There are two marriages in Harvard that could be this man - one in 1783, when he would be 25 to a Lois Hill, the other in 1786 to a Lydia Wetherbee of Boxborough. The only death of a Lois Whitney was in 1793 at age 39 of consumption, so it can't be a situation where the first wife died young in childbirth and the husband remarried three years after the first marriage.

From "Whitney Genealogy" (Pierce?) on RW 6-gen. "He served in the Revolutionary war from Harvard, in 1780, in Capt. Williams' company, and his age was then given as 21. After the death of his first wife, in 1805, he moved to Henniker, N.H. It is reported that his father paid for the land which he took up with a half barrel of silver dollars. He served in the war of 1812, and died from the effects of a fever sore contracted while sleeping on the ground and camping out." It is not quite clear if these two "facts" are juxtaposed as cause and effect. He would have had to sleep on the ground and camp out as a part of his service in the war of 1812, but he didn't die until 1834 - twenty+ years later.

Robert Ward shows him as dying 1834 at Harvard, Worcester, MA, but this is not found in the VR's. One might well think that could be a transcription error and that he actually died in Henniker, NH, for which we don't seem to have the VR's. Check Pierce when transcription is finished.

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