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IV. Sarah Whitney, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 25 Oct. 1720. No further records of her have been found; but a paper exists, containing a list of her father's children, in which she is called "Sarah boss," indicating her marriage with a man of that name.
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V. Nathan Whitney, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 13 Aug 1722; died young.
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VI. Nathan Whitney, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 11 June 1724; a farmer; was of the Manor of Cortlandt, N.Y., 1 May 1767, when he bought of Michael Mekeel and Milche, his wife, for £500, N.Y. currency, the north end of farm No. 4, of lot No. 4. "Nathan Whitnehy, Esq., of the Manor of Cortlandt," for £350, N.Y. currency, 13 June 1770, bought eighty acres of land at Amawalk, in Yorktown, N.Y.; it being farm No. 7, in east range of North lot, No. 5. He also bought land, 14 Ap. 1790, on the north side of Croton River, in Stephentown, Manor of Corlandt, of Stephen Gage and Susanna, his wife, for £508 16s., N.Y. currency. No trace has been found of his family, unless one of his grandchildren was Nathan Whitney, who is remembered by General Bernardus Montross, of Yorktown, as a boy about his own age, born about 1790, and living in the east part of Yorktown.
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VII. Seth Whitney, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 8 Feb. 1726; married Sarah Mow, or Moe, who was probably from Greenwich, Conn. He was a tanner, currier and shoemaker, and the indenture of Ezra Mow, son of John Mow of Greenwich, Conn., dated 23 Dec. 1758, as his apprentice to those trades, shows that he was then living in Cortlandt's Patent, now Crompond, in Yorktown, Westchester Co., N.Y., where he bought a fine farm, which is still owned by his descendants; and built a good house, yet standing after more than a century, and occupied by Gen. Bernardus Montross, who married his granddaughter, and yet keeps up its reputation for generous hospitality. His house was attacked during the Revolutionary war, by a party of tories who took all of his arms; soon after which they paid him another visit, headed by the notorious freebooter, Joseph Hueson, who tried to enter a back window, while his comrades kept watch outside. Whitney warned him to keep out or be killed, but Hueson, feeling sure that he had no arms, persisted in the attempt, and was stabbed in the breast with an old bayonet which Whitney had mounted on a stout staff. Hueson fell inside of the house, and his comrades forced the door and carried him away. They took Whitney into the yard, and not daring to use their guns for fear of alarming a body of American soldiers who were quartered at Crompond Church, a short distance from there, they struck him over the head with a horse-pistol, giving him a mark which he carried through life, and leaving him for dead. He had the satisfaction of hearing Hueson, as they carried
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