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Carney, John B., "In Search of Fayerweather: The Fayerweather Family of Boston," NEHGR, Volume CXLVI (1992), pp. 59-76,

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43. Jedediah6 Fayerweather (Hanford5, Thomas4, Benjamin3, John2, Thomas1) was born at Norwalk, Connecticut, 1 February 1779 (Barbour, Norwalk VRs, 11, citing LR 18:12); died at New Canaan, Connecticut, 10 September 1826, aged 46 years 6 months (Hartford Courant of 18 Sept. 1826); and was buried in St. Paul's Churchyard, Norwalk (Whitney Genealogy, 132; no record of gravestone in Hale Coll., CSL).
He married, perhaps about 1801 (in the 1800 Census he appears to have been included in his widowed mother's household; see no. 29, above) Jane Selleck, who died about 1861 at Wilton, Connecticut, and is buried there (ibid., 1:132-3). She married, second, as his third wife, William Stevens, whose second wife was Jedediah's widowed older sister Anne (Fayerweather) Warner (Register, 145 [1991]:145). [snip]

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Children (basic data and order from Whitney Genealogy, 1:367, supplemented or modified as noted; birthdates estimated from U.S. 1810 and 1820 Census); surname Fayerweather:
  1. son7, b. ca. 1802 (suggested by census figures); d. presumably before 1820.
  2. Henry, b. at Norwalk ca 1804; m. after 22 Oct. 1828 and before 2 April 1836 Susan Warner, his cousin, dau. of ___ and Anne (Fayerweather) Warner [No. 29. i., above] (Norwalk Deeds, 26:416; 29:78), b. ca. 1809. They reportedly settled at Montgomery, Orange Co., N.Y., and died there (Whitney Gen., 1:367). [snip]
    3. Children, except No. 2, all living at Williamsburgh, N.Y., in 1875 (Whitney Genealogy, 2:967); surname Fayerweather:
    1. Morissener8 ("Marsena" per Whitney Gen.), b. say 1828; m. ca. 1849 Catharine ____, who d. at Brooklyn 15 Oct. 1870 (Kings Co. Surrogate's Records, A20:366). Catharine's probate names her widower, Morissener and son Henry, 19; census records indicate also George, b. ca. 1854; and Mary Ann P., b. ca. 1860.
    2. William Henry, b. 16 Dec 1831; bp. 15 Jan. 1833 ("Copies of Old Records of Baptisms & Marriages for the Methodist-Episcopal Church of N.Y. City," manuscript [hereinafter "Old M.-E. CRs"], p. 37 [orig. 19:112]); d. probably young.
    3. William, b. ca. 1834 [14 in 1850].
    4. Richard, b. ca. 1839 [11 in 1850].
    5. Henrietta/Harriet, b. ca. 1843 [7 in 1850].
    6. Thomas, b. ca. 1849 [1 in 1850].
    7. Henry, b. after 1850.
  3. Sally, b. ca. 1806; m. Isaac Albin of Wilton, Conn. They are said to have settled in Wilton, and died there. In 1840, the household for Isaac Albin included one male under 5, one male 5 to 10, one male 10 to 15, one male 20 to 30, one female under 5, and one female 30 to 40 (U.S. Census for Conn., 1840, Fairfield Co., 170). No records of the family have been found in indices to the VRs or church records at CSL or 1850 and 1860 censuses.
    4. Children (Whitney Gen., 2:967; 1840 census); surname Albin: 1. Isaac Henry, b. say 1828. 2. Gould, b. say ca. 1832. 3. Jane, b. say ca. 1836; m. James H. Terpenny. 4. Theodore, b. say ca. 1838. 5. Charles, b. after 1840. 6. Sylvester, b. after 1840.
  4. George, b. ca. 1808; d. at Wilton, Conn., 18 Oct. 1842; aged 37; bur. in the cemetery north of the Congregational Church there; m. at New York City, 4 Nov. 1835, Phebe Ames Brockington, b. at Danbury, Conn., 22 April 1816, dau. of Henry and Hannah (Barnum) Brockington. George, who was a shoemaker, and Phebe settled at South Norwalk. She m. (2) at Norwalk, 15 Aug. 1847, Keeler H. Dauchy, 33, a hatter (Barbour, Norwalk VRs, 41), b. at Stamford, Conn., 26 Feb. 1813, son of Luther and Mary Ann (Hoyt) Dauchy; in Nov. 1875 they were living at South Norwalk (Whitney Gen., 1:367).
    5. Children (ibid., 2:968; Spies, Norwalk, Epitaphs, 1:1229 [107], 1230 [107]); surname Fayerweather:
    1. Mary Jane8, b. at South Norwalk 11 Oct. 1836, adopted by Titus K. and Lydia Ann (Holden) Merrill; d. in New York City 5 Aug. 1857, aged 21 yrs. 9 mos. 25 days; bur. in Pine Island Cemetery, Norwalk; m. at Norwalk, in March 1857, A Wesley Hale, a master mariner from Glasco, N.Y.
    2. George Nelson, b. 22 Oct. 1838, a hat finisher; d. 4 Feb. 1903; buried Union Cemetery, Norwalk (Hale Coll., Norwalk 414, 320); m. at Bethel, Conn., 10 May 1865, Gertrude Morgan, b. there 5 July 1834, dau. of Medad and Delanie (Ferry) Morgan, deceased, of Bethel. He served in the Civil War in Co. H, 8th Conn. Vols (g.s.)
    3. Sarah Frances, b. at Wilton, Conn., 27 May 1842; m. at South Norwalk in Oct. 1861 George Cummings, a plumber and coppersmith, [begin p. 68] b. at New York City, son of John and Mary (---) Cummings. They settled at South Norwalk and lived there in Nov. 1875.
  5. James, b. at Norwalk, say 1811 (under 10 in 1820), a coachman; d. unm. of consumption at his mother's house in Norwalk.
  6. Benjamin, b. at Norwalk, say 1813 (under 10 in 1820), a hatter, living at 100 Congress St., Newark, N.J., in Nov. 1875; m. at Norwalk 15 Sept. 1833 Hannah Wilcox (Barbour, Norwalk VRs, 41), b. ca. 1814 (calc.) d. at South Norwalk 15 July 1872 in her 58th year, bur. Pine Island Cem. (Hale Coll., Norwalk 414, 379), dau. of the Rev. William and Sally (Hoyt) Wilcox.
    7. Children (Whitney Genealogy, 2:968), surname Fayerweather:
    1. Charles Henry8, b. ca. 1836; d. Newark, N.J., 11 Feb. 1864; bur. with mother; m. but name of wife not found.
    2. Elsie, living at Newark in Nov. 1875 with her father; unm.
    3. George Benjamin, b. 4 Oct. 1849; d. 6 March 1850; bur. with mother.

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44. Thomas6 Fayerweather (Hanford5, Thomas4, Benjamin3, John2, Thomas1) was born at Norwalk,Connecticut, 10 February 1786 (Whitney Genealogy, 1:133). He died 25 December 1856, aged 70, of heart disease, a resident of 104 Mulberry Street, New York, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery (Manhattan Deaths, Liber 24, not paged). He married, perhaps about 1807, Susan ____, who was born in October 17878 [calc.] of parents born in New Jersey, and died at 66 Seventh Street, Williamsburgh [Brooklyn], New York, 19 March 1875, aged 87 years and 5 months (Brooklyn Deaths, 1875, #2556). [snip]

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The names of their children, except for Thomas, are given in the Whitney Genealogy, which notes that one daughter, unidentified, married ____ Hibbard, son of the Rev. William Hibbard; we have revised the order to make it consistent with other information.
Children (Whitney Gen., 1:367-68; 1810, 1830 and 1850 U.S. Censuses; other sources as noted); surname Fayerweather:
  1. Phebe7, b. say 1808 [female 10 or under in 1810; not with parents 1830]; d. evidently before 1857 without surviving issue. She was perhaps [begin p. 70] the Phebe Fairweather who m. 31 Aug. 1829 William Young Lockwood, both of New York City (Barber, "Marriages ...," 6[1935]:17).
  2. son, b. say 1809 [10 or under in 1810; not with family in 1830]; d. probably young.
  3. Mary Ett [Marietta in Whitney Gen.], b. 27 June 1810; bp. 26 Aug. 1810 ("Old M.-E. CRs.", 37 [orig., 3:56]); living at 319 E. 19th St., New York City, 1 Dec. 1875 when she requested adm. on her father's estate as noted above; m. ____ Hibbard, who d. probably before 1857.
  4. Jane Eliza, b. ca. 1817 (53 in 1870); living 1 Dec. 1875 (father's adm.); m. John Berger, b. in New York ca. 1807. In 1870 they were living in Ward 13, Brooklyn, with her mother Susan, 83, and children; surname Berger: 1. Charles, a cooper, 25; 2. John W., apprentice to a carpenter, 18; 3. Sarah E., 14, all b. N.Y. Jane was administratrix of her mother's estate as noted above.
  5. William H., b. in New York ca. 1820; d. in Brooklyn 6. Nov. 1875, aged 56 (Brooklyn Deaths, 1875, #10713); m. Eliza ____, b. in England ca. 1824. In a review of city directories from 1838 through 1866, William first appears in 1844 at 25 N. Third Ave., a pianoforte maker. From 1845 through 1855 he was at 304 Third Ave., and from 1857 to 1860 at 443 Second Ave. [snip] Child, surname Fairweather: 1. Josephine8, b. N.Y. ca. 1844; m. Theodore W. Reeves, b. in N.Y. ca. 1840. In 1870 he was listed in the census as a shipping clerk owning $3,000 worth of real estate and $3,000 personal property, with daughter Nettie, one year old (U.S. Census for New York, Greenpoint, cited above).
  6. Thomas H., b. 13 April 1822; d. evidently without surviving issue between 1830, when he was apparently with the family, and 1857 when petition was made for administration on his father's estate.
  7. Maria, b. say Oct. 1823; d. evidently without surviving issue before 1857, although the Whitney Gen. claims she was living at Brooklyn in Oct. 1875.
  8. Sarah C., b. 22 May 1825; bp. 15 Jan. 1826 ("Old M.-E. Crs," 185 [orig. 19:110]); d. after 1 Dec. 1875 when her father's estate was settled; m. Richard Harper (Whitney Gen.), who d. between 1857 and 1875.
  9. James C., b. ca 1829 [calc.]; d. 2 Aug. 1848 in 19th yr (New York Evening Post of 3 Aug. 1848, Barber, 24 [1940]:94).

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