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were more tories in his congregation than in all the others put together, and was taken off by the British General Tryon at the burning of Norwalk), had previously gone over to Long Island and joined the enemy, and frequently crossed the Sound in the night, with a boat, bringing over dry goods, which he traded with his brother Stephen, taking back provisions, and making a profitable business for both. The affair was found out, a guard set at Cow Pasture Shore, and he was taken a prisoner. The guard went up with him to his brother's store, when he set down for them a bottle of rum, with some cheese and crackers, and asked the privilege of going up stairs to change his shirt, which they granted. He opened a small back-window, leaped out into a field of corn, which was tall, just earing out, got into the woods and ran till he came to what was called the Bark Mill Brook, where he hid among the bushes under the bank, and heard them skirmishing all around to find him. The third night, he crawled out, called on a friend living three miles above, got him up, went down to Belden's Pond, found a boat, which they dragged over the beach to Cow Pasture shore, and rowed across the Sound to Long Island, where the British were encamped."
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II. Stephen Whitney, b. at Norwalk, Conn., 20 Jan. 1754, not 1756, as Hall says; married Esther Jarvis, who was born in Norwalk, 4 Sept. 1759, dau. of John and Catharine (Raymond) Jarvis.1 He was a tailor, and settled in Kent, Conn., where he died, 25 Sept. 1830, "in 74th year" according to his gravestone in the Flanders burying-ground, but really in his 77th year. Persons who remember him say that he and his wife lived apart, and that, although he was a pleasant, accommodating neighbor, his children did not live with him; and he was cared for by strangers in his last days, after living alone and keeping his own house for many years. He first bought land in Kent 8 Feb. 1791, had a good property, and was a dealer to a considerable extent in land, and three days before his death, sold to his nurse, Betsey Dickerson, for $200, the house in which he lived. Dower was assigned to his widow, Esther Whitney, 25 Oct. 1830, and deeds show that she lived in Poundridge, Westchester County, N.Y., 15 Oct. 1832, though she was of New Canaan, Conn., 29 May of the same year. She died at Poundridge, 10 Aug. 1840, aged 80 years, 11 months, and 6 days, and was buried in St. Mark's Cemetery, in New Canaan. His grandson, Barzillai Watson Lockwood, says that he served in the Revolutionary War.
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III. Archibald Whitney, b. in Norwalk, Conn., 23 Jan. 1756; is thought to have died in childhood.
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1 John Jarvis, born 23 Jan. 1725, married, 23 Oct. 1751, Catharine Raymond, who was born 13 Ap. 1727. He died, 17 Aug. 1778, in his 54th year. She died, 23 Jan. 1810, in her 84th year. They lived in New Canaan, Conn., and were buried there, in St. Mark's (Episcopal) Church Cemetery. She was, it is thought, a dau. of John and Catharine (Hanford) Raymond, and g. dau. of "Mr. Thomas Hanford," of Norwalk.
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