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Whitney Family.
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189
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| 767
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V. Clarissa Whitney, b. in Lee, Mass., 6 Sept. 1785; married, 6 March 1810, at Ellisburgh, N. Y., by Oliver Scott, Esq., of Ellisburgh, to Orrin Polley, a carpenter and joiner, who was born at Lee, 27 Jan. 1780, son of Amasa and Experience (Austin) Policy, of Lee, afterward of Rutland, Vt. They removed from Ellisburgh, 25 Sept. 1834, to Richmond, Penn., where they died; she, 6 March 1860, of cancer; he, 13 Oct 1873, in his 94th year. He was a soldier in the war of 1812.
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2659
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VI. John Whitney, b. in Lee, Mass., 29 Jan. 1788; a farmer; settled near Woodville, in Ellisburgh, N. Y.; married, 4 Oct 1814, at Henderson, N. Y., Olive Mason, dau. of Jeremiah and Phebe (Luther) Mason, of Ellisburgh They moved from Ellisburgh, 4 Oct 1834, in company with Orrin Polley, Oliver Scott, and their families, and finally settled in Auburn, Ohio, where she died. He married (2d), 8 July 1841, at Chardon, Ohio, Hephzibah Ober, who was born in Hollis, N. H., 28 March 1803, dau. of Zachariah and Abigail (Hardy) Ober, of Hollis. He died, 11 Feb. 1844, in Auburn, Ohio, and was buried in Newbury, Ohio. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. His widow married a second husband about 1847, and moved to Burton, Ohio, where she died, 23 March 1869.
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2662
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| 769
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VII. Mary Whitney, b. in Lee, Mass., 26 June 1790; died in Lee, 27 July 1790, and was buried about half a mile south-east of the old Congregational Church in North Lee.
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| 770
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VIII. Polly Whitney, b. in Lee, Mass., 27 Sept 1791; married her second cousin, John Whitney. See account of him for remainder of her history. She was living, a widow, in Ellisburgh, N. Y., in 1874.
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IX. Richard Whitney, b. in Lee, Mass., 10 Feb. 1795; died in Lee, 23 Ap. 1796, and was buried about half a mile south-east of the old Congregational Church in North Lee.
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| 772
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X. Esther Whitney, b. in Lee, Mass., 5 Oct. 1797; married in the Autumn of 1821, at her mother's house in Ellisburgh, N. Y., by Oliver Scott, Esq., to Warner Towsley, a farmer, of Ellisburgh, who was born in July 1795, son of Spencer Towsley. They settled in Canada, near the Bay of Quinte, and both died in the Autumn of 1868.
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2672
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Chil. of Ephraim and Abigail (Whitney) Clark.
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184
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| 773
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I. Lewis Clark.
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| 774
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II. Ephraim Clark.
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