Bathsheba Heston and Ebenezer Whitney
Bathsheba S. Heston was the second child and second daughter of Colonel Thomas Heston and his wife Hannah Clayton and was born circa 1790. In the early 1800s, Ebenezer Whitney, a young man shipwrecked and sick off the coast of Cape May, had stopped at the tavern in order to recover from his injuries and illness. Here, Whitney made his acquaintance with Bathsheba, and eventually, he began to stay at the Heston tavern on later trips. Over time, their acquaintanceship turned into a friendship and eventually into a romantic relationship; they married on August 27, 1807.
For approximately two years from 1817 to 1819, Ebenezer became proprietor of the Heston Tavern. The two built their house across the street from the Heston family tavern and their marriage saw the birth of six children -- Samuel, Abigail C., Thomas H., Henrietta H., Eben W., and Samuel Austin. Two of the Heston sons, Thomas and Samuel, would come to solidify the Heston legacy in Glassboro further as the two became heavily involved in the family glass making business. The brothers also oversaw the construction of their family mansion Holly Bush. Bathsheba was widowed around 1823 with the death of Ebenezer Whitney. She eventually inherited the Heston homestead in 1843 with the death of her mother Hannah. Neither the date nor the year of Bathsheba’s death is known.
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