Henry WHITNEY

1715 - 1794  (79 years)

• Name	Henry WHITNEY  [1, 2]
  	"Whitney Genealogy": In 1873, one of his descendants said: "My great-grandfather, Henry Whitney, while cutting wood in the morning before sunrise, heard music, and, looking up, saw some witches in a hog's trough, go sailing along over-head, singing: 'Hoity cock, hoity cock, day breaks on;" and genealogists are compelled to read and consider many traditions and legends which are not better than this. Another tradition says that when he was eighteen years old, he was at Ebenezer Lobdell's house, saw a babe in the cradle, and said, " I will wait till this little girl is a woman and take her for my wife," a pledge which he redeemed when he was forty years old. [1]
  Birth	29 Jul 1715	Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	12 Sep 1794	Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA   [1, 4]
  	Cause: Cholera Morbus
  Burial	Titicus Cemetery   [1]
  Person ID	I61122	Main Tree
  Last Modified	6 Aug 2018

  
  

  Father	Henry WHITNEY,   b. 21 Feb 1680/81, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA d. 26 Apr 1728, Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA (Age 47 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Elizabeth OLMSTEAD,   b. Abt 1684, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA d. Aft 1728, Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA (Age > 45 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	14 Jun 1710	Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA   [5, 6, 7]
  Family ID	F13849	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth LOBDELL,   b. 21 Sep 1733, Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA d. 14 Aug 1816, Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA (Age 82 years)
  Marriage	05 Dec 1755	Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA   [1, 3, 4]
  Family ID	F24765	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Sep 2012

  
  

• Sources

  [S00094] S. Whitney Phoenix, "The Whitney Family of Connecticut and its Affiliations; being an Attempt to trace the Descendants, as well in the Female as the Male Lines, of Henry Whitney, from 1649 to 1878" , (Privately Printed, New York - 1878). [S03883] The History of Ridgefield Connecticut - Births, by George L. Rockwell. [S03423] The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records: Portland, Prospect, Redding and Ridgefield. [S03882] The History of Ridgefield Connecticut - Marriages & Deaths, by George L. Rockwell. [S03262] RootsWeb: World Connect - Stamford, CT Familes (1641-1935) by Barbara Kaye. [S03421] The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records: Norwalk and Norwich. [S01785] Donald Lines Jacobus, Ancestry.com: History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, (Name: Name: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.;;).