Dorcas DRURY

Father: John DRURY
Mother: Anna MITCHELL

Family 1: Simon PARLIN

(1) Bible of Dorcas Drury Parlin Whitney, as posted on the rootsweb.com WHITNEY e-mail list, May 23, 2000: "Simon PARLIN first husband of Dorcas WHITNEY."

  1. Simon W. PARLIN

Family 2: Ebenezer WHITNEY

(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
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Notes

Updated April 8, 2018. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

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

Dorcas [DRURY] WHITNEY is married to Ebenezer WHITNEY, head of household. She is 38 years old 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.

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

Dorcas [DRURY] WHITNEY is married to Ebenezer WHITNEY, head of household. She is 48 years old 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.

Dorcas [DRURY] WHITNEY and her husband Ebenezer WHITNEY with their son John W. WHITNEY and family. She is 58 years old, born in Maine and is a "Lady." Their other children Mary A. and Charles E. WHITNEY are also residents.

(4) LDS FamilySearch 1880 United States Census database for Freeman, Franklin Co., ME. Family History Library Film 1254479, NA Film Number T9-0479, Page 435B.

Dorcas [DRURY] WHITNEY is 69 years old, born in Maine, and is listed as a resident in the John D. WHITNEY household. John D. WHITNEY is her son.

(5) Franklin, Massachusetts Directory 1890 via Ancestry.com

- Name: Mrs Dorcas D WHITNEY
- City: Franklin
- State: MA
- Year: 1890
- Location 2: Union

(6) Massachusetts, Death Records via Ancestry.com; Deaths Registered in the Town of Franklin for the Year 1894

- Date of Death: April 1, 1894
- Name: Dorcas D. (DRURY) WHITNEY
- Condition: Widow
- Age: 82 years; 0 months; 4 days
- Cause: Old Age
- Residence and Place of Death: Franklin
- Place of Birth: Temple, Me.
- Parents: John DRURY and Annie MITCHELL

(7) Norfolk County, MA Probate Index 1793-1900 via Ancestry.com

- Given Name: Dorcas D.
- Surname: WHITNEY
- Year: 1894
- Residence: Franklin
- Nature of the Document: Administration
- Case Number: 30367

(8) Find a Grave via Ancestry.com

- Dorcas (DRURY) (PARLIN) WHITNEY
- Birth: Mar., 1812
- Death: 1894
- Burial: Union Street Cemetery, Franklin, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA

(9) Whitney Research Group.

Ebenezer WHITNEY …"married, 26 Dec 1842, Dorcas (DRURY) PARLIN, daughter of John and Anna (MITCHELL) DRURY. She was born 28 Mar 1812, Temple, Kennebec Co., Maine, and died 1 Apr 1894, Franklin, MA. She had married firstly, 7 Apr 1836, Kennebec Co., ME, Simon PARLIN. Simon died in Wilton, ME, 25 Jan 1837, three months before the birth of his son, Simon W. PARLIN, who was born 17 Apr 1837, East Wilton, ME. Simon W. PARLIN was not adopted by Ebenezer WHITNEY, but was raised in his household."

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

(11) 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.

- "Dau. of Cpt John PARLIN who was a rev. soldier. She was a school teacher and had a son before marrying Ebenezer."

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

- "Dorcas D. WHITNEY was born in Temple, Maine March 28, 1812"
- "Dorcas D. WHITNEY died at Franklin, Mass. April 1, 1894, aged 82 years"
- "John DRURY, father of Dorcas WHITNEY, died in Temple, Me. June 14, 1828 aged 48 yrs, 6 months"
- "Anna, wife of John DRURY died in Enfield, Me. Aug. 23, 1862 aged 73 years, 6 months, & 11 days"

(13) 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."