Ancestry of
Amy Adams

Movie Actress

John Whitney Jr.

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• • 9th Great-grandfather of Amy Adams — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2886 
  • Father:
  • John Whitney 
  • Mother:
  • Elinor -----   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 14 Sep 1621 
  • Christening Location:
  • Isleworth, Middlesex, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 12 Oct 1692 
  • Death Location:
  • Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Ruth Reynolds
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1643 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Ruth Whitney (Ahnentafel No:1443 )

  Nathaniel Whitney

  Sarah Whitney

• Sources for John Whitney Jr.

  • ¹ Early New England Families, 1641-1700, William Shattuck (m. 1643), p. 5.
  • ² Watertown, MA: Vital Records, 1630-1825, Vol. 1, p. 65, Death record for John Whitny.
  • ³ Weston, MA: Vital Records to 1850, p. 580, Whitney family vital statistics.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. IV, I-L, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2005), 250.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VI, R-S, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 48.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VII, T-Y, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 370.
  • ⁷ Cleveland, Edmund Janes and Horace Gillette Cleveland, The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families: An Attempt to Track in Both the Male and the Female . . ., Vol. 1, Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company (1899), 138.
  • ⁸ Shattuck, Lemuel, Memorials of the Descendants of William Shattuck, Boston: Dutton and Wentworth (1855), 70.
  • ⁹ Stearns, Ezra S., History of Ashburnham, Massachusetts from the Grant of Dorchester Canada to the Present Time, 1734-1886 . . ., Ashburnham, Massachusetts: Published by the Town (1887), 958.
  • ¹⁰ Weis, Frederick Lewis, Early Generations of the Family of Robert Harrington of Watertown, Massachusetts, 1634, and Some of His Descendants, Worcester, Massachusetts: Privately printed (1958), 18.
  • ¹¹ Whitney, Henry Austin, A Brief Account of the Descendants of John and Elinor Whitney of Watertown, Mass., Boston: Henry W. Dutton and Son, Printers (1857), 6-7.

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