Micah WHITNEY

Father: Abel WHITNEY
Mother: Mary CANE

Family 1: Hannah COBB

(1) Maine, Marriage Records, 1713-1937 via Ancestry.com

  1. Sally WHITNEY
  2. William Peace WHITNEY
  3. Lydia WHITNEY
  4. Joel WHITNEY
  5. Charlotte WHITNEY
  6. Ebenezer WHITNEY
  7. Andrew WHITNEY
  8. Mary WHITNEY
  9. Joanna WHITNEY
  10. Happy WHITNEY
  11. Naham WHITNEY
  12. Benjamin Morse WHITNEY
                                      _Benjamin WHITNEY _
                 _Nathaniel WHITNEY _|
                |                    |_Jane POOR ________
 _Abel WHITNEY _|
|               |                     _John FORD_________
|               |_Sarah FORD ________|
|                                    |_Joanna ANDREWS____
|
|--Micah WHITNEY
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|                                     ___________________
|                _Micah CANE ________|
|               |                    |___________________
|_Mary CANE ____|
                |                     ___________________
                |____________________|
                                     |___________________

Notes

Updated February 19, 2023. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) Vital Records: Phillips, Franklin, ME; Births (1752 - 1846).

(2) U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files via Ancestry.com

- Name: WHITNEY, Micah
- Service: Continental, Massachusetts; Private of Capt. WHITING's Massachusetts Line; 1 year
- Number: S.37545
- "Inscribed on the Roll of the District of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 23rd of April 1818"
- "Certificat of Pension issued 6th of Feb'y 1819"

"I Micah WHITNEY of Phillips in the county of Somerset and District of Maine, in the sixty sixth year of my age... do, on oath testify & declare; that I was born at York in the County of York & District of Maine; that at Buxton in the County of York & District of Maine in the month of April Anno Domini 1775, I enlisted as a soldier, for the term of eight months, in Capt. Jeremiah HILL's company, and in the regiment commanded by Col SCAMMON's; that I faithfully served in said Company & Regiment, at Cambridge for said term of eight months; at the end of said term, at Cambridge, I enlisted as a soldier for one year; that I faithfully served for said term of one year in Capt. WHITING's company, and in the regiment commanded by Col. GREATON, being the 24th Regiment. In this last service I went to New York, and from New York I went to Lake Champlain, & from thence to Canada; from thence I returned, and was honorably discharged at Morristown in the state of New Jersey on the first day of January 1777. I was not discharged in writing, but verbally, and came home. I consider my services to have been on the continental establishment."

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

- Groom: Micah WHITNEY
- Bride: Hannah COBB
- Residence of Groom: Gorham
- Residence of Bride: Gorham
- Intention File: Nov. 13, 1779
- By Whom Married: William GORHAM, Esq.
- Date of Marriage: Nov. 29, 1779
- Source of Record: Town Record

(4) 1790 United States Census for Maine, Cumberland Co., Gorham and Scarborough.

- Name: Micah WHITNEY
- Free White Persons - Males - 16 and over: 1
- Free White Persons - Males - Under 16: 2
- Free White Persons - Females: 4
- Number of Household Members: 7

(5) Maine, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index via Ancestry.com

- Name: Micah WHITNEY
- State: ME
- County: Cumberland County
- Township: Gorham
- Year: 1799
- Page: 203
- Database: ME Early Census Index

(6) 1810 United States Census for Maine, Cumberland Co., Gray; 6 Aug 1810.

- Name: Micah WHITNEY - Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 2
- Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 15: 1
- Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1
- Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 2
- Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15: 1
- Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 1
- Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over: 1
- Number of Household Members Under 16: 6
- Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
- Number of Household Members: 9

(7) Maine, U.S., Veterans Cemetery Records via Ancestry.com

- Name: WHITNEY Micah
- Address: Phillips, Maine (Franklin County)
- War: Revolutionary
- Date of Death: 1832 at Phillips, Maine
- Cemetery: Voter Yard
- Date of Enlistment: May 3, 1775; Buxton, Maine
- Rank: Private; Army
- Type of Marker: Flag
- War Record: Capt. Jeremiah HILL's Co., Col. James SCAMMON's (30th) Regt.

(8) Find a Grave

- Name: Micah Whitney - Birth: 1752; Buxton, York County, Maine, USA
- Death: 1832 (aged 79–80); Phillips, Franklin County, Maine, USA
- Burial: Whitney Cemetery; Phillips, Franklin County, Maine, USA
- Memorial ID: 207210026

(9) 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. Pages 63-73.

"Buried at the Rufus Bean Farm on the bank of the Sandy River- unmarked graves for him & Hannah in 1843."

(10) Whitney Research Group.

- "Micah-5 WHITNEY (Abel-4, Nathaniel-3, Benjamin-2, John-1), son of Abel and Mary (CANE) WHITNEY, was born 2 Dec 1752, Phillips, ME, or 11 Dec 1752, York, ME, and died 19 Jun 1829, probably Gorham, ME, or 4 Sep 1832, Phillips, ME. (Note: The settlement of Phillips, ME (first called 'Curvo') did not commence until 1790. Micah Whitney could not have been born there in 1752."
- "Micah married, 29 Nov 1779 at Gorham, ME, Hannah COBB, by William GORHAM, Esq., daughter of Andrew and Hannah (GREEN) COBB. She was born 28 Mar 1762, Phillips, ME, and died 5 Dec 1833, Phillips, ME."
- "He was a blacksmith and during the Revolutionary war was a soldier in the company from New Vineyard, Me... was granted a pension in 1818."

(11) The History of Gorham Maine, by Hugh D. McLellan, Picton Press, Camden, ME (originally published 1903 by Smith & Sale, Portland, ME), 1992. Pages 829, 833-834.

"Micah WHITNEY, son of Abel, was a blacksmith. He served in the war of the Revolution... He married Hannah, daughter of Andrew and Hannah COBB."

(12) "Early Settlers of Otisfield, Maine," compiled by Grinfills Holden, 1929.

- Family was living in Otisfield, with one child.

(13) Family History, Volume S(4), Sylvester, Daughters of the American Revolution library, Washington, DC.

(14) Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1901. Pages 432-433.

"spent seven years in the Continental Army. Two of his sons took part in the battle of Lake Champlain during the war of 1812... Ancestors of this family came to Massachusetts in the seventeenth century, and many of its members were prominent in the civil and military affairs of the colony."

(15) Listed in Daughters of the American Revolution membership records 157305 (issued 1920), 476629 (issued 1960), 515332 (issued 1966), 717023 (issued 1988), 727930 (issued 1989).

From DAR #476629: "My ancestor's (Mica, Micah WHITNEY) place of residence during the Revolution was Buxton (now Gorham, Maine), Mass... served as a private in Capt. Jeremiah HILL's Co., Col James SCAMMONs 30th Reg., muster roll dated Aug 1, 1775; enlisted Sep. 27, 1775... also Company returns dated Sep. 27, 1775; including abstract of pay Aug 1, 1775; also order for money in lieu of bounty coat dated Oct. 26, 1775 (Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors, Vol. 17: 238)."