All, At 12:49 AM 8/12/05, [email protected] wrote: >According to the Watertown Vital Records, Book 1, p. 36, Abigail Tarbell >married (Dea.) JOSHUA Whitney as his third wife on 30 Sep 1672, following the >death of Mary Buckmaster, his second wife, on 17 Mar 1671/72. This last >union >produced ten children, the information about which I can supply if you are >interested. Actually, it seems that Mary BUCKMASTER was Joshua WHITNEY's first wife and Abigail TARBELL his second. Some old references show a first wife Lydia -----, but there is no credible evidence of this to my knowledge. Probably it is an error confusing Joshua WHITNEY with his brother Jonathan, who did have a wife Lydia JONES. Regards, Robert Mr. Robert L. Ward rlward AT whitneygen DOT org http://www.whitneygen.org/home.html