... a master-mariner and farmer; chose Phineas Hanford as guardian, 1 Aug. 1750; .... They settled in Derby, and there owned the covenant in the Congregational Church, 11 Ap. 1762. .... They were buried in the old Episcopal Cemtery in Derby. An obituary notice of him quaintly says: "He was the founder of King Hiram's Lodge in Derby; he squared his life by the rules of Masonry, and, directed by the invariable compass of rectitude, he entered the harbor of rest; his Masonic brethren honoured his interment with the sprig of evergreen, emblem of that eternal life, the donation of the Grand Architect, who will hail with a voice of brotherly love every free and well-accepted Mason into the Grand Lodge above. He was many years an active and useful inhabitant of this town; he died much lamented and respected by his relations and acquaintance; he was a member of, and a communicant in, the Episcopal Church, and was buried according to the rites and ceremonies of that Church, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life."

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Children of Henry Whitney and Eunice Clark

• William Clark Whitney 1762
• Josiah Whitney 1764
• Isaac Whitney 1767
• Sheldon Whitney 1769
• Henry Whitney 1772
• Susan Whitney 1774
• Stephen Whitney 1776
• Archibald Whitney 1780

Links

• Find A Grave
• Whitney Research Group