Daniel WHITNEY

1754 - 1826  (72 years)

• Name	Daniel WHITNEY  [1]
  	Daniel Whitney was a cooper. They lived, during the whole of their married life, about two miles west of the village of Stamford, in a house occupied by Widow John Selleck in 1868. He was a soldier of the Revolution, and enjoyed a pension,as did his wife after his death for his services. He died, on Sunday morning, 6 Aug. 1826, aged 72 years, 3 months and 2 days. His widow, who was a remarkably vigorous woman, and able, when over eighty years old, to walk from Stamford Landing, two and a half miles, to her home, died in Stamford, 24 Feb. 1849, aged 87 years, 10 months and 24 days; and was buried near her husband, in a graveyard south of the village, near the river and the railway, where their gravestones may still be found, by one willing to encounter the weeds and mosquitoes. She was a communicant in the Episc. Church. [1]
  Birth	10 May 1754	Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut   [1]
  Christening	2 Jun 1754  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	6 Aug 1826  [1]
  Person ID	I92147	Main Tree
  Last Modified	6 Aug 2018

  
  

  Father	Daniel WHITNEY,   b. 24 Apr 1723, Stratfield,Connecticut
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Hester CLASON
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	7 Nov 1745  [1]
  Family ID	F28031	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hannah SELLECK,   b. 29 Mar 1761, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA d. 24 Feb 1849, Stamford, Fairfield Co., Connecticut (Age 87 years)
  Marriage	19 Jun 1776  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Selleck WHITNEY,   b. 28 Jun 1779, Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut d. 26 Mar 1850, New York City, New York (Age 70 years)
  Family ID	F38492	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Aug 2018

  
  

• 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).