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IV. Ann Whitney, b. in Norwalk, Conn., 27 Jan. 1758; probably died young.
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V. Susan Whitney, b. in Norwalk, Conn., 2 Jan. 1760; married ----- Rich, and lived at Horse Neck, Greenwich, Conn. Possibly she was the Susan Rich, wife of Lemuel Rich, who joined the Congregational Church at Greenwich, 18 Oct. 1789. Nothing more is known.
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VI. Abraham Whitney, b. in Norwalk, Conn., 2 Ap. 1762. He probably died in infancy.
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VII. John Whitney, b. in Pudding Lane, Norwalk, Conn., 17 May 1764; a nail-maker and farmer; married in Norwalk, 5 Feb. 1791, Ann Fox, who was born at Wilton, in Norwalk, -- May 1765, "the year in which the meeting-house was built." They settled in Norwalk, where, on a very hot day in July 1813, he went to repair a field-gate near Old Well, now South Norwalk, and was so affected by the heat as to cause his sudden death. He was buried in St. Paul's (Episcopal) Churchyard. She died at the house of her grandson, John William Hobart, 224 (now 296) Livingston Street, Brooklyn, N.Y., 14 July 1858, aged 93 years and 2 months, and was buried, 16 July 1858, in lot 10658, section 93, Leafy Path, Greenwood Cemetery.
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VIII. Sarah Whitney, b. in Norwalk, Conn., 27 July 1766; went to visit her brother, Samuel Whitney, at St. John, N.B., and there met, and married, Capt. James Grigor, a native of Scotland. They settled in St. John, where he died; whereupon she returned to Norwalk, and there spent the remainder of her life. Having no children, she first willed her property to St. Paul's parish in Norwalk, for the purpose of founding a school in which good boys might be educated for missionaries. She was persuaded by the rector of St. Paul's, Rev. William Cooper Mead, D.D., to change her will; giving $15000 to Trinity College, in Hartford, Conn., as a foundation for the Brownell professorship, $3000 to St. Paul's parish, Norwalk, and a residuary legacy, which realized $10000, to the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church, as a fund for the benefit of domestic missions. At her grave, near the front entrance of St. Paul's Churchyard, a handsome freestone monument, which also commemorates her sisters, Polly and Mercy Whitney, bears the following inscription: "In memory of a Christian woman, who gave herself and all that she had to Christ and the Church; Mrs. Sarah Grigor, born July 27, 1766; died April 6, 1855. 'She hath done what she could.'"
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IX. Polly Whitney, b. in Norwalk, Conn., 2 Jan. 1769; died in Norwalk, 6 Feb. 1844, unmarried, and was buried in St. Paul's Churchyard, Norwalk.
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