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Fifth Generation.
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IX. Joseph Keeler, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 27 Dec. 1766.
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X. Jonah Keeler, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 26 Ap. 176-; the last figure of the date is worn away.
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XI. Martin Keeler, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 14 Jan. 17--; the last two figures of the date have disappeared.
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Chil. of Elijah and Rebecca (Seymour) Whitney.
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I. Hannah Whitney, b. at Norwalk, Conn., 22 Ap. 1735; was made the ward of her uncle, Richard Whitney, of Stratfield, Conn., 15 Dec. 1741. Perhaps she was that Hannah Whitney, who married, 23 Nov. 1753, at Woodbury, Conn., John Reynolds, and settled at Woodbury.
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II. Elijah Whitney, b. at Norwalk, Conn., 13 Oct 1736; was.of Norwalk, 30 Nov. 1752, when he chose John Seymour as his guardian. He married Elizabeth Perry, dau. of Elisha1 and Anna Perry, of Ridgefield, Conn. They settled in Danbury, Conn., and there sold, 23 Ap. 1770, for £5, to David Perry, ten acres of land in Ridgefield, "it being the whole of our right and interest in the thirds of our Honrd mother, ye Widow Hoyt, of Ridgefield."
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III. Samuel Whitney, b. at Norwalk, Conn.; was living at Norwalk, and fully fourteen years old, 30 Nov. 1752, when he chose John Seymour as his guardian; since which nothing is known of him, unless he was that Samuel Whitney, who, with his wife Sarah, was living at Woodbury, Conn., from 1772 to 1777.
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Chil. of Samuel and Amy (Northrop) Whitney.
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42
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I. Samuel Whitney, b. at Fairfield, Conn., 17 Feb. 1740-41; bap. at Fairfield, 23 Feb. 1740-41; married at Greenfield, Conn., 7 Nov. 1765, Mariana Banks. They "renewed the covenant" in the Congregational Church at Greenfield, 17 Aug. 1766. He married (2d), at Greenfield, Rebecca Banks, who was born about 1743. She renewed the covenant, at Greenfield, 29 March 1774; and had a grant of land from Gershom Banks, in Greenfield parish, 15 March 1775; both as wife of Samuel Whitney, Jr. They died in Greenfield (she, 5 Ap. 1802; he, of consumption, 2
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1 Elisha Perry died before 5 Aug. 1751, when his widow was appointed guardian to two or her children, Elizabeth and Hannah. She married (2d) ----- Hoyt, of Ridgefield, and was again a widow when she made her will in June 1779, wherein she mentions her g. dau. Hannah Whitney. See Hoyt Genealogy, p. 627.
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