Ancestry of
Eli Whitney

Inventor of the Cotton Gin

John Whitney

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Eli Whitney — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 64 
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  • Christening Date:
  • 20 Jul 1592 
  • Christening Location:
  • St. Margaret, Westminster, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 1 Jun 1673 
  • Death Location:
  • Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elinor -----
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  • BEF 1619 
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  John Whitney Jr. (Ahnentafel No:32 )

  Richard Whitney

  Thomas Whitney

  Jonathan Whitney

  Benjamin Whitney

• Sources for John Whitney

  • ¹ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, S.A.R. #81160, Membership application for Jay Hudson Whitney.
  • ² Watertown, MA: Vital Records, 1630-1825, Vol. 1, p. 36, Death record for John Whetny.
  • ³ Weston, MA: Vital Records to 1850, p. 580, Whitney family vital statistics.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 371.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VII, T-Y, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 366-372.
  • ⁶ Pierce, Frederick Clifton, Whitney: The Descendants of John Whitney, Who Came From London, England, to Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1635, Chicago, Illinois: Press of W. B. Conkey Company (1895), 22.
  • ⁷ Shattuck, Lemuel, Memorials of the Descendants of William Shattuck, Boston: Dutton and Wentworth (1855), 70.
  • ⁸ 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), 957-958.
  • ⁹ 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), 5-6.