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William Peace WHITNEY

BIRTH: 3 MAY 1783, Gorham, Cumberland Co., ME
DEATH: 29 DEC 1863, Cortland, DeKalb Co., IL

Father: Micah WHITNEY
Mother: Hannah COBB

Family 1: Nancy J. CARLTON

MARRIAGE: 27 AUG 1823, Phillips, Franklin Co., ME

MARRIAGE:

                                  _Nathaniel WHITNEY ___
                  _Abel WHITNEY _|
                 |               |_Sarah FORD __________
 _Micah WHITNEY _|
|                |                _Micah CANE __________
|                |_Mary CANE ____|
|                                |______________________
|
|--William Peace WHITNEY 
|
|                                 _Chipman COBB ________
|                 _Andrew COBB __|
|                |               |_Elizabeth INGERSOLL _
|_Hannah COBB ___|
                 |                _? GREEN _____________
                 |_Hannah GREEN _|
                                 |_Mary BROOM __________

INDEX

Notes

[NI0709] Updated December 29, 2004. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) 1850 United States Census for Illinois, DeKalb Co., Pampas Twp.: Page 739; October 29, 1850.

William Whitney (listed as "Whiting") is head of household, married to Nancy J. [Carlton] Whitney. He is 67 years old, a blacksmith with real estate value at $900, and is born in Maine. Children in the household are Hiram, George and Philena. Their daughter Nancy [Whitney] Kinyon lives in the next residence with her husband, George Kinyon.

(2) 1860 United States Census for Illinois, DeKalb Co., Pampa Twp., Cortland Post Office: Page 150; July 9, 1860.

William Whitney and his wife Nancy J. [Carlton] Whitney and members of the household headed by their son, Hiram Whitney. He is 77 years old, owns real estate valued at $100, was born in Maine and is blind.

(3) The History of Gorham Maine, by Hugh D. McLellan, Picton Press, Camden, ME (originally published 1903 by Smith & Sale, Portland, ME), 1992. Page 834.

(4) Listed in Daughters of the American Revolution membership records 476629 (issued 1960), 515332 (issued 1966), and 727930 (issued 1990). Notes that the middle name "Peace" was given to him because he was born on the day the war ended.

(5) Vital Records of Gorham, Maine. Maine Genealogical Society, Special Publication No. 7, Compiled by Marquis F. King, Second Edition. Picton Press, Camden, Maine 1991. Birth recorded on page 172.

(6) Portrait & Biographical Album DeKalb County, Illinois 1885 via Ancestry.com, entry for George M. Kinyon.

... "For his second wife Mr. K. was wedded, Oct 22, 1849, to Mrs. Nancy P., ... daughter of William Peace Whitney, -- her father having been so named because he was born on the day peace was declared at the close of the Revolutionary War. He was born in Cumberland Co., Mass. [e.d., later Maine, but was not a separate state until 1820], and died Dec. 29, 1863, at Cortland."

(7) Our Pioneering Families, Genealogies of Whitney, Groathouse and Lignitz, researched and compiled by Vivian Gail Morrow Wade, Dec. 1986, first edition. Self-published manuscript available at DAR Library, Washington DC. Page 83, 90. Photo on page 80.

"William was a blacksmith by trade and a Freewill Baptist Circuit Rider Minister. He probably had already gone to Phillips before 1815 and lived there at least through the year 1837 when his son George as born. When he went west, he went to Dearborn Co., Indiana first and then to Sycamore, DeKalb Co., Illinois. It has been recorded that he lived in the Colby Whittemore house and owned a number of acres of land in a section where the Milia Ross house and the blacksmith shop once stood, as he gave that land to his daughter, Sally (Whitney) Quimby. He had twelve children recorded in Phillips, the same number as his father, Micah. William lived in Gorham, Gray and Phillips, Maine."

"buried in Ohio Grove Cemetery, Cortland, DeKalb, Illinois"

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Additional Notes.

Mayflower lineage: Howland/Tilley -1; Hope Howland -2; Hope Chipman -3; Samuel Cobb -4; Chipman Cobb -5; Andrew Cobb -6 (DAR/SAR ancestor); Hannah Cobb -7; William Whitney -8.