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Jonathan Whitney

Jonathan Whitney

Male 1695 - 1773  (78 years)


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  • Name Jonathan Whitney  [1, 2
    Birth 27 Feb 1695  Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Death 8 Nov 1773  Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3
    Burial Harvard, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Person ID I316  My Tree
    Last Modified 7 Jun 2025 

    Father Richard Whitney,   b. 13 Jan 1659, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Dec 1723, Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 64 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Elizabeth Sawtell,   b. 3 Feb 1669, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Nov 1723, Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 54 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage 25 Aug 1691  Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Family ID F102  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Alice Willard,   b. Dec 1699, Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Feb 1792, Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 92 years) 
    Children 
     1. Jonathan Whitney,   b. 20 Mar 1719, Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Jan 1770, Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 50 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     2. Elizabeth "Betsy" Whitney,   b. 1722, Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Jul 1790, Boxborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 68 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     3. Phinehas Whitney,   b. 5 Sep 1727, Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     4. Caleb Whitney,   b. 4 Oct 1729, Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1822, Sterling, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 92 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     5. Oliver Whitney,   b. 22 Jul 1731, Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Apr 1802, Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     6. Alice Whitney,   b. 2 Apr 1733, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Sep 1812, Otis, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     7. Hezekiah Whitney,   b. 14 Apr 1735, Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Jul 1805, Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     8. Ruhamah Whitney,   b. 19 Jul 1737, Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1837, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 99 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F99  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Jun 2025 

    Family 2   
    Marriage 25 Feb 1718  Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Family ID F598  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Jun 2025 

  • Photos
    Jonathan Whitney Grave Harvard MA
    Jonathan Whitney Grave Harvard MA
    Picture taken November 12, 2008 in the old Cemetary in the center of Harvard next to the Bromfield School

  • Sources 
    1. [S333] Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Town Vital Collections, 1620-1988, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.Original data - Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).Original data: Town and C;).

    2. [S168] Ancestry.com, Whitney : the descendants of John Whitney who came from London, England to Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1635, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT; Date: 2005;).

    3. [S375] Edmund West, comp., Family Data Collection - Individual Records, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.;), Birth year: 1698; Birth city: Stow; Birth state: MA.
      Birth date: 26 February 1698
      Birth place: Stow, Middlesex, MA
      Death date: 1773
      Death place: Harvard, Worcester, MA
      Marriage date: 25 February 1718
      Marriage place: Lancaster, Worcester, MA
      http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=genepool&h=2988487&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt

    4. [S79] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).

    5. [S374] Ancestry.com, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;).