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Whitney Family.
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97
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Chil. of Mark and Ann (Gay) St. John.
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52
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IV. Thaddeus St. John, b. at Sharon, Conn., 23 Dec. 1747; died at Cazenovia, N. Y., as early as 1825, though another tradition says that he lived and died at Fabius, N. Y. His family-record has not been found.
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1287
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V. Hannah St. John, b. at Sharon, Conn., 25 Sept. 1749; married, 28 March 1771, at Stockbridge, Mass., Elihu Mighills, a farmer, who was born at Templeton, Mass., in 1745, and came to Stockbridge when twenty-one years of age. Family traditions vary, one making his father a Frenchman, another saying that he came from England. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and tradition asserts that while he was in the army in 1776, she, with three small children to care for, cleared a piece of new land, sowed it to wheat, and raised a good crop. They dwelt in Stockbridge, where he died, 28 Ap. 1788, and was buried in the old cemetery. His descendants spell their name "Miles," and say that he spelled it "Mighles." The records at Stockbridge have it Mighills, Mighles, and Migles. She joined the church at Stockbridge, 2 March 1783. She married (2d) ----- Chatfield, and continued to live in Stockbridge, with him. Her third marriage was with Nathaniel Brown, of Sherburne, N. Y., who was, it is said, one of the celebrated Boston Tea Party, he being at that time a clerk in a Boston shop. She died at Covington, N. Y.
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1291
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VI. Ann St. John, b. at Sharon, Conn., 8 Aug. 1751; married ----- Goodrich, and settled at Delhi, N. Y. Another account says that they lived on the Susquehanna River, near Franklin, N. Y.
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VII. Samuel St. John, b. at Sharon, Conn., 15 June 1753; was made the legal ward of his mother, in Berkshire Co., Mass., 11 Feb. 1772; a farmer; married Lois Hamilton, of Stockbridge, dau. of John and Susanna (Slosson) Hamilton. She was born at Kent, Conn., 10 May 1756; bap. at Kent, 29 Aug. 1762;1 joined the church in Stockbridge, in 1803; died at St. Catharine's, C. W., 30 May 1849, aged 93 years and 20 days, and was buried in St. Catharine's Cemetery. He was a Captain in the Revolutionary War. It is said that he was with Arnold in his expedition against Quebec, and died of small-pox, not long after the close of the war.
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VIII. Mary St. John, b. at Sharon, Conn., 14 Jan. 1755; was made the legal ward of her mother, in Berkshire Co., Mass., 11 Feb. 1772; married, 3 Jan. 1775, at Stockbridge, Mass., Samuel Whitney. See his record.
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1 See note to number 389.
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