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From: "Robert L. Ward" <>
Subject: Re: [WHITNEY-L] RE: Your posting about Jacob Whitney of Harvard and Winchendon.
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:31:57 -0500
In-Reply-To: <82.240dcdb4.2b0c889b@aol.com>

Dear WRG:

At 01:41 AM 11/20/02 -0500, wrote:
>WRG: First, I found in the Harvard VR's a Whitney marriage not listed in our
>extracts. It appears under the name of WHINEY, and is for Jonathan Jr. and
>Sarah Holt, m. Nov. 27, 1746. That his name was Whitney is borne out by the
>fact that there are several children born to a Jonathan Jr. & Sarah Whitney
>under the correct name in the VR's.

Thanks for supplying this datum. It has been added to our website pages.

>5. Nancy. A major problem. This female was the daughter (b. Aug. 7, 1785,
>not the 8th) of a Jacob and Marcy Whitney of unknown origin. A check of the
>MA VR Index shows no marriage of any Jacob Whitney to any Mercy or Marcy
>until that of the Jacob, b. Oct. 16, 1776, son of Jacob and Lois, to Mercy
>Fairbank Whitney, d. of Deacon Reuben and Lucy Fairbank Whitney, on 20 Feb
>1806. (Harvard VR., p. 230) This Nancy is not the daughter of Jacob's
>second marriage with the name Mary mistaken for Marcy, since that marriage
>didn't take place until January/June 29, 1794. Ergo, she is not of this
>family.
>
>7. Eli, b. 1783 is another child of the unknown Jacob and Marcy Whitney.

This Jacob and Marcy (-----) WHITNEY of Harvard are unplaced by me. I have
no likely candidate.

Regards,

Robert

Mr. Robert L. Ward

http://www.whitneygen.org/home.html

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