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 1737 - 1792 (55 years)
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| Name |
Jonathan Whitney [1, 2, 3] |
| Prefix |
(Capt.) |
| Born |
26 Jul 1737 |
Milford (Mendon), Mass.  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
22 Aug 1792 |
"Old Castle", Ontario Co., New York [1] |
| Person ID |
I908 |
Bishir Family |
| Last Modified |
10 Nov 2022 |
| Family |
Esther Parkhurst, b. 22 Jun 1741, Milford (Mendon), Mass. , d. 6 Dec 1812, Milo, New York (Age 71 years) |
| Married |
7 Nov 1760 |
Milford (Mendon), Mass. [1] |
| Children |
| | 1. Asa Whitney |
| | 2. Nathan Whitney, b. 18 Oct 1761, Conway, Mass. , d. 19 Apr 1838 (Age 76 years) |
| | 3. Abigail Whitney, b. 12 Mar 1764, d. 16 Aug 1832 (Age 68 years) |
| | 4. Joel Whitney, b. 13 Nov 1766, Milford, Mass. , d. 31 Jan 1825 (Age 58 years) |
| | 5. Esther Whitney, b. 16 Dec 1769, d. 16 Aug 1848 (Age 78 years) |
| | 6. Experience Whitney, b. 6 Jun 1772, d. 5 Feb 1826 (Age 53 years) |
| | 7. Jonas Whitney, b. 12 May 1775, d. 27 Sep 1823 (Age 48 years) |
| | 8. Ruth Whitney, b. 18 Feb 1778 |
| + | 9. Ami Whitney, b. 18 Jan 1781, Conway, Mass. , d. 14 Dec 1867, Flint Creek, New York (Age 86 years) |
| | 10. (General) Parkhurst Whitney, b. 15 Sep 1784, d. 26 Apr 1862 (Age 77 years) |
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| Last Modified |
10 Nov 2022 |
| Family ID |
F488 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- "Jonathan Whitney was born in Mendon, in that part subsequently Milford, Mass., and soon after his marriage in 1761, moved to Conway, where he resided until 1782. With his son, Joel, he went in 1789 to Ontario Co., N.Y., cut a stock of hay on
the "Old Castle" farm near Geneva and put in four or five acres of wheat, put up a log house 18 feet square and roofed it up with bark, and returned home to Conway in the fall. In 1791 with his family he moved to the "Old Castle" farm with ox
teams and were some seventeen days on the road.
Jonathan was in the Revolutionary War and was at the seige of Ticonderoga. The trees around the fort had been felled to allow the guns to be used. One tree, however, remained upright, against which another had fallen in a slanting direction. He
climbed into the crotch of the upright tree and fired into the fort, a party under the tree loading guns and handing them up to him. It was some time before he was discovered and driven away by the garrison."
He began his miltary career during the Lexington Alarm on 22 April 1775 as a Sergeant. In May of 1776 he was a 1st Lieutenant. In June of 1780 he was made a Captain of the 7th Co., 5th Regt. of the Hampshire County, Massachusetts militia.
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