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gravestone bears an inscription to the memory of her and their son Peter Whitney.
By her second husband she had several children, to wit.: Pamelia Robbins, d. 20 Nov. 1820, in her 27th year; Priscilla Robbins; Charles Robbins, lived and died in Boston; William Robbins; George Robbins; and Edgar Robbins.
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IV. Aaron Whitney, b. at Fairfield, Conn., 25 Sept. 1745; bap. at Fairfield, 29 Sept. 1745; a weaver (for which trade he was taxed, while he lived in Connecticut), farmer, miller, and trader; married at Stratfield, now Bridgeport, Conn., Hannah Turney, dau. of "Old Capt. Turney and Mary, his wife," of Bridgeport. She was born at Stratfield, and was only fifteen years old when married. They dwelt, for some years, in Fairfield; then moved to Stratford, Conn., where he paid to Jonathan Nichol, £71 13s, for 21 acres and 125 rods of land at Shaganewamps, 30 Nov 1784. He also bought land, 22 Ap. 1785, in Stratford, "a little above Long Hill, on the west side of Newtown road;" and again, 20 Oct. 1786, in the same neighborhood, "a little above Long Hill, in North Stratford Parish." He was then called, "of Stratford." They settled, in 1790, in that part of Frederickstonw, which is now the south-west part of Kent, N. Y., where he owned a farm that was thought to contain a silver mine. About 1800, he moved to the north-west part of Southeast, in the same county, about three miles west of Dykeman's Station, on the Harlem Railroad, where he owned a saw-mill, grist-mill, and ashery, and was a partner in a country store. About 1805, he moved to Delaware Co., N. Y., where he lived about three years, and returned to Fishkill, N. Y., where his wife died in March 1809, and was buried in the old Gilead burial-ground in Carmel, Putnam Co., N. Y. He then went to Patterson, N. Y., to live with his son, Silas Whitney; and afterward married Sarah Kelly, dau. of Jonathan Kelly, and widow of Daniel Gay. He died at the house of his son Silas, half a mile west of his own place, 20 Jan. 1824, and was buried beside his first wife, in the old Gilead graveyard. Their graves are unmarked. His second wife died at the house of her son, Abner Gay, in Patterson, and was buried in the Ellis burial-ground, in Southeast. He is said to have served in the Revolutionary War; but another account says that his service was vicarious, as he hired a substitute to do his fighting.
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V. Amy Whitney, b. at Fairfield, Conn., 6 June 1747; bap. at Fairfield 22 June 1747; married, 3 Nov. 1768, Silas Haynes. She was living so late as 1817, at Weston, Conn., and was then the wife of Josiah Lyon, but is thought to have had no children.
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VI. Nehemiah Whitney, b. at Fairfield, Conn., 9 Aug. 1749; bap. at Fairfield, 3 Sept. 1749, and was there 8 Jan. 1778; but nothing more has been ascertained.
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