VI. SIXTH GENERATION: JAMES WHITMAN

James Whitman, son of Ebenezer Whitman and Lydia Whitman, was born 25 July 1791 in Bridgewater, Mass.1 He married 29 April 1812 to Chloe Whitman daughter of Isaiah and Chloe Phillips Whitman. She was born 30 August 1793 in Bridgewater, and died 11 November 1865, age 71. "James and Chloe were brought up in the same neighborhood, attended the same school and meetings. Both experienced religion and united with the Congregational Church in 1823, and had their children sprinkled. Finally changed their views and became Universalists under which belief they passed of the stage of action into eternity."
"Their parents made a thirteen day journey with ox teams to Windsor, Mass. which was then a wilderness and settled there." 2

He resided with his father, Captain Ebenezer, for many years, and then moved to Charlemont, Massachusetts (on the Mohawk trail in the Northwestern part of the state and near the modern Appalachian Trail). He was a farmer. He died 11 December 1878, age 87. Burial was in Village Cemetery, Charlemont, Franklin Co., MA.

  • They had 10 children;
  • Selinda, 1814 - 1879
  • Infant Son, b. 1816
  • Lucinda, 1817 - 1844
  • Welcome James, 1819 - 1849.
  • Lovisa, Born 9 October 1820, married 29 May 1844 to William P. Goff, she died 7 February 1859 Yorkville, Racine County, Wisconsin.
  • John, b. 1823.
  • Ephriam, 1824 - 1853.
  • Chloe Jane, 1826 - 1880.
  • Lorenzo, b. 1829.
  • Charles Phillips, b. 1831.3
  • Sources:
  • Source (42), Whitman Family Record.
  • Source (42), Whitman Family Record.
  • Source (19), Page 422.
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