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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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18 Ap. 1796. They dwelt in Fishkill, Milo, Beekman, Reading, and Tyrone, all in N. Y., and in Bingham, Penn.; and, about 1838, settled at Chatham, Penn., where he died 4 Aug. 1867. She was living at Niles Valley, Penn., in Nov. 1876.
1489 III. Betsey Whitney, b. in Dutchess Co., N. Y., in 1788; married Stephen Jayne; and settled in Tennessee.
1490 IV. Sarah Whitney, b. in Dutchess Co., N. Y., 17 Ap. 1790; married, 3 May 1806, in Dutchess Co., William Newton, a blacksmith, of the same county, concerning whom nothing is known but the fact that, in 1809, lie deserted his wife and two little children; married (2d), 24 Dec. 1817, at Starkey, N. Y., Bartholomew Tarney, a farmer, born in Sussex Co., N. J., about 1800, son of Matthew and Abiah (Rapalje) Tarney. They dwelt at Starkey, and afterward at Milo, N. Y., where she died, 4 Sept. 1822, and was buried. He was living at Bath, N. Y., in July 1875. 4865
1491 V. Margaret Whitney, b. in Dutchess Co., N. Y., in 1794; married Seth Chase; and lived in Indiana.



Chil. of Josiah and Esther (Weeks) Whitney. 407

1492 I. Esther Whitney, twin, b. in Westchester Co., N. Y., 2 Oct. 1787; died in early infancy.
1493 II. Martha Whitney, twin, b. in Westchester Co., N. Y., 2 Oct. 1787; married in New York City, John Catfield, a sash-maker, who was born in Ireland, and died, about Dec. 1807, in New York City, where they had settled; married (2d), about 1811, Alexander Stewart, a native of Ireland, who learned his trade of sash-maker from her first husband; and lived at 378 Grand Street, where she died about 1867, and where her sons still reside. He was a member of the Assembly of the State of New York, in 1846, 1847, and 1848. 4870
1494 III. Lewis Whitney, b. in Yorktown, N. Y., 27 Feb. 1789; lived with his father's cousin, Seth Whitney, in Yorktown, from 1801 till 1805, when he went to Dutchess Co., N. Y., to learn the carpenter and joiner trade; removed to Canada in 1815, and settled in Grimsby, "where he is remembered for his general uprightness of character and punctual attendance to business;" married at Grimsby, in 1816, Sarah Kitchen, of that place, who was born there, 24 March 1795, dau. of William and Alice Maria (Been) Kitchen; moved, in 1837, to Scotland, C. W., where he 4879
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