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From: "Robert L. Ward" <>
Subject: WHITNEY Extracts from the NEHGR, Part 2
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 17:36:56


Dear WRG:

Here are a few more items.
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Norcross, Grenville H., "Muster Roll of Capt. Thomas Willington's Company,
1778", _NEHGR_, vol. XLV (1891), pp. 280-282.

[p. 280] A Muster Roll of Capt. Thomas Willington's Company in the
Massachusetts Bay Battalion of Forces in the Sarvis of the united States of
America Commanded By Colonel Edward Wigglesworth Taken for the month of may,
1778. Commissioned January 1st 1777 ...
Coporals ...
2 Lemuel Whitney, D[uration of the] War.
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Steiner, Dr. Bernard C., "Statistics of the Connecticut Election Sermons",
_NEHGR_, vol. XLVI (1892), pp. 123-126.

[p. 125]
Date: 1788, May 8.
Name of Preacher: Rev. Josiah Whitney, A.M.
Graduation: Y[ale] C[ollege] 1752.
Residence: Brooklyn, Conn.
Text: Ex. xviii. 21
Size: 8vo.
Pp.: 40.
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Leavitt, Miss Emily W., "Descendants of George Lawrence", _NEHGR_, vol. XLVI
(1892), pp. 149-151.

[p. 149]
1. GEORGE-1 LAWRENCE was born in 1637; married 1st, Sept. 29, 1657,
Elizabeth, the eldest child of Benjamin and Bridget Crispe, of Watertown,
Mass. She was born January 8, 1636-7; died May 28, 1681; he married 2d,
August 16, 1691, Elizabeth Holland. Their children were:
i. Elizabeth, b. Jan. 30, 1658-9; m. Oct. 18, 1681, Thomas Whitney, and
lived in Stow, Mass.
...
The will of George Lawrence, senior, was dated 1707; in it he mentions his
wife Elizabeth; his two youngest children, Joseph and Rachel; his sons
George, Benajmin and Daniel; daughters Mercy Baker, living at Yarmouth,
Mass., Grace Edes, living at Charlestown; Elizabeth Whitney living at Stow,
Mass.; Hannah Sawtel, of Groton, Mass.; Judith Sterns, of Cambridge Farms,
Mass.; Mary Flagg, Sarah Rider, Martha Dix, and granddaughter Mary Earl.
His sons Daniel and George were appointed administrators at the request of
the widow. Inventory was dates April 5, 1709.
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Regards,

Robert

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