Posted By:	Patricia Wood
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	Subject:	Re: Flora Sawyer WHITNEY, Hampden & Newburgh
	Post Date:	June 21, 2009 at 15:57:19
	Message URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/me/messages/24304.html
	Forum:	Maine Genealogy Forum
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The 1850 census of Hampden, ME is free at www.familysearch.org an Elisha Whitney age 26 is shown in the home of Reuben and Eliza Whitney On later census (most which are also availabe free at familysearch) Rueben lives next door to Elisha. Elisha's children in 1860 are shown as: Carrie born c1854 George born c 1856 Lizzie born c1857 In 1870 he has additional children: Minnie born c1861 Flora born c1863 John M. born c1866 Maude born c1868 Francis born c1869/70 (may be the same person as Fred-see below) In 1880 additional children: Fred born c1870 Lillian born c1872 Bert born c1874 Elisha born c1876 go to www.familysearch.org and click the link on that home page that says: See prototype for searching millions of records next click on the map of North America and a long list of available databases will pop up. Some of the census images will be free. also check out this link for the families of Hampden in 1837 including Reuben's family: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~meandrhs/census/maine/hampden/1837.html Also here is a link for a cemetery in Hampden ME with many of these Whitneys: http://files.usgwarchives.org/me/penobscot/hampden/cemetery/locust.txt