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Subject: Re: [WHITNEY-L] Sewall Whitney
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 16:56:18 EST
Dear Charles:
You don't give a date for the obit (it probably wasn't included or written on
the clipping), but I have found a Jacob Cushing Whitney, b. 16 Oct 1813, in
Waltham, Middlesex, MA, who m. 31 Dec 1834 (in Waltham) an Abigail S. Parks,
b. ca 1813 and also of Waltham. They have no children listed in my db, and I
don't know who supplied this information -- perhaps Jon Aston, the keeper of
the WRG J&E database could figure that out. However, if this is the couple
who had a son, Sewell, then he would have been born ca 1835 and thus would
have been age 84 in 1919. His son-in-law, James Lombard, might well have
been about 55-60 in that year, and thus born ca 1860/65. That date could
well work for a great grandfather of someone living today, and so this may be
the family connection.
Unfortunately, only one Sewel, son of Levi, is listed in the Index to Whitney
entries in the MA Vital Records. Our transcription list doesn't even list a
town of Buxton as having any VR's - so I checked the list of "former town
names and unincorporated towns" and found Buxton is now Williamstown in
Berkshire County. However, the Williamstown VR's only show two births taken
from gravestones, neither of which is in any help. I also checked Boxford,
but this death was, of course, too late to be included, and there were no
births after 1850 either, so that was no help.
Would your Lombard sources show where he married Eunice Whitney? The problem
is primarily that we are trying to find data that doesn't show up in the
published sources that stopped in 1850. Perhaps if you could find a way to
check the Williamstown VR's for the last half of the 1800's, you could find
some of the answers.
I hope this helps.
Allan E. Green
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