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Sixth Generation.
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in Ridgebury, 5 Ap. 1775, in the 5th year of his age, and was buried in Ridgebury Cemetery.
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| 534
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II. Samuel Northrop, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., about 1773; died of cancer, in Ridgebury, 3 Ap. 1775, aged about 2 years, and was buried in Ridgebury Cemetery.
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Chil. of ----- and Prudence (Riggs) Leason.
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119
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| 535
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III. William Leason, married Lucy Byington.
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| 536
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IV. James Leason, married his cousin Elizabeth Riggs, dau. of Josiah and Experience (Davis) Riggs. They settled at Ridgefield, Conn., and there died; she, 28 July 1837; he, 22 Sept 1861.
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1813
518
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V. Samuel Leason.
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| 538
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VI. Polly Leason, married ----- Taylor.
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Chil. of Ebenezer and Ruth (Raymond) Whitney.
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121
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I. Betsey Whitney, b. at Norwalk, Conn., 1 Feb. 1773: married, 31 Jan. 1793, Richard Sherman, of Albany, N. Y., a sailor, born 26 Feb. 1770, lost at se1. She lived at Norwalk during her widowhood; and was married (2d), at Wilton, Conn., by Rev. Sylvanus Haight, Congregational, 5 Jan. 1812, to Deodate Gaylord, a farmer, born at Wilton, Conn., 20 July 1760, son of Rev. William and Elizabeth (Bishop) Gaylord. He served in the war of the Revolution, when seventeen years old, and enjoyed a pension till his death, which occurred 28 Dec. 1840, in his 81st year, at Wilton, where he was buried in the old burial-ground. She died 16 Oct. 1846.
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1816
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| 540
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II. Asa Whitney, b. at Norwalk, Conn., 12 May 1774; died at Norwalk, 19 Sept 1774.
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| 541
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III. Abby Whitney, b. at Norwalk, Conn., 8 June 1775; married, 31 July 1796 (town-record says, 1797), at Norwalk, by Rev. Matthias Burnet, D. D., Congregational, to Henry Fitch, a carpenter, son of Daniel and Rebecca Fitch, and grandson of Samuel Fitch, of Norwalk, where he was born 29 Jan. 1773. They dwelt on his mother's place, in Norwalk, sixty years, lacking four days; when, being no longer able to care for themselves, they went to live in the family of their son, Daniel Fitch, of Norwalk, where they died; she, 22 Dec. 1858, aged 83 years, 6 months,
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