Henry Whitney, the American ancestor of the family to which these volumes are devoted, came to this country as early as 1649. L. I. Afterwards he resided at Jamaica, L. I., and Norwalk, Ct. A sketch of the Whitneys in England is prefixed to the first volume. Mr. Phoenix intersperses through the book tabular pedigrees of a number of families connected with his own. These must have cost him much labor.
Nothing appears to have been omitted to make the work perfect and serviceable.
Nearly three hundred closely printed pages are devoted to indexes of surnames and places, referring evidently to every individual and every place mentioned in the work. The book is got up in the most sumptuous manner possible. The typography, which is in the highest style of art, is from the Bradstreet Press. The paper as well as the binding, which is in half turkey morocco, are also of the same high character. Refer to Henry 1 Whitney's English Ancestry .