Benjamin Morse WHITNEY

Benjamin Morse WHITNEY
Benjamin Morse WHITNEY
Photo source: Whitney Research Group.

Father: Micah WHITNEY
Mother: Hannah COBB

Family 1: Susan WELLS

(1) Whitney Research Group: Benjamin Morse WHITNEY "... married, 26 Sep 1830, Phillips, ME, Susan WELLS, the dau. of Nathaniel and Susan (HARRIS) WELLS of Ipswich, MA and Mt. Vernon, ME."

  1. Phebe C. WHITNEY
  2. Royal Thaxter WHITNEY
  3. Martin V.B. WHITNEY
  4. Melvina Susan WHITNEY
  5. Joseph Clement WHITNEY
  6. Mary Clementine WHITNEY
  7. Dexter Benjamin WHITNEY
                                  _Nathaniel WHITNEY ___
                  _Abel WHITNEY _|
                 |               |_Sarah FORD __________
 _Micah WHITNEY _|
|                |                _Micah CANE __________
|                |_Mary CANE ____|
|                                |______________________
|
|--Benjamin Morse WHITNEY
|
|                                 _Chipman COBB ________
|                 _Andrew COBB __|
|                |               |_Elizabeth INGERSOLL _
|_Hannah COBB ___|
                 |                _Daniel GREEN ________
                 |_Hannah GREEN _|
                                 |_Mary BLOOM __________

Notes

Updated February 18, 2019. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) 1850 United States Census for Maine, Franklin Co., Phillips: August 26, 1850.

Benjamin M. WHITNEY is head of household, married to Susan [WELLS] WHITNEY. He is 44 years old, and a laborer born in Maine. Children in the household are Phebe C., Thaxter L., Martin V., Susan M., Clement J., Clementine C. and Benjamin D. WHITNEY.

(2) 1860 United States Census for Maine, Franklin Co., Phillips, Phillips Post Office; Page 13 June 11, 1860.

B. M. WHITNEY is head of household, married to Susan [WELLS] WHITNEY. Children in the household are Joseph C. and Dexter C. WHITNEY. Children in the adjoining household are Royal T. (plus his wife Louise and child Inez), and Martin V. WHITNEY.

- Age: 54.
- Estate: $400 in Real Estate, $200 in Personal Estate
- Birthplace: Maine
- Occupation: [? - illegible, looks like "joiner?"]

(3) American Civil War Soldiers via Ancestry.com

- Name: Benjamin M WHITNEY
- Residence: Phillips, Maine
- Enlistment Date: 18 August 1862
- Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
- Side Served: Union
- State Served: Maine
- Unit Numbers: 1031 1031
- Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 18 August 1862 at the age of 44; Enlisted in Company G, 17th Infantry Regiment Maine on 18 August 1862; Was dismissed Company G, 17th Infantry Regiment Maine on 15 June 1863.

SEE NOTE BELOW: HE WAS COURT MARTIALED FOR LYING ABOUT HIS AGE.

(4) 1890 United States Veterans Schedules for Maine; Franklin Co., Phillips.

- Name: Susan WHITNEY, widow of WHITNEY, Benjamin M. (Private; Co. G., 17 Me. Inf.)

(5) U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files via Ancestry.com

- Name of Soldier: WHITNEY, Benjamin M.
- Name of Dependent (Widow): WHITNEY, Susan
- Service: G 17th Me. Inf.
- Date of Filing: 1890 June 16
- Class: Widow
- Application No.: 425,852
- State From Which File: Me.

(6) Find a Grave

- Name: Benjamin M WHITNEY
- Birth Date: 1806
- Age at Death: 84
- Death Date: 1890
- Burial Place: Riverside Cemetery; Phillips, Franklin County, Maine, USA

(7) Maine, Find A Grave Index, 1700-2012 via Ancestry.com

- Name: Benjamin M WHITNEY
- Birth Date: 1806
- Age at Death: 84
- Death Date: 1890
- Burial Place: Riverside Cemetery, Phillips, Franklin County, Maine, USA

(8) Whitney Research Group.

"Benjamin Morse WHITNEY (Micah5, Abel4, Nathaniel3, Benjamin2, John1), son of Micah and Hannah (COBB) WHITNEY, was born 19 Mar 1806, Phillips, ME, and died 1 May 1890, Gardiner, ME, aged 84 years. (Note: Micah WHITNEY brought his family from Gray to Phillips, ME in 1811. G. B. Sedgeley claims to have found a record that Benjamin was born in Gray. He was definitely not born in Phillips.)"

"He married, 26 Sep 1830, Phillips, ME, Susan WELLS, the dau. of Nathaniel and Susan (HARRIS) WELLS of Ipswich, MA and Mt. Vernon, ME."

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

(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 67. Photo on page 79.

- "He was town clerk and a school teacher."

(10) Whitney Research Group web site at http://www.whitneygen.org/ and postings on the WHITNEY-L mailing list at Rootsweb, February 2-3, 2006.

The source outlines the court martial of Benjamin M. WHITNEY that took place on December 24, 1862, based upon records researched in the National Archives. The charge being: "... that he Benjamin M. WHITNEY, Private of Co. G, 17th Maine Vols. did at the time of his enlistment on the 21st day of July 1862, in the name of the United States willfully and fraudulently concealed his true age, and represent himself to be of the age of forty five years of age, when in fact he was fifty-six years of age" and that "... said Benjamin M. WHITNEY, Private, Co. G, 17th Maine Vols. did by fraud and cheating obtain from the Government of the United States, a large sum of money, to wit Twenty-five Dollars as bounty money, and thirteen dollars advance pay, when in fact said Benjamin M. WHITNEY was not entitled to receive or draw the same."

Benjamin WHITNEY stated in his defense: "When the Three hundred thousand troops were called for, there was great enthusiasm in the neighborhood from which I came. I was urged very hard to enlist, they knowing my exact age as well as I did, saying they thought I could get through it. I have hitherto done my duty well, not being on the sick list but once and I think I could get through if I could get rid of carrying my pack. I was at the battle of Fredericksburg and used my musket as well as any one in the Regiment, I think."

The sentence was: "To forfeit all pay, allowances, and bounties now due him, and to be discharged the service, and shall not receive any final statement."

(11) Biographical Review, Volume XX, Containing Life Sketches of Leading Citizens of Sagadahoc, Lincoln, Knox, and Waldo Counties, Maine, Boston, MA: Biographical Review Publishing Company, 1897, pp. 166, 169. Biography of Joseph Clement WHITNEY.

"Benjamin M. WHITNEY, born in Gorham, received his elementary education in the district schools. Subsequently he attended the academy in Limerick, Me., where he was a classmate of one of the Fessendens; and he taught school in this State during the winter until 1868. He then went to Arkansas and from there to Texas. In the latter State he was engaged in teaching for some time. Afterward he went mining in New Mexico. Here, on one occasion, having entered a mine too soon after a blast, he was prostrated by gas, from the effects of which he never recovered. He returned to his home in Maine after a residence of eighteen years in the West, and died from the cause just mentioned. A scholar and an educator of ability, he fully merited the high regard accorded to him by his neighbors and fellow-townsmen. His wife, Susan, a native of Mount Vernon, Me., and a daughter of Nathaniel and Susan (HARRIS) WELLS, of Ipswich, Mass., became the mother of seven children. These were: Phebe C., who is no longer living; Royal T., who now resides in Texas; Martin V., a resident of Lewiston, Me.; Melvina, who is now deceased; Joseph C. Whitney, the subject of this sketch; Mary Clementine, who is the twin sister of Dr. Whitney, and lives in Phillips; and Benjamin D. who resides in Gardiner, Me."

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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; Benjamin Whitney -8.