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Whitney Family.
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Ridgefield, 19 Dec. 1788, son of Jeremiah and Betty (Whitney) Mead. They settled in Ridgefield, where he died 17 Sept. 1822. She married (2d), 9 Feb. 136825, at Ridgefield, with David Dauchy, of Ridgefield, and third with Darius Ferris, of South Salem, N. Y. She died 24 Sept. 1869, at New Canaan, Conn., and was buried there. Her children were all by her first husband.
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V. Harvey Smith, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 29 Sept. 1792; a civil engineer; married, 21 Feb. 1816, in New York City, with Lois Butler, who was born in Norwalk, Conn., 5 Sept. 1796, dau. of Daniel and Dinah (Eells) Butler. They settled in Ridgefield, where he died 30 July 1864, and was buried in Titicus Cemetery. She was living in Ridgefield, in Nov. 1874. He was a justice of the peace, and judge of probate, in Ridgefield.
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Chil. of John and Mary (Whitney) Truesdell.
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174
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I. Betsey Truesdell.
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II. Mary Ann Truesdell.
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III. Josiah Truesdell.
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IV. Gamaliel Truesdell.
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Chil. of Daniel and Martha (Burt) Whitney.
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176
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I. Thomas Whitney, b. in Warwick, N. Y., 2 Feb. 1767. He learned the trade of waggon-maker with Benjamin Coleman, of Warwick, who married his aunt, Esther Burt, living with him from the age of seventeen to that of twenty-one, soon after which he went west with Joshua Carpenter, who had married his aunt, Sarah Burt. They settled about a mile and a half north of where Elmira, N. Y., now stands; built a cabin of poles and bark; cleared a piece of land; raised a crop of corn and potatoes, which they buried carefully for the Indians to steal; and returned to Warwick, to spend the Winter. He married at Warwick, early in 1789, Hannah Parker, dau. of Joseph and Betsey (Gregory) Parker, of New Jersey. In April 1789, they started, with a party, seventeen in all, including his uncle Joshua Carpenter and family, for their new home, she making the journey on horseback, with a huge pile of bedding behind her. He built his log-house about three miles north of Newtown, now Elmira, and there she died, 23 March 1814, of an epidemic fever. He worked on
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