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Subject: Re: [WHITNEY-L] Descent of Benjamin Hoar named Whitney??
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:28:56 +0000

Hi Allan,

I received the data from Sharan E. Newman:

(Sharan E. Newman)

Her letter explains your question:

Subj: [WHITNEY-L] Benjamin and Abigail Whitney
Date: 9/4/99 9:03:07 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: (Sharan E. Newman)
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I would be happy to add my Whitneys to the data base as soon as I can
figure out how to put in the information about generations down. My
Whitney's are descended from John and Eleanor but through Benjamin Hoar
and Abigail Whitney. After the Revolution they moved from Littleton
Mass to Albany where, according to family legend, the Hoar daughters
were unmercifully teased. Therefore Benjamin took the family to the
local courthouse and had all of their names legally changed to Whitney.
I have the record of this. Anyone who may have come to a dead end with

Benjamin will now know why.

I'll post the whole family if someone will be kind enough to guide me
through it.

Sharan Newman



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> Dear WRG:
>
> I'm currently undertaking to track down some of the various husbands and
> wives of Harvard, Worcester, MA Whitneys. I finally found information on the
> Benjamin Hoar who married Abigail Whitney (d. Jonathan Whitney and Sarah Holt)
> on
> 17 Nov 1789 in Harvard. They had five children, listed in Whitny17. One of
> those children ended up moving from Vermont (birthplace) to Salem, Washington,
> New York (bp of children), to Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ (bp of remaining
> children) to Shelbyville, Shelby, MO, to Republican City, Nebraska. This son of
> Abigail Whitney Hoar (Oliver Winship Frances Hoar) had eleven children, all of
> whom are surnamed Whitney!!!
>
> Can someone in the WRG, probably the one who submitted this data to Jon
> Aston, contact me to confirm that the family name was changed to Whitney. Also,
> the source for all the data on this family is given as "Newman.ftw" Would it
> be possible to provide a little more information about this source?
>
> At least these entries solved my problem of which Abigail was the one who
> married BH.
>
> Happy Hunting!
>
> Allan E. Green
>

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