Person:Lucy Whitney (1)

Name^[3]	Lucy Whitney
Gender	Female
Birth^[1]^[4]	12 Jun 1759	Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage	29 Jun 1780	Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United Statesto Thaddeus Chapin
Death^[2]	1 Jun 1847	Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

References

↑ Rice, Franklin P. Worcester Births, Marriages, and Deaths. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Worcester Society of Antiquity, 1894)
p. 277.

WHITNEY, Lucy, d. of Joshua and Mary, [born] June 12, 1759.
↑ Find A Grave: Hope Cemetery, Worcester, MA, in Find A Grave
Lucy Whitney Chapen.

In memory of
LUCY CHAPEN,
relict of
Capt. Thaddeus
Chapen,
who died June 1, 1847,
aged 88 years.
↑ Will of Joshua Whitney of Worcester, dated 16 Mar 1803, names "Lucy Chapin my Daughter and wife of Thaddeus Chapin" [Worcester Probate 64967]. Lucy is the first child mentioned in the will.
↑ This recorded birth date is prior to the parents marriage, but fits well with other siblings, showing a pattern of births every two years, suggesting the possibility that the parents marriage was misrecorded? A marriage one year earlier would allow him to be "of Watertown" in 1758 but having a child in Worcester in 1759. The Whitney Research Group gives a good overview here though it offers no explanation for this.