Samuel Whitney (bef. 1687 - 1753)

Born before 17 Jul 1687 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Anne (Laboree) Whitney — married 18 Jan 1722 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died 6 Dec 1753 after age 66 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut

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Biography

Samuel was christened 17 Jul 1687 in Watertown, Middlesex, MA ^[1].

Samuel married Anne Labore 18 Jan 1720/21,in Stratford, Connecticut^[2] Anne is the daughter of Rev. James and Jeanne (Resseguie) Laboree

Children of Samuel and Anne (Laboree) Whitney, all born Stratford, CT:

1. Sarah Whitney, b. 19 Aug 1723; m. Daniel Foote.
2. Mary Whitney, b. 19 Nov 1725; m. Edward Osborne.
3. Samuel Whitney, b. 13 Dec 1727;m.(1) Hannah Judson; m.(2) Martha Howes.
4. Anne Whitney, b. 15 Nov 1730; bapt. 22 Nov 1730, Stratford, CT.

Anne, his wife, joined the Episcopal Church at Stratford, CT, on 6 Apr 1735

He had previously bought a home-lot and dwelling-house of Samuel Hawley, in Stratford, to wit, 9 Jan. 1718-19; and he and his wife "owned the covenant" in the Congregational Church, in Stratford, 7 July 1723. He bought land at Woodend, in Stratford, 5 March 1735-6, of Rev. Samuel Johnson, for £26.

Samuel died in 1753 and he is buried in the Old Congregational Cemetery, Stratford, Fairfield, CT.^[3]

His inventory was taken on 21 February 1754 in Stratford and recorded at Fairfield.^[4]

The receipt of the daughters' legacies were recorded in Fairfield in 1754.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850) (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). Vol. Watertown V-4, p. 124 (this second link goes to free version).
2. ↑ Marriage Record
3. ↑ Memorial
4. ↑ “Probate Records, v. 9-10, 1741-1755”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-9922-6WQ7  : 23 May 2022), FHL microfilm 007627281, image 581-582, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 10, 1748-1755, Page 559-560.
5. ↑ “Probate Records, v. 11-12, 1753-1762”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L92K-YLV9 : 25 May 2022), FHL microfilm 007627290, image 125, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 11, 1754-1757, Page 230-231.

• Town of Weston. Births, Deaths and Marriages, 1707-1850. 1703-Gravestones-1900. Church Records, 1709-1825. Page 580. Boston : McIndoe Bros., Printers, 1901.

• Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) Stratford Vital Records 1639-1840, Ancestry.com. Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002.pg 195/201 (Viewable)

• Whitney Family Genealogy Wiki [1]

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 9 April 2020), memorial page for Samuel Whitney (1688–6 Dec 1753), Find a Grave Memorial no. 20899644, citing Old Congregational Burying Ground, Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA ; Maintained by Diane Whitney (contributor 48150022) .
• Whitney Research Group, Family:Whitney, Samuel (1687-1753) http://wiki.whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/Family:Whitney,_Samuel_(1687-1753)

Parentage research

NOTE: Pierce writes, The statement made by Stephen Whitney Phoenix that there was a son Samuel Whitney of Stratford, CT, who married Anne Laborie, is false, as he was the son of Nathaniel3 Whitney of Weston, MA, as proven by the latter's probate records. According to Scholars of the Whitney Families found error and reported, this website is correct in connections. http://wiki.whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/Family:Whitney,_Samuel_(1687-1753)

Samuel Whitney: error connections with John and Elizabeth Smith Whitney, http://whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/Family:Whitney,_John_(b1645-b1720)

Stephen 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; to which is prefixed some account of the Whitneys of England. (New York : Priv. Print. [Bradford Press] 1878), pp. 11-12.