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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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Episcopal Church, Stamford, 25 Sept 1791; unmarried; resided with his mother, in Stamford, where he was thrown from a waggon and killed, 29 June 1839; was buried in the graveyard south of Stamford Village, near the river and railway, where one stone is inscribed for him and his mother.
1191 VI. Isaac Whitney, b. at Stamford, Conn., 24 Oct. 1789; bap. in the Episcopal Church, Stamford, 25 Sept. 1791; unmarried; was drowned in Stamford Harbor, in 1825, though another account says between Stamford and New York.
1192 VII. Hannah Whitney, b. at Stamford, Conn., 29 Sept. 1791; bap. in the Stamford Episcopal Church, 7 Feb. 1792; unmarried; lived, in 1868, with her sister, Mrs. Secor, at 291 Carleton Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y., and later at 316 Union Street, Brooklyn, where she died, 2 March 1873, "aged 81 years and 5 months."
1193 VIII. Abigail Holley Whitney, b. at Stamford, Conn., 21 May 1793; bap. in the Episcopal Church, Stamford, 26 Nov. 1793; married by Rev. Mr. Williams, pastor of the Oliver Street Baptist Church in New York City, 13 Nov. 1813, to Alexander Butler Reynolds, a mechanic, of New York, born at Horse Neck, Greenwich, Conn., son of Jonathan and Margaret (Butler) Reynolds, of whom the former is said to have come from England, the latter from Martha's Vineyard. They resided in New York City, where she still lived, in 1872, at 77 Horatio Street. He died "at the South," in 1819. 3968
1194 IX. Laura Whitney, b. at Stamford, Conn., 14 July 1795; bap. in St. John's (Episcopal) Church, Stamford, 5 Nov. 1795; married by Rev. Mr. Hubbard, in New York City, 21 Oct 1818, to David Smith, a physician; married (2d), by Rev. Dr. Woodbridge, Presbyterian, in New York City, 20 May 1832, to George Wardell, a cartman, of New York, born at Long Branch, N. J., 23 Jan. 1779, son of Peter Wardell. He died of cholera, at Newark, N. J., '9 July 1849, and was buried in the Franklin Street Cemetery. She lived at Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1868, with her son, George Ellsworth Wardell, She has lived in New York City, Brooklyn, Mott Haven, and Port Jervis, N.Y.; in Milford, Penn.; and in Hoboken, Hudson City, Newark, and Orange, N. J. Her second husband was a soldier in the war of 1812. 3971
1195 X. Catharine Whitney, b. at Stamford, Conn., 9 Ap. 1797; bap. in St. John's (Episcopal) Church, Stamford, Conn., 3 Nov. 1797; married Warren Waterbury, a shoemaker, of Stamford, Conn., who was born in Stamford, 1 March 1792, son of James, Jr., and Elizabeth (Mead) Waterbury; married (2d), Benjamin Sherwood, of Long Ridge, Stamford, who 3974
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