Unknown (Unknown) Whitney

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Died after 1652 in Southold, Suffolk, New York

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Biography

Unknown Unknown ... Nothing is known about Henry Whitney's 1st wife, other than the fact that she is the mother of their son John Whitney. She passed away after 1652.

Sources

• Ancestry Family Trees. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.

• familysearch.com

• Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700: WHITNEY, Henry (?1620-1673) & 1/wf __?__; b 1644; Southold, LI/Huntington, LI/Jamaica, LI/Norwalk, CT/etc.

The name of Henry Whitney's first wife is unknown. Her existence is inferred from the fact that his son John2 was too old to have been the son of his known second wife. Her parentage and birth date are unknown. She died after 22 Apr 1652, Southold, NY, when she is mentioned in the letter below.

HenryWhitneyToWinthrop1652.jpg Letter from Henry Whitney to John Winthrop, 1652

"Family:Whitney, Henry (s1615-1673)." Family:Whitney, Henry (s1615-1673) - WRG. Accessed May 27, 2017. http://wiki.whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/Family:Whitney,_Henry_(s1615-1673).

In 1652, Henry Whitney wrote a letter to John Winthrop, Jr. requesting medical advice concerning his wife.

"Wourthi Sir, Having this oppertunyti I have made bowld to write thes few lines unto you, hoping that God may make you an instryment of good to mee in the matter which i write to you about: my wife have been for these many yeres much trubled in the spring of the yere and at the fall with a trubble of the head, not a payne, but a swimming as it wear which as we conceve is ocashoned from a cloging at hir stomake, and sum times she is overcum with a sudden flashing heat and she is much overcome with malencolly: I would intreat you if you know of anything that may doe hir good that you would send mee sumthing by goodman Elderkin and I will send you sattisfaction by him: if you coceve that fisik may doe hir good there is no danger for hir to take it in respect of childbering for wee conceve she is past that: and thus with my love Remembered to your worship I Rest yours to my power:

Henry Whitne

Southold this 22th of April 1652

On the Cover is written "To the wourshipfull / in John wintrup live / ing at pequit give / this with trust".