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Whitney Family.
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Gazette, of 19 Aug. 1840, said: "His economy and industry, in the early part of his life, procured him a competence, and enabled him to pass the decline of life in ease. His strict honesty secured the esteem of all who knew him, and verified the proverb, 'an honest man is the noblest work of God.'"
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VII. Jerusha Foote, b. at Newtown, Conn.; married David Curtis Wainwright. They settled in Hobart, N.Y. It was said, in Oct. 1875, that her only descendant then living was Frederick W. Foote, of Hobart, a grandson. No account of her children has been obtained.
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VIII. Lemuel Foote, b. at Newtown, Conn.; a farmer; married Charity Beers; died, 7 March 1812, at Stamford, N.Y.
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Chil. of Samuel and Hannah (Judson) Whitney.
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I. James Whitney,1 b. in Stratford, Conn., 10 Aug. 1753; a farmer, weaver and comber; went to Newtown, Conn., in 1771, and there married, 13 Aug. 1777, Eunice Johnson, who was born at Newtown in Dec. 1756, dau. of Abraham and Miriam (Peet) Johnson. He bought land in Newtown, 27 Oct 1774 and 27 Feb. 1775; and, 15 Feb. 1786, he and his wife Eunice bought land in Tinkerfield District, adjoining that which he already owned, from Shadrach Peck, of Fredericksborough, Dutchess Co., N.Y. They bought land, 31 March 1792, of Thomas Stilson, and sold him ten rods of land, with half a dwelling-house, in which he then lived in Newtown, 4 Ap. 1792, evidently to settle an estate in which the wife had an interest, but the record does not show whose. They sold an acre of land in Tinkerfield, 20 March 1798, to Jabez Peck; and another in the same district, is Feb. 1802, to Thomas Wheeler Peck, and still had land left. She died in Newtown, 17 Nov. 1822, aged 65 years and 11 months. His second wife was Mrs. Rhoda Peet. He died in Newtown, of old age, 21 May 1841, aged 88 years. They were buried in the Newtown Cemetery, in the Tinkerfield District, where their gravestones were standing in 1873. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War.
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II. Samuel Whitney, b. in Stratford, Conn., 9 Oct. 1757; married Huldah Stilson, about 1783, in Newtown, Conn., and settled there. It is said that he served for seven years as a soldier in the Revolutionary War. He was of Newtown, Conn., 16 March 1785, when he paid Ephraim
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1 Some of his descendants add the middle name, Lewis.
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