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Whitney Family.
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Titicus Cemetery, and there died (she, 15 Jan. 1822; he, 8 Ap. 1855), and were buried in Titicus Cemetery.
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VII. Aaron Osborn, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 17 Jan. 1776; a blacksmith; married at Fishkill, N. Y., Abiah Peck, dau. of Matthew and ----- (Johnson) Peck, of Easton, Conn. They settled at Rensselaerville, N. Y., and there died (she, 2 May 1831; he, 9 Oct 1853). and were buried in Trinity Churchyard. He was living at Rensselaerville as early as 18 Ap. 1812, when he sold his share of the estates of his father and mother, to his brother Asahel.
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Chil. of Moses and Sarah (White) Osborn.
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I. Daniel Osborn, b. at Danbury, Conn., about 1760; married Rebecca Hoyt, "eldest daughter" of Nathan and Rebecca (Starr) Hoyt,1 of Danbury, where she was born about 1760. They dwelt at Vergennes, Vt., for some years, and then settled in Cherry Valley, N. Y., where he died, prior to May 1811, at which time her father's estate was settled, and she was called a widow. She survived him many years, living at Cooperstown, where she died.
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II. Levi Osborn, b. at Danbury, Conn., in June 1763; a shoemaker and farmer; enlisted in the Revolutionary army, served as assistant to a surgeon and was a pensioner after the war; married, 10 March 1784, at Danbury, Miriam Dibble, dau. of John and Lydia (Ferry) Dibble, of Stony Hill, Danbury, where she was born in Feb. 1765. She died in Danbury, 12 Nov. 1833, the day before the great meteoric shower He married (2d) Urania Knapp, widow of ----- Judd, dau. of Benjamin and Mercy (Wildman) Knapp, and g. d. of Jacob Wildman, of Danbury, where she was born 19 March 1776. She died in Danbury, about 1844. He died in the same place, 8 March 1851, of old age, in his 88th year, according to the town-record, while the monument raised to their memory in Wooster Cemetery, by the church to which he ministered, places his death at "March 8th, 1850, aged 88 years." and that of his first wife at "Oct. 1833, aged 69 years." These dates appear in the Collections (in M.S.) of the Disciples' Church as "8 March 1851," and "30 Oct 1833." He is remembered as a humble, sincere Christian. who always practised what he preached, never fastened his door at night, and never refused to give any man a meal at his table, or a bed in his house.
"In the year 1774, Ebenezer R. White, colleague with his father over the Presbyterian Society called the New Danbury Church, came out with
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1 See Hoyt Genealogy, pp. 369 and 410.
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