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From: "Kenneth Whitney" <>
Subject: [WHITNEY-L] Brunswick, Cumberland Co., Maine Vital Records
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 20:21:49 -0500

WRG:
At the D.A.R. Genealogy Library in Washington, DC is a microfilm entitled "Brunswick, Cumberland Co., Maine Vital Records", Film, Sp. Col., Maine #1. It is a microfilm of a manual transcription of the early Brunswick vital records. Below is a transcription of the Whitney entries in these records. The page numers which appear are the page numbers of the transcription, not the page numbers from the original records. I did this so that anyone wanting to view these records could do so more easily. I have made a couple of editorial notes at the end, because some variance is noted with previous information. I apologise for the way it looks, but Wordperfect doesn't seem to copy well into an e-mail (at least with my skills!). Enjoy!

Transcription of the Whitney entries into the Brunswick, Cumberland Co., Maine Vital Records

Page 7:

Abraham Whitney married Afia Coombs, 1 Feb 1780

Page 46:

Rev. Andrew Rollins married:

James Whitney and Mary Crips, 16 Aug 1855, both of Brunswick

Page 60:

Rev. Benjamin Jacques married:

Dunham Whitney of Topsham and Margaret Nickerson of Brunswick, 27 Feb 1860

Page 78:

Rev. George C. Crawford married:

Reuben Whitney and Melissa E. Cox, both of Brunswick, 12 Oct 1872

Page 93:

Rev. Henry Orr married:

Dunham Whitney and Margaret Whitney, both of Brunswick, 4 March 1878

Page 128:

Patents: Samuel Whitney and Lydia, his wife

Children: Samuel, b. 15 Sept 1732

Jonathan, b. 21 Dec 1734

Lydia, b. 20 Feb 1736

Susannah, b. 25 July 1738

Lettis, b. 27 June 1742

Page 129:

Parents: John Whitney and Lettes Whitney

Child: Benjamin Whitney, b. 22 May 1725

Page 140:

Parents: Jonathan Whitney and Mary, his wife

Child: Lydia Whitney, b. 20 Aug 1762

Page 297:

Parents: Stover Whitney, b. 18 Jan 1809

Susan Trufant, b. 5 April 1819

Children: Nellie Whitney, b. 5 Sept 1837

Eunice Whitney, b. 14 Oct 1841

Deborah Whitney, b. 30 Nov 1842

Delia Whitney, b. 31 Jul 1845

Jennie Whitney, b. 7 Sept 1847

Abby Ann Whitney, B. 12 Sept 1849

Page 307:

Patience Whitney, b. 13 May 1800

Page 472:

Parents: Joshua K. Whitney, b. 1 Nov 1817

Clara White, died 12 March 1854

Child: William H. Whitney, b. 10 May 1846

Second wife: Orilla C. Sutherland

Page 476:

Parents: Reuben Whitney, b. 20 Nov 1829

Mary E. Allen, b. 15 May 1833

Children: Frank R. Whitney, b. 27 March 1854

Ellen L. Whitney, b. 11 June 1855

Emma F. Whitney, b. 3 Sept 1856

Herbert A. Whitney, b. 15 Dec 1857

Mary E. Whitney, b. 14 Sept 1860

Susan A. Whitney, b. 13 Sept 1862

Parents: John F. Whitney, b. 4 March 1821

Martha Hacker, b. 25 June 1826

Children: George H. Whitney, b. 24 April 1845

Rebecca J. Whitney, b. 17 March 1847, died 22 Nov 1848

Daniel H. Whitney, b. 12 Jan 1850, died 1 Sept 1853

Hannah E. Whitney, b. 1 Feb 1853

Myra J. Whitney, b. 7 Feb 1860

Page 517:

Mrs. Mary E. Whitney died 13 Sept 1870, age 37y, 4 mo.

Page 531:

Miss Susie A. Whitney died 13 Feb 1877, age 14 y, 5 mo.

Page 541:

Walter E. Whitney died in Brunswick, 23 Aug 1881, age 16 y, 9 mo.

Page 545:

Alice E. Whitney of Portland died in Brunswick 28 Aug 1888, age 36 y, 11 mo.

NOTES:

1. The family of Stover Whitney and Susan Trufant also appear in the Vital Records of Bowdoin, ME, with some date discrepancy. It now appears to me that for each entry for this family which says "in B.", the B. probably means Brunswick, not Bowdoin in the Bowdoin records.

2. The Dunham who is in the Brunswick records is undoubtedly the Denham Whitney in the Bowdoin records, son of Stover and Susan. Why he is in the Bowdoin records and not as a child in the Brunswick record, I don't understand. "Jennie" in the Brunswick record is undoubtedly "Olive J." in the Bowdoin record.

3. The death record of Benjamin, son of John and Lettis Whitney, in the Lisbon, ME Vital Records contains his birth date as 2 June 1727. That is at variance with the Brunswick birth record, which says 22 May 1725.

Ken Whitney,

Silver Spring, MD

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