All, I have uncovered an error which appears in some of the sources extracted on our web site. They say that Josiah-4 WHITNEY [Josiah-3, Jonathan-2, John-1], "formerly of Dedham now of Weston", married, 28 Feb 1725/6, Weston, MA, Elizabeth GRANT "of Concord". They are wrong. Instead, it was Josiah-3 WHITING [Samuel-2, Nathaniel-1] who contracted that marriage, which appears in the Weston vital records with his correct surname. They had seven children, of whom six are also recorded in the Weston vital records. Some of the references repeating this error are: Whitney, Henry Austin, "The Descendants of John and Elinor Whitney, of Watertown, Mass.," NEHGR, vol. XI (1857), p. 121. Bond, Henry, Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Including Waltham and Weston; to Which is Appended the Early History of the Town. With Illustrations, Maps, and Notes. Volume I, Genealogies (2nd ed., 1860), p. 644. Whitney, William L[ebbeus], Some of the Descendants of John and Elinor Whitney, Who Settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1635. (Pottsville, PA: M. E. Miller, Steam-Power Printer, 1890), p. 22. Pierce, Frederick Clifton, The Descendants of John Whitney, Who Came from London, England, to Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1635 (Chicago: 1895), pp. 34, 56. Whitney Whistler, vol. 4, number 3 (Fall 1984); and vol. 7, number 1 (Spring 1987). The baptism of one of their children, Sarah-4 WHITING, also appears in our WHITNEY extracts from the Weston vital records. Naturally this bad information has also spread into our databases. It also appears in the LDS International Genealogical Index, Ancestral File, and Pedigree Resource File. To be fair, these last three have both the correct and incorrect surnames for Josiah. I googled eleven other web pages on the Internet containing the incorrect information, as well. Probably the records at Ancestry.com also contain this error, although I have not verified that. Strangely, Samuel-4 WHITING, eldest son of this couple, actually married a WHITNEY descendant, Deliverance PERRY [Abigail ADAMS, Lydia-3 WHITNEY, Jonathan-2, John-1]. Please correct your records accordingly. Regards, Robert Mr. Robert L. Ward rlward AT whitneygen DOT org http://www.whitneygen.org/home.html