Samuel WHITNEY

1749 - 1822  (72 years)

• Name	Samuel WHITNEY  [2]
  	"The Whitney Family": They lived for a few years, perhaps tll after the Revolutionary War, in Stockbridge, Mass., after which he went with his family to the Sate of New York, living for a time in the large old town of Johnstown, Montgomery Co. (part of which is now in Fulton Co., part in Hamilton Co., and part in Montgomery Co.,) also for a time in the town of German Flats, perhaps in that part which is now Warren, Herkimer Co., and possibly, also in Galway, Saratoga Co. In October, 1793, he settled on the Brothertown Indian lands, in Paris, now Kirkland, New York, where he bought one hundred acres of land fro the State, a part of which lies in the present town of Marshall, the town-line crossing the farm, receiving his deed 1 Sept. 1795; and his grandchildren still own the occupy the farm, though the deed has not yet been proved, acknowledged or recorded. On this farm they died; he, 12 July 1822, aged 72 years; and she, 14 Feb. 1834, aged 79 years. they were buried in a small cemetery on their farm, which is ow known as the Whitney Cemetery. [1]
  Birth	12 Oct 1749	Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	12 Jul 1822	Kirkland, New York   [1]
  Person ID	I61152	Main Tree
  Last Modified	6 Aug 2018

  
  

  Father	John WHITNEY,   b. 28 Jan 1717, Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Hepzibah OLMSTED   d. 20 May 1753, Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	15 Jun 1746	Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA   [1, 3]
  Family ID	F24757	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary ST. JOHN,   b. 14 Jan 1755, Sharon, Connecticut
  Marriage	03 Jan 1775	Stockbridge, Massachusetts   [2]
  Family ID	F22260	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• 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). [S01702] S. Whitney, Ancestry.com: "The Whitney Family of Connecticut, and its Affiliations", (Name: Name: New York: Privately Printed 1878;;). [S03882] The History of Ridgefield Connecticut - Marriages & Deaths, by George L. Rockwell.