Moses WHITNEY

Father: Abel WHITNEY
Mother: Mary CANE

Family 1: Lois CREDIFORD

(1) Source: Maine, Marriage Records, 1713-1937 via Ancestry.com: Intention Filed Aug. 28, 1761, Falmouth, Cumberland Co., Maine (now USA). Record of marriage not found.

Family 2: Priscilla BURNELL

(1) Source: "Journals of the Rev. Thomas Smith, and the Rev. Samuel Deane, Pastors of the First Church in Portland;" 1849, Portland, Maine (Google eBook)

  1. Zebuon WHITNEY
  2. Nabby WHITNEY
                                      _Benjamin WHITNEY _
                 _Nathaniel WHITNEY _|
                |                    |_Jane POOR ________
 _Abel WHITNEY _|
|               |                     _John FORD_________
|               |_Sarah FORD ________|
|                                    |_Joanna ANDREWS____
|
|--Moses WHITNEY
|
|                                     ___________________
|                _Micah CANE ________|
|               |                    |___________________
|_Mary CANE ____|
                |                     ___________________
                |____________________|
                                     |___________________

Notes

Updated February 8, 2024. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) Maine, Marriage Records via Ancestry.com

- GROOM: Moses WHITNEY, Jr.
- BRIDE: Lois CRADIFORD
- Residence of Groom: Gorham Town
- Residence of Bride: Falmouth
- Intention Filed: Aug. 28, 1761
- Place: Falmouth
- Source of Record: City Clerk's Office, Portland

(2) "Journals of the Rev. Thomas Smith, and the Rev. Samuel Deane, Pastors of the First Church in Portland;" 1849, Portland, Maine (Google eBook)

- Deane's Diary, January 15, 1766, page 317: "I married Moses WHITNEY to Priscilla BURNELL."

(3) Maine, U.S., Birth Records via Ancestry.com

Records the birth of a child of Moses and Priscilla WHITNEY: Nabbe WHITNEY (female), born April 18, 1777, in Gorham, Maine. The source of this information was a Town Record.

(4) Whitney Research Group.

- "Moses-5 WHITNEY (Abel-4, Nathaniel-3, Benjamin-2, John-1), son of Abel and Mary (CANE) WHITNEY, was born 17 Feb 1737/8, Wiscasset, ME, and died before 1790, since his widow appears in the census of that year."
- "Marriage banns were published 28 Aug 1761, Falmouth, ME, for him 'of Gorham T[own]' and his first wife Lois CREDIFORD 'of Falmouth'. It is possible that Moses never married Lois CREDIFORD. Fornication charges have been extracted from the Cumberland Co. Commissioner's records. The following record appears: Lois CREDIFORD, Gorham, singlewoman, 1-13-1766, daughter."
- "He married, secondly, 15 Jan 1766, Falmouth, ME, Priscilla BURNELL, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (DODD BALL) BURNELL, by the Rev. Dr. DEANE."
- Children of Moses and Priscilla: Zebulon and Nabby.

(5) McLellan, Hugh Davis. History of Gorham, Me. Portland, Maine, United States, Smith & Sale, printers, 1903. Page 829.

"Moses [WHITNEY], b. in Wiscasset, Feb. 17, 1737/8, m. Aug. 28, 1761, Lois CREDIFORD of Falmouth. We have no record of any family, or of the death of Lois, but Moses WHITNEY was married in Falmouth, Jan. 15, 1766, by Rev. Dr. DEANE, to Priscilla BURNELL. Ch: Zebulon, b. in Falmouth, Dec. 7, 1766; Nabby, b. in Gorham, Apr. 12, 1777."