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Saturday, January 16, 2016

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Your 2016 Genealogy Education Plans

It's Saturday Night - 
time for more Genealogy Fun! 



Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to:


1) What are your genealogy education plans for 2016?  Local society meetings or seminars?  Regional or national conferences?  Weeklong institutes?  Genealogy cruises?  Podcasts?  YouTube Videos?  Webinars or Hangouts On Air?  Magazines?  Websites?  Blogs?

2)  How much time do you invest in Genealogy Education?  Why do you do it?

3)  Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, or in a Facebook or Google+ post.

Here's mine:

1)  My 2016 genealogy education plan:

*  I will attend monthly program meetings of the Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS) and the San Diego Genealogical Society (SDGS).

*  I will attend the CVGS and SDGS all-day seminars.  I will attend the all-day Family History Fair in Escondido in March, and the All-day Family Discovery Day in Chula Vista in May.

*  I am scheduled to teach 3 sessions of Beginning Computer Genealogy at San Diego OASIS (adult education), host a monthly CVGS Research Group, will speak at the Family discovery Day, and make presentations to about 10 Southern California genealogical societies in 2016.

*  I will lead the monthly RootsMagic SIG for SDGS at the FamilySearch Library in Mission Valley.


*  I will go to RootsTech 2016 in Salt Lake City in February.  I probably won't attend many classes.  I usually learn more from the syllabus materials and the Expo Hall than sitting in a class.

*  I will go to the SCGS Genealogy Jamboree in June 2016 in Burbank, California.  I usually attend some classes here.

*  I doubt that we will go on a genealogy cruise this year (we've done it three of the last four years) due to my wife's mobility issues.  I haven't been to a weeklong institute, but I'd like to, but not this year.

*  I have a subscription to Family Tree Webinars and usually watch the presentations after the live event (mainly because the CVGS events are at the same time on Wednesdays).  

*  I watch the Southern California Genealogical Society (SCGS) (I'm a member) webinars after the live event also.  I occasionally watch other webinars from other providers that are free or within my subscription package.

*  I participate in the Mondays With Myrt discussions using Google+ Hangouts On Air whenever I can;  when I miss one, I watch it on YouTube.  

*  I watch YouTube videos from a number of genealogy "channels" including Ancestry, FamilySearch, MyHeritage, DearMYRTLE, Russ Worthington, Tessa Keough, etc.

*  I listen occasionally to podcasts from the Genealogy Guys, Lisa Louise Cooke's Genealogy Gems, and Fisher's Extreme Genes.

*  I have subscriptions to the National Genealogical Society (NGSQ and NGS Magazine), the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGR and American Ancestors Magazine), and Family Tree Magazine.

*  I read over 1500 genealogy blogs using the Feedly RSS news reader on a daily basis.

2)  I estimate that I spend about 30% of my genealogy time on genealogy education each year.  That is at least 2-3 hours a day almost every day.  I look at it as an investment - the opportunities are endless, it seems.  I can learn about new tasks, applications, record groups, DNA, etc. from experts in the field and apply the lessons to my own research.   


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Surname Saturday - EGGLETON (England to colonial New England)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.  


I am in the 8th great-grandmothers and I'm up to Ancestor #1195 who is Sarah EGGLETON (1630-1687) 
[Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 8th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

UPDATED:  25 January 2016.  Reader Jane emailed and said I was wrong about the parents.  I think she is correct based on what I have found in the literature.


My ancestral line back through two generations of this EGGLETON family line is:


1. Randall J. Seaver

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)

4. Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942)
5. Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962)

8. Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922)
9. Hattie Louise Hildreth (1857-1920)


18.  Edward Hildreth (1831-1899)
19.  Sophia Newton (1834-1923)

36.  Zavhariah Hildreth (1783-1857)
37.  Hannah Sawtell (1789-1857)

74.  Josiah Sawtell (1768-1847)
75.  Hannah Smith (1768-1824)

148.  Ephraim Sawtell (1738-1800)
149.  Abigail Stone (1736-1800)

298.  James Stone (1702-1783)
299.  Mary Farwell (1709-1783)

596.  John Stone (1658-1735)
597.  Sarah Nutting (1663-????)

1194.  John Nutting, born about 1620 in Kent, England; died 13 March 1676 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 2388. John Nutting and 2389. Elizabeth Rawlings.  He married 28 August 1650 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
1195.  Sarah Eggleton, born about 1630 in England; died 10 March 1687 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  

Children of John Nutting and Sarah Eggleton are:
*  John Nutting (1651-1731), married 1674 Mary Lakin (1649-1707)
*James Nutting (1653-1732), married 1672 Lydia Longley (1657-1758).
*  Mary Nutting (1656-1727), married 1678 Samuel Howe (1654-1724).
*  Josiah Nutting (1658-1658).
*  Sarah Nutting (1660-1660).
*  Sarah Nutting (1663-????), married (1) 1681 Matthias Farnsworth (1650-1693); (2) 1698 John Stone (1658-1735).
*  Ebenezer Nutting (1666-????),. married Lydia.
*  Jonathan Nutting (1668-1735), married 1700 Elizabeth (1670-1741).
*  Deborah Nutting (1670-1728), married 1687 Jacob Taylor (1662-1705).

2390.  Stephen Eggleton, born about 1608 in Kent, England; died about 1634 in England.  He married 30 November 1628 in Biddenden, Kent, England.
2391.  Jane Bennett, born about 1602 in England; died 10 March 1687 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

2390. --?-- Eggleton.
2391. Jane (--?--) (Eggleton) (Britton) Cole, born about 1602 in England.

Children of Stephen Eggleton and Jane Bennett are:
Children of --?-- Eggleton and Jane --?-- are:

*  Sarah Eggleton (1630-1687), married 1650 John Nutting (1620-1676).
*  Ruth Eggleton (1631-1708), married 1655 Samuel Blodgett (1633-????).

Information about this Eggleton family line was obtained from:

*  Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, 1634-1635, Volume I, A-C, pages 412-415.

*  Mary Walton Ferris, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines (Salt Lake City, Utah : the author, 1983)

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Friday, January 15, 2016

My Relationships to U.S. Presidents - Post 8: Presidents 1-5

I can't seem to stay away from Geni.com and their search capability to find relationships with living persons.  I spent more time today working backwards in time looking for my connections to the U.S. Presidents.  Previously, I have posted:

*  My Relationships to United States Presidents - Post 1: 39 to 44 (posted 2 October 2014), 
*  My Relationships to U.S. Presidents - Post 2: Presidents 34-38 (posted 13 November 2014), 
*  My Relationships to U.S. Presidents - Post 3: Presidents 28-33 (posted 16 January 2015), 
*  My Relationships to U.S. Presidents - Post 4: Presidents 22-27 (posted 16 March 2015).
*  My Relationships to U.S. Presidents - Post 5: Presidents 16-21 (posted 26 June 2015)

*  My Relationships to U.S. Presidents - Post 6: Presidents 11-15 (posted 7 August 2015)
*  My Relationships to U.S. Presidents - Post 7: Presidents 6-10 (posted 16 October 2015)

Here are the next five going back in time:


1)  James Monroe (5th President of the United States) is my 11th cousin 6 times removed, according to Geni.com:


 The common ancestor is John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (1340-1399), father of Joan Beufort and John Beaufort (but perhaps not by the same mother).

My line back goes through John Pers (1588-1661) of Watertown, Massachusetts according to Geni.com.  I don't know if the parentage of John Pers is correct in Geni.com or not.  I have not found any authoritative work that says his father is Richard Percy.  However, I do have a line back to John of Gaunt, but through Thomas Dudley (1576-1653) of Massachusetts.  John of Gaunt is my 18th great-grandfather.  I can't comment about the line from John of Gaunt to President James Monroe.  My judgment is that I may be related to James Monroe, but not through the Pers/Percy line.

2)  James Madison (4th President of the United States) is my 5th cousin 6 times removed according to Geni.com:

 The common ancestor according to Geni.com is William Horton, of Gumley, whose son was Thomas Horton (1596-1649), one of the signers of the warrant to execute King Charles I.  I have found no authoritative record that defines my Thomas Horton (1638-1715) of Rehoboth, Massachusetts as the son of this Thomas Horton, "the Regicide."  My judgment is that my relationship to James Madison is doubtful, at least through the Horton line.

3)  Thomas Jefferson (3rd President of the United States) is my 7th cousin 6 times removed, according to Geni.com:

 The common ancestor is Thomas Roberts (1494-1562) of Cranbrook, Kent.  My line is through his daughter, Mary Roberts which leads to my ancestor Abigail (Thurston) White (1700-????), whose mother's surname I do not know.  Geni says it is Sarah Guile (1657-1724).  It may be, and it may not be.  I consider this relationship for me to Thomas Jefferson to be doubtful at best.

4)  John Adams (2nd President of the United States is my 5th cousin 7 times removed:

 The common ancestor, according to Geni.com, is the father of William White (1590-1621), a Mayflower passenger (my line) and Richard White (????-????), husband of Rebecca Bushwell, and farther of John White (1620-1691) of Brookline, Mass., noted on Geni.com as "John White of the 2nd Mayflower".  I sincerely doubt that John and William were brothers, and that John came on the "second Mayflower" with his wife and settled in Watertown, Mass.  It is evident to me that John Adams is descended from this John White, however.

However, I do have a common ancestor with John Adams - that being Henry Adams (1583-1646), my 10th great-grandfather through his son Peter Adams (1622-1690).  President John Adams is Henry Adams 2nd great-grandson through his son Joseph Adams (1626-1694), so I guess that makes President John Adams my 3rd cousin 8 times removed.  Perhaps my line is incomplete in Geni.com?  I will have to remedy that!

5)  George Washington (1st President of the United States) is my 7th cousin 8 times removed:


The common ancestor, according to Geni.com, is John C. Cooke (1473-1516) of London, England.  My line from him goes through 4 Cooke names, then Robert Williams (1607-1693) of Roxbury, Mass., whose daughter Elizabeth Williams (1620-1663) may have married Richard Cutter (1621-1693), my 8th great-grandfather.  However, the birth years don't add up for the Williams father and daughter.  Therefore, I doubt that I am related to George Washington through this line.

6)  I did not check the records for each relationship shown in the charts above from Geni.com.  I am confident that my lines back to the immigrant ancestors from England are correct, but I have no idea how accurate the lines are from the immigrants back to some of the common ancestors to the Presidents.  Some are well researched, and have entries in the book by Gary Boyd Roberts, Ancestors of American Presidents (1989).  



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Creating Source Citations in RootsMagic 7 - Post 4: Crafting a Source Citation for a Published Book Found Online

Researchers new to RootsMagic 7 may have challenges learning how to enter source citations into RootsMagic, so I thought I would show how I enter a new source and then create a citation, with the Evidence Explained source templates, and with a free-form template (in a later post in this series).

I have a photocopy of pages from this published book in my Adams notebook:


J. Gardner Bartlett, Henry Adams of Somersetshire, England and Braintree, Mass.; His English Ancestry and some of His Descendants (New York City : privately printed, 1927).  

I obtained the pages at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City in 2010, and also found that it has been digitized in FamilySearch Books.

Note that this "Master Source" is a different work than the first two posts in this series.  I am using it because it has more information about the Henry Adams family that suit my purposes for this blog series.  I probably should have used it initially.

Previous posts in this series include:

*  Creating Source Citations in RootsMagic 7 - Post 1: New Master Source (posted 12 January 2016).

*  Creating Source Citations in RootsMagic 7 - Post 2: Adding Source Details to the Master Source (posted 13 January 2016).

*  Creating Source Citations in RootsMagic 7 - Post 3: Adding Master Text, Detail Text, Quality and Repository Information (posted 14 January 2016).

In the first two posts, I created a new "Master Source" and a "Source Detail" using the RootsMagic source templates.  In the third post, I completed the source citation by adding to the screens for Master Text, Detail Text, Quality and Repository.

In this post, I will demonstrate how to find and use a RootsMagic source template for the book as found on FamilySearch Books.  

1)  I added a Probate event for Henry Adams in RootsMagic 7 previously, using the date and place that his will was proved.  I want to find a source template for a published book found on an online provider.  


Here is the title page of the book on FamilySearch Books (https://books.familysearch.org/):



I clicked on the "Source" button in the "Edit Person" screen which opened the "Citation Manager" screen shown below:



2)  I want to add another source for this book found on FamilySearch Books collection.  I know I don't have this as an existing source, so I'm going to click on the "Add new source" button in the "Citation Manager" screen, and I see the "Select Source Type" screen with the list of RootsMagic source templates:



I scrolled through the list of source templates, and settled on the "Book, Image copy (online)" template. 

3)  Here is the filled in template for the "Master Source:" 


The "Master Source" field entries I chose were:

*  Author:  J. Gardner Bartlett and Edward Dean Adams
*  Role:
*  Title:  Henry Adams of Somersetshire, England and Braintree, Mass.
*  Sub-Title:  His English Ancestry and Some of His Descendants
*  Edition:
*  Publish Place:  New York City
*  Publisher:  privately published
*  Publish date:  1927
*  New format:  digital images
*  Creator/Owner:  FamilySearch 
*  Website title:  FamilySearch Books
*  URL:  https://books.familysearch.org/

The "Source Detail" field entries I chose were:

*  Access type:  accessed
*  Access date:  13 January 2016
*  Page:  pages 67-68, Henry Adams probate record entry
*  Annotation:

4)  I clicked "OK" and had to add a "Master Source" name for this work on the FamilySearch Books website.  The "Master Source Name" I chose was:

Adams of Somersetshire, England and Braintree, Mass. - by Bartlett (FamilySearch Books)

5)  I added the Master Text, Detail text, Quality and Repository information also, copying them from the earlier free-form citation I crafted yesterday.

On the "Master Text" button, I clicked on the "Web Tags" button, and then clicked on the "Add" button on the "Web Tags" screen, and filled in the fields in the "Edit Web Tag" screen:


The URL added to the "WebTag" screen was:

https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE4561766&from=fhd

6)  The "Citation Manager" screen for this event for Henry Adams is:


The three source citation models for this master source and event source detail are:

Footnote: J. Gardner Bartlett and Edward Dean Adams, Henry Adams of Somersetshire, England and Braintree, Mass.: His English Ancestry and Some of His Descendants (New York City: privately printed, 1927), pages 67-68, Henry Adams probate record entry; digital images, FamilySearch, FamilySearch Books (https://books.familysearch.org/ : accessed 13 January 2016.
Short Footnote: Adams, Henry Adams of Somersetshire, England and Braintree, Mass., pages 67-68, Henry Adams probate record entry.
Bibliography: Adams, J. Gardner Bartlett and Edward Dean. Henry Adams of Somersetshire, England and Braintree, Mass.: His English Ancestry and Some of His Descendants. New York City: privately printed, 1927. Digital images. FamilySearch. FamilySearch Books. https://books.familysearch.org/ : 2016.

7)  In the next post in this series, I will show how to craft a source citation for a census record using a U.S. census source template, and then do the same source citation using a "free-form" source template in RootsMagic.



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52 Ancestors - Week 107: #130 Samuel Whitney (1719-1782)

Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post Challenge:  52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog.  I am extending this theme in 2016 to 156 Ancestors in 156 Weeks. Here is my ancestor biography for week #107:

Samuel Whitney (1719-1782) is #130 on my Ahnentafel list, my 5th great-grandfather who married #131 Abigail Fletcher (1720-1783) in 1741.



I am descended through:


*  their daughter, #65 Martha Whitney, who married #64 Benjamin Seaver (1757-1816), in 1783.
*  their son, #32 Benjamin Seaver (1791-1825), who married  #33 Abigail Gates (1797-1867) in 1817.
*  their son, #16 Isaac Seaver (1823-1901), who married #17 Lucretia Townsend Smith (1828-1884) in 1852.
*  their son, #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922), who married #9 Hattie Louise Hildreth (1847-1920) in 1874. 
*  their son, #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942), who married Alma Bessie richmond (1882-1962) in 1900.
* their son, #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983), who married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.
*  their son, #1 Randall J. Seaver (1943-....)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):


*  Name:                          Samuel Whitney[1–17]   
*  Sex:                              Male   

*  Father:                         William Whitney (1683-1720)   
*  Mother:                       Martha Peirce (1681-1759)   
  
2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):   

*  Birth:                           23 May 1719, Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[3]   
*  Baptism:                      25 June 1738 (age 19), Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[4]  
*  Deed:                           14 January 1741 (age 21), Westminster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States[5]
*  Children:                     1742–1767 (about age 23–about 48), Westminster, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[7]   
*  Deed:                           8 March 1747 (age 27), bought 62 acres in Lot 21 of 2nd Division from Ephraim Wood; Westminster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States[8]   
*  Deed:                          12 March 1750 (age 30), bought 62 acres in Lot 64 of second division from Philip Bemis; Westminster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States[9]   
*  Deed:                         27 November 1753 (age 34), sold two lots in Westminster to Jabez Benman; Westminster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States[10]   
*  Deed:                        20 February 1762 (age 42), bought 20 acres of lot 44 in Westminster from Jabez Bigelow; Westminster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States[11]   
*  Deed:                        15 November 1781 (age 62), sold 60 acres of Lots 51 and 52 in Westminster to Alpheus Whitney; Westminster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States[12]   
*  Deed:                        15 November 1781 (age 62), sold 21 plus acres in Lots 51 and 52 to Phineas Whitney; Westminster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States[13]   
*  Death:                      1 January 1782 (age 62), Westminster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States[14–15]   
*  Burial:                     after 1 January 1782 (after age 62), Woodside Cemetery, Westminster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States[16]   
*  Probate:                   21 February 1783 (age 63), administratrix appointed; Westminster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States[17]   
  
3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
  
*  Spouse 1:                 Abigail Fletcher (1720-1783)   
*  Marriage 1:              20 October 1741 (age 22), Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[6]

*  Child 1:                    Abigail Whitney (1742-    )    
*  Child 2:                    Mary Whitney (1744-    )   
*  Child 3:                    Samuel Whitney (1746-1812)   
*  Child 4:                    Abner Whitney (1748-1811)   
*  Child 5:                    Achsah Whitney (1750-1772)   
*  Child 6:                    Silas Whitney (1752-1798)   
*  Child 7:                    Martha Whitney (1755-1755)   
*  Child 8:                    Elisha Whitney (1757-1810)   
*  Child 9:                    Alpheus Whitney (1759-1821)   
*  Child 10:                  Phinehas Whitney (1761-1832)   
*  Child 11:                  Hananiah Whitney (1762-1835)   
*  Child 12:                  Martha Whitney (1764-1832)   
*  Child 13:                  Susannah Whitney (1767-1767)   
  
4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):   

A biography of Samuel Whitney was published in the book Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity[1].  It reads:

"(V) Lieutenant Samuel Whitney, son of William Whitney (4), was born in Weston, Massachusetts, May 23, 1719. He married, October 20, 1741, Abigail Fletcher. He was a leading man in the settlement of the town of Westminster, Massachusetts, and was frequently elected to office. He went there from his native town of Weston probably soon after his marriage, about 1742. The old Whitney homestead there was owned lately by the Hartwell family, only the cellar hole remaining to mark the site of the old house, on Lot 51 near the north common. He was prominent, capable and much esteemed, one of the executive committee of the proprietors and a selectman three years after incorporation. He was a lieutenant in the revolution. He was a man of wealth as well as influence in Westminster, and gave each of his sons a farm. He died January 1, 1782. The children of Samuel and Abigail Whitney: 1. Abigail, born August 27, 1742. probably died young. 2. Mary, born May 29, 1744, married Elijah Gibson and Edward Scott, of Westminster. 3. Samuel, born February 11, 1746, married Thankful Wilder. 4. Abner, see forward. 5. Achsah, born September 30, 1750, died May 14, 1772. 6 Silas, born October 20, 1752, married Sarah Withington. 7. Martha, born November 26, 175S. died young. 8. Elisha, born July 2, 1757, married Eunice Seaver. 9. Alpheus, born February 25, 1759. married Esther Hartwell. 10. Phinehas, born January 16, 1761, married Elizabeth Rand. 11. Hananiah, born December 18, 1762, married Azubah Keyes. 12. Martha, born September 18, 1764, married (first) Benjamin Seaver and (second) Isaac Seaver. 13. Susanna, born February 9, 1767, died young."

The History of Westminster, Massachusetts book by Heywood has this sketch for Samuel Whitney[2]:

"WHITNEY, SAMUEL, another son of William and Martha, was born May 23, 1719.  He married October 20, 1741, Abigail Fletcher, and soon after came to this place, locating on lot No. 51, near the North Common, where Leander Hartwell now lives.  The house he built stood a few rods south of the site of the present one.  He was a prominent, capable, and much esteemed resident of the township, one of the Executive Committee of the Propriety, and Selectman 3 years after incorporation.  He also held a commission as Lieutenant in the Militia of the Province.  He was a man of wealth and influence, having a large landed estate, which enabled him to give each of his sons a farm, it is said, before or at his decease.  He died January 1, 1782.  His wife, Abigail (Fletcher), died at an unfound date."

The birth record of Samuel Whitney, son of William and Martha (Pierce) Whitney, in the Weston, Massachusetts vital records book says[3]:

"Samuell Whitney the Son of William Whitney & of Martha his          
Wife was Born in Weston the 23'd day of may 1719."

Samuel Whitney was baptized as an adult in 1738.  The Weston, Massachusetts vital record book says[4]:


"June 25 [1738]  Samuel Whitney, adult, son of Wm. dec'd and Martha Wh."

The land records recorded in the Worcester County land record volumes appear incomplete.  It is likely that he acquired more land and sold or gave more land to his sons than appear in the records listed below.

Samuel Whitney, yeoman of Weston, bought land in Lot 51 in Narragansett No. 2 which was drawn by Benjamin Brown on behalf of John Chadwick of Weston on 14 January 1741 for 150 pounds.  The land consisted of a house lot, meadow, upland and swamp  (recorded 31 October 1765)[5].   [Note that "Narragansett No. 2" was the original name of the town that became Westminster.]

The marriage record of Samuel Whitney and Abigail Fletcher in Weston says[6]:

"Sam'l Whitney jun'r & Abigail Fletcher both of Weston were         
         Married in Sd Town Oct'r 20'th 1741 W'm. Williams Min-

         ist'r of the Gospel there."

The list of the children of Samuel and Abigail (Fletcher) Whitney are recorded in the Westminster, Massachusetts town record book[7]:

Births                                   and                                         Deaths
Leuit Samuel Whitney and Wife                             Mr Samuel Whitney           
Abigail Whitney famely                                           Deceased Jan^y the 1st 
Recorded     viz                                                                          1782 

August 27th 1742 Abigail Whitney Borne 
May the 29 1744 Mary Whitney Borne 
February the 11th 1746 Samuel Whitney Borne 
May 18 1648  Abner Whitney Borne
September 30 1750  Achsa Whitney Borne             Deceased 14th May 1772
October 20 1752  Silas Whitney Born                      Dec^d Nov. 14^th 1798
November 26 1755 Martha Whitney Borne            Deceased 
July 2^d 1757 Alpheus Whitney Borne                   Died 7th March 1821 aged 54 years
January the 16 1761 Phenias Whitney Borne
December the 1762  Hananiah Whitney Borne
September 18 1764 Martha Whitney Borne
February 9 1767 Susanah Whitney Borne

                 Amen

Samuel Whitney, husbandman of Weston, bought 62 acres in Lot number 21 in the second division, which was part of lot 51 of the first division in Narragansett No. 2, from Ephraim Wood of Concord for 75 pounds old tenor on 8 March 1747 (recorded 20 January 1748)[8]

Samuel Whitney bought 62 acres in Lot 64 of the second division in Narragansett No. 2, which was drawn from Lot 116, from Phillip Bemis for 150 pounds old tenor on 12 March 1750 ( 55.275, recorded 19 October 1765)[9].

He sold part of second division lot 13 and meadow lot 64, both in Narragansett No. 2, to Jabez Benman of Shrewsbury for 27 pounds old tenor on 27 November 1753  (recorded 20 May 1757)[10].

Samuel Whitney bought land from Jabez Bigelow of Narragansett No. 2, consisting of 20 acres on Lot 44 of the first division, for 28 pounds, 17 shillings on 20 February 1759 (recorded 31 October 1765)[11].

He sold 60 acres of the house lots 51 and 52 to his son Alpheus Whitney for 300 pounds on 15 November 1781, with Abner Holden and son Abner Whitney as witnesses (recorded 27 December 1781)[12].

On the same day he sold to his son Phineas Whitney, for 400 pounds, part of the original house lots 51 and 52, containing 21 acres and 86 rods in Westminster.  Witnesses were Abner Holden and son Abner Whitney  (recorded 14 January 1784)[13].

Samuel Whitney is said to have held a commission as a lieutenant during or after the Revolutionary War.  However, he is not listed in the book Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution.

The death record of Samuel Whitney is in the Westminster town record book[14-15]:


" Mr Samuel Whitney Deceased Jan^y the 1st 1782" 

Samuel Whitney was buried in Woodside Cemetery in Westminster, Massachusetts, but no gravestone is presently available[16].

Samuel Whitney died intestate; his probate records are in Worcester County, Massachusetts Probate Records, in Probate Packet 65,123.  His widow, Abigail Whitney, was appointed administratrix of his estate on 21 February 1783, with bond in the amount of 800 pounds[17].

An inventory was taken by Abner Holden, Nathan Howard and Thomas Stearns, all of Westminster, on 20 May 1783;  the inventory of the personal estate amounted to 83 pounds, 14 shillings and 11 pence; there was no real estate listed.

It is apparent that he gave or sold his land holdings to his children before his death, since the estate had such a small value.  Abigail's account was allowed 20 May 1783, with a balance of over 35 pounds. This was ordered distributed, after certain debts were paid, to the children.  On 15 June 1785, the heirs submitted a receipt:

"We the subscribers do hereby acknowledge that we have each of us severally and for our selves received of our honoured mother, Abigail Whitney, Adx on the estate of our honoured father - Samuel Whitney late of said Westminster deceased the sum of two pounds three shillings in full of our part of the household furniture belonging to the estate of said deceased and we do severally acquit and discharge the said administratrix for our selves and heirs of all demands or rights or Chalange we or our heirs have or may have to the same & that this shall be a full and final acquittance for our selves and heirs to the above said household furniture forever by these presents.  In witness whereof we have hereunto severally set our hands the day and year aforesaid  Alpheus Whitney, Elisha Whitney, Benjamin Sever, Hananiah Whitney, Mary Scott, Silas Whitney, Job Whitcomb, Hannah Whitney." 

5)  SOURCES
 
1. Ellery Bicknell Crane, Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity (New York City : Lewis Pub., 1907), Volume 4, page 129, Samuel Whitney sketch.

2. William Sweetzer Heywood,  History of Westminster, Massachusetts:  (first named Narragansett no. 2) from the date of the original grant of the township to the present time, 1728-1893 ; with a biographic -genealogical register of its principal families  (Lowell, Mass. : Vox Populi Press, 1893), page 918, Samuel Whitney sketch.

3. Mary Frances Peirce, Town of Weston. Births, Deaths and Marriages, 1707-1850. Gravestones-, 1703-1900. Church Records, 1709-1825. Appendix and Addenda, Centennial Society (Boston, Mass. : McIncloe Bros., Printers, 1901), page 10, Samuel Whitney birth entry.

4. Mary Frances Peirce, Town of Weston. Births, Deaths and Marriages, 1707-1850. Gravestones-, 1703-1900. Church Records, 1709-1825. Appendix and Addenda, Centennial Society, page 431, Samuel Whitney baptism entry.

5. Worcester County, Mass. Registrar of  Deeds, "Worcester County (Mass.) Deeds (1722-1866) and Index to Deeds (1731-1889)", Volume 54, page 183, Lot 51 drawn to Samuel Whitney, accessed on FHL US/CAN Microfilm 0,843,182.

6. Mary Frances Peirce, Town of Weston. Births, Deaths and Marriages, 1707-1850. Gravestones-, 1703-1900. Church Records, 1709-1825. Appendix and Addenda, Centennial Society, page 55, Samuel Whitney and Abigail Fletcher entry.

7. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), "Westminster, Births, marriages and deaths," page 91 (penned), image 142 of 1195, Family of Samuel and Abigail Whitney.

8. Worcester County, Mass. Registrar of  Deeds, "Worcester County (Mass.) Deeds (1722-1866) and Index to Deeds (1731-1889)", Volume 27, page 304, Ephraim Wood to Samuel Whitney, accessed on FHL US/CAN Microfilm 0,843,169.

9. Worcester County, Mass. Registrar of  Deeds, "Worcester County (Mass.) Deeds (1722-1866) and Index to Deeds (1731-1889)", Volume 55, page 275, Samuel Whitney from Philip Bemis, accessed on FHL US/CAN Microfilm 0,843,183.

10. Worcester County, Mass. Registrar of  Deeds, "Worcester County (Mass.) Deeds (1722-1866) and Index to Deeds (1731-1889)", Volume 39. page 219, Samuel Whitney to Jabez Benman accessed on FHL US/CAN Microfilm 0,843,175.

11. Worcester County, Mass. Registrar of  Deeds, "Worcester County (Mass.) Deeds (1722-1866) and Index to Deeds (1731-1889)", Volume 54. page 198, Jabez Bigelow to Samuel Whitney, accessed on FHL US/CAN Microfilm 0,843,182.

12. Worcester County, Mass. Registrar of  Deeds, "Worcester County (Mass.) Deeds (1722-1866) and Index to Deeds (1731-1889)", Volume 86, page 434, Samuel Whitney to Alpheus Whitney, accessed on FHL US/CAN Microfilm 0,843,364.

13. Worcester County, Mass. Registrar of  Deeds, "Worcester County (Mass.) Deeds (1722-1866) and Index to Deeds (1731-1889)", Volume 89, Page 513, Samuel Whitney to Phineas Whitney, accessed on FHL US/CAN Microfilm 0,843,365.

14. Systematic History Fund, Vital Records of Westminster, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Worcester, Mass.: F.P. Rice, 1908), Deaths, page 255: Samuel Whitney entry.

15. Massachusetts, Town Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com, "Westminster Births, marriages and deaths," page 91 (penned), image 142, Family of Samuel and Abigail Whitney.

16. Jim Tipton, indexed database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com), Woodside Cemetery, Westminster, Mass., Samuel Whitney memorial #88187570.

17. "Worcester County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1731-1881," digital images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (http://www.americanancestors.org), Probate Packet 65,123, Samuel Whitney of Westminster, 1783.


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