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From: R R Kyser <>
Subject: [WHITNEY-L] children of Amy Whitney & Silas Haines
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 03:09:19 -0500


Our Henry database shows only one child for this couple:
http://www.whitneygen.org/databases/igmget.cgi/n=Henry?I818 . Phoenix
shows none. But Donald Lines Jacobus has five:

"Haynes, Silas
born 22 Nov 1745, killed in battle at Fairfield, 8 July 1799; called of
North Stratford, he m. at Greenfield, 3 Nov 1768, Amy Whitney, b. 6 June
1747,

Children, rec. Weston, bapt. Easton:

Molly, b. 15, bapt. 25 Dec. 1769
Amy, b. 12 Nov., bapt. 29 Dec 1771, m. Dec. 1790 Nathaniel-Freeman Seeley
Sarah, b. 7 Mar 1774, d. 15 Aug 1794
Ruth, b. 25 Feb. 1776; m. 3 Jan 1798 Nehemiah Lyon
Silas, b. 8 Dec 1779; chose Nathaniel F. Seeley for guardian, 1794"
(Families of Old Fairfield, p. 442)
(Note Silas Jr.'s birth several months after his father's death.)

Our file shows Sarah marrying James Redfield, which (I think) the DAR
might have accepted. That leaves only Molly with an unknown fate. How
best to ferret this fate out? Her Grandpa Whitney dies when she's 26;
might his will give a clue? But then, he's got too many grandchildren
to single out...

Did you ever get the feeling you were being teased from the Great
Beyond? A few years back I was given two bits of info about Pardon
Worden Sr., whose Jr. married his way into John's database. One was an
ordinary, if undemonstrated, assertion that he married this particular
Molly; the other was the totally preposterous story that little brother
Isaac served as Gen. Washington's page boy. Yeah, right. So, during a
search through Dutchess County records in late May, guess which of these
claims presents evidence for itself? Why are Mollys so difficult?

The hard-headedness of this list is much to be preferred to the
Anjouvian mysticism and wishful thinking of the more naïve
genealogists. But consider the eerie way I got into this field.
Ancestors were the last thing on my mind when, surfing the Web four
years ago to the hour, I tripped over a John Whitney descendancy with my
dad in it. Other than a little brother of my own, it was the most
amazing thing I ever got on my birthday.

Cheers,
Ron Kyser


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