The Whitney family of Connecticut, and its affiliations : being an attempt to trace the descendants, as well in the female as the male lines, of Henry Whitney, from 1649 to 1878; to which is prefixed some account of the Whitneys of England . ontinued till IMay 1851. He removed, 13 Oct. 1853, to East Norwich, Oyster Bay,L. I.; and was living there in Oct. 1873. He was married, 3 Dec. 1833,at Dix Hills, Huntington, by Rev. George R. Parbert, Methodist Episcopal,to Harriet North Vail, dau. of Philetus and Abigail (Goddard) Vail, ofDix Hills, where she was born 22 March 1817. She died from a disea
The Whitney family of Connecticut, and its affiliations : being an attempt to trace the descendants, as well in the female as the male lines, of Henry Whitney, from 1649 to 1878; to which is prefixed some account of the Whitneys of England . ontinued till IMay 1851. He removed, 13 Oct. 1853, to East Norwich, Oyster Bay,L. I.; and was living there in Oct. 1873. He was married, 3 Dec. 1833,at Dix Hills, Huntington, by Rev. George R. Parbert, Methodist Episcopal,to Harriet North Vail, dau. of Philetus and Abigail (Goddard) Vail, ofDix Hills, where she was born 22 March 1817. She died from a diseaseof the heart, 3 July 1855, at East Norwich; and was buried in FountainHill Cemetery, Woodbury, L. I. He was married (2d), 23 Feb. i860, atEast Norwich, by Rev. John Cooke, Baptist, to Letitia Jane Franklin,2born in Philadelphia, Penn., 20 Dec. 1838, dau. of Townsend Underhill andElizabeth (McCalla) Franklin, who lived in East Norwich at the time ofher marriage. 1 See note to No. 1886. first came over; from John Townsend in two 2 For her ancestry, see pedigree opposite. It lines, Henry Townsend in two lines, and Richardwill be observed that she is descended from Townsend in one line. each of the three brothers Townsend who 120810645. Sv 3 3 ^-^^ ?? = S 9 \RD Tow about 20-71; d. aSt wife waith, dau. Z nw inH - >r 1 I Whitney Family. He was commissioned by Gov. Wm. L. Marcy, as Brigade-surgeon ofN. Y. State Light Horse, under Col. Bernard Bloom; and has served thepublic for several years, as superintendent of common-schools in Hunt-ington ; as coroner of Suffolk County, nine years, during which he heldinquests upon the bodies of the drowned passengers of the steamboatLexington, which was burned on Long Island Sound, 13 Jan. 1840, whenonly four persons escaped alive, out of one hundred and forty-five whowere on board; was a member of the Legislature of New York in 1845,and chairman of the medical committee thereof; and had three sons whoenlisted for three years in the war of 1
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