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Seventh Generation.
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1868; and, before that time, he had spent ten winters as a teacher of vocal music, and ten as a teacher of common-schools.
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| 1869
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VI. Edwin Fitch Weeks, b. in Henrietta, N. Y., 14 Jan. 1835; died, 14 June 1836, in Webster, N. Y., and ws buried there.
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Chil. of George Washington and Matilda (Olmstead) Whitney.
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550
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| 1870
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I. Edward Philander Whitney, b. in Catharine's, N.Y., 24 March 1818; a carriage-maker; married, 14 Ap. 1841, in Somers, N.Y., Harriet Ann Jackson, who was born 8 Nov. 1822. He lived in Stamford, Conn., in 1868; and died, 4 Sept. 1870, in East Venice, N.Y., and was buried in the East Venice Cemetery. She was still living at Stamford, in Aug. 1874.
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6057
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| 1871
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II. Harriet Louisa Whitney, b. in Venice, N.Y., 16 Oct. 1824; married in Venice, by Rev. Charles Plumb, Baptist, 8 Jan. 1843, to James Young, a farmer, son of Gilbert and Nancy (Homan) Young, of Venice, formerly of Roxbury, N.J., where he was born 5 May 1791. They lived at Venice in 1868, and at East Venice in 1874. He served, for a short time, in the regiment of Col. John Harris, on the Niagara frontier, in the war of 1812.
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6060
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| 1872
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III. Sanford Bennett Whitney, b. at Venice, N.Y., 18 Sept. 1827; a farmer; married, 29 Dec. 1858, at Venice, by Rev. Ansel Clark, Baptist to Martha Whiting, dau. of William and Nancy (Hurlbut) Whiting, of Venice, formerly of Moravia, N.Y., where she was born 27 June 1837. They settled at Venice, and were living there in Aug. 1874.
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6062
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Chil. of Miles and Hannah Hoyt (Whitney) Root.
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551
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| 1873
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I. William Erastus Root, b. in New Canaan, Conn., 15 July 1818; an operative in a woollen-mill; married in Poundridge, N. Y., 12 Dec 1847, Martha Ann Saxon, born in Manchester, England, 21 Sept. 1823, dau. of John and Margaret (Johnson) Saxon. He lived in New Canaan, from 1848 to 1850; in the town of Norwalk, Conn., till 1860; in Norwalk Village, till 1863; in the town of Norwalk again, till 1869; and then returned to New Canaan, where he was living in 1873.
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6065
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| 1874
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II. Angeline Eliza Root, b. in Woodbury, Conn., 17 Feb. 1820; married in New Canaan, Conn., 28 Oct. 1840, William Edward Aiken, a farmer, son of Andrew Aiken, of Norwalk, Conn., where he was born 26 March 1816. They were living at Cascade, Wis., in 1873.
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6068
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| 1875
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III. Isaac Towner Root, b. in New Canaan, Conn., 18 Aug. 1824. He ran away from home when he was sixteen years old, and his friends
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