John WhitneyAge: 83 years16431727

Name
John Whitney
Given names
John
Surname
Whitney
Birth September 17, 1643 19 20
Birth of a sisterRuth Whitney
April 15, 1645 (Age 18 months)
Birth of a brotherNathaniel Whitney
February 1, 1647 (Age 3 years)
Birth of a brotherSamuel Whitney
July 28, 1648 (Age 4 years)
Birth of a sisterMary Whitney
April 23, 1650 (Age 6 years)
Christening of a sisterMary Whitney
April 29, 1650 (Age 6 years)

Birth of a brotherJoseph Whitney
January 15, 1652 (Age 8 years)
Birth of a sisterSarah Whitney
March 17, 1653 (Age 9 years)
Birth of a sisterElizabeth Whitney
June 9, 1656 (Age 12 years)
Birth of a sisterHannah Whitney
about 1658 (Age 14 years)
Death of a paternal grandmotherElinor Eleanor
May 11, 1659 (Age 15 years)
Birth of a brotherBenjamin Whitney
November 28, 1660 (Age 17 years)
MarriageElizabeth HarrisView this family
March 4, 1668 (Age 24 years)
Shared note: Date given simply as 1669 in Savage, GenDictNE, with qualifier "it is said".
Birth of a daughter
#1
Elizabeth Whitney
September 9, 1670 (Age 26 years)
Christening of a daughterElizabeth Whitney
May 21, 1671 (Age 27 years)
Birth of a son
#2
John Whitney
April 1, 1672 (Age 28 years)
Christening of a sonJohn Whitney
September 2, 1672 (Age 28 years)
Death of a paternal grandfatherJohn Whitney
June 1, 1673 (Age 29 years)
Birth of a daughter
#3
Ruth Whitney
August 31, 1674 (Age 30 years)
Death of a wifeElizabeth Harris
1674 (Age 30 years)

Christening of a daughterRuth Whitney
September 6, 1674 (Age 30 years)
Birth of a son
#4
Timothy Whitney
April 16, 1678 (Age 34 years)
Birth of a son
#5
Daniel Whitney
December 3, 1681 (Age 38 years)
Christening of a sonDaniel Whitney
December 4, 1681 (Age 38 years)
Birth of a daughter
#6
Sarah Whitney
August 2, 1684 (Age 40 years)
Christening of a daughterSarah Whitney
August 10, 1684 (Age 40 years)
Death of a daughterSarah Whitney
July 4, 1689 (Age 45 years)
Death of a fatherJohn Whitney
October 12, 1692 (Age 49 years)
Death of a sisterMary Whitney
after May 27, 1695 (Age 51 years)

Death of a sisterHannah Whitney
after May 27, 1695 (Age 51 years)

Death of a motherRuth Reynolds
after May 27, 1695 (Age 51 years)
Marriage of a childJoseph AdamsRuth WhitneyView this family
April 22, 1701 (Age 57 years)
Death of a brotherJoseph Whitney
November 4, 1702 (Age 59 years)
Death of a sisterElizabeth Whitney
after 1703 (Age 59 years)
Marriage of a childDaniel WhitneySusanna CurtisView this family
June 21, 1704 (Age 60 years)
Shared note: Roxbury VR's give only 1704 as the marriage date; specific date comes from NEHG Register, Vol. 12, p. 216.
Marriage of a childTimothy WhitneyMargaret BaconView this family
June 12, 1706 (Age 62 years)
Death of a sisterRuth Whitney
September 1718 (Age 74 years)
Death of a sisterSarah Whitney
July 8, 1720 (Age 76 years)
Death of a daughterElizabeth Whitney
before 1726 (Age 82 years)

Death March 4, 1727 (Age 83 years)
LDS baptism April 25, 1970 (243 years after death)

LDS endowment April 30, 1970 (243 years after death)

LDS child sealing June 25, 1979 (252 years after death)

LDS baptism

Family with parents - View this family
father
mother
Marriage: 1642Kent, Eng
21 months
himself
19 months
younger sister
22 months
younger brother
18 months
younger brother
21 months
younger sister
21 months
younger brother
14 months
younger sister
3 years
younger sister
3 years
younger sister
3 years
younger brother
Family with Elizabeth Harris - View this family
himself
wife
Marriage: March 4, 1668Prob. Brookline, Norfolk, MA
3 years
daughter
19 months
son
2 years
daughter
4 years
son
4 years
son
3 years
daughter
Sarah Whitney
Birth: August 2, 1684 40 39Roxbury, Suffolk, MA
Death: July 4, 1689Roxbury, Suffolk, MA

  1. Generation 1
    1. John Whitney, son of John Whitney and Ruth Reynolds, was born on September 17, 1643 in Watertown, Middlesex, MA and died on March 4, 1727 in Roxbury, Norfolk, MA at the age of 83. He married Elizabeth Harris, daughter of , on March 4, 1668 in Prob. Brookline, Norfolk, MA. She was born on November 9, 1644 in (Brookline), Norfolk, MA and died in 1674 at the age of 29.

      Children of John Whitney and Elizabeth Harris:

      1. Elizabeth Whitney (16701726)
      2. John Whitney (1672)
      3. Ruth Whitney (16741762)
      4. Timothy Whitney (16781728)
      5. Daniel Whitney (1681)
      6. Sarah Whitney (16841689)
  2. Generation 2back to top
    1. Ruth Whitney, daughter of John Whitney and Elizabeth Harris, was born on August 31, 1674 in Roxbury, Norfolk, MA and died on November 19, 1762 in Brookline, Norfolk, MA at the age of 88. She married Joseph Adams, son of , on April 22, 1701 in Roxbury, Norfolk, MA. He was born on October 13, 1676 in Roxbury, Norfolk, MA and died in Of Brookline, Middlesex, MA.

      Children of Ruth Whitney and Joseph Adams:

      1. Joseph Adams (17171799)
    2. Timothy Whitney, son of John Whitney and Elizabeth Harris, was born on April 16, 1678 in Roxbury, Norfolk, MA and died after 1728 in Probably Newton, MA. He married Margaret Bacon on June 12, 1706 in Roxbury, Norfolk, MA. She was born about 1685 in Of Roxbury, Norfolk, MA and died on October 1, 1750 in Newton, Middlesex, MA.

      Children of Timothy Whitney and Margaret Bacon:

      1. Sarah Whitney (1708)
      2. Caleb Whitney (17111764)
      3. Moses Whitney (17141804)
      4. Joseph Whitney (1717)
      5. Timothy Whitney (17201721)
      6. Timothy Whitney (17211721)
    3. Daniel Whitney, son of John Whitney and Elizabeth Harris, was born on December 3, 1681 in Roxbury, Norfolk, MA. He married Susanna Curtis on June 21, 1704 in Roxbury, Norfolk, MA. She was born about 1683 in Of Roxbury, Norfolk, MA.

      Children of Daniel Whitney and Susanna Curtis:

      1. John Whitney (1705)
      2. Elizabeth Whitney (1707)
      3. Susanna Whitney (1709)
      4. Daniel Whitney (1710)
      5. Anna Whitney (1713)
      6. Elijah Whitney (17151790)
      7. Ruth Whitney (1718)
      8. Elisha Whitney (1722)
      9. Esther Whitney (1726)
  3. Generation 3back to top
    1. Joseph Adams, son of Joseph Adams and Ruth Whitney, was born in 1717 in Brookline, Norfolk, MA and died in 1799 in Newton, Middlesex, MA at the age of 82. He married Mercy Fowle, daughter of , on April 2, 1740 in Newton, Middlesex, MA. She was born in 1721 in Newton, Middlesex, MA and died in 1782 in Newton, Middlesex, MA at the age of 61.

      Children of Joseph Adams and Mercy Fowle:

      1. Mary Adams (1749)
      2. Joseph Adams (17511813)
      3. Roger Adams (17531811)
      4. Rebecca Adams (1755)
      5. Smith Adams (1757)
      6. Mercy Adams (1759)
      7. Sarah Adams (1761)
      8. Marcy Adams (1765)
    2. Sarah Whitney, daughter of Timothy Whitney and Margaret Bacon, was born on February 28, 1708 in Roxbury, Middlesex, MA. She married William Perce on April 18, 1729 in Hopkinton, Middlesex, MA. He was born about 1705.

    3. Caleb Whitney, son of Timothy Whitney and Margaret Bacon, was born on April 2, 1711 in Roxbury, Norfolk, MA and died before June 11, 1764 in Newton, Middlesex, MA. He married Hannah Cheney, daughter of , on April 15, 1736 in Newton, Middlesex, MA. She was born on June 13, 1711 in Newton, Middlesex, MA and died after May 2, 1765 in Newton, Middlesex, MA.

      Children of Caleb Whitney and Hannah Cheney:

      1. Hannah Whitney (1737)
      2. Caleb Whitney (17401777)
      3. Sarah Whitney (17431771)
      4. Thaddeus Whitney (17471832)
    4. Moses Whitney, son of Timothy Whitney and Margaret Bacon, was born on June 20, 1714 in Roxbury, Middlesex, MA and died on February 22, 1804 in Newton, Middlesex, MA at the age of 89. He married Rebecca Hyde, daughter of , on October 2, 1740 in Newton, Middlesex, MA. She was born about 1716 in Of Newton, Middlesex, MA.

      Children of Moses Whitney and Rebecca Hyde:

      1. Margret Whitney (17411769)
      2. Moses Whitney (17431776)
      3. Mary Whitney (1745)
      4. Timothy Whitney (17471821)
      5. Stephen Whitney (17471776)
      6. Elizabeth Whitney (1749)
      7. Ephraim Whitney (17511776)
      8. Rebecca Whitney (1754)
      9. Relief Whitney (1756)
      10. Gershom Whitney (17581759)
      11. Persis Whitney (1760)
      12. John Whitney (17621816)
    5. Joseph Whitney, son of Timothy Whitney and Margaret Bacon, was born on February 21, 1717 in Roxbury, Middlesex, MA. He married Mary Hastings, daughter of , on October 26, 1749 in Newton, Middlesex, MA. She was born on December 16, 1725.

      Children of Joseph Whitney and Mary Hastings:

      1. Abigail Whitney (1749)
      2. Martha Whitney (1752)
      3. Anne Whitney (1755)
      4. Samuel Whitney (17581831)
      5. Lois Whitney (1761)
    6. John Whitney, son of Daniel Whitney and Susanna Curtis, was born on May 23, 1705 in Roxbury, Norfolk, MA. He married Elizabeth Brinno on May 1, 1727 in Boston, Suffolk, MA. She was born about 1706 in Of Boston, MA.

    7. Elizabeth Whitney, daughter of Daniel Whitney and Susanna Curtis, was born on February 4, 1707 in Roxbury, Norfolk, MA. She married George Nowell on July 31, 1742 in Boston, Suffolk, MA. He was born about 1705 in Of Boston, Suffolk, MA.

    8. Susanna Whitney, daughter of Daniel Whitney and Susanna Curtis, was born on February 21, 1709 in Roxbury, Norfolk, MA. She married James Adlington on October 12, 1727 in Boston, Suffolk, MA. He was born about 1705 in Of Boston, Suffolk, MA.

    9. Daniel Whitney, son of Daniel Whitney and Susanna Curtis, was born on March 26, 1710 in Roxbury, Norfolk, MA. He married Sarah Gray on March 7, 1769 in Roxbury, Norfolk, MA. She was born about 1713.

    10. Anna Whitney, daughter of Daniel Whitney and Susanna Curtis, was born on April 30, 1713 in Roxbury, Norfolk, MA. She married John Lee on December 2, 1736 in Boston, Suffolk, MA. He was born about 1710 in Of Boston, Suffolk, MA.

    11. Elijah Whitney, son of Daniel Whitney and Susanna Curtis, was born on January 15, 1715 in Roxbury, Suffolk, MA and died about 1790. He married Hannah Coffin on November 1, 1739 in Boston, MA. She was born about 1717 in Of Boston, MA.

      Children of Elijah Whitney and Hannah Coffin:

      1. Elijah Whitney (1744)
      2. Elisha Whitney (17471815)
      3. John Whitney (1749)
      4. Hannah Whitney (1756)
    12. Ruth Whitney, daughter of Daniel Whitney and Susanna Curtis, was born on December 5, 1718 in Roxbury, Norfolk, MA. She married John Decoster on April 14, 1742 in Boston, Suffolk, MA. He was born about 1715 in Of Boston, Suffolk, MA.

    13. Esther Whitney, daughter of Daniel Whitney and Susanna Curtis, was baptized on July 10, 1726 in Roxbury, Norfolk, MA. She married John White on March 8, 1745 in Roxbury, Norfolk, MA. He was born about 1724 in Of Roxbury, Norfolk, MA.

Marriage

Date given simply as 1669 in Savage, GenDictNE, with qualifier "it is said".

Shared note

That he (who died in Roxbury) was determined to be this John was by age (83) at date of death.

Estate Probated 13 Mar 1726/7 in Roxbury, Suffolk, MA; will proved.

He owned a nine-acre houselot situated in that part of Roxbury called Jamaica Plain, lying on the right as you pass up Pond St. to the south part of Brookline, extending back from the street, westerly to the line separating Roxbury from Brookline.

MARR: notes, GenServ submitter: Wiley A. Jarell ([email protected]). He was mentioned in his grandfather Robert Reynold's will on 20 Apr 1658 Boston, Suffolk, MA. He witnessed the will of Edward BUGBY, along with Robert HARRIS, John BRIDGE, and Nathaniell BRUER on 26 Nov 1668 in Roxbury, Suffolk, MA. He ended military service on 24 Aug 1676, Roxbury, Suffolk, MA; paid 18s-0d for service. He was John Whitney...received to full Communion." He was admitted freeman on 7 May 1684 Roxbury, Norfolk, MA. He was granted administration, along with mother Ruth and brother Benjamin, on the estate of his father after 12 Oct 1692, Watertown, Middlesex, MA. He was on first list of members. He left a will in Sep 1718, Roxbury, Suffolk, MA; named heirs of daughter Elizabeth, daughter Ruth Adams, son Timothy, and son Daniel, son John and daughter Saray are not mentioned.

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