November 2018
Below are the footnotes to the biography of the English immigrant Henry Whitney (c.1620-1673) in Stephen Whitney Phoenix's The Whitney family of Connecticut, and its affiliations (1878), Vol. 1, Part 1, pages 1-10. I have renumbered the footnotes for clarity's sake.
[1] "Examine Chase's Map of Suffolk County, N. Y., and you may see a small body of water marked just north-west of the north-west point of Shelter Island and almost connecting Peconic Bay and Long Island Sound. The only separation is a level flat of sand and shingle, a few rods wide, and perhaps twenty long, partially covered with sedgy vegetation. Across this flat, the famous Gilford expedition drew their whale boats, when they made their successful descent upon the British post and stores at Sag Harbor. This flat is Hashamommuck Beach. The small body of water is now generally called Mill Creek, a tide-mill to grind grain having been built upon it many years ago, and one is still in use near the old site. . . . The creek is a few rods more than two miles east of the First Church of Southold. It is just two miles east of the Southold station of the Long Island Rail Road. Hashamommuck is about a square mile directly east of this creek." — (Letter quoted in Benedict Genealogy, p. 5.)
[2]That she was not his first wife appears from the fact that his son was of full age in 1666.
[3] This was, doubtless, Joseph Whitman.
[4] The first volume of Fairfield Probate records has, at some time, had a considerable number of its leaves saturated with ink, the acid of which has destroyed the paper. The will of "Edward Catchm, of Stratford, lately deceased," was the third one recorded, and the following is all of it which remains legible.
"I, Edw .... perfect . . . God h . . . . . Sarah . . and . . . . buriall ... to pay . . cause to . . .
After my decease five shillings . to . . . John . . . . I give and bequeath to my three dau . . . . . Mary, Hann
. . . . Hester, five shillings a peece to be p . . . within six . . after my decease, the rest after my
decease . . dispose . . seeth cause for the good of hers . and A . ne
Witness the day and year above written
THOMAS PELL.
Mr. Pell takes oath in open . .
this eighth June 1655 that . . . .
the last will and testament of Edward
Catchem the court approves thereof.
WILLIAM HILL Secy."
The inventory was written 9 June 1655; and approved by the court 19 June 1655.
[5] Name first written Whitman, then corrected.