The Whitney Family of Connecticut, and Its Affiliations, Vol. 1

Excerpt from The Whitney Family of Connecticut, and Its Affiliations, Vol. 1: Being an Attempt to Trace the Descendants, as Well in the Female as the Male Lines, of Henry Whitney, From 1649 to 1878; To Which Is Prefixed Some Account of the Whitneys of EnglandBut more ambitious etymologies of the name are not wanting. The Rev. Dr. Giles, in his history of Witney and the neighboring parishes, in Oxfordshire, says: But, if Witney received any fresh peculiarity of char acter from the Saxons, it certainly takes its name from the occupation of that busy and plodding race of men. The Witan-eye, or, as it is also written in the anglo-saxon or old English dialect, Witan-ige, evidently signifies the island of tile wise men, or of t/ze parliamenta Thus the word Witney means, etymologically, Parliament Isle, though no record has been handed down to us to tell for what reason such a name was given. There is a large house still named Parliament House, at the corner Of the Crofts Lane, which, to the minds of some, conveys a tradition concerning the etymology of the name Witney.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.