Walter Gilbert Genealogy: Thomas Whitney & Mary Kedall

3296–3297. Thomas Whitney was baptized in London, England, in December 10, 1627, and died in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, on September 20, 1719. His wife was Mary Kedall They were married in Watertown on Thursday, January 11, 1654/55. She took the name Mary Whitney. He is the son of John and Elinor (_____) Whitney. She is the daughter of John Kedall. They had ten children:

i.	Thomas Whitney: He married Elizabeth Lawrence.
ii.	John Whitney: He was born May 9, 1659, and died 10 days later.
iii.	John Whitney: He was born August 22, 1660, and died 4 days later.
iv.	Eleazar Whitney: He married Dorothy Ross.
v.	Elnathan Whitney: He was born April 7, 1662; his estate was probated Jan 1727/28 (Watertown).
vi.	Mary Whitney: She was born on December 22, 1663, and died before August 6, 1668.
vii.	Bezaleel Whitney: He was born September 16, 1664 or 1665.
viii.	Sarah Whitney: She was born March 23, 1665/66 or 1666/67.
ix.	Mary Whitney: She was born August 6, 1668, and died a year later on September 6, 1669.
x.	Isaiah Whitney [#1648]: He was born in Watertown on September 16, 1671, and died in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, on January 1, 1711/12.

Thomas Whitney began military service as a soldier in King Philip's War in 1675 in Watertown, Massachusetts. He ended military service on August 24, 1676. Thomas Whitney purchased from John Hayward 45 acres of land in Pompasitticut on January 16, 1682. He was admitted freeman on April 18, 1690 (Watertown). Thomas Whitney sold to Elnathan Whitney and his sister Martha (spinster) all his real and personal estate, especially his house and ¼ acre of ground; recorded 1721 on June 25, 1714 (Watertown).

Sources:

The genealogy of Robert L. Wade which includes reference to:
- Melville, Henry, The Ancestry of John Whitney, 1896
- Pearce, Frederick Clifton, Whitney Genealogy, 1895
- Bennett, Archibald, Finding Forefathers in America, 1957, p. 245
- The will of Joshua Whitney, April 4, 1713; parish records of St. Margaret's Westminster, held in the library of Westminster Abbey.
Banks, Charles Edward, Planters of the Commonwealth, A Study of the Emigrants and Emigration in Colonial Times: To which are added Lists of Passengers to Boston and to the Bay Colony; the Ships which brought them; their English Homes, and the Places of the Settlement in Massachusetts 1620–1640, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1984 (original 1930), pp. 154–157