Dear WRG: Kathy Behling <kbehling@uswest.net> wrote me today: Yes, Bezaleel's parents were Charles Whitney and Lucy Shays. Lucy was the daughter of Daniel Shays of Shay's rebellion fame. But that's as far back as I'm sure of. The father of Charles may have been Aaron Whitney. Does that help? I searched our WRG web site and found the following link: http://www.whitneygen.org/archives/extracts/nehgr/140.html - The Daniel Shays Family - states that Bezaleel Whitney was "of New Salem", Mass. when he married Lucy Shays, daughter of Daniel. A possible candidate as Bezaleel's father, a Charles Whitney, son of Aaron, I looked in my own database and found one candidate: Charles Whitney, b. 14 May 1742 Littleton, Mass. - son of Rev. Aaron Whitney and Alice Baker On the above Charles, Pierce (p. 80) says briefly "res. Phillipston, Mass. but d. in Vt." See the transcription: http://www.whitneygen.org/archives/extracts/pierce/p076-080.htm#C937 Since Pierce states that Charles was mentioned in his father's will dated July 15, 1779 and settled Nov. 12, 1779, we know Charles died after 1779. Notice also on the above Pierce transcription page, that this Charles' sister, Lucy Whitney, married Samuel Kendall "of New Salem". If we use just this small bit of information, we could make a guess on the following ancestral line: Aaron-5 Whitney (Moses-4, Moses-3, Richard-2, John-1) & Alice Baker -- Charles-6 Whitney and ? --- Bezaleel-7 and Lucy Shays (dau. of Daniel Shays) ---- Lucy-8 Whitney and Jonathan Jenks ----- Charles W. Jenks and Olive Hilton More information is definitely needed to determine if the above conjecture is true. Jeanne > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kathy Behling" <kbehling@uswest.net> > To: <jwmuse@compuserve.com> > Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 12:39 AM > Subject: Charles W. Jenks from Jonathan Jenks & Lucy Whitney > > Hello Jeanne - > > Here is an addition to the entry I found on the whitneygen website. > the referenced Lucy Whitney is daughter of Bezaleel Whitney and Lucy > Shays. > > And in case you're interested, Charles' wife Olive Hilton, was daughter > of David Hilton and Hannah Black > David Hilton was b. 1783 in East Windsor Vermont. He died in Byron, Kent > Co. Michigan 8 Jan 1874. > Hannah Black has a memorial headstone in Michigan, but she actually died > in 1847 in Ogden, Monroe, New York. > > Charles Jenks & Olive had 2 sons. > > -Kathy