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The Whitney Family of Connecticut

by S. Whitney Phoenix
(New York: 1878)

Transcribed by Robert L. Ward.

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Whitney Family.
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Ness, a farmer, who was born in Washington Co., N.Y., 8 Oct. 1765. They lived in Milton, Galway, and Providence, N.Y., and, in the Spring of 1824, after the birth of all their children, moved to Bluff Point, in Jerusalem, N.Y., where he died, 24 Jan. 1832, and was buried in a family cemetery. She died in Providence, N.Y., 28 July 1855, aged 88 years.
410 V. Elias Whitney, b. at Crompond, Yorktown, N.Y., 15 Aug. 1770; went, when eighteen years old, to Fishkill, N.Y., and in 1815, moved to Poughkeepsie, N.Y., where he spent the rest of his life. He was a weaver and gardener, which last business he continued to pursue till the last year of his life. He married, 17 Jan. 1792, at Fishkill, Judith Wood, dau. of Isaac and Martha (Way) Wood, who lived four miles south of Fishkill Village, on the mountain, where she was born, 5 Feb. 1774; and, for nearly sixty-eight years, they lived happily together, till his death, 8 June 1860. An obituary notice says of him: "Mr. Whitney had been married for 70 years, and was the father of ten children, the grandfather of forty-seven, the great-grandfather of eighty-seven, and the great-great-grandfather of six children." He made a profession of religion and was baptized by immersion, when 88 years old. His widow survived him until 3 May 1863. They are interred in the Baptist burial-ground in Garden Street, Poughkeepsie.

"She was very attentive," writes a grandchild, "to all the duties of church, and though quite deaf during the latter years of her life, she was at the prayer-meeting regularly, unless the weather was too stormy. When able to hear scarcely a word, she used to say, 'I always like to be there, you know, Elias, for if I cannot hear much, I can fill my place.' Dear, good, kind grandmother! I trust she 'fills her place' beside the Master, now."

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411 VI. Phebe Whitney, b., 12 Dec. 1777, in Yorktown, N.Y., where she was married, 4 Jan. 1797, by Rev. Silas Constant, Presbyterian, to John Travis, a farmer, who was born in the same town, 11 Sept 1774. They settled in Yorktown, two miles south of Crompond Village; where he died in Feb. 1832, and was buried in the Presbyterian Churchyard at Crompond, and afterward moved to a family cemetery on his farm. She died on the homestead, in Yorktown, and was buried there, in the family cemetery. 1523



Child of Uriah and Sarah (Platt) Whitney. 74

412 I. Azariah Whitney.1 No particulars of his history have been received, beyond the supposition that he was the father of William G.
1 Another account calls him Gilbert.
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