General Notes

Birth and Death: From various GenServ Gedcoms: Sources referenced: "1stFamilies of America" and "Phoenix's Whitneys of Connecticut".

Marriages:  Henry Whitney was married: 1st wife is unknown, but she waspossibly born in England and died before 1650 in England? or South hold,Long Island, NY; One Gedcom indicates her date of death as 1655 .  2ndwife was SARAH (widow of Edward Ketcham) SALMON.

One Gedcom indicates that Henry had a daughter (by his 1st wife) - nameunknown.

As quoted from NEHG Register, Vol.33, p369 "The Whitney Family ofConnecticut, and its Affiliations; being an Attempt to trace theDescendants, as well in the Female and Male lines, of Henry Whitney, from1649 to 1878. To which is prefixed some Account of the Whitneys ofEngland." By S. Whitney Phoenix, New York; Privately printed. 1878 [3vols. 4to.pp.xxii.+2740. No Portraits. Five hundred copies; also 10copies folio. All for presentation.]

"Henry Whitney, the American ancestor of the family to which thesevolumes are devoted, came to this country as early as 1649.  On the 8thof October in that year, he "was associated with Edward Treadwell andThomas Benedict in buying three-fourths of William Salmon's land atHashamommock in Southold, Long Island."  He removed from Southold asearly as Aug. 17, 1658, when we find him an inhabitant of Huntington,L.I.  Afterwards he resided in Jamaica, L.I., and Norwalk, Ct.; andprobably died at the latter place in the autumn of 1673."

This information has been proven to be false:  "Henry is represented tohave been a son of Thomas Whitney of Berkhampstead, Herts; and a tabularpedigree by Mrs. de Salis, of London, appears in this book, giving hisline back twenty generations to one "Sir Baldwinus de Whitney."  Severalgenerations further bring us to "Exrog earl of Eygas and Ergagn."

RESIDENCES: England; 1649-? Southold, Long Island; Huntington, L.I.;Jamaica, L.I.; 1665 Norwalk, CT.

See Whitney Family Genealogy for several pages of history on thiscolonist. It begins:

Henry WHITNEY, the earliest of this family whom we can trace in America,was born in England, probably about the year 1620.  No record of him hasbeen found prior to 8 Oct. 1649, when he was associated with EdwardTredwell and Thomas Benedict in buying three fourths of William Salmon'sland at Rashamommock, in Southhold, Long Island.  These four men made thefollowing agreement, which is recorded in the town records of Southold,Vol. I , p. 89:

Wee whos names are vder written inhabiting vppon the neck of landcommonly called Hashamommock considering that our Cumfort and quiettsetlement would consistet stand in the inioyoment of good
neigbourhood did make this agreement at our first sitting doune that whatman soever should desire to remoue and to endeauor to make sale of hisaccomodacons should put in such a neighbour as the other
Inhabitanc liveinge with him should approve of.

Entered the 17th of May 1660 p me Willm Wells.

William Salmon
Henry Whitney
Edward Tredwell
Thomas Benidick.

"New Haven Colonial Records", Vol II, p. 349-50, show that Anthony Waters,
attorney for John Concklin, Tho Osman & Tho Rider, inhabitants of the land
called Hashamommock, plainteifs, entered an action of the case againstJohn
Budd Senior, for breach of an ancient order made for ye prservation ofgood
neighbourhood, wch order or agreemt is as follweth.   John Budd junior
appeared to answer the sute, May 28, 1660.

Footnote on page 1 reads as follows:

"Examine Chase's Map of Suffolk County, N. Y., and you may see a small
body of water marked just north-west of the north-west point of Shelter
Island and almost connecting Peconic Bay and Long Island Sound.  Theonly
separation is a level flat of sand and shingle, a few rods wide, and
perhaps twenty long, partially covered with sedgy vegetation.  Acrossthis
flat, the famous Gilford expedition drew their whale boats, when theymade
their successful descent upon the British post and stores at SagHarbor.
This