David WHITNEY b. 24 Jun 1721 Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA d. 16 Apr 1816 Silvermine, Connecticut: Darlene's Family Genealogy

1721 - 1816 (94 years)

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Name	David WHITNEY [1, 2]
	"Whitney Genealogy": They settled in Norwalk, where she died 28 Oct. 1798, aged, according to the gravestone, 80 years, 4 months, and 22 days, but really, from the change of style, eleven days less. The church-record of New Canaan, Conn., has the death, in "Nov. 1798", of "the wife of Mr. Whitney," which refers to her. He died at Silver Mine, in New Canaan, 16 Apr. 1816, and was Buried in New Canaan. Tradition calls him a soldier of the Revolutionary War. It is said that they dwelt, many years, in Pudding Lane, about half a mile north of Norwalk Bridge, in a house which was torn down in the spring of 1865; and that he had charge of a grist-mill, in which his son, Ebenezer Whitney, succeeded him. "For many years he owned and commanded a sloop, in which he performed great service for the Continental Government in carrying dispatches and supplies under the very guns of the British ships." An interesting account of his adventures was published a few years ago in the "New York Sunday Despatch", under the title, "Revolutionary Scenes. By T.R. Whitney," from which it appears that when Norwalk was burned, in 1779, he ran out of the harbor with his sloop loaded with the families and goods of his neighbors, escaping the British, and safely reaching Stamford. [1]
Birth	24 Jun 1721	Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA [1, 2, 3]
Gender	Male
Death	16 Apr 1816	Silvermine, Connecticut [1, 2]
Person ID	I61106	Main Tree
Last Modified	6 Aug 2018

Father	Joseph WHITNEY, b. 01 Mar 1678/79, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA d. 1741, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA (Age 61 years)
Relationship	Birth
Mother	Hannah HOYT, b. 1685, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA d. Abt 1740, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA (Age 55 years)
Relationship	Birth
Marriage	06 Jul 1704	Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA [3, 4, 5]
Family ID	F11345	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Elizabeth HYATT, b. 06 Jun 1718, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA d. 28 Oct 1798, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA (Age 80 years)

Marriage 11 May 1741 Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA [1, 3]

Children

	1. Ebenezer WHITNEY, b. 8 Aug 1742, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA d. 2 Apr 1808, New Canaan, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA (Age 65 years) [Birth]
	2. Timothy WHITNEY, b. 13 Jul 1744, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA d. 15 Jun 1825, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA (Age 80 years) [Birth]
	3. Betty WHITNEY, b. 5 Apr 1746, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA [Birth]
	4. David WHITNEY, b. 17 Feb 1748, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA d. 30 Mar 1748, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA (Age 0 years) [Birth]
	5. Anna WHITNEY, b. 14 Feb 1749, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA d. 16 Sep 1754, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA (Age 5 years) [Birth]
	6. Esther WHITNEY, b. 3 Feb 1751, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA d. 20 Jun 1830, Walton, New York (Age 79 years) [Birth]
	7. Abigail WHITNEY, b. 3 Apr 1754, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA d. 22 Sep 1834, Five Mile River, Norwalk, Connecticut (Age 80 years) [Birth]
	8. Anna WHITNEY, b. 10 Apr 1756, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA d. 14 Mar 1835, Walton, Delaware County, New York (Age 78 years) [Birth]
	9. Deborah WHITNEY, b. 20 Jul 1758, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA d. 5 Dec 1838, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA (Age 80 years) [Birth]
	10. David Hyatt WHITNEY, b. 25 Aug 1761, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA d. 7 Sep 1834, Walton, Delaware County, New York (Age 73 years) [Birth]

Family ID F13812 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 4 Oct 2012

[S00094] S. 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" , (Privately Printed, New York - 1878).
[S03262] RootsWeb: World Connect - Stamford, CT Familes (1641-1935) by Barbara Kaye.
[S03421] The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records: Norwalk and Norwich.
[S00051] "Descendants of Simon Hoyt" at Rootsweb - Stamford, Fairfield Co., Connecticut.
[S01785] Donald Lines Jacobus, Ancestry.com: History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, (Name: Name: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.;;).