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The Whitney Family of Connecticut

by S. Whitney Phoenix
(New York: 1878)

Transcribed by Robert L. Ward.

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Fifth Generation.
17 Feb. 1851, in her 92d year. They were buried in a family cemetery at Darien. He served as a Captain in the Revolutionary War. By his first wife, Lydia Bates, who died in Jan. 1784, he had ten children; making, with eleven by the second wife, twenty-one in all, of whom seventeen lived to adult age.1
390 VIII. Huldah Whitney, b. at Stamford, Conn., 8 March 1762; bap. at Middlesex, now Darien, Conn., 14 March 1762; went with her brother, in 1783, to St John, N. B., where she married, 23 Oct 1790, Josiah Butler, who was born 8 Nov. 1761. They settled at St. John, N. B., and there died; he, 27 Feb. 1814; she, 1 Oct 1856, aged 94 years and 6 months. She was a pious and exemplary woman, highly esteemed by all who knew her. 1432
391 IX. Josiah Whitney, b. at Stamford, Conn., 8 July 1764; bap. at Middlesex, now Darien, Conn., 5 Aug. 1764; married 1 (family-record says 2) Feb. 1798, at Stamford, by Rev. Marmaduke Earl, Baptist, to Mary Smith, dau. of John, Jr., and Martha (Smith) Smith, of Stamford, where she was born 1 Nov. 1770.2 They settled at Darien, and there died; she, 8 Jan. 1829; he, 1 Oct 1850, of typhus fever, aged 86 years. He had a pension of thirty dollars per year, from 4 March 1831 to the end of his life, for his service as a private in the Revolutionary War. 1434
392 X. Henry Whitney, b. at Stamford, Conn., 9 Ap. 1767; bap. at St John's (Episcopal) Church, Stamford, 7 May 1767; a farmer; married, 8 1439
  1 ANCESTRY OF NATHANIEL SLOSSON, compiled from Savage's Geneal. Dictionary, Winsor's History of Duxbury, Huntington's History of Stamford and Stamford Registration, and the Probate Records of Fairfield.

GEORGE SLAWSON was in Lynn, Mass., as early as 1637, and in that year was one of the proprietors and settlers of the
new town of Sandwich. He sold land in Duxbury, Mass. in 1638, and is claimed as an inhabitant there; he moved
from Sandwich to Stamford, Conn., as early as 1642, and was a leading member in the first church. "and evidently a
man of note in civil life."  His wife's name does not appear.  He died in Stamford 17 Feb. 1694-5, having made his
will 16 Dec. 1694.  The name has been spelled also Slawson, Slasson, Slason, Slauson, Sloson, and Slosson.
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ELEAZER SLOSSON, of Stam-   = MARY LAWRENCE, sister of           JOHN SLOSSON, m. Sarah                A daughter, m.
 ford; will dated 29 Ap.    |  Thomas Lawrence. His               Tuttle; m. (2d) Elizabeth             John Gold
 1698, proved 22 Jan. 1699; |  second wife, Susanna, sur-         Benedict.
 inventory, 27 May 1698.    |  vived him; she was probably
                            |  mother of three last children.
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   | |          |                                      |             |
ELEAZER.     JAMES SLOSSON,    = MEHITABLE AM-       EBENEZER      NATHANIEL SLOSSON,    = MARGARET BELDEN, dau.
MARTHA.        m. 3 Dec. 1702, |  BLER; d. 8 Feb.     SLOSSON.      b. 1696; d. in Kent, |  of Wm. Belden, of Nor-
               at Stamford.    |  1736-7 at Stam-                   Conn., 8 March       |  walk; g. d. of Daniel
                               |  ford.                             1787.                |  and Elizabeth (Foote)
                               |                                                         |  Belden; g. g. d. of Wm.
    ___________________________|                   ______________________________________|  and Thomasine Belden.
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DELIVERANCE SLASON,  = HANNAH HAIT, b. 8 Jan.   ENOCH SLOSSON,   SUSANNA SLOSSON,  = JOHN HAMILTON,
  b. at Stamford, 17 |  1710-11, dau. of Capt.   m. number 322.   b. at Wilton, 17 |   m. 5 Dec. 1753,
  Dec. 1710; m. 17   |  John and Melicent (Pen-                   Jan. 1729-30.    |   at Kent, Conn.
  Jan. 1733-4.       |  noyer) Hait.                                               |
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NATHANIEL SLASON, = HANNAH WHITNEY.  No. 389.   LOIS HAMILTON, = SAMUEL ST. JOHN.  No. 328.

2 See Stamford Registration, by Rev. E. B. Huntington.
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