Richard WHITNEY

1687 - Aft 1734  (> 48 years)

• Name	Richard WHITNEY  [2, 3]
  	"The Whitney Family": His father gave him thirteen acres of land at Horse Pound Hill, and twenty-six acres at Drum Hill, with three acres of swamp east of Horse Pound Hill, seven acres of land to take up in the unsequestered land, and "one pair of stears past three years old," 18 Oct. 1709; and, at the same date, sold him three acres of land, with a house-frame thereon, at Belden's Hill. they dwelt at Norwalk for several years; then settled in that part of tratfield Society, which lay in the town of Fairfield. He proposed to build a grist-mill on Sasco River, "where the sawmill stood," and asked the town to give him a small piece of land on which to set a house. His request was granted by town-meeting, 27 Apr 1713, and a committee appointed to lay out the land and stipulate the conditions of the grant. Another town-meeting, 6 Aug. 1716, granted him liberty to flow so much of the town-commons as should be needed for the mll. His mill appears to have been built before 24 Aug. 1716, when the committee laid out, and, 12 Sept. 1716, formally conveyed to him, land on the east side of Sasco River, near to his mill, on his engagement "to keep a good and sufficient grist mill, on said rive, att or near the lace where his now gristmill now standeth, when it can be done with labour; and to grind all sorts of grain for two quarts a bushell into good & sufficient meal, if the grain be good and also to keep a sufficient house over said mill to secure all such grain as shall be brought to said mill, with a good lock and key continually to said house; and to grind all such grists of all sorts of grain as shall be bought by any Inhabitant of said town to said mill seasonably and before he or they shall grind for a stranger." He was living at Stratfield as early as 18 Oct 1714, when he sold land in Norwalk, to "William Jarvis of Huntington, on ye Island of Nassau," and again 21 Jan. 1725-6, when he sold to his brother, Joseph Whitney, a "Fifty pounds Right of commonage" in the undivided lands of Norwalk. he was a juror, at Fairfield, 24 Dec. 1734. The date of his death has not been found. She died at Fairfeld, 20 oct. 1774. [1]
  Birth	18 Apr 1687	Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Aft 1734	Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA   [2]
  Person ID	I61148	Main Tree
  Last Modified	6 Aug 2018

  
  

  Father	John WHITNEY,   b. Abt 1644, Southold, Long Island, New York d. 1720, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA (Age 76 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Elizabeth SMITH,   b. Abt 1656   d. Aft 03 Apr 1741, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA (Age > 85 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	17 Mar 1675	Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA   [3]
  Family ID	F13846	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hannah DARLING,   b. Abt 1689, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA d. 20 Oct 1774, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA (Age 85 years)
  Marriage	07 Apr 1709	Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA   [2, 4]
  Children	1. Elijah WHITNEY,   b. 16 Apr 1710, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA d. Bef 15 Dec 1741, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA (Age 31 years)  [Birth]   2. Capt Samuel WHITNEY,   b. 5 Oct 1711, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA d. 20 Feb 1796 (Age 84 years)  [Birth]   3. Richard WHITNEY,   b. 1 Sep 1715, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA  [Birth]   4. John WHITNEY,   b. 17 Jan 1719/20, Stratfield,Connecticut d. 29 Mar 1705, Branford, Connecticut  [Birth] + 5. Daniel WHITNEY,   b. 24 Apr 1723, Stratfield,Connecticut  [Birth]
  Family ID	F13851	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Oct 2012

  
  

• Event Map

  Marriage - 07 Apr 1709 - Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA Death - Aft 1734 - Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• 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). [S03262] RootsWeb: World Connect - Stamford, CT Familes (1641-1935) by Barbara Kaye. [S01785] Donald Lines Jacobus, Ancestry.com: History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, (Name: Name: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.;;). [S03421] The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records: Norwalk and Norwich.