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Whitney Family.
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273
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1202
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V. Nancy Whitney, b. at Stamford, Conn., 21 Nov. 1794, according to the town-record; bap. in Stamford, 2 Feb. 1795, by Rev. Zebulon Kankey, Methodist Episcopal; married, 9 Nov. 1817, at Danbury, Conn., by Elder Samuel Bushnell, Methodist Episcopal, to Joseph Rockwell Barnum, "both of Danbury." The old book containing these facts, in the hands of Daniel Sanford, postmaster of Reading Ridge, Conn., also gives the date of her birth, as 23 Nov. 1794. He became a local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They moved from Danbury to New York City, and there died.
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3983
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1203
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VI. Mary Whitney, b. at Stamford, Conn., 5 Dec. 1796; died of consumption, in New York City, unmarried, and was buried in Danbury, Conn. She was often called Molly, or Polly, Whitney.
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VII. Abby Whitney, b. at Stamford, Conn., 24 Dec. 1799; married, 26 Aug. 1821, at Danbury, Conn., by Rev. Aaron Hunt, Methodist Episcopal, to Stephen Brockington, son of Henry and Hannah (Barnum) Brockington, of Danbury, where he was born. They settled in Danbury, where she died, 23 July 1853, and was buried in the old cemetery back of the jail. The record of her marriage calls her "Abigail Whitney."
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3986
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Chil. of Darling and Sarah (Valentine) Whitney.
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305
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1205
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I. Daniel Whitney, b. at East Woods, now Woodbury, L. I., 12 Sept. 1779; died 14 Sept 1779.
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1206
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II. Daniel Whitney, "the sekent", b. at East Woods, now Woodbury, L. I., 2 July 1781; a farmer; married, 26 Sept (church-record says, Oct.) 1809, by Rev. William Schenck, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Huntington, L. I., to Amelia Valentine, dau. of Jonathan S. and Deborah Valentine, of West Hills, Huntington. She died 23 Sept. 1810, and was buried on her father's farm at West Hills. He was married (2d), 3 Ap. 1813, by Rev. William Schenck, to Nancy Valentine, sister of his first wife. In the record of each marriage he is called "of Cold Spring." He was a lieutenant of militia in the war of 1812, and served, for three months, at Sag Harbor, L. I. After the war, for a short time, he commanded a sloop on the Hudson River and Long Island Sound; and in May 1819 bought, and settled on, his father's homestead at East Woods, where they died (she, 13 Sept. 1845; he, 7 Aug. 1848), and were buried in Fountain Hill Cemetery.
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1207
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III. Naomi Whitney, b. at East Woods, now Woodbury, L. I., N. Y.,
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3999
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