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He married,
in New York City, December 1, 1841, Anna
Maria, daughter of Peter Augustus and Mary
Rutherfurd (Clarkson) Jay, born in New York
City, September 12, 1819, died in Brooklyn,
January 2, 1902. She was the granddaughter
on the paternal side of Hon, John Jay, first
chief justice of the United States , envoy
extraordinary and Minster plenipotentiary
from this country to the Court of St. James,
and author of "Jay's Treaty;" on the distaff
side she was granddaughter of General Mathew
and May (Rutherfurd) Clarkson. The lineages
and histories of the Jay, Rutherfurd and
Clarkson families are among the most
brilliant in the annals of New York.
Children: 1. Mary Rutherfurd, born in
Brooklyn, New York, August 25,1842, died in
New York City, December 31, 1879; married,
in Brooklyn, October 13, 1863, Rutherfurd
Stuyvesant, descended from Peter
Stuyvesant's sister, Anna, who married
Samuel Bayard. Mr. R. Stuyvesant's mother
was a granddaughter of Judith Stuyvesant, a
great-great-granddaughter of Governor Peter
Stuyvesant. 2. Henry Evelyn Jr., of whom
further. 3. John jay, of whom further. 4.
William Augustus, born in Brooklyn, July 16,
1855, died in Brooklyn, January 6, 1902,
unmarried. 5. Julia Jay, born in Newport,
Rhode Island, September 14, 1857; living in
Brooklyn, unmarried. 6. Anna Jay, born in
Brooklyn, January 1, 1861; living in
Brooklyn, unmarried.
(IX) Henry
Evelyn (2), son of Henry Evelyn (10 and anna
Maria (Jay) Pierrepont, was born in
Brooklyn, New York, December 9, 1845, died
in Brooklyn, November 4, 1911. He was
prepared for college at the Rectory School
at Hamden, Connecticut, of which Rev.
Charles W. Everest was then head master, and
graduated with the degree of Bachelor of
Arts at Columbia College, New York, in 1867;
he took a master's degree in 1870. Soon
after graduation he engaged in the warehouse
business--James K. Ward & Company--later
with his brother, conducting the extensive
Pierrepont stores on Furman Street, in which
he continued until the sale of the stores in
1888. He was one of the incorporators of
the Franklin Trust Company, and long one of
its trustees, a trustee of the Brooklyn
Savings Bank, the Home Life Insurance
Company, the City Dispensary and the
Brooklyn Hospital. He was senior warden,
like his father, of Grace Church, on
Brooklyn Heights; was a member of the
standing committee of the Diocese of Long
Island; was a regular delegate to the
general convention of the church; was a
trustee of the General Theological Seminary
of New York, of Fidelity Insurance Company,
the Brooklyn Association for Improving the
Condition of the Poor, and for many years
gave largely of his time and means as
treasurer of the church building fund; he
was a member of the Hamilton Club,
Brooklyn. He retired from business in 1888,
after the sale of the Pierrepont Bonded
Warehouses. He resided on Columbia Heights,
Brooklyn, where his grandfather, Hezekiah
Beers Pierpont, purchased an historic old
mansion in 1804, which was razed in 1846 and
replaced by the present elegant home,
surrounded by parks, on Pierrepont Place.
He was a man of sterling worth and high
integrity, and of unusual intelligence,
traveled and cultured. After the death of
his wife in 1884, he lived quietly among
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his books, when not
occupied with church work, philanthropies or
business.
He married in
Brooklyn, December 9, 1869, Ellen Almira
Low. Born in Brooklyn, June 30, 1846; died
December 30, 1884; a daughter of Abiel Abbot
and Ellen Almira (Dow) Low. Children: 1.
Anne Low, born at Ventnor, Isle of Wight,
England, September 23, 1870; married, in
Brooklyn, December 23, 1896, Lea McIlvaine
Luquer, born in Brooklyn September 4, 1864;
resides in New York; children: i. Lea
Shippen, born in Brooklyn, September 21,
1897, ii. Evelyn Pierrepont, born in New
York City, October 20, 1900, iii. Thatcher
Paine, born at Bar Harbor, Maine, July 20,
1905, iv. Ellen Pierrepont, born at Bar
Harbor, July 28, 1909. 2. Ellen Low, born
in Brooklyn, April 15, 1872; married, in
Brooklyn, June 5, 1895R. Burnham Moffat,
born in Brooklyn, January 7, 1861 (see
Moffat VII); children: i. Jay Pierrepont,
born at Rye, New York July 18, 1896, ii.
Elizabeth Barclay, born at Rye, June 26,
1898, iii. Abbot Low, born In New York City,
May 12, 1901. 3. Henry Evelyn (3), born in
Brooklyn, September 7, 1873, died there,
unmarried, March 3, 1903. 4. Robert Low,
born in Luzerne, Warren County, New York,
August 22, 1876, married, in Brooklyn,
November 22, 1900, Kathryn Isabel Reed, born
in South Weymouth, Massachusetts, May 18,
1879, daughter of Josiah and Helen Maria
(Flanders) Reed; resides in Brooklyn;
children: i. John Jay, born In Brooklyn,
March 15, 1902, ii. Samuel Duryea, born at
Bay Shore, New York, July 20, 1909, died at
Bay Shore, July 21, 1909, iii. Henry Evelyn,
born at Bay Shore July 20, 1909, died at Bay
Shore, July 21, 1909. Mr. Pierrepont
graduated from Columbia College, New York
City, in 1898, with the degree of Bachelor
of Arts. He is a director of the Low Moor
Iron company, the Home Life Insurance
Company, a trustee of the South Brooklyn
Savings Institution, Brooklyn Trust Company,
Greenwood Cemetery and of the Church Charity
Foundation. He is a member of the St.
Anthony, Hamilton and Down Town clubs. Mr.
Pierrepont is the owner by inheritance of a
life-sized picture of General George
Washington, pained by no less an artist than
Gilbert Stuart, for his ancestor, Willian
Constable, which is authenticated by the
original letter and bill made out to Mr.
Constable. The picture was said t be by
competent critics of that day who knew
General Washington personally the most
perfect likeness extant of the great man,
who was a friend of the Constable family.
The picture is in the old house in
Pierrepont Place. 5. Rutherfurd Stuyvesant,
of whom further. 6. Seth Low, born in
Brooklyn, December 25, 1884, married, in New
York City, June 2, 1909, Nathalie Elizabeth
Chauncey, born in New York, July 14, 1887,
daughter of Elihu and Mary J. (Potter)
Chauncey; is in the diplomatic service and
at present resides in Washington, D. C. Mr.
Pierrepont graduated from Columbia College,
New York, with Bachelor of Arts degree.
(IX) John
Jay, second son of Henry Evelyn and Anna
Maria (Jay) Pierrepont, was born at Rye, New
York, September 3, 1849. He was educated at
Columbia grammar school and Brooklyn
Polytechnic, and from 1869, after leaving
school, he was a member of the firm of
Pierrepont Brothers, consisting of himself,
his brother, Henry Evelyn Pierrepont and
Ferdinand N. Massa, which conducted a United
States bonded free warehouse business on the
waterfront below the family resident on
Brooklyn Heights, known as the Pierrepont
Stores. On the sale of the stores in 1888 he
retired from business, managing his personal
property. He is on several boards and is a
member of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht,
Down Town, New York Yacht and Hamilton clubs
of Brooklyn. Mr. Pierrepont's interest
since a young man have largely been in his
own home. He was brought up under the close
and admirable influence of a family whose
manner of living was patterned after the
chivalry of earlier days, when the simple,
courteous and unobtrusive manners were
considered the best. For the past thirty
years or more he has spent his summers at
Lake Luzerne, New York, and Northwest
Harbor, Maine. He and his sisters live in
the old family mansion, Pierrepont Place,
Brooklyn, the site of the estate owned by
the Pierreponts for over a century. It has
a charming and extensive view from the
library windows of new York harbor, giving a
touch of the busy, bustling life of the twin
cities, while apart from the noise and
confusion. He was named after his
great-grandfather, the first chief justice
of the United States, and third governor of
the state of New York. He has in the past
taken great pleasure in horseback riding,
yachting and hunting, and was an
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adept with the camera.
He is fond of good pictures and is a member
of the Rembrandt club of Brooklyn. He
supports those philanthropies which appeal
to him. He married, in new York City, April
26, 1876, Elise de Rham, born in new York
City, July 18, 1850, died in new York,
October 17, 1870, daughter of Charles and
Laura (Schmidt) de Rham; resides in
Brooklyn. One child, John Jay, born in New
York City, March 19, 1877, died in Brooklyn,
January 6, 1878.
(X)
Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, son of Henry Evelyn
(2) and Ellen Almira (Low) Pierrepont, was
born in Luzerne, New York, July 5, 1882. He
graduated with the degree of Bachelor of
Arts from Columbia College. He is
interested with his brother, Robert Low
Pierrepont, in his business enterprises. He
is a director of the Hanover Fire Insurance
Company, of the Low Moor Iron Company, and a
member of the St. Anthony, Hamilton, Down
Town and Union clubs. He married, in Roslyn,
New York, December 5, 1911, Nathalie Leon de
Castro, born in New York City, August 2,
1885, daughter of Alfred and Annie (Godwin)
de Castro; resides in New York City. One
child, Mary Rutherfurd, born in New York
City, December 6, 1912.
SABIN. The
name of Sabin was early established in
Massachusetts, and probably came from
Southern England or Wales. It has furnished
numerous distinguished citizens to the
United States and is sill actively
identified with those interest which make
for the progress and development of the
nation. The family is of French origin, and
the ancestors were Huguenots driven from
France by religious persecution into Great
Britain.
(I) William
Sabin was an inhabitant of Rehoboth,
Massachusetts, at the organization of the
town in 1643, and died there in 1681. He
appears to have been an man of some culture
and considerable means and of benevolent
character. Many of the sufferers from
Indian depredation in early Massachusetts
received assistance at his hands, and he was
active in the establishment of education and
the church. His first wife, whose name is
unknown, died after 1660, and he married
(second), December 22, 1663, Martha,
daughter of James and Anna Allen, of
Medfield, Massachusetts. Children of first
wife: 1. Samuel. 2. Elizabeth. 3.
Joseph. 4. Benjamin. 5. Nehemiah. 6.
Experience. 7. Mary (died young). 8.
Abigail. 9. Hannah. 10. Patience. 11.
Jeremiah. 12. Sarah, died young). Of the
second wife: 13. James. 14. John. 15.
Hezekiah. 16. Noah. 17. Mehitable. 18.
Mary. 19. Sarah Margaret.
(II) John,
seventh son of William Sabin and second
child of his second wife, Martha (Allen)
Sabin, was born August 27, 1666, in
Rehoboth, died October 22, 1742, in Pomfret,
Connecticut. He resided in Rehoboth until
1691, when he removed to Pomfret, and in
1698 purchased land of the Indian chief,
Owaneco. He was an active pioneer, a leader
in military matters, bearing the rank of
major, and retained membership in the church
at Woodstock, Connecticut, until 1715. He
married, December 3, 1689, in Rehoboth,
Sarah, daughter of Samuel Peck, born
February 2, 1669, died October 1, 1738.
Children: 1. Judith, born August 26, 1690.
2. Hezekiah, mentioned below. 3. John,
January 16, 1695. 4. Noah, January 27,.
1697. The last three were born in Pomfret.
(III)
Hezekiah, eldest son of John and Sarah
(Peck) Sabin, was born November 5, 1691, in
Pomfret, and resided in that town. He
married, about 1718, Zerviah, daughter of
James and Elizabeth Hosmer. Children: 1.
Sarah, baptized September 27, 1719. 2.
Hannah, March 18, 1722. 3. Charles, April
18, 1725. 4. Jesse, January 22, 1727. 5.
Jonathan, August 17, 1729. 6 Zerviah,
November 11, 1731. 7. Zebediah, mentioned
below.
(IV)
Zebediah, youngest child of Hezekiah and
Zerviah (Hosmer) Sabin, was baptized January
23, 1736, in Pomfret, where he subscribed to
the freemen's oath, April 7, 1760. His wife
bore the baptismal name of Ann, and their
children were: 1. Charles, mentioned below.
2. Anna, born December 14, 1760. 3. Zebediah,
March 20, 1763, died in Williamstown. 4.
Zerviah, February 3, 1765. 5. John,
December 6, 1767. 6. Timothy, June 1, 1770,
in New Providence. 7. Jesse, July 3, 1772.
(V) Charles,
eldest child of Zebediah and Ann Sabin, was
baptized November 18, 1758, in Pomfret,
where he died June 25, 1829. He married
(first) about 1780, Martha, daughter of
Uriah Jackson, of Thompson, Connecticut.
She died in 1788. He married (second),
December 25, 1791, Mehitable, daughter of
Rev. Thomas Skinner, of Pine Swamp,
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Connecticut. She
survived her husband one year, dying in
1830. Children of first wife: 1. Anna,
born December 25, 1781. 2. Hezekiah, July
2, 1785, died unmarried. 3. Zebediah,
mentioned below. Children of second wife:
4. Maria, born 1794. 5. Alice, January 22,
1797. 5. Betsy, 1800. 7. William, 1802.
(VI) Zebediah
(2), second son of Charles and Martha
(Jackson) Sabin, was born June 9, 1788, in
Williamstown, and resided in the district
known as Sabin heights, where he was a
farmer, and died January 10, 1861. He was a
man of sound judgment, genial nature, and
upright character, much esteemed for his
good humor and originality. He married,
February 19, 1812, Sarah Eaton, born 1789,
who was in early life a teacher, a woman of
much culture and strong character.
Children: 1. John, born December 13, 1812,
died at the age of three months and six
days. 2. Martha Maria, February 25, 1814.
3. Elizabeth Ann, February 8, 1820. 4.
Thomas, mentioned below. 5. Catherine
Frances, December 25, 1829.
(VII) Thomas,
third son of Zebediah (2) and Sarah (Eaton)
Sabin, was born about 1823, in South
Williamstown, Massachusetts, died there
October 10, 1897. He owned considerable
property and was engaged in agricultural
pursuits most of his life. He married
Harriet Cordelia Eldridge, born May 11,
1829, in Williamstown, Massachusetts, died
at North Adams, Massachusetts, 1907. She
was the daughter of Reuben and Samantha
Eldridge, of the latter place. Reuben
Eldridge was a colonel in the American Army
of the War of 1812, and the father of
General Hamilton N. Eldridge, who gain
distinction in the War of the Rebellion.
Children: 1. Caroline W. 2. Alice E. 3.
Charles Hamilton, mentioned below.
(VIII)
Charles Hamilton, son of Thomas and Harriet
Cordelia (Eldridge) Sabin, was born in
Williamstown, Massachusetts, August 24,
1868. He attended the Greylock Institute of
his native place, graduating in 1885.
Shortly afterward he received an offer to
enter the office of Henry Russell, at
Albany, New York, then doing the largest
flour commission business of any firm in the
state. Here he remained two years, when he
began his career in the field of banking,
since which time he has made steady progress
until becoming as well and favorably known
as nearly any man of his age in metropolitan
financial circles. He entered the National
Commercial Bank of Albany as a clerk in
1887, was made teller of the Park Bank of
that city in 1889, and was its cashier until
January 16, 1898, when he was appointed
cashier of the Albany City National Bank.
When this institution was acquired by the
National Commercial Bank in 1902, Mr. Sabin
returned to the latter as its
vice-president, a position of some moment
for so young a man, as it ranked as the
largest bank of the Capital City. He
continued there, winning many friends in the
business world by his affability, connected
with those qualities which stamp a man as
banker, until May, 1907, when he was called
to the National Copper Bank of New York City
to be its president. In announcing Mr.
Sabin's retirement from the National
Commercial Bank, President Robert C. Pruyn
took occasion to state to the board: "We
feel that it is a great compliment that one
from our institution should have been so
highly honored, and we feel heartily glad of
his promotion. He had been a conscientious
worker ever since he began his career, and
very justly is one of the most popular young
men of Albany. I tell you this because I
know that Mr. Sabin's natural modesty will
prevent him from saying it." His
advancement to this office in New York was
regarded in banking circles as a fitting
testimonial to his worth and high abilities;
he is a fine type of self-made man, winning
every honor that had fallen to him by hard
work and efficiency of the highest order.
In less than
a year after his assuming the presidency of
the National Copper Bank, the progress made
by this institution was indeed remarkable.
It was established May 1, 1907, at No. 115
Broadway, and reported at the close of
business on February 14, 1906, or only nine
and a half months after organization, a
surplus and undivided profits of
$2,251,082.62, with cash on hand,
$2,803,460.51; due from banks,
$2,282,339.38; United States bonds,
$1,150,000, and bonds, securities, etc.,
$1,992,656.80, an exhibition of great
strength. When the National Copper Bank was
merged with the Mechanics & Metals Bank, at
No. 33 Wall Street, Mr. Sabin was its
vice-president, and on June 23, 1910, was
elected vice-president of the Guaranty Trust
Company of New York, at No. 28 Nassau
Street, to succeed Mr. Charles H. Allen,
which posi-
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tion he occupied in
1912. The national Copper Bank represented
the great copper interest of this country,
being controlled by such men of prominence
in finance as Thomas F. Cole, John D. Ryan,
Urban H. Broughton, William A. Paine, Henry
H. Rogers Jr., Adolph Lewisohn, Charles F.
Brook.
Mr. Sabin was
made president of the New York State
Bankers' Association in January, 1904, and
in his address before the convention, held
at the Frontenac, Thousand Islands, he spoke
forcefully of conservative business
management of banks, the encouragement of
enterprise, and strongly advocated the
administration of trust companies into the
association's ranks. The Council of
Administration, on behalf of his active
intelligent interest, presented him with a
silver gavel on this occasion, and he was
chosen delegate to the American Bankers'
convention. He was treasurer for three
years of the Young Men's Christian
Association of Albany, and its president in
1897; was elected president of the Old
guard, Albany Zouave Cadets, Company A, of
the Tenth Regiment, National Guard, New
York. On December 16, 1910, he gave a
luncheon to Governor-Elect John A. Dix,
which was attended by the leading bankers of
New York City, intending thereby to have the
governor sound the views of the financial
world, as it might affect the new
administration.
Mr. Sabin has
a summer home at Monmouth Beach, New Jersey,
where, as a member of the Rumson Country
Club, he is an active participant in polo
and other athletics. He is a member of the
Metropolitan, Union League, Riding, Racquet
& Tennis clubs of New York City, and of the
Albany Country, Albany Polo and Fort Orange
clubs of Albany. He is also a member of
Holland Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons.
Mr. Sabin
married at Albany, New York, December 29,
1897, Mabel Whitney, born at Albany,
December 4, 1874, daughter of William Minott
Whitney, of Albany (see Whitney VII). They
have one child, Charles Hamilton Jr., born
at Albany, new York, July 4, 1902.
(The Whitney Line.)
The family
name of Whitney is derived from the
Anglo-Saxon word "hwit," meaning white, and
"ey," meaning water, literally signifying
"white water," or "the clear running
stream." Others incline to the derivation "withing,'
willows; or "witan," assembly, and "ey" or "ige,"
which may mean island as well as water, so
that it could signify the "Island of
Willows," or "Island of Assembly," that
advocates of the latter idea pointing out
that the place where this family originated
was an exceptionally good locality for the
assembling of large gatherings, such as
armies or tourneys; is traced in direct
course to the time when the Whitney family
lived beside the Wye River, coursing through
Wales and England, and forming in its lower
course the boundary between Monmouthshire
and Gloucestershire, joining the estuary of
the river Severn, eleven miles north by west
of Bristol, England. Its length is about
one hundred and thirty miles, navigable to
Hereford, and the stream is noted for its
picturesque scenery, in fact so beautiful is
the river Wye, made attractive by its
castellated shores, that it is well called
"the Rhine of England." It was appointed
the boundary between England and Wales by
Athelstan in the year 939. The early owners
of the land were, before the days of
surnames, known as "Eustace" or "Baldwin,"
or "Robert of Whitney," as the Christian
name might be. Written in the style of
those times, "of" was "de" and after w while
"De Whitney," came to be regarded as "De
Whitney," or "De Wyttebeye," as it was
usually spelled, came to be regarded as the
family name. Finally the letter "h" was
introduced and the "de" was dropped, so that
throughout four centuries the present form
has been the established one. It also shows
on old English records as Witney, Wittney,
Witnenie, Witeney, Witteneye, Wytney,
Wyttneye, Wyteney, Wytteneye, Whiteneye, and
Whittenye. The Whitney Arms: Shield, Azure,
a cross chequy or and gules. Crest; A
bull's head couped sable, armed argent, the
points gules. Motto: Magnanimiter crucem
sustene; "Gallantry uphold the cross.'
Registered in the College of Arms, and
probably originated during the early
Crusades, it remained unchanged up to the
time of emigration of John Whitney, in
1635.
Regarding the
origin of the family and its location, as it
leads towards the departure of a member in
direct descent, who became the progenitor of
the family in America, there is much of
interest, and it must necessarily be
expressed in brief. At the present day
there is a tract in England known as
"Whitney
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Wood," probably
identical with the one referred to ina writ
of the seventeenth year of Henry III (1233),
where in sheriff of Hereford was commanded
to cause a good breach to be made through
the woods of Erdelegh, Bromlegh, and
Witteneye, so that there may be safe passage
between the City of Hereford and Maud's
Castle. This castle was built by William le
Brass, Lord of Brecknock, about 1216, in the
reign of King John, and so named in honor of
his wife. The Doomsday Book mentions Whitney
in the year 1086, at which time the land was
scarcely under cultivation, as follows: "In
Elsedune hundred, the King holds Witemie,
Aluuard held it in the time of King Edward,
and was able to go where he pleased. There
is half a hide yielding geld. It was and is
waste."
Rolf, or Guy,
has the credit of being the first of whom
there is undisputed, authentic trace. He
had a son, Turstin de Wigemore, the Fleming,
who was living in 1086, and married Agnes,
daughter of Alured de Merleberge, of Ewias
Castle. Their son was Eustace, who, "at the
request of my mother, Agnes, have given to
St. peter and the brother of Gloucester a
hide of land in Pencombe, which is called
Suthenhale (Syndnal), free and clear from
any encumbrance; and through this deed, I
have placed it on the altar of Saint Peter
of Gloucester." Eustace had a son, also
named Eustace de Wytteneye, Knight, who
confirmed this deed of gift, by Monks and
Lord Reginald, Abbot of Saint Peter's at
Gloucester, and to the convent of that
place." Thus, while there may be no record
showing that Eustace, the elder, used the
name in full, his son, in the days of
Reginald the Abbot, or 1263-84, wrote
himself as "Eustace de Wytteneye," and it is
therefore proved that he was third in decent
from Turstin the Fleming, son of Rolf, who
owned the land on the river Wye, the home of
the Wyytteneyes, later changed to Whitney in
records.
That the
Whitney family was represented in the
Crusades seems more than likely, for a cross
on a coat-of-arms, which is known positively
to date to that period is quite generally
understood by the most careful students
ancient heraldry to indicate hat it once
belonged to a crusade, and in the Whitney
arms, the chief, in fact, the only solitary
symbol is a cross. Nearly every writer
dealing with the history of this family has
given the following explanation:
"Sir
Randolph de Whitney, the grandson of
Eustace, accompanied Richard Coeur de Lion
to the Crusades, and distinguished himself
greatly by his personal strength and great
courage. On one occasion he was sent by
Richard on a mission to the French commander
and, as he was leaving the British camp the
brother of Saladin (whom he had twice before
defeated) followed him with two Saracens in
his company, and, riding around a small
hill, made a furious attack upon de Whitney,
who defended himself with the greatest
vigor; but his assailants were gaining upon
him, when a furious Spanish bull, which was
feeding near the field of conflict, was
attracted by the red dresses of the
Saracens, and becoming angry at the color
flitting before him, made so vigorous an
attack upon them that they were diverted
from their intended prey, and sought safety
in flight. Sir Randolph soon succeeded in
wounding his single assailant, whom he left
for dead, and then, overtaking the two
Saracens, dispatched them and proceeded upon
his mission from the King."
To carry the
entire line, even by name and date from the
time of Turstin, son of Rolf, in 1086, to
the time of John Whitney, who emigrated to
America in 1635, more than two and a half
centuries ago, would require much space; but
in brief it perfect the family history. Sir
robert de Whitney, of Whitney, Knight,
living in 1242, had son, Sir Eustace de
Whitney, Knight, who was granted Free Warren
by King Edward I, in 1284, and was summoned
to military service beyond the seas in 1297,
and summoned to the Scotch War in 1301. His
son was Sit Eustace de Whitney, of Whitney,
who was knighted by Edward I, in 1306, and
was member of parliament for Herefordshire
in 1313 and 1352. His son was Sir robert de
Whitney, Knight, one of two hundred
gentlemen, who in 1368 went to Milan in the
retinue of the Duke of Clarence, and was
member of parliament for Herefordshire in
1377-79-80. His son, Robert, was sent
abroad to negotiate a treaty with the Count
of Flanders in 1388; was member of
parliament in 1391; was sent to France to
deliver the castle and town of Cherbourg to
the King of Navarre in 1393; was Knight
Marshall at the Court of Richard II; was
killed, with his brother and relatives, at
the battle of Pilleth, in 1402. His son,
Sir Robert Whitney. Of Whitney, Knight, was
granted the Castle of Clifford and lordships
of Clifford and Glasbury, by Henry IV, in
1404, on account of his service; was member
of parlia-
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ment, 1410-22; fought
in the French War under Henry V, was captain
of castle and town of Vire, in 1420, and
died March 22, 1441. His son Eustace de
Whitney, Knight, born 1411, was head of the
commission sent to Wales by henry VI, in
1455; member of parliament for
Herefordshire, 1468; married Jenett Russell,
daughter of Sir Thomas. His son, Robert,
probably also a knight, was an active
participant in the War of the Roses;
attained as a Yorkist by Lancastrain
parliament, in 1459; probably was at battle
of Mortimer's Cross, in 1461, and was the
subject of a poem by Lewis Glyn Cothi, on
his marriage to Constance, the
great-granddaughter of Sir David Gam. His
son, James Whitney, was appointed receiver
of Newport, part of the estate of the Duke
of Buckingham, confiscated by Henry VIII, in
1522. His son, Robert, of Icomb, was placed
in charge of Brecknock, Hay and Huntington,
the confiscated estates of the Duke of
Buckingham, in 1523; was nominated Knight of
Bath by Henry VIII, at coronation of Anne
Boleyn, in 1531, and died in 1541. He
furnished forty men to put down rebellion in
1536. He married, Margaret, daughter of
Robert Wye, of Gloucestershire, England. His
son, Sir robert Whitney, Knight, was dubbed
in October, 1553, the day following Queen
Mary's coronation; was summoned before the
privy council in 1555-59; member of
parliament for Herefordshire, 1559, and died
August 5, 1567. His son, Sir James Whitney,
born in 1544, was knighted by Queen
Elizabeth at Windsor, in 1570; was sheriff
of Herefordshire 1574-86-87; died May 31,
1587. His brother, Robert Whitney, married
Elizabeth, daughter of Morgan Guillims, of
Duglim, who had a son Thomas Whitney, of
Westminster, Gentlemen, see forward.
Thomas
Whitney, son of Robert and Elizabeth (Guillims)
Whitney, was a native of Westminster,
England, and was buried in St. Margaret's,
April 14, 1637. It is recorded that in 1611
he paid the subsidy tax, and on December 6,
1615, on the probate of the will of his
father-in-law, John Bray, he was appointed
executor. He apprenticed his son, John, on
February 22, 1607, and his son, Robert, on
November 8, 1624. At the time of his death
in 1637, his oldest surviving son, John,
being out of the country, administration of
his estate was granted, May 8, 1637, to his
remaining sons, Francis and Robert. Of the
other six children, he having had nine, all
six were then dead. He obtained, may 16,
1583, from the Dean and Chapter of
Westminster, a license to marry Mary Bray,
in which document he is mentioned as "Thomas
Whytney of Lambeth March, Gentleman," and
the marriage took place on May 12 at St.
Margaret's Church. She was the daughter of
John Bray, of Westminster, and she was
buried in St. Margaret's, September 25,
1629. "Lambeth Marsh" is the name still
existing and denotes a locality near the
Surrey end of the Westminster bridge.
Children: 1. Margaret, born 1584, died
1604. 2. Thomas, 1587, died in 1587. 3.
Henry, 1588, died 1589. 4. John, see
forward. 5. Arnwaye, 1590, died 1591. 6.
Nowell, 1594, died 1597. 7. Francis, 1599,
died at Westminster, 1643. 8. Mary, 1600,
died 1600. 9. Robert, 1605, died in Parish
of St. Peter's, Cornhill, London, England,
1662. |
