Brief Life History of John
When John Whitney was born on 21 January 1784, in Nelson, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Oliver Whitney, was 39 and his mother, Hannah Chase, was 30. He married Mary Spalding on 9 May 1813, in Ludlow, Windsor, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 27 September 1852, in Ludlow, Windsor, Vermont, United States, at the age of 68.
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- John Whitney, "United States Census, 1850"
- John Whitney in entry for Amanda Field, "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954"
- 1850 United States Federal Census
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1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
1788 · New Hampshire Helps Ratify the US Constitution
On June 21, 1788, New Hampshire became the ninth and final state needed to ratify the US Constitution and make it the official law of the land
1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Whitney in Herefordshire, the etymology of which is uncertain. The second element is Old English ēg ‘island, piece of higher ground in a low-lying area’; the first appears to be hwītan, which is either the genitive singular of an Old English byname Hwīta (meaning ‘white’), or the weak dative case (originally used after a preposition and article) of the adjective hwīt ‘white’. The name may also derive from Whitney (now Whitney Wood) in Stevenage (Hertfordshire), probably named from Old English hwītan ‘white’ + (ge)hæge ‘enclosure’.
History: John Whitney came from London, England, to Watertown, MA, in 1635, and had numerous prominent descendents.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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