Family/Spouse: Mary Bray. Mary was born about 1560 in Westminster, Middlesex, England; died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Immigrant Ancestors

Notes:

John Whitney (35), his wife Elinor (30), and sons John (11), Richard (9), Nathaniel (8), Thomas (6), and Jonathan (1) embarked at London, England, April 1635 in the ship Elizabeth and Ann bound for America.

Group:
Immigrant Ancestors of New England Halls

John married Elinor [--?--] about 1618 in London, Middlesex, England. Elinor was born about 1597 in England; died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Immigrant Ancestors

Notes:

Group:
Immigrant Ancestors of New England Halls

Jonathan married Lydia Jones on 30 Oct 1656. Lydia (daughter of Lewis Jones and Anna Stone) was born about 1638; died on 3 Feb 1701/02. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anna married Cornelius Fisher, Jr. about 1691 in Wrentham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. Cornelius (son of Cornelius Fisher and Leah Heaton) was born on 8 Feb 1659/60; died about 1743. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Josiah Whiting
• FamilySearch ID: MM5N-76K
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 141871562
• Alt. Birth: 19 May 1663, Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
• Removed to: 1701, Wrentham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts; from Groton
• Probate: 15 Jan 1717/18, Wrentham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts

Notes:

See: Whitney Research Group: http://wiki.whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/Family:Whitney,_Josiah_(1663-1717)

On 21 Dec 1702 he was mentioned as a son in the will of his father. (Middlesex County, MA, probate file #24,690).

On 4 Feb 1713/4 he was mentioned as a brother in the will of Benjamin³ Whitney of Sherborn. (Middlesex County, MA, probate file #24,605.)

Birth:
Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
Name:      Josiah Whitny  [Josiah Whitney]
Event Type:      Birth
Birth Date:      19 May 1664
Birth Place:      Watertown, Massachusetts
Father Name:      Jonahan Whitny
Mother Name:      Lydia Whitny

Josiah Whitny sonn of Jonathan & Lydia Whitny bornd ye 19 of May [1664].

FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/MM5N-76K

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141871562

Alt. Birth:
"Josiah Whetny, s. Jonathan & Lydia Whetny, b. 19 May 1663," according to Watertown Records, vol. 1, p. 26.

Removed to:
The Whitney genealogy states that Josiah was of Groton and Wrentham and that he and his wife, Mary, settled in Wrentham in 1701 (in that case, daughter Mary, if she existed, might have been born in Groton). That book also says that Josiah's wives were Abigail and Mary, in that order.

Probate:
(Suffolk Probate 20:386)
Children Jonathan, Abigail, Mary, and Josiah were mentioned in the division of his estate.
Josiah, a minor aged about twenty years on 17 April 1718 [Suffolk Probate 20:386]).
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NEHGR, Volume 11
JOSIAH WHITNEY of Wrentham. Inv'y, Jan. 15, 1717-8;
165. ABIGAIL (wife) survived him.
ISSUE.
I. Josiah, aged about 20, 1718; m. Elizabeth Grant of Concord, in Weston, Feb. 28, 1725-6; he "formerly of Dedham now of W." Issue:--Elizabeth, bap. July 13, 1735; Phinehas bap. May 11, 1740.
II. Jonathan, aged over 14 in 1718. His estate settled 1768. Was he the largest subscriber to Prince's chronology, 24 copies.? Inventory, £87 11s. 1-1/2d. He left widow, name not given.
III. Abigail, aged 9. Guardianship to Uncle Benjamin, of Sherburne, April 10, 1718. Mar. in Wrentham, Sept. 20, 1729, Preserved Hall.

Died:
New England Historic Genealogical Society. Massachusetts, Town Death Records, 1620-1850
Name:      Josiah Whitney
Death Date:      29 Dec 1717
Burial Place:      Wrentham
Source:      Wrentham
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Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Wrentham Deaths, p. 515
Name:      Josiah Whitney
Event Type:      Death
Birth Date:      abt 1664
Death Date:      29 Dec 1717
Death Place:      Wrentham, Massachusetts
Death Age:      53

Whitney, Josiah, Dec. 29, 1717, (in his 53d y., G.R.1.).

Josiah married Mary Bemis about 1694. Mary died on 18 Jul 1710 in Wrentham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Josiah married Abigail Martin, of Dorchester on 3 Nov 1713 in Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Abigail died on 6 Dec 1734 in Wrentham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]