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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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Whitney Family.
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moved to Albany, N. Y., where he died, at 12 North Lansing Street, 29 Oct. 1865. She died in North Pearl Street, Albany, 9 July 1854, "aged 59 years, 11 months, and 29 days." They are buried in lot 159, section 92, in the Albany Rural Cemetery, where a headstone marks her grave.
1139 III. Betsey Whitney, b. in New Milford, Conn., 28 Sept. 1789; moved, when three weeks old, with her parents, to Rensselaerville, now Berne, N. Y., where she married, about 1807, John Fowler, a farmer, born in Haverstraw, N. Y., 24 Jan. 1786, son of Lewis and Hannah (Vandermark) Fowler, of Berne. After dwelling in Berne till about 1810, they moved to West Meredith, N. Y., and from there, in 1830, to Franklin, N. Y., where she died, 18 Nov. 1863, and was buried. He removed, 1 June 1867, to Candor, N. Y., where he died, 25 Sept. 1867, in his 82d year; and was buried in Candor Cemetery. 3746
1140 IV. Amy Whitney, b. in the neighborhood of Albany, N. Y., perhaps in the present town of New Scotland, 3 Feb. 1793; married, 15 Sept. 1812, at Bethlehem, N. Y., Salmon Britton, a cooper and farmer, born in Sandisfield, Mass., 25 Aug. 1784, son of William and Mary (Boswell) Britton, of Sandisfield, and afterward of Berne, N. Y., and Franklin, N. Y. They lived in Bethlehem, till 1816; in Franklin, for several years; in Sidney, N. Y., for six or eight years; then in Ashville, N. Y.; and afterward in Green Bay, Wis., where they died (he, 15 July 1854; she, 9 Oct. 1856), and were buried. 3759
1141 V. Nehemiah Whitney, b. in Bethlehem, N. Y., 15 June 1795; a marble-cutter; went in 1813, to Meredith, N. Y., where he married, 20 March 1816, Phebe Stilson, dau. of Cyrenius and Sarah (Baldwin) Stilson, of Meredith, where she was born 8 Jan. 1796. They dwelt in Meredith, till 1827; then moved to Stamford, N. Y.; and thence, in the Autumn of 1834, to Ogdensburgh, N. Y., where she died, 1 July 1852, and was buried "in the new cemetery." He married (2d), in 1853, a widow Fitts, from whom he separated after two or three years. In 1858, he moved to Buffalo, N. Y., where he dwelt till 1864. In 1865, he was living at LaSalle, N. Y., and was postmaster of that place. In March 1866, he dwelt with his son, Nathan Stilson Whitney, at Edwardsville, Ill.; and in Nov. 1866, went to Mich., and resided sometimes with his son, Walter Whitney, in Flint. But, finally, a feeling of dependence, which his children could not overcome, led him to apply for admission to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, at Dayton, Ohio, 3 Sept. 1869; and while temporarily stopping there, he died, 12 Sept. 1869, and was buried in the cemetery of the Home. He had suffered from paralysis for about eight years. He was, for eight months, a soldier in the war of 1812. 3768
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