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Whitney Family.
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dau. of Simeon and Deborah (Philo) Mace, of Dover, N. Y. where she was born, 4 Dec. 1784. They settled at South Kortright, and there died (he, 1 Ap. 1860; she, 31 March 1876, in her 92d year), and were buried. He was a member of Assembly, of N. Y., in 1816 and 1817; sheriff of Delaware County from 6 March 1819 to 28 March 1820, and from 12 Feb. 1821 to Nov. 1822; and Judge of Common Pleas. He was an active, energetic, thorough man. Her obituary describes her as "possessed of the domestic and Christian virtues of the olden time; and eminently entitled to be held in blessed memory by all who had experienced her kindness or acquaintance."
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| 947
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IV. John Keeler, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 14 Ap. 1783; married Polly Mead; settled in Owasco, N. Y., in 1813, and there died. Another account says that he died at Moravia, N. Y.
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V. Sarah Keeler, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 10 Feb. 1785; married in Kortright, N. Y., Jared Goodrich, a farmer, son of Jared and Zillah1 Goodrich, or Conn., where he was born in 1780. They settled at Kortright Centre, where she died 23 July 1806. He married (2d), Sally Hunt, widow of David Wilcox; and (3d), Olive Butts. He died at Stamford, N. Y., in 1860, and was buried In Stamford Cemetery.
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VI. Abijah Keeler, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 7 Ap. 1787; settled at Auburn, N. Y., about 1813, and removed after 1831 to Buffalo, N. Y.; a merchant; married at Auburn, Sarah Mousy, who was born 3 June 1789, dau. of Isaac Morey, of Hanover, N. H., and died at Adrian, Mich., 17 March 1872, and was buried there. He died, 22 Aug. 1836, at Buffalo.
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VII. Joseph Keeler, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 27 Dec. 1788; married ----- Butts, and went to Ohio in 1816, dying, it is said, in Valparaiso, Ind., and leaving children who are reported to still live there.
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| 951
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VIII. Jabez Keeler, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 1 March 1791; married Jane Stout; died in Auburn, N. Y.
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IX. Silas Keeler, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 11 Ap. 1793; a physician; married, 22 Jan. 1815, in Hobart, N. Y., by an Episcopal clergyman, to Rebecca Baldwin, born 30 Nov. 1794, dau. of Ransford and Hannah (Tousey) Baldwin, of Stamford, N. Y. She died, 16 Oct 1835, at Seneca Falls, N. Y. He was married (2d), 5 June 1836, in Cayuga Street, Seneca Falls, N. Y., by a Baptist clergyman, to Rhoda Seymour, dau. of Edmund and Abigail (Foote) Seymour, of Owasco, N. Y., and formerly of Kingsbury, N. Y., where she was born, 22 March 1800. He dwelt in Kortright.
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1 Zillah, or Zella, Goodrich, died 20 Sept 1826, aged 84 years and 3 months.
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