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IV. Rebecca Whitney, b. at Greenfield, Conn.; bap. there, 7 June 1776; married Hiram Smith; and was living 14 Ap. 1821, when her father's estate was distributed.
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V. Levi Whitney, b. at Greenfield, Conn., 16 Nov. 1778; bap. there, 21 Feb. 1779; a carpenter; married at Greenfield, about 1809, Harriet Sherwood, dau. of Squire and Eleanor (Bradley) Sherwood, of Greenfield, where she was born 9 Oct. 1791. In the Spring of 1811, they settled in Philipstown, N. Y., near the north-west part of the town, within half a mile of the present county line, in the valley of a small creek that flows northward into the Fishkill. After one or two years, he bought thirty acres of land, near the top of the mountain, about a mile and a half farther east. Here he built a small house, with its door within six feet of a fine spring of water; and in this home, after a life of comfort and contentment, they died (he, 15 Dec. 1852, aged 74 years and one month; she, 28 May 1873, in her 82d year), and were buried in Highlands Cemetery, two miles southwest of their house. They were members of the middle Presbyterian Church in Fishkill, two miles east of the village.
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VI. Lyman Whitney, b. at Greenfield, Conn.; married, 4 Aug. 1794, by Rev. Phi lo Shelton, Episcopal, of Bridgeport, Conn., to Mabel Wheeler; settled at Greenfield, and had a share of his father's estate, 14 Ap. 1821.
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VII. Sarah Whitney, b. at Greenfield, Conn.; married, 27 June 1820, at Greenfield, by Rev. William Belden, Congregational, to Moses Ogden, of Greenfield. She had part of her father's estate, 14 Ap. 1821; and, about that time, visited her brother, Levi Whitney, at Philipstown, N. Y. They settled at Greenfield.
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VIII. John Whitney, b. at Greenfield, Conn.; married, 21 Dec. 1820, at Greenfield, Julia Ann Banks. He had part of his father's estate, 14 Ap. 1821; and died about 1828.
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IX. Huldah Whitney, married ----- Banks, before 14 Ap. 1821, when she received a part of her father's estate, as his daughter, Huldah Banks.
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Chil. of Silas and Esther (Sherwood) Whitney.
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I. Sherwood Whitney, b. in Fairfield, or Stratford, Conn., "September ye 22 day 1767, at half after 4 Clock in ye after noon"; married, "december 1, 1787" Abigail Lobdell, born 30 July 1770, dau. of Ebenezer and Eunice Lobdell. He lived in Umpewaug, in the west part of Reading, Conn., about half a mile east of the Danbury and Norwalk Railway, and
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