Fellow listers, Look what I found on another list. I have lost all my paperwork but I know I have two aunts that was Bemis. I am almost positive I came through the Westminster Whitneys. It is hard to say because so many family members married back in. I do know that one of my aunts was Ruth Whitney from Westboro Mass. Are there Migration routes mapped out somewhere? Maureen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joan Hantel" <joan@statecollege.com> To: <CT-RIVER-VALLEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 8:45 AM Subject: [CRV] Dobyns (Bemis/Whitney/Hagar) > Will Michel Ann Dobyns of Walnut Grove, MO please contact me privately off > list? Re. Bemis;Whitney/Hagar families. Lost your address joan > > > > ==== CT-RIVER-VALLEY Mailing List ==== > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > http://www.quadrangle.org [CRV musuem and genealogy library] > List owner: NewEnglander1620@mail.ccsinet.net > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! > >

On pages 1006 and 1007 in Phoenix, some of the male children of Bennet Whitney and Susan Curtis are officers in the "U.S. Colored Troops". Does this mean that they were colored themselves or were officers of the day all white. If they were colored, with whom did this line start ? No offense meant, just curious. Bill Whitney

Found in the Worcester Telegram and Gazette January 15, 2001 Shirley Whitney, 79 Monday, January 15, 2001 Shirley Whitney, 79 MARLBORO-- Shirley (Adjutant) Whitney, 79, died Friday, Jan. 12, in Marlboro Hospital after a brief illness. Her husband, George W. Whitney Jr., died in 1969. She leaves a daughter, Carol Gravelle of Littleton; a son, Clayton Whitney of Marlboro; two brothers, Clayton Adjutant of York, Maine, and Linwood Adjutant of Ogunquit, Maine; two sisters, Mavis Wilson of South Portland, Maine, and Patricia Langille of York; three grandchildren; a great-grandchild; many nieces and nephews. She was born in York, daughter of George and Harriet (Norton) Adjutant, and lived 19 years in Waltham and 31 years in Marlboro. Mrs. Whitney was a child care provider 10 years at the Wayside Racquet and Swim Club, retiring in May. She enjoyed camping, and summered in Royalston, where she was a member of the St. Laurent Campers Association. She was a former member of the Order of the Eastern Star. The funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 17, in Badger Funeral Home, 347 King St., Littleton. Burial will be in Mount Feake Cemetery, Waltham. Calling hours are from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 16, in the funeral home. Donations may be made to the American Cancer Society, 30 Speen St., Framingham, MA 01701.

Hi all, and special attention to Shaun, Sometime ago I was delegated to find out who settled the area called WHITNEY in Las Vegas. Procrastination is one of more serious faults, but in this case it was to my benefit, because a reporter for the local paper did most of the work for me. The following is a copy of the article. I went to the LDS site and found that the line traced to Zimri (John, Zachariah, John, Joseph, John, and John.) I hope that is right for it is from some hastily scribbled notes. I checked back to the WRG site and found that Zimri is in Shaun's line, and that he is listed with only one child--this would be an entirely new line. It goes from Stowell Edward, George Burton, George Sanders, Zimri, etc. Here is the article: Wednesday. January 24.2001 Looking Back at Local History How Whitney Ranch got its name BY EMMILY N.BRISTOL . VIEW STAFF WRITER In the hectic pace of everyday life, one doesn't often consider the history of a name. Complicate that with several thousand people moving to the valley a month, and it makes for a lack of community history. For instance, take all the places with "Whitney Ranch" in the name. Some might ask, "Was there ever a Whitney Ranch?" or "Who were the Whitneys?" Whitney Ranch resident, Ron Gaydosh, proposed similar questions to city officials at an informational meeting for the new Whitney Ranch golf course, currently under development. Gaydosh said he wondered if any mention of the history would be commemorated at the course's clubhouse. "There should be a plaque or something," said Gaydosh to John Renaldi, Henderson city property manager, and members of Evergreen Alliance Golf Limited, the company developing the golf course. While many people in the area have a vague idea of the family behind the name, comments made at the meeting led many people to ask questions about the origins of their housing community's name. It turns out that not only is Whitney's name etched into many places in the valley's modern urban culture, but the man who started it all, Stowell E. Whitney, ran one of Nevada's first successful dairies, had a town named after him and was one of the valley's most influential citizens in the sweeping time of a burgeoning Las Vegas and a booming Boulder City. According to records kept by the Church of the Latter Day Saints Las Vegas Family History Center, Stowell E. Whitney was born on March 28, 1884 in Bunkerville, Nev., and married Anna Isabel Frehner on May 21, 1914 in Las Vegas. The couple had six children - Lavina, Relda, Pearl, Stowell, Cleo, Lloyd and Donald Whitney. Stowell E. Whitney died in Logandale on June 27, 1961, and his wife later died in St. George, Utah on June 19, 1980. Lloyd and Donald still live in southern Nevada, in Overton and Logandale, respectively. Stowell Whitney took possession of the original ranch, owned by Clark and Ronald Forwarding and John Tack, sometime after 1914 and before 1920. The ranch had been largely undeveloped, until Whitney moved there, because Tuck was a miner. Historian Frank Write, with the Nevada State Museum and Historical Society, said there has been some ambiguity about the exact location of the original ranch site. Post office maps show Tuck ranch east of Nellis Drive, but other records show the ranch being east of Boulder Highway, near Duck Creek. Whitney was one of the founding fathers of Whitney, Nev., a Clark County town formed in August 1931 during the construction of the Boulder Dam highway, when he subdivided his ranch. That same year, the Las Vegas Evening Review-Journal reported the ranch suffered damage to a dairy on the property in a severe flood that killed people traveling along Boulder Highway. The town of Whitney had a population of 250 people in 1931, and was organized by its namesake and four other key people: Jack Wright, Ray Outright, A.R. Jones and C.E. Fletcher. At the time, the town was eight miles southeast of Las Vegas, and a post office was established March 28, 1932. Whitney established a dairy at the Las Vegas ranch before buying a ranch from Dan Livingston and moving to Logandale in 1936. Lloyd Whitney, one of Stowell's surviving sons, said his father helped furnish Hinie's Select Dairy, helping to get them started. Lloyd was himself born at the ranch, along with all his siblings. "There wasn't anybody in Las Vegas we didn't know. The place was a lot smaller then," said Lloyd Whitney of his father's accomplishments. "There were no strangers in Vegas at that time." Don Whitney, Stowell's son who now resides in Logandale, said his father gave up on the ranch after the Boulder Highway bisected the property. "He couldn't get water to the other side of the farm ... he just put the keys back on the peg and moved out to Logandale," said Don Whitney. Two years later, Basic Mining Company bought the ranch property for $1 million. Don Whitney said there are still trees from the original homestead near the steam generation plant. Ethel M Chocolates Botanical Garden now sits on part of the ranch site, as well. In 1938, Hinie (last name unknown) convinced Stowell Whitney to supply milk from his ranch in Logandale to the dairy operation in Las Vegas. Don Whitney took over his father's milk producing operations in 1945, after Stowell's health began to fail. After Hinie quit in 1966, Don sold his shares of the dairy to Anderson Dairy in 1968. The town of Whitney was renamed East Las Vegas in 1958. Many of Stowell Whitney's relations still live in the Overton and Logandale areas. Hope this helps someone. It certainly is interesting! Marion Whitney Leska

Ruthie: Thanks for the Adams info .... I am working on a GEDCOM (a real monster) that starts Robert Addams (or Adams) in 1474 England .... it then follows up to Henry Adams & Elizabeth Edith Squire, and then the American Adams families ... anyone who has Adams connections can send me their material and I will "bank it" for review - probably after a week or so - when I can sit down, undistracted, and sift though these voluminous leads. I do appreciate the info! Steven ----- Original Message ----- From: <Twigs1991@aol.com> To: <WHITNEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 9:42 AM Subject: [WHITNEY-L] Adams/Whitney > In response to Janet's request for all the ADAMS/WHITNEY connections I will > add mine. Allice WHITNEY m. 25 Jan 1803 Jonathan ADAMS. I have no further > information about Jonathan. Allice is the daughter of Hezekiah. > > Ruthie

My daughter opened an email named "HAHAHA The true story of Snow and the Seven Dwarfs" It wiped out her computer. This was just two weeks ago. I have actually received that one 3 times! Did not open it... Sharon Barnett

In response to Janet's request for all the ADAMS/WHITNEY connections I will add mine. Allice WHITNEY m. 25 Jan 1803 Jonathan ADAMS. I have no further information about Jonathan. Allice is the daughter of Hezekiah. Ruthie

Edith Squire is my 11 great grandmother. It is very interesting to see how many Whitney's are related through the Adams. The Adams is on my mother's side, the Whitney's is on my fathers. As far as I know at this point. Janet Whitney Duffield

You expect me to attend a reunion with all those accents? It took me years to get rid of my upstate New York accent and I don't need to start at ground one again. No wonder they have Canadian announcers of many networks along with "Let Make A Deal" Cdn. Joan I will be there. Love the Boston area. WHITNEY-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > WHITNEY-D Digest Volume 01 : Issue 19 > > Today's Topics: > #1 [WHITNEY-L] Pronunciation [Margie and George Parker <MandG@ma] > #2 Re: [WHITNEY-L] Ruth Reynolds Whit [ALLAGREEN@aol.com] > #3 Re: [WHITNEY-L] Re: WHITNEY family [Arvy Whitney <arvwhit@altavista.co] > #4 [WHITNEY-L] Re: Pronunciation [Bettie Barnett Lombard <roadrunner] > #5 Re: [WHITNEY-L] Re: Pronunciation ["Maureen" <abc@empire.net>] > #6 [WHITNEY-L] ALASKA ["Maureen" <abc@empire.net>] > #7 Re: [WHITNEY-L] the Reunion ["Steven Wallace" <stevenwallace7@h] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from WHITNEY-D, send a message to > > WHITNEY-D-request@rootsweb.com > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > > [WHITNEY-L] Pronunciation > From: > > Margie and George Parker <MandG@math.siu.edu> > Date: > > Wed, 24 Jan 2001 06:31:59 -0600 > To: > > WHITNEY-L@rootsweb.com > > > Just getting caught up on all the messages on the reunion and pronunciation. > > As a native born Vermonter married to a native Rhode Islander who has family > with very strong accents, I can state with certainty: you can't spell many > of the words spoken in New England with the English (i.e., Latin) alphabet > -- the words aren't in English. > > Out here in Southern Illinois it is just as bad. Cairo is pronounced close > to Kayro (the syrup), Vienna has a long I but the accent is almost on the > second syllable, El Dorado has a long A. But my favorite is Beaucoup Creek, > pronounced buckup crik. > > George Parker > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > > Re: [WHITNEY-L] Ruth Reynolds Whitney, wife of John-2 > From: > > ALLAGREEN@aol.com > Date: > > Wed, 24 Jan 2001 07:49:25 EST > To: > > WHITNEY-L@rootsweb.com > > > Dear Sandy: > > The Marion H. Reynolds book that you cite mentions the marriage of a Robert > Reynold to a Mary Pulleyne in a footnoot on p. 8, and cites Boyd's Marriage > Index for the information that that marriage took place in Fremington, Devon, > in 1623. How Robert got from his supposed birthplace in Kent (Aylesford?) to > Devon for this marriage is a matter for speculation. > > I agree with Robert that the English history of the Reynolds family of Boston > is rife with undocumented assumptions and needs a lot of work to arrive at a > standard of proof that could be accepted. The only halfway decent > connections between that marriage mentioned above and the Ruth of the John-2 > Whitney marriage, are the fact that it took place in 1623 and Ruth is > presumed to have been born in 1623 since she is (also) presumed to have been > married to John-2 in 1642 -- the other is that the wife in that marriage is > also named Mary. > > I have pursued this matter with the Reynolds Family Association and the > Reynolds-L maillist, with no good response. > > Allan E. Green > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > > Re: [WHITNEY-L] Re: WHITNEY family REUNION > From: > > Arvy Whitney <arvwhit@altavista.com> > Date: > > 24 Jan 2001 12:54:00 -0800 > To: > > WHITNEY-L@rootsweb.com > > > Hi Barbara, > Well, I too am related to the Adams, through Henry and Edith Adams' daughter, Mary, who married Fairbanke in 1636. > As a side note, I wonder if Arvilla Whitney was the forerunner of my own name, Arvy. Maybe one of her brothers named one of their children Arvy after her and so on down the line, because my 5th ggf just appears out of the blue with that name and every generation since has had at least one in the family. Just a thought. > Arvy Whitney > > > Find the best deals on the web at AltaVista Shopping! > http://www.shopping.altavista.com > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > > [WHITNEY-L] Re: Pronunciation > From: > > Bettie Barnett Lombard <roadrunnertucson@worldnet.att.net> > Date: > > Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:48:00 -0700 > To: > > WHITNEY-L@rootsweb.com > > > Last summer went to a Fifield family reunion in NE Conn. On the road > from Wusta we passed a pretty little lake with the name of " Lake > CHAUBUNAGUNGAMAUG" can anyone tell me how to pronounce this. > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > > Re: [WHITNEY-L] Re: Pronunciation > From: > > "Maureen" <abc@empire.net> > Date: > > Wed, 24 Jan 2001 23:15:00 -0800 > To: > > WHITNEY-L@rootsweb.com > > > Yes, > I am not really sure but I think your lake was near Webster, Mass. There > are numerous lakes around here named after Indian tribes. > We already had a discussion last year about this lake. If I remember it is > in Mass. but close to the Conn. border. I am thinking, Webster,Manchaug, > East Douglas, Oxford, in this area. On the other list, someone knew the > exact meaning of this name. > Maureen, > I live in this area. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bettie Barnett Lombard" <roadrunnertucson@worldnet.att.net> > To: <WHITNEY-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 2:48 PM > Subject: [WHITNEY-L] Re: Pronunciation > > >> >> Last summer went to a Fifield family reunion in NE Conn. On the road >> from Wusta we passed a pretty little lake with the name of " Lake >> CHAUBUNAGUNGAMAUG" can anyone tell me how to pronounce this. >> >> > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > > [WHITNEY-L] ALASKA > From: > > "Maureen" <abc@empire.net> > Date: > > Thu, 25 Jan 2001 01:06:54 -0800 > To: > > WHITNEY-L@rootsweb.com > > > I have to laugh, > It's not funny. I have an anti-virus scanner. I know it works. Today my computor crashed and I have lost everything. Some things are written down, others not. > I do have this funny story my father use to tell about Alaska. > One time there was a very large black bear.(You can't hear the sound effects)Now this very large black bear loved honey. THe big black bear always found the honey in the hives in the trees.Sometimes the big black bear got stung by the bees, but it always went back for more because it loved the honey so much. > Anyway this big black bear always found the honey and ate it but this one day all the bees came out of the hive and started stinging the big black bear and the big black bear ran and ran. It ran so fast and so far that it ran all the way to Alaska and became the FIRST polar bear!! > Well thats the story my father told me. > (They took my daughter into captivity) I don't know what to do. > Maureen > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > > Re: [WHITNEY-L] the Reunion > From: > > "Steven Wallace" <stevenwallace7@hotmail.com> > Date: > > Thu, 25 Jan 2001 01:32:26 -0500 > To: > > WHITNEY-L@rootsweb.com > > > Rose: > > First, your e-mail reply address is broken. <" zella"@vcn.com> <<<== the > quotes kill it > > Anyway, most of my extended family is in the midwest .... it's a good hub > for various flights, has plenty of interesting places to see, etc. If not > Virginia or Northern New England, I would opt for the northern suburbs of > Chicago ... I can round up a few of my waaaay-distant Whitney-relations up > there too. I could even select a place to meet. I could go for some > Chicago-style pizza ... even right now . Well, let's see what y'all think. > Steven > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rose Zella" <" zella"@vcn.com> > To: "Steven Wallace" <stevenwallace7@hotmail.com> > Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 11:07 PM > Subject: Re: [WHITNEY-L] the Reunion > > > Steven: > >> This Wyoming country boy I have been married to for 51 years is a Proctor. >> Havn't found too many people looking for them. I probably know as much > > about > >> them as I do about my own family. Give me some starters and I'll see if I > > can > >> give you some clues. Rose Zella Proctor > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Maureen" <abc@empire.net> > To: <WHITNEY-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 4:06 AM > Subject: [WHITNEY-L] ALASKA > > >> I have to laugh, >> It's not funny. I have an anti-virus scanner. I know it works. Today > > my computor crashed and I have lost everything. Some things are written > down, others not. > >> I do have this funny story my father use to tell about Alaska. >> One time there was a very large black bear.(You can't hear the sound > > effects)Now this very large black bear loved honey. THe big black bear > always found the honey in the hives in the trees.Sometimes the big black > bear got stung by the bees, but it always went back for more because it > loved the honey so much. > >> Anyway this big black bear always found the honey and ate it but this one > > day all the bees came out of the hive and started stinging the big black > bear and the big black bear ran and ran. It ran so fast and so far that it > ran all the way to Alaska and became the FIRST polar bear!! > >> Well thats the story my father told me. >> (They took my daughter into captivity) I don't know what to do. >> Maureen >> >> >> [WHITNEY-L] Pronunciation.eml >> >> Content-Type: >> >> message/rfc822 >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Re: [WHITNEY-L] Ruth Reynolds Whitney, wife of John-2.eml >> >> Content-Type: >> >> message/rfc822 >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> attachment.txt >> >> Content-Type: >> >> text/plain >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Re: [WHITNEY-L] Re: WHITNEY family REUNION.eml >> >> Content-Type: >> >> message/rfc822 >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> [WHITNEY-L] Re: Pronunciation.eml >> >> Content-Type: >> >> message/rfc822 >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Re: [WHITNEY-L] Re: Pronunciation.eml >> >> Content-Type: >> >> message/rfc822 >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> [WHITNEY-L] ALASKA.eml >> >> Content-Type: >> >> message/rfc822 >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Re: [WHITNEY-L] the Reunion.eml >> >> Content-Type: >> >> message/rfc822 >> >>

Maureen - seriously, your computer got nailed with a virus? Do you have McAfee or some virus-buster? If so, use the "emergency diskette" to boot. If not, don't wait another day -- just get it! Unless the virus was super wicked (they rarely are though you do tend to hear the exaggerated horror stories), you can probably recover everything. I would not assume that you've lost anything .... you might be surprised at how easy it is to recover files after a "crash" ... been there. Don't give up on it ... and keep it away from the bears. Steven ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maureen" <abc@empire.net> To: <WHITNEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 4:06 AM Subject: [WHITNEY-L] ALASKA > I have to laugh, > It's not funny. I have an anti-virus scanner. I know it works. Today my computor crashed and I have lost everything. Some things are written down, others not. > I do have this funny story my father use to tell about Alaska. > One time there was a very large black bear.(You can't hear the sound effects)Now this very large black bear loved honey. THe big black bear always found the honey in the hives in the trees.Sometimes the big black bear got stung by the bees, but it always went back for more because it loved the honey so much. > Anyway this big black bear always found the honey and ate it but this one day all the bees came out of the hive and started stinging the big black bear and the big black bear ran and ran. It ran so fast and so far that it ran all the way to Alaska and became the FIRST polar bear!! > Well thats the story my father told me. > (They took my daughter into captivity) I don't know what to do. > Maureen > >

Rose: First, your e-mail reply address is broken. <" zella"@vcn.com> <<<== the quotes kill it Anyway, most of my extended family is in the midwest .... it's a good hub for various flights, has plenty of interesting places to see, etc. If not Virginia or Northern New England, I would opt for the northern suburbs of Chicago ... I can round up a few of my waaaay-distant Whitney-relations up there too. I could even select a place to meet. I could go for some Chicago-style pizza ... even right now . Well, let's see what y'all think. Steven ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rose Zella" <" zella"@vcn.com> To: "Steven Wallace" <stevenwallace7@hotmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 11:07 PM Subject: Re: [WHITNEY-L] the Reunion Steven: > > This Wyoming country boy I have been married to for 51 years is a Proctor. > Havn't found too many people looking for them. I probably know as much about > them as I do about my own family. Give me some starters and I'll see if I can > give you some clues. Rose Zella Proctor ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maureen" <abc@empire.net> To: <WHITNEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 4:06 AM Subject: [WHITNEY-L] ALASKA > I have to laugh, > It's not funny. I have an anti-virus scanner. I know it works. Today my computor crashed and I have lost everything. Some things are written down, others not. > I do have this funny story my father use to tell about Alaska. > One time there was a very large black bear.(You can't hear the sound effects)Now this very large black bear loved honey. THe big black bear always found the honey in the hives in the trees.Sometimes the big black bear got stung by the bees, but it always went back for more because it loved the honey so much. > Anyway this big black bear always found the honey and ate it but this one day all the bees came out of the hive and started stinging the big black bear and the big black bear ran and ran. It ran so fast and so far that it ran all the way to Alaska and became the FIRST polar bear!! > Well thats the story my father told me. > (They took my daughter into captivity) I don't know what to do. > Maureen > >

I have to laugh, It's not funny. I have an anti-virus scanner. I know it works. Today my computor crashed and I have lost everything. Some things are written down, others not. I do have this funny story my father use to tell about Alaska. One time there was a very large black bear.(You can't hear the sound effects)Now this very large black bear loved honey. THe big black bear always found the honey in the hives in the trees.Sometimes the big black bear got stung by the bees, but it always went back for more because it loved the honey so much. Anyway this big black bear always found the honey and ate it but this one day all the bees came out of the hive and started stinging the big black bear and the big black bear ran and ran. It ran so fast and so far that it ran all the way to Alaska and became the FIRST polar bear!! Well thats the story my father told me. (They took my daughter into captivity) I don't know what to do. Maureen

Yes, I am not really sure but I think your lake was near Webster, Mass. There are numerous lakes around here named after Indian tribes. We already had a discussion last year about this lake. If I remember it is in Mass. but close to the Conn. border. I am thinking, Webster,Manchaug, East Douglas, Oxford, in this area. On the other list, someone knew the exact meaning of this name. Maureen, I live in this area. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bettie Barnett Lombard" <roadrunnertucson@worldnet.att.net> To: <WHITNEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 2:48 PM Subject: [WHITNEY-L] Re: Pronunciation > > > Last summer went to a Fifield family reunion in NE Conn. On the road > from Wusta we passed a pretty little lake with the name of " Lake > CHAUBUNAGUNGAMAUG" can anyone tell me how to pronounce this. > >

Last summer went to a Fifield family reunion in NE Conn. On the road from Wusta we passed a pretty little lake with the name of " Lake CHAUBUNAGUNGAMAUG" can anyone tell me how to pronounce this.

Hi Barbara, Well, I too am related to the Adams, through Henry and Edith Adams' daughter, Mary, who married Fairbanke in 1636. As a side note, I wonder if Arvilla Whitney was the forerunner of my own name, Arvy. Maybe one of her brothers named one of their children Arvy after her and so on down the line, because my 5th ggf just appears out of the blue with that name and every generation since has had at least one in the family. Just a thought. Arvy Whitney Find the best deals on the web at AltaVista Shopping! http://www.shopping.altavista.com

Dear Sandy: The Marion H. Reynolds book that you cite mentions the marriage of a Robert Reynold to a Mary Pulleyne in a footnoot on p. 8, and cites Boyd's Marriage Index for the information that that marriage took place in Fremington, Devon, in 1623. How Robert got from his supposed birthplace in Kent (Aylesford?) to Devon for this marriage is a matter for speculation. I agree with Robert that the English history of the Reynolds family of Boston is rife with undocumented assumptions and needs a lot of work to arrive at a standard of proof that could be accepted. The only halfway decent connections between that marriage mentioned above and the Ruth of the John-2 Whitney marriage, are the fact that it took place in 1623 and Ruth is presumed to have been born in 1623 since she is (also) presumed to have been married to John-2 in 1642 -- the other is that the wife in that marriage is also named Mary. I have pursued this matter with the Reynolds Family Association and the Reynolds-L maillist, with no good response. Allan E. Green

Just getting caught up on all the messages on the reunion and pronunciation. As a native born Vermonter married to a native Rhode Islander who has family with very strong accents, I can state with certainty: you can't spell many of the words spoken in New England with the English (i.e., Latin) alphabet -- the words aren't in English. Out here in Southern Illinois it is just as bad. Cairo is pronounced close to Kayro (the syrup), Vienna has a long I but the accent is almost on the second syllable, El Dorado has a long A. But my favorite is Beaucoup Creek, pronounced buckup crik. George Parker

Dear WRG, At 12:09 PM 1/23/01 -0800, Bob & Sandy wrote: >Whitneygen.org databases list the mother of Ruth Reynolds (wife of John-2) >as Mary Pulleyne, married to Robert Reynolds. I haven't been able to find >a source that gives a maiden name for Mary, wife of Robert Reynolds. Do >any of you know where I can look? I have looked in these sources: >1. The History and One Line of Descendants of Robert & Mary Reynolds >(1630?-1928) of Boston, Mass., compiled by Marion H. Reynolds, Reynolds >Family Association, 413 Third St., Brooklyn, NY, 1928, p. 7; Los Angeles >Public Library, R 929.2 R 463-4 >2. Various Boston Town Records. > > I realize they were married in England, but I haven't gotten the > courage to jump across the pond in my searching. >Thanks. >Sandy This surname for Mary, wife of Robert REYNOLDS, is conjectural. I do not accept it, since it has not been proven to my satisfaction. Someone found the marriage for such a couple on 23 Aug 1623, Fremington, Devonshire, England, and assumed that it pertained to the New England immigrants. Indeed it may, but proof is lacking. Regards, Robert Robert L. Ward WHITNEY Research Group <http://www.whitneygen.org/>

Hi Sandy: Thanks for raising the question - I would also like to know! My own line (from my aunt's records) shows us "dead-ending" at: o John Shattuck (son of William & Susanna Shattuck ?? no data) o Ruth Whitney (daughter of John Whitney & Ruth Reynolds ?? no data) .... and they had a son, John Shattuck, who married Mary Blood .... I need their vitals too. Any help will be appreciated! Steven Rollinson Wallace ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob & Sandy" <bfahrnbr@gte.net> To: <WHITNEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 3:09 PM Subject: [WHITNEY-L] Ruth Reynolds Whitney, wife of John-2 Whitneygen.org databases list the mother of Ruth Reynolds (wife of John-2) as Mary Pulleyne, married to Robert Reynolds. I haven't been able to find a source that gives a maiden name for Mary, wife of Robert Reynolds. Do any of you know where I can look? I have looked in these sources: 1. The History and One Line of Descendants of Robert & Mary Reynolds (1630?-1928) of Boston, Mass., compiled by Marion H. Reynolds, Reynolds Family Association, 413 Third St., Brooklyn, NY, 1928, p. 7; Los Angeles Public Library, R 929.2 R 463-4 2. Various Boston Town Records. I realize they were married in England, but I haven't gotten the courage to jump across the pond in my searching. Thanks. Sandy

Here is some information from a former student of mine who also has Whitney roots. Perhaps some of you will have connections with this line. Karl Schwerin SnailMail: Dept. of Anthropology Univ. of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131 e-mail: schwerin@unm.edu Cultural anthropology...is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering the normal. Edward Sapir (1949:151) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:13:47 -0500 (EST) From: thomas w kavanagh <tkavanag@indiana.edu> To: karl h schwerin <schwerin@unm.edu> Subject: Re: [WHITNEY-L] Re: WHITNEY family REUNION (fwd) Thanks Karl. I may check it out. We can trace our Whitneys back to a Henry Whitney somewhere in New England, who then moved to Indiana in the 1830s (I think). I have some memoirs that Mary Jane Straus Whitney (my great-grandmother) wrote sometime around 1900 at http://php.indiana.edu/~tkavanag/maryjane.html There is some mention (not very flattering) of the Whitneys. tk