Dear Barbara: I am sending a copy of this message to our Whitney Research Group, since others there may be interested in it. I believe your Jonathon WHITNEY is a descendant of John and ElinorWhitney of Watertown as follows: Jonathan-7 Whitney (Phineas-6, Jonathan-5, Jonathan-4, Richard-3, Richard-2, John-1) Phineas (Phinehas)-6 Whitney was born in Harvard, Mass. on 3 Jul 1747; m. Keziah FARNSWORTH 31 Oct 1765; and died 21 May 1830 in Norway, Oxford County, Maine. You wrote: >My great, great, grandfather, Jonathon Whitney "came from Norway" according to a note written to my grandfather by Jonathon's widow, Mary Gates Whitney, who was born in Gorham, Maine. She and Jonathon wer married 16 August 1798 in Bridgetown, Maine. He was born 15 December 1774. He served in the Ohio militia in the war of 1812 but not long enough to receive a pension as the war ended shortly after he enlisted. If you have any information on my 3rd great grandfather I would be greatly indebted to you. Thank you very much. Sincerely, Barbara Cadot Keating (barckeating@cs.com) < Pierce's Whitney Genealogy p. 187 only lists one child of Phinehas and Keziah Farnsworth, (See http://www.whitneygen.org/archives/extracts/pierce/p186-190.htm#P1091 ) but other researchers have found more children listed in other sources. See the following pages for lists of their children, including your Jonathan: http://www.whitneygen.org/archives/mailinglist/list9712.html and http://www.whitneygen.org/archives/mailinglist/list9804.html and http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ifetch2?%2Fu1%2Ftextindices%2FW %2FWHITNEY+1997+441658560+F . Barbara, I would love to have more information on Jonathan and Mary (GATES) Whitney -- especially their children and grandchildren! Can you send me a Gedcom file? Jeanne (Whitney) Muse jwmuse@compuserve.com ------------------------------------------ Major Surnames I am researching: GOLDSMITH, HARDING, MUSE, REED, REGNIER, WHITNEY http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jwmuse/roots.htm -----------------------------------------