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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.
Ridgebury, 25 May 1797, by Rev. Samuel Camp, Congregational, to William Dann, Jun., of Southeast, N. Y., a cooper, brother to the wife of Abraham Gray Keeler. He moved to Rush, N. Y., where they died. 916
918 IV. Abiel Keeler, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 12 March 1784; a farmer; married Sarah Rockwell, who was horn in Ridgefield, 29 Dec. 1785, dau. of William and Sarah (Worden) Rockwell. He settled in Ridgebury, where he died, 27 May 1861, aged 77 years. She died at Olive, N. Y., 6 Jan. 1870, aged 84 years and 8 days, and was buried with him in the Ridgebury Cemetery. 3178
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919 V. Elizabeth Keeler, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 15 July 1787; died in Ridgebury, unmarried, 30 July 1865, aged 78 years and 15 days, having been of unsound mind for several years; and was buried in Ridgebury Cemetery.
920 VI. Nehemiah Keeler, born in Ridgebury, Conn., 27 Nov. 1789; a farmer; married at West Hollow, Southeast, N. Y., 25 Jan. 1815, Polly Brush, who was born in Southeast, 26 Ap. 1791, dau. of Zophar and Sarah (Bennett) Brush. He resided in Ridgebury in 1875, and has been a colonel of militia. She died in Ridgebury, 26 Feb. 1783, "aged 82 years and 10 months," and was buried in Ridgebury Cemetery. 3185
921 VII. Adoniram Keeler, b. in Ridgebury, Conn., 25 Nov. 1791; a farmer; served as a soldier at New London and Stonington, Conn., forty-nine days in the war of 1812; married in Ridgebury, at the house of his brother, Nehemiah Keeler, by Rev. Oliver Tuttle, 21 Jan. 1818, to Charlotte Brush, born in Southeast, N. Y., 27 Sept. 1801, dau. of Zophar and Sarah (Bennett) Brush. They lived in Ridgebury, near the Danbury line; and there they died (she, 29 July 1849; he, 5 July 1873, of heart-disease and dropsy), and were buried in Ridgebury Cemetery. 3194



Chil. of Isaac and Rachel (Northrop) Keeler. 219

922 I. Nathaniel Keeler, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 3 Nov. 1760. His father and step-mother, then of North Salem, N. Y., gave land in Ridgefield to "Nathaniel Keeler, son and heir of the Sd Isaac Keeler . . . . For and in consideration of the natural Love and affection they have for his said son Nathaniel Keeler," 5 May 1797. He was living in North Salem, 15 May 1793, and 20 Feb. 1798.
923 II. Rachel Keeler, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 5 Jan. 1763; died in Ridgefield, 7 Feb. 1763.
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