Ebenezer WHITNEY

Father: Micah WHITNEY
Mother: Hannah COBB

Family 1: Dorcas DRURY

(1) Bible of Dorcas Drury Parlin Whitney, as posted on the rootsweb.com WHITNEY e-mail list, May 23, 2000: "Ebenezer Whitney & Dorcas D. Parlin were married December 26th A.D. 1842."

  1. John Drury WHITNEY
  2. Charles Edgar WHITNEY
  3. Myra Anna WHITNEY
                                  _Nathaniel WHITNEY ___
                  _Abel WHITNEY _|
                 |               |_Sarah FORD __________
 _Micah WHITNEY _|
|                |                _Micah CANE __________
|                |_Mary CANE ____|
|                                |______________________
|
|--Ebenezer WHITNEY
|
|                                 _Chipman COBB ________
|                 _Andrew COBB __|
|                |               |_Elizabeth INGERSOLL _
|_Hannah COBB ___|
                 |                _Daniel GREEN ________
                 |_Hannah GREEN _|
                                 |_Mary BLOOM __________

Notes

Updated April 27, 2013. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) 1850 United States Census Maine, Franklin Co., Phillips: August 14, 1850.

Ebenezer WHITNEY is head of household, married to Dorcas [DRURY] WHITNEY. He is 58 years old, a farmer with real estate valued at $1,000, and born in Maine. Children in the household include John D. and Charles E. WHITNEY. Dorcas' child from a previous marriage, Simon PARLIN is also a resident, as is Ebenezer's sister Charlotte WHITNEY.

(2) 1860 United States Census for Maine, Franklin Co., Freeman (Freeman Post Office): Page 37, June 22, 1860.

Ebenezer WHITNEY is head of household, married to Dorcas [DRURY] WHITNEY. He is 67 years old, a farmer with real estate valued at $1,500 and personal estate valued at $700, and born in Maine. Children in the household are J. Drury, Charles E. and Myra Ann WHITNEY. Ebenezer's sister, Charlotte WHITNEY, is also a resident.

(3) 1870 United States Census for Maine, Franklin Co., Freeman (Freeman Post Office): page 7; July 27, 1870.

Ebenezer WHITNEY and his wife Dorcas [DRURY] WHITNEY reside with their son John W. WHITNEY and family. He is 79 years old, born in Maine and is a "Gentleman." Their other children Mary A. and Charles E. WHITNEY are also residents.

(4) Find a Grave via Ancestry.com

- Ebenezer WHITNEY
- Birth: 1791
- Death: Nov. 18, 1874
- Age: 83y 3m
- Burial: Strong Village Cemetery, Strong, Franklin Co., Maine, USA

(5) Whitney Research Group.

Ebenezer WHITNEY …"married, 26 Dec 1842, Dorcas (DRURY) PARLIN, daughter of John and Anna (MITCHELL) DRURY."

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

- "l'd in Freeman, Me."

(7) Whitney Whistler, Spring 1986., by Mary Anne Shields, donated by Cape Canaveral Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution. Page 61.

(8) 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 63. Photo on page 78.

- "He, Ebenezer, married late in life; was a farmer, mill man, civil engineer. He laid out the first wagon roads in Phillips."

(9) Bible of Dorcas Drury Parlin WHITNEY, as posted on the rootsweb.com WHITNEY e-mail list, May 23, 2000.

- "Ebenezer WHITNEY was born in Gorham, Me... August 15, 1791"
- "Ebenezer WHITNEY died at Freeman, Maine Nov 18th 1874, aged 88 years, 3 months and 3 days"

(10) Abstract of the War of 1812 pension file of Ebenezer WHITNEY, the son of Micah and Hannah (COBB) WHITNEY of Gorham and Phillips, Maine; Whitney Research Group as posted by Ken Whitney on Whitney-L@rootsweb.com, October 29, 2006.

From the War of 1812 Pension File of Ebenezer WHITNEY
Private, Ellis SWEET's Third Massachusetts Militia
Dorcas WHITNEY, Widow
WO20177, WC11540
The National Archives Building, Washington, D.C.

"Dorcas D. WHITNEY signed a Widow's Claim for a War of 1812 pension from Franklin County, Maine on 3 April 1878. She is sixty-six years old and a resident of Freeman, Maine. She is the widow of Ebenezer WHITNEY deceased, who served as a private in the company commanded by Captain Elijah BUTLER in the Third Regiment of Massachusetts Militia commanded by Colonel Ellis SWEET in the War of 1812. Her husband was drafted at Phillips on or about 12 September 1814. She believes the term of his service was to be forty days, and he served a total of fifty-four days. He was honorably discharged or dismissed with the rest of his company at Bath on or about 5 November 1814 (sic)."

"Dorcas describes her husband at the time of his service as twenty-three years old and a farmer by occupation. He was born in Gorham, Cumberland Co., in that part of Massachusetts now known as Maine. He was about 5 feet 6 inches tall with light brown hair, blue eyes, and a light complexion."

"Dorcas was married to Ebenezer WHITNEY at the town of Jay, Franklin Co., Maine on 23 December 1842 by Levi ELDRIDGE, Minister of the Gospel. Her name before her marriage was Dorcas D. PARLIN. She had been previously married to Simon PARLIN, who died at Wilton, Maine on 23 January 1837. Ebenezer WHITNEY had never previously been married. Her husband Ebenezer WHITNEY died at Freeman, Maine on 18 November 1874, and she has not remarried since his death."

"Since the date of his discharge from the army, she and Ebenezer resided in Phillips, now in Franklin County, Maine until May of 1855. At that time they moved to Strong, Franklin Co., Maine, where they resided until March 1858. They then removed to Freeman, where they resided until his death. She had lived in Temple, in what is now Franklin Co., Maine from the time of her birth until 1836, and then in Wilton, Franklin Co., Maine from 1836 until 1841. She then resided in Jay, Franklin Co., Maine from 1841until her marriage to Ebenezer WHITNEY in December of 1842. She resided with her husband Ebenezer until the time of his death in 1874, and she has continued residing in Freeman since then until now."

"Ebenezer WHITNEY had applied for bounty land, according to her best recollection in 1851 or 1852, and received his land warrant in 1852 or 1853. She does not know the number of the land warrant."

"Dorcas resides in the town of Freeman, Maine. Her post office is Strong, Maine. The application is attested by Mary BRACKETT and John HOYT."

"Appended to the application is an affidavit by Mary BRACKETT, age sixty-four, and John HOYT, age sixty-four. They are both residents of Phillips, Maine. They testify that they have known Dorcas D. WHITNEY for forty-eight years and twenty-two years respectively. They identify her as the person who signed her name on the foregoing declaration, she is the person she represents herself to be, and she is the person who was the wife of Ebenezer WHITNEY. They know that she and Ebenezer lived together as husband and wife for many years, and heard him speak at various times of his service in the War of 1812, and had heard of his receiving a land warrant for said services."

"There is testimony from Preston and Cynthia HUFF, both of Wilton, Franklin Co., Maine. They were neighbors of and were well acquainted with Simon and Dorcas D. PARLIN. She was his wife from the time of their marriage 7 April 1836 to the time of his death. He died in the Town of Wilton on 23 January 1837, and was buried in said town. His grave is within sight of the HUFF's dwelling house. They have since known Dorcas D. PARLIN as the wife of, and more recently the widow of Ebenezer WHITNEY."

"Benjamin D. DUDLEY, Town Clerk of Wilton, Franklin Co., Maine provided a certified copy of the death record of Simon PARLIN, dated 26 October 1878 from the Wilton records. It records his death at Wilton on 25 January 1837, age 27 years and four months."

"John W. MERRITT, Town Clerk of Jay, Franklin Co., Maine provided a certified copy of a record from the Jay records. 'Rev. Levi ELDRIDGE has certified in this office that he has joined the persons hereafter named in marriage within the year past: 23 December 1842, Mr. Ebenezer WHITNEY of Phillips and Mrs. Dorcas D. PARLIN of Jay.'"

"Ansel S. BRIGGS, Town Clerk of Freeman, Franklin Co., Maine provided a certified record from the records of that town: 'Died in Freeman November 18, 1874, Mr. Ebenezer WHITNEY, aged 83 years.'"

"Dorcas D. WHITNEY was admitted 9 November 1878, to a pension of eight dollars per month from 9 March 1878. It was noted that the Third Auditor had reported 10 June 1852 that Ebenezer WHITNEY had served under Captain BUTLER from 28 September to 11 November 1814."

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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; Ebenezer Whitney -8.