All, The following material was already posted on the WRG website: http://wiki.whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/Archive:History_of_Hartford%2C_Vermont Regards, Robert Mr. Robert L. Ward http://wiki.whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/User:Rlward At 09:22 PM 4/9/2007, Farns10th@aol.com wrote: >Whitney Family >Source: History of Hartford, Vermont - by William Howard Tucker >p.475 >Benjamin Whitney of Windham, Conn., was one of the Charter proprietors of >Hartford, Vermont >In the first division of land among the proprietors, in 1761, he drew lot >"No. 1," comrising > >nineteen acres, located on the north side of White river at its confluence >with the > >Connecticut River. This lot was purchased by Elias Lyman 3d about 1795, after >which time, > >until the completion of the Passumpsic Railroad, that portion of the town was >called > >"Lyman's Point." > >Mr. Whitney subsequently owned lot No. 64, on which is now located the hamlet >known as > >Centreville, but it is not known that he ever lived in that town. > >A family of Whitneys lived in West Hartford for many years prior to 1838. The >father of the > >family, Peter Whitney, carried on the manufacture of castings of various >kinds. He had > >several children. One of his sons, Ebenezer Whitney, was postmaster in West >Hartford in > >1833. The entire family emigrated to Ohio in 1888. > >Jonathan Whitney, better known as Deacon Whitney, resided in Quechee as early >as the year > >1800. He was a farmer by occupation; a deacon of the First Congreagational >Church at the > >center of the town, and was influential in the civil > >p.476 >and religious affairs of the town. He was probably a lineal descendant of >Benjamin Whitney. > >The following brief history of his family is taken from a record foound in >the office of the > >Town Clerk of Hartford, viz: > >Jonathan Whitney Family. >Jonathan Whitney, son of Nathan and Abigail Whitney b. July 16, 1761; m. Mary >Woodward, > >March 3, 1785 and had: Polly b. Aug 6, 1785, Mary, (parent died Aug 20, 1785. >Jonathan > >Whitney who m. Lucy Woodward Aug 19, 1786. There children were: Ira b. May >25, 1787; Irena > >b. Feb 17, 1789; died FEb 4, 1813. Jonathan2 Whitney b. Feb 2, 1791; d. May >10, 1812. Samuel > >b. Nov 22, 1792. David b. Dec 12, 1794. Polly b. July 23, 1796; d. Nov 4, >1798. Russell b. > >May 5, 1798; d. May 30, 1798. Dolly b. Jan 16, 1800. Russell (again) b. Feb >2, 1802. Lucy b. > >Oct 2, 1804. Delinda b. Mar 6, 1806. Lurinda b. Feb 12, 1810. > >Deacon Jonathan Whitney d. Jan 29, 1813, aged 52 yrs. >Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth