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Sixth Generation.
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at Fairfield, 19 Ap. 1796, dau. of Jesse and Bethia (Marquand) Dimon. She died, 4 July 1873, in Bridgeport, Conn., where he also died, 10 March 1874, of old age. He was buried near Southport.
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II. Peter Whitney, b. at Fairfield, Conn., 29 Nov. 1790; bap. at Southport, Conn., by Rev. Philo Shelton, Episcopal, 30 Jan. 1791; went to sea when young, and was lost on a voyage from North Carolina to New York, 23 Aug. 1806.
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Chil. of Aaron and Hannah (Turney) Whitney.
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283
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I. Silas Whitney, b. at Fairfield, Conn., 15 Aug. 1769; married, 10 May 1788, at Frederickstown, now Kent, N.Y., Nancy Russell, born in Kent about 1768, dau. of Thomas and Charity (Hopkins) Russell. He studied medicine with Dr. ----- Williams, of Greenfield, now Trumbull, Conn., but his occupation throughout life was that of a trader, first in Frederickstown, now Kent, afterward at Southeast, and later at Patterson, N. Y. She died in the latter place, 27 March 1827, in her 58th year, and was buried in the cemetery near the Baptist Church at Towner's Corners. He went to Peekskill, N. Y., to live with his son, Washington Silas Whitney, and there died, 20 Feb. 1854, according to his gravestone in Cortlandt Cemetery, which also says that he was born 29 Aug. 1769. His second wife was Phebe Owen, widow of ----- Horton. She was the mother of his son's wife.
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II. Ephraim Whitney, b. at Fairfield, Conn., 23 March 1771; a weaver's reed maker; married, when 25 years old, Sarah Wixon, born in Peekskill, N.Y., 24 Ap. 1780, dau. of John and Jemima (Barrett) Wixon. He first settled at West Milltown, in Kent, N.Y.; thence moved to Southeast, about a mile west of Dykeman's Station, N.Y.; and from there to Patterson, about two miles north of Dykeman's Station, where they died (he, 26 Dec. 1830; she, 14 July 1856, aged 76 years, 2 months, and 20 days), and were buried in the cemetery near the Baptist Church, at Towner's Corners, N.Y., one mile west of Towner's Station.
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III. Aaron Whitney, died when about two years and a half old, and before his sister Abigail was born.
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IV. Abigail Whitney, b. at Fairfield, Conn., 20 Dec. 1783; married at Roxbury, N.Y., in 1802, William Vermilya, a farmer, born in Westchester, N. Y., 11 Ap. 1780, son of William and Phebe (Hueston) Vermilya. They lived at Batavia Kil, in Roxbury, N. Y., till 1808; and then moved to Fishkill, close to the line between the present counties
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