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Whitney Family.
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Jonathan and Esther Rockwell, of Ridgefield, where he was born 3 Sept. 1742. They settled in Ridgefield, where she died, 1 March 1813, aged 70 years.
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II. Betty Smith, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 15 Aug. 1745; married ----- Dykeman, and settled in Dutchess Co., N. Y., and there died.
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III. Molly Smith, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 23 Oct. ----. The year is worn away from the record, which calls her "daughter of Daniel and Betty Smith," but contains no other mention of this household, leaving nothing to fix her place in the family. Perhaps she was that Molly Smith who died at Ridgefield, 4 Aug. 1832, aged 83 years.
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IV. Daniel Smith, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 9 Sept 1748; a farmer; married, 8 Dec. 1774, in Ridgefield, Rachel Perlee.1 They settled on his father's homestead in Ridgefield, where she died, 20 Dec. 1793, aged 39 years. He married (2d), 11 Jan. 1795, in Ridgefield, Esther Crane. A duplicate record of this marriage calls him "Daniel Smith, 2d," and he was known as "Daniel Smith, 3d," from 1775 to 1783. He died in Ridgefield, 31 Oct. 1823, in his 76th year.
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V. Benajah Smith, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 9 Oct. 1749; married, 13 Dec. 1770, at Ridgefield, Mary Betts. They settled on the Royal Grant, in Herkimer Co., N. Y., where he died.
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VI. Anne Smith, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 16 March 1752; married ----- Burton; settled in Dutchess Co., N. Y., and there died.
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VII. Job Smith, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 3 Nov. 1754; a farmer; married (as "Job Smith 2d"), 12 Jan. 1780, at Ridgefield, Esther Benedict, born 25 Feb. 1757, dau. of Dea. John and Esther (Stebbins) Benedict, of Ridgefield, and granddaughter of James and Sarah (Hyatt) Benedict.2 They settled at Ridgefield, and there died (he, 6 June 1832, aged 78 years; she, 19 Feb. 1843), and were buried in Titicus Cemetery. He served as a Major in the Revolutionary War, and was known in his later life, as Job Smith, Esquire.
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VIII. Nehemiah Smith, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 3 Jan. 1757; unmarried; a soldier in the Revolutionary War, was captured, and died on the Jersey prison-ship.
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IX. Sarah Smith, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 4 Sept. 1759; married, 8
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1 Tradition says that she was from the State of New York; and probably she was of the Amenia Perlee family. The Ridgefield records have the name Per Lee, and Par Lee.
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2 See Benedict Genealogy, pp. 51, 66.
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