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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.
from Orange Co., in 1830, to Rochester, N. Y.; where she died, 17 July 1842, and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery. He moved to Ohio in 1845, and married (3d), in 1852, at Akron, in that State, Annice Nichols, of Akron. They lived at Akron, Massilon, and Canton, Ohio. She died in 1853. He moved to Iowa in 1854, lived at Cherokee in 1871, died at Waterloo, 25 Ap. 1872, and was buried there.
748 X. James B. Whitney, b. at Warwick, N. Y., 15 Dec. 1798; married Elizabeth Luckey; and settled in Florida, N. Y. He died near Barryville, N. Y. 2626
749 XI. Abijah Ann Whitney, b. at Florida, N. Y., 3 Dec. 1802; married, 12 Dec. 1831, at New York City, by Elder Norton, Baptist, to Silas Aldridge Williams, a farmer, born at Highland Falls, N. Y., 14 Sept. 1799, son of James and Jane (Adams) Williams. They dwelt in Brooklyn, N. Y., at New Paltz, N. Y., at Highland Falls, and finally settled at Newark, N. J., and there died; she, 14 March 1861; he, 17 Aug. 1874. They were buried in Fairmount Cemetery. She was born several months after the death of her father, and bore his name in accordance with his request. 2627



Chil. of Henry and Ruth (Scribner) Whitney. 181

750 I. Clarissa Whitney, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 16 June 1771; died in Ridgefield, 5 July 1785, aged 14 years and 19 days, according to her gravestone in the Ridgebury Cemetery.
751 II. Sally Whitney, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 24 Sept 1786; bap. in Ridgebury, Conn., 13 May 1792; married, in 1807, Alexander Waddy, a dealer in shoes, who was born in Ridgefield, 3 Dec. 1786, son of Peter and Sarah Waddy. They settled in New York City, and, it is thought, died in New Jersey. He was of Richfield, N. Y., 8 Feb. 1815. 2630
752 III. Clarissa Betsey Whitney, b. at Ridgebury, in Ridgefield, Conn., 10 May 1789; the town-record calls her Betsey Clarissa; bap. in Ridgebury, 13 May 1792; married, 16 March 1806, David Hunt, who was born in North Salem, N. Y., 16 Nov. 1782, son of Gilbert and Hannah (Gorham) Hunt He was a mason, farmer, and, in the middle of his life, proprietor of several lines of mail stages, connecting Danbury, Conn., with Stamford, Conn., Ridgebury with Norwalk, Conn., and Ridgefield with Peekskill, N. Y. He settled in Ridgebury, and there died 7 Oct. 1862. She was still living in Ridgebury, in July 1873, at the house of Samuel Benedict Smith. 2635
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