Conway, Massachusetts place
also: Conway, Mass.
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He descended with the Puritan leaders in Massachusetts and basically started a new colony. And he's one of those guys that fled England for religious persecution. He was going to get summoned to the High Court Commission. He's one of those …
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And we're going to this isn't today. We're not going to do Bush's today because that's a full episode on its own. But it's a fun story. All those connections. I agree. Let's see. Let's do the let's do Alonzo Taft. He's one of the other co-f…
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About half the people who live there's last name is Taft. That's a small exaggeration, but they are the Uxbridge, Massachusetts founding family. The Taft family is notorious in American history. They've had people served in governments of M…
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So that's very, very much founding families of America. The town that I'm in, Portsmouth, New Hampshire right now, last year celebrated its 400th anniversary, which means it was here 11 years before Whitney got here. But this is a real old …
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We have Captain Samuel Whitney of Fairfield, Connecticut. He was a captain in the Revolutionary War, would die in 1796 at the age of 84. We had a Jonathan Whitney from Mendon, Massachusetts. He was the captain of the 7th Company, 5th Regime…
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We had a William Whitney from Broome County, New York, recognized by the Daughters of the American Revolution as ancestor number A125404. We had a Moses Whitney, served in Colonel Edmund Finney's 31st Regiment of Foot in 1775, and he has do…
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founder of the lineage we're going through. Josiah Whitney was born in 1731 to 1806. He served in a Massachusetts militia. He was associated with what was called the Whitney's Regiment of Militia, aka also known as the Worcester County Mili…
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Born in South Deerfield, Massachusetts, which was then known as Bloody Brook. His father, Stephen Whitney, was a merchant and a manufacturer. So the family had started to accumulate some money. So, of course, he marries into American nobili…
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stimulate the assimilation of Native Americans by ending tribal government. And that's the reason the Dawes Act is why. The Dawes Act of 1887 led to us getting Oklahoma as a state in 1907. So that's part of the family. And he was both a con…
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Nothing really going on in 1835, right? Militarily? No, nothing at all. In 1838, he would take over his father's manufacturing business and move it to a place called Conway, Massachusetts, and that is where the Whitney family explodes. That…
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Nothing really going on in 1835, right? Militarily? No, nothing at all. In 1838, he would take over his father's manufacturing business and move it to a place called Conway, Massachusetts, and that is where the Whitney family explodes. That…
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becomes the town clerk of Conway, 1843 to 1852. Today, a town clerk is pretty much a mundane job, right? Back then, you're the one who's putting a stamp on every bit of document for every bit of business that goes through. Sort of like the …
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Well, Susan Collins is from Maine. I mean, that's probably worth a genealogical dive. That's a good question. Yeah. So you want to hear about the DeMock family? Sure. Guess when they came to America? When? Right around 1637 to Massachusetts…
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A guy by the name of Henry Melville Whitney. And he's worth looking at. So I will show you a picture of him. That's Henry Melville. Very sharp looking guy, huh? Yeah. Well, he's not the star of the show, but he's worth talking about. I thin…
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A guy by the name of Henry Melville Whitney. And he's worth looking at. So I will show you a picture of him. That's Henry Melville. Very sharp looking guy, huh? Yeah. Well, he's not the star of the show, but he's worth talking about. I thin…
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Here he is. William Collins Whitney. This is the guy who turned them into a wealthy family, into a dynasty, and died with a very squeaky clean reputation, which we'll get into. So he's born in 1841 in Conway, Mass., educated at Williston Se…
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Here he is. William Collins Whitney. This is the guy who turned them into a wealthy family, into a dynasty, and died with a very squeaky clean reputation, which we'll get into. So he's born in 1841 in Conway, Mass., educated at Williston Se…