Person:Samuel Whitney (17)

Name^[3]	Capt. Samuel Whitney
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	30 Jul 1802	Lincolnville, Waldo, Maine, United States
Marriage	21 Nov 1844	to Rebecca Witherle Howe
Death^[2]^[3]	31 Mar 1846	Lincolnville, Waldo, Maine, United StatesDrowned in Penobscot Bay

References

↑ Lincolnville (Maine). Town Clerk. Town and vital records, 1809-1885. (Lincolnville, Maine)
p. 33.

Samuel Austin Whitney son of Samuel and [torn] Whitney born in Concord September 27th 1771 married [torn] to Ruthy daughter of John and Phoebe Perkins born at Castine November 6th 1777.
Samuel Whitney son of Samuel A. & Ruth Whitney born July 30th 1802.
↑ Find A Grave: Castine Cemetery, Castine, ME, in Find A Grave
CPT Samuel Whitney.

[Note: Body was never recovered, so not buried here. The stone is hard to read.]
CAPT. SAMUEL WHITNEY
was drowned Mar., 31,
1846 AE. [42?]
MRS. REBECCA W. HIS WIFE
was drowned Mar. 31,
1846, AE. 28.
MARGARETTE, THEIR DAU
Died Feb. 3, [1846?]
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Whitney, Henry Austin. Incidents in the life of Samuel Whitney: born in Marlborough, Massachusetts, 1734 and died at Castine, Maine, 1808 together with some account of his descendants and other family memorials. (Boston: Printed for private distribution, 1860)
p. 67.

Children of Samuel Austin Whitney and Ruth Perkins: Samuel Whitney, b. Castine [sic] 30 Jul 1802, m. 21 Nov 1844 Rebecca Witherle Howe. They were both drowned in corssing Penobscot Bay, March 31, 1846.
[Note: from coverage of his wife, p. 78: "She was drowned, together with her husband, by the sinking of a boat, through which a hole was knocked by the ice, in crossing Penboscot Bay, March 31, 1846. Her body was recovered and interred at Lincolnville, but was afterwards removed to Castine. His body was not recovered."]