Isaiah Whitney was born September 16, 1671 in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He was the son of Thomas Whitney and Mary Kettle Whitney[1][2][3][4]
He was married about 1695 to Sarah Woodward Eddy in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was the widow of John Eddy and the daughter of George Woodward and Elizabeth Hammond Woodward, Isaiah and Sarah are listed together on the Birth records of their sons Isaiah and John[5][6][2][3][4]
Isaiah died January 7, 1711/12 in that part of Cambridge, Middlesex County that is now known as Lexington[7][4][8]
Sources
↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F465-WLG : 10 November 2020), Isaiah Whetny, 16 Sep 1671; citing Birth, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009514.
↑ 2.02.1 Henry Bond; "Early Settlers of Watertown", page 644.
↑ 3.03.1 Massachusetts Town & Vital Records 1620-1988; Watertown - Births, Marriages and Deaths; page 70
↑ 4.04.14.2 Sons of the American Revolution Applications 1889-1970
↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4JK-HM1 : 10 November 2020), Isaiah Whittney in entry for John Whittney, 6 Dec 1698; citing Birth, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009680.
↑ New England Marriages prior to 1700; 1695-Cambridge
↑ Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized images provided by FamilySearch.org)
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WikiTree profile Whitney-519 created through the import of BDM7-7-11.ged on Jul 8, 2011 by Brian McCullough. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Brian and others.
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