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From: Tim Doyle <>
Subject: Whitney: Mayflower Families
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 09:04:06 -0600

I searched the indexes of the volumes of the Mayflower Families series that
I own and found the following:

Volume One: Lucy Mary Kellogg, FASG, ed., Mayflower Families through Five
Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass.
December 1620 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants,
1975, 1978). This volume includes the families of Francis Eaton, Samuel
Fuller, and William White.

No Whitneys found.

Volume Two: Robert M. Sherman, F.A.S.G., ed., Mayflower Families through
Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass.
December 1620 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants,
1978). This volume includes the families of James Chilton, Richard More,
and Thomas Rogers.

No Whitneys found.

Volume Three is considered to be unreliable and I do not own a copy.

Volume Four: Bruce Campbell MacGunnigle, C. G., ed., Mayflower Families
through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at
Plymouth, Mass. December 1620 (2nd ed.; Plymouth, MA: General Society of
Mayflower Descendants, 1995). This volume includes the family of Edward
Fuller.

page 124:
John Roath-5 (Sarah Williams-4, Mary-3 Fuller, Samuel-2, Edward-1), b.
Norwich CT b. Nov. 1697, d. aft. 24 April 1760.

On 24 April 1760 John Roath ... sold 17 acres in Norwich East Society he
had bought from William Whitney.

Volume Five: L.M. Kellogg, ed., Mayflower Families through Five
Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass.
December 1620 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants,
1991). This volume includes the families of Edward Winslow and John
Billington.

page 56:
Mercy/Marcy Sabin-4 (Mary-3 Billington, Francis-2, John-1) b. Rehoboth 8
March 1665/6, d. aft. 18 June 1728, undoubtedly in Connecticut.

The inventory [of her husband James Welch], taken by Joshua Whitney, Philip
Bump and Joseph Lawrence, was recorded 10 Feb. 1726/7 [in Plainfield, CT].

Volume Six: John D. Austin, F.A.S.G., Mayflower Families through Five
Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass.
December 1620 (2nd ed.; Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower
Descendants, 1995). This volume includes the family of Stephen Hopkins.

page 250:
Joseph Brown-5 (Ruth Snow-4, Joseph-3, Constance-2 Hopkins, Stephen-1) ...
m. Susanna Cole ...
Children (BROWN)
ii. Joseph b. 2 June 1745 [in Eastham, ME]; m. Hannah Whitney.

[The father was of Eastham and Gorham, Maine, so I would suspect that the
marriage may have taken place in this area.]

page 251:
Jesse Brown-5 (Ruth Snow-4, Joseph-3, Constance-2 Hopkins, Stephen-1) ...
m. Elizabeth Walker ...
children (BROWN)
ii. Hannah b. 24 May 1731; m. David Whitney at Gorham ME.

page 471:
Constant-5 Hopkins (Caleb-4, Caleb-3, Giles-2, Stephen-1) ... m. Phebe
Paine ...
Children (HOPKINS) all rec. Truro:
vi. Phebe b. 17 May 1759; m. (1) Elijah Davis of Gorham ME; m. (2) Asa
Whitney of Gorham.

Volume Seven: Robert S. Wakefield, F.A.S.G., Mayflower Families through
Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass.
December 1620 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants,
1992). This volume includes the family of Peter Brown.

No Whitneys found.

Volume Eight: Robert S. Wakefield, F.A.S.G., ed., Mayflower Families
through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at
Plymouth, Mass. December 1620 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower
Descendants, 1994). This volume includes the family of Degory Priest.

page 25:
Jeremiah Holman-4 (Mercy Pratt-3, Mary-2 Priest, Degory-1) ... m. Abigail
----- ...
On 4 Feb. 1722/3 Jeremiah Holman and wife Abigail sold two tracts in Stow
to Nathan Whitney.
On 5 March 1739/40 Jeremiah Holman, Nathan Whitney of Stow and wife Mary
and Gabriel Priest of Harvard and wife Abigail sold to Samuel Nurse of
Salem two tracts of land in Bolton which was owned by Jeremiah Holman when
he died.

page 66:
Mary Holman-5 (Jeremiah-4, Mercy Pratt-3, Mary-2 Priest, Degory-1) b.
Sudbury; d. aft. 17 May 1763.
She m. Lancaster 18 Nov. 1719 Nathan Whitney, b. prob. Stow ca. 1689; d.
there bef. 15 June 1761; son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Laurence) Whitney.
The will of Nathan Whitney, husbandman of Stow, dated 18 June 1755, proved
15 June 1761, about "to March in an Expedition against the Enemy" names
wife Mary, sons Nathan and Jeremiah; three daus. Phebe Warner, Mary Priest
and Eunice Warner. The widow Mary and son Nathan had a falling out; Mary
wrote the Judge 22 April 1763 and Nathan answered 17 May 1763.

Children (WHITNEY) b. Stow:

i. Phebe (named in will)
ii. Nathan b. 6 March 1723/4
iii. Mary b. 4 June 1727
iv. Jeremiah b. 1 April 1729
v. Eunice (named in will).

References: LANCASTER VR p. 17(m.); STOW pp. 94 (b. Nathan), 103(b.
Jeremiah), 104(b. Mary). Middlesex Co. PR #24726(Nathan Whitney). MA MARR
3:61.

Hope this helps someone out there.

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