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Sixth Generation.
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were his wives, in St Mark's Cemetery, New Canaan. There also rest the remains of his daughter by the second marriage, Sarah Elizabeth Lockwood, who was born at New Canaan, 27 June 1823, and died 3 June 1835.
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II. Betsey Esther Whitney, b. in Kent, Conn., 26 Feb. 1789; married, 19 May1811, James Harvey Taylor, a teacher, born in Warren, Conn., 6 Feb. 1781, son of David and Jerusha Taylor. They lived in various places, Warren, Conn., New York City, and Poundridge, N. Y., in the last of which she died, without children, 18 June 1836, and was buried in St. Mark's Cemetery, New Canaan, Conn. He afterward moved to Meridian, Cayuga Co., N. Y., where he died, 22 Aug. 1861, and was buried.
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III. James Whitney, b. in Kent, Conn., 20 March 1793; a farmer; settled with his mother in New Canaan, Conn., and was living there when he married, 28 Dec. 1815, at South Salem, N. Y., Margaret Lewis, of South Salem, who was born there, 4 May 1796, dau. of John and Margaret (Hayes) Lewis. They settled at Poundridge, N.Y., where he died, 16 Ap. 1855, aged 63 years, and was buried in St Mark's Cemetery, in New Canaan. She moved, in 1829, with her children, to Dewitt, N. Y., where she lived with her brother, Charles Lewis, till 1841, when, with her youngest son, Augustus Waters Whitney, she moved to Norwalk, Ohio, dwelling with her brother, Samuel B. Lewis, till 1845. She then bought a tract of heavily timbered land, upon which she and her son settled, and built a comfortable home; and there she died, 13 Jan. 1869, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Norwalk. She was a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and a consistent Christian.
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2094
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Chil. of John and Ann (Fox) Whitney.
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137
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I. Henry Whitney, b. in Norwalk, Conn., 18 Aug. 1791; an edge-tool maker; married in Bedford, N.Y., 14 March 1810, in his nineteenth year, Lucy Grumman, who was of the same age, born in Norwalk, 2 July 1791, dau. of Jeremiah and Hannah (Fitch) Grumman.1 They lived in Wilton, Conn., till May 1819, when they moved to Ohio, settling, 19 June 1819, in Sharon, Richland Co., where he built a log-cabin, with a stick and clay chimney. This gave them shelter till 1824, when, as the Indians and wolves were very plenty, he required something stronger, and built a block-house of white oak timber, hewn ten inches thick by three feet wide,
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2099
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1 Hannah Fitch was horn 23 Sept. 1755; and Hall's History of Norwalk, p. 254, shows that she married, 27 Oct. 1785, as his second wife, Jeremiah Grumman, and had a dau., Lucy Grumman, born 2 July 1791. No others are recorded.
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