center of a large lumber industry until the disastrous fire of 1825.

Alan

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