Ancestry of
Eli Whitney

Inventor of the Cotton Gin

Nathaniel Whitney

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• • Grandfather of Eli Whitney — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4 
  • Father:
  • Nathaniel Whitney 
  • Mother:
  • Mercy Robinson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 23 Jan 1695/1696 
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  • Death Date:
  • 27 Jan 1776 
  • Death Location:
  • Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Memorial Cemetery, Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Child
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 Jul 1721 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Annah Whitney

  Eli Whitney (Ahnentafel No:2 )

• Sources for Nathaniel Whitney

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/24/2023).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Westborough, Vol. 1, p. 106, Birth record for son Eli Whitney.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1983, Vol. 137, p. 145.
  • ⁴ Weston, MA: Vital Records to 1850, p. 12, Marriage record for Nathaniel Whitney Jr. and Mary Child.
  • ⁵ Weston, MA: Vital Records to 1850, p. 580, Whitney family vital statistics.
  • ⁶ Pierce, Frederick Clifton, Forbes and Forbush Genealogy: The Descendants of Daniel Forbush, Who Came from Scotland About the Year 1655 . . ., Chicago: Rand McNally and Co. (1892), 37.
  • ⁷ 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.