Richard WHITNEY

Richard married Experience BEARDSLEY on 4 Dec 1750 in Stratford, Connecticut. Experience (daughter of John BEARDSLEY and Mary WHEELER) was born on 26 Feb 1724/25 in Stratfield,Connecticut; died on 11 Jul 1780 in Stratfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"The Whitney Family": His father gave him thirteen acres of land at Horse Pound Hill, and twenty-six acres at Drum Hill, with three acres of swamp east of Horse Pound Hill, seven acres of land to take up in the unsequestered land, and "one pair of stears past three years old," 18 Oct. 1709; and, at the same date, sold him three acres of land, with a house-frame thereon, at Belden's Hill. they dwelt at Norwalk for several years; then settled in that part of tratfield Society, which lay in the town of Fairfield. He proposed to build a grist-mill on Sasco River, "where the sawmill stood," and asked the town to give him a small piece of land on which to set a house. His request was granted by town-meeting, 27 Apr 1713, and a committee appointed to lay out the land and stipulate the conditions of the grant. Another town-meeting, 6 Aug. 1716, granted him liberty to flow so much of the town-commons as should be needed for the mll. His mill appears to have been built before 24 Aug. 1716, when the committee laid out, and, 12 Sept. 1716, formally conveyed to him, land on the east side of Sasco River, near to his mill, on his engagement "to keep a good and sufficient grist mill, on said rive, att or near the lace where his now gristmill now standeth, when it can be done with labour; and to grind all sorts of grain for two quarts a bushell into good & sufficient meal, if the grain be good and also to keep a sufficient house over said mill to secure all such grain as shall be brought to said mill, with a good lock and key continually to said house; and to grind all such grists of all sorts of grain as shall be bought by any Inhabitant of said town to said mill seasonably and before he or they shall grind for a stranger." He was living at Stratfield as early as 18 Oct 1714, when he sold land in Norwalk, to "William Jarvis of Huntington, on ye Island of Nassau," and again 21 Jan. 1725-6, when he sold to his brother, Joseph Whitney, a "Fifty pounds Right of commonage" in the undivided lands of Norwalk. he was a juror, at Fairfield, 24 Dec. 1734. The date of his death has not been found. She died at Fairfeld, 20 oct. 1774.

Richard married Hannah DARLING on 07 Apr 1709 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. Hannah (daughter of John DARLING and Elizabeth BEERS) was born about 1689 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 20 Oct 1774 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]