Ancestry of
Eli Whitney

Inventor of the Cotton Gin

Eli Whitney

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• • Father of Eli Whitney — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Nathaniel Whitney 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Child   
  • Birth Date:
  • 3 May 1741 
  • Birth Location:
  • Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 25 Aug 1807 
  • Death Location:
  • Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Memorial Cemetery, Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Fay
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 Feb 1765 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Eli Whitney (Ahnentafel No:1 )

• Sources for Eli Whitney

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/13/2013).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Westborough, Vol. 1, p. 106, Birth record for son Eli Whitney.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Westborough, Vol. 1, p. 106, Birth record for Eli Whitney.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Westborough, Vol. 1, p. 257, Death record for Eli Whitney.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Westborough, Vol. 1, p. 148, Marriage record for Eli Whitney and Elizabeth Fay.
  • ⁶ Weston, MA: Vital Records to 1850, p. 580, Whitney family vital statistics.
  • ⁷ Johnson, George Henry, One Branch of the Fay Family Tree: An Account of the Ancestors and Descendants of William and Elizabeth Fay, Columbus, Ohio: The Champlin Press (1913), 28.
  • ⁸ 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), 15.
  • ⁹ Wikipedia, "Eli Whitney", (accessed 09/22/2011).