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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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Sixth Generation.
walk, 29 Feb. 1780. She died, 11 June 1826, at Reading, Conn., and was buried there. He lived at Carmel, N. Y., in 1839, having married a second wife; and died in 1866.
555 IV. Timothy Whitney, b. in Norwalk, Conn., 8 Nov. 1777; died, in 1806, at Havana, Cuba. He probably did not marry.
556 V. Sarah Whitney, b. 12 Sept. 1782, in Norwalk, Conn., where she was living so late as 1868; died, unmarried, 27 Feb. 1873, in Woodman, Wisconsin.



Chil. of Timothy and Abigail (Smith) Whitney. 122

557 VI. Lewis Smith Whitney, b. in Norwalk, Conn., 29 Aug. 1787; a carpenter and cooper; married at Poundridge, N. Y., 1 Jan.1811, Sally Hall, born in Middletown, Conn., 16 Feb. 1790, dau. of Enos Hall. Having been left without a mother, when young, she lived, till her marriage, in the family of her uncle, Phineas Hill, in Danbury and Norwalk, Conn. They settled at Norwalk, and there died (he, 30 July 1848; she, 30 June 1861), and were buried. 1896
558 VII. Nancy Whitney, b. in Norwalk, Conn., 26 Dec. 1788; married in Norwalk, 20 Oct 1816, by Rev. Roswell R. Swan, Congregational, to Launcelot Hyatt, a carpenter, and in later years, a grocer, born in Norwalk, 27 Oct 1785, son of Abraham and Susan (Betts) Hyatt. In 1817 they settled in New York City, and in 1829 returned to Norwalk, and there dwelt the rest of their lives. He died 23 Ap. 1862; she, 9 July 1863. They were buried in Norwalk Cemetery. He was, for nearly thirty years, a deacon of the First Congregational Church in Norwalk. "He was a man of strong and vigorous mind, a deep thinker, and his words, though few, were well selected, and to the point Though grave and taciturn in society, he was, in his own home, so genial as to be most tenderly beloved; while his sterling integrity and blameless life commanded the respect of all who knew him." 1901
559 VIII. Elizabeth Whitney, b. in Norwalk, Conn., 4 Jan. 1796; married in Norwalk, 29 Nov. 1819, Evert Quintard, a cabinet-maker and undertaker, born in Norwalk, 24 Jan. 1798, son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Picket) Quintard. They settled in Norwalk, where he was still in business in 1874, his two sons having been associated with lim for many years, in the firm of E. Quintard & Sons, till the death of the eldest, in 1873. She died in Norwalk, 26 Nov. 1851, and was buried in the Norwalk Union Cemetery. He married (2d), 3 March 1857, at Darien, Conn., Maria Mercy Whiting, widow of Abraham Weed St. John, of Darien. She died in Norwalk, 26 Ap. 1867, without children. 1909
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