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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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Sixth Generation.
the death of her father; married ----- Smith, and lived in Conn. One of her daughters married a man named Reichester, and lived near New York City.



Chil. of Thomas and Anne (Whitney) Burrows. 177

729 V. Thomas Burrows, b. in Pearl Street, New York City, 2 Sept. 1788; a farmer; married, 12 March 1812, at Warwick, N. Y., Harriet Westlake, dau. of Benjamin Westlake (by his first wife, ----- Dusenbury), of Warwick, and, afterward, of Horseheads, N.Y. They dwelt at Warwick till 24 Jan. 1815, and then moved to Horseheads, where she died, 24 Ap. 1823, and was buried in the Westlake family cemetery. He married (2d), 17 March 1824, at Horseheads, Eliza Westlake, sister of his first wife. She died, 26 March 1830, at Horseheads, and was buried beside her sister. He married (3d), 16 Aug. 1830, in Bradford Co., Penn., Hannah Crandall, who, after his death, which occurred 5 March 1842, at Horseheads, married Aden J. Pratt, of Campbelltown, N. Y., and died there, 5 Feb. 1869. 2524
730 VI. Ann Burrows, b. in Pearl Street, New York City; died in infancy.
731 VII. Daniel Whitney Burrows, b. in Pearl Street, New York City, 17 May 1793; married in Orange Co., N. Y., Christian Taylor, with whom he dwelt at Horseheads, N. Y., till 1823, when they moved to Michigan. He was one of the pioneer settlers of Oakland, Mich., and was living at Oakley, Mich., in May 1875, at which time she was dead. 2536



Chil. of Benjamin and Sarah (Ketcham) Whitney. 178

732 I. John Whitney, b. in Warwick, N. Y., about 1777; a farmer; married about 1798, at Warwick, his second cousin, Mary Sears, dau. of Daniel and Lydia (Burt) Sears, and g. dau. of Daniel and Hannah (Benedict) Burt.1 They dwelt in Warwick till 1801, when they settled on the west side of Cayuga Lake, at a place still known as Whitney's Landing, in Romulus, N. Y., on three hundred acres of the south part of lot number 92, which he bought, 5 June 1800, for nine hundred dollars. He was commissioned by Gov. George Clinton, 2 March 1804, as captain in the Cayuga County Reg. of Militia, under "Lieut.-Col. Wilhelmus Mynders," and held the position till after the war of 1812, in which he, with his company, served three months on the Niagara frontier. She died in 1824, at Romulus. He married (2d), about the middle of Nov. 1825, at Ovid, 2537
1 See note to No.27.
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