Henry Whitney

1715 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Henry Whitney  [1]
  Birth	29 Jul 1715	Ridgebury, Fairfield County, Connecticut   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Notes	III. Henry Whitney, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 29 July 1715; a farmer; married, 5 Dec. 1755, at Ridgefield, Elizabeth Lobdell1, dau. of Ebenezer and Rebecca (Benedict) Lobdell, of Ridgefield, where she was born 21 Sept. 1733. They settled in Ridgefield, and there died; he, 9 or 10 July 1794, of cholera morbus; she, 15 Aug. 1816, at the house of her dau. Rebecca (Whitney) Olmstead. They were buried in Titicus Cemetery. In 1873, one of his descendants said: "My great-grandfather, Henry Whitney, while cutting wood in the morning before sunrise, heard music, and, looking up, saw some witches in a hog's trough, go sailing along over-head, singing: 'Hoity cock, hoity cock, day breaks on;'" and genealogists are compelled to read and consider many traditions and legends which are not better than this. Another tradition says that when he was eighteen years old, he was at Ebenezer Lobdell's house, saw a babe in the cradle, and said, "I will wait till this little girl is a woman and take her for my wife," a pledge which he redeemed when he was forty years old. http://www.whitneygen.org/archives/extracts/phoenix/p0026-0030.html
  Person ID	I22366	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2014

  
  

  Father	Henry Whitney,   b. 21 Feb 1679, Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Elizabeth Olmstead,   b. Abt 1690, Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut d. Ridgebury, Fairfield County, Connecticut
  Marriage	14 Jun 1710	Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut
  Family ID	F7740	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 29 Jul 1715 - Ridgebury, Fairfield County, Connecticut  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S1342] Edwards, Ralph--"Gates Carlos" Updated 2008-12-01, (http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=gatescarlos).