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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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Sixth Generation.
his farm in Summer, and at his trade in Winter, till 1826, when he sold the farm to John and Frank McCann, and moved to Big Flats, N. Y., settling on a small farm about nine miles north-west of Elmira. He died at Big Flats, 5 Feb. 1834, and was buried, with his wife, in a family cemetery, which he enclosed and reserved for that purpose, on the farm where he first settled. He joined the Methodist Episcopal Church when he was eighteen years old, and when the Baptist Church was formed at Elmira, he became a member of that.
719 II. Huldah Whitney, b. in Warwick, N. Y., 6 Jan. 1769; married at Warwick, 15 Jan. 1790, Stephen Bailey, a farmer, son of Joseph Bailey, of Warwick, where he was born, 11 Jan. 1765. They settled at Vernon, N. J., where he died, 30 May 1819, and was buried in a family cemetery. She moved, about 1833 or 1834, to Barrington, N. Y., and thence, 22 Ap. 1850, to West Troupsburgh, N. Y., where she died, 27 March 1852, and was buried in Young Hickory Cemetery. She was a member of the Baptist Church. 2470
720 III. Pruella Whitney, b. in Warwick, N. Y., in 1771; married about 1791, at the house of her brother, Thomas Whitney, near Elmira, N. Y., John Durham. She died at Southport, N. Y., about 1838 or 1839, and was buried, with her husband, in the old burying-ground, at Elmira. She was a member of the Baptist Church. 2480
721 IV. Aaron Whitney, b. in Warwick, N. Y., 12 Ap. 1774; a farmer; married, 13 Ap. 1798, at Big Flats, N. Y., Judith Barlow, of Big Flats, who was born in the town of Warwick (near the little village of Sugarloaf, in Chester), N. Y., 22 Feb. 1775, dau. of Peter and Elizabeth (Thompson) Barlow.1 They settled on the Sing Sing Creek, in the north part of the present town of Big Flats, where they died (he, 6 May 1823; she, 18 March 1839), and were buried in a family cemetery laid out on their own farm. 2490
722 V. Moses Whitney, b. at Warwick, N. Y., about 1777; a farmer; married about 1800 to 1803, in her father's house at Big Flats, N. Y., Phebe Schoonover, dau. of Benjamin Schoonover. They moved to Indiana, about 1814 or 1815; and he died at White Water, Ind., in 1834. He was a member of the Baptist Church. 2491
723 VI. Hannah Whitney, b. at Warwick, N. Y., about 1779; married about 1797, at the log-house of her brother, Thomas Whitney, near Newtown, N. Y., by Rev. David Jayne, Baptist, to James Moody. They lived about nine miles north-west of Elmira, on a farm occupied by James
  1 Peter Barlow and his wife lived in New York City, in Warwick, N. Y., and, finally, at Big Flats, N. Y., where they died.
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