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Sixth Generation.
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dwelt the rest of his life, and followed the business of cabinet-making. He died in Scotland, 17 Sept. 1873, in his 85th year, and was buried in the Baptist Cemetery in that village.
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An obituary notice of him says: "Mr. Whitney was of a highly moral turn of mind, and his life has been very exemplary. He had a highly social temperament, and his extensive reading, close observation, and accurate memory, rendered his company very desirable. Politically, he was a reformer, and in the great questions affecting the progress of this young country, he took a deep interest, and bore an active part. In the year 1845, he made a public profession of religion, and was baptized by the Revd. Mr. Porter, into the fellowship of the Scotland R. B. Church, of which he continued an honoured and useful member. His piety was deep and earnest, showing itself in his every-day life, as well as in his words. His last illness was short, but very severe. It was borne with great patience and resignation. His funeral was largely attended by all classes of the community. The Revd. Mr. Hay, of the Congregational Church, opened the service; the sermon was preached by his pastor, the Revd. Mr. Griffin; and his remains were deposited in the grave, in sure and certain hope of a blissful resurrection."
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IV. Elizabeth Whitney, b. in Westchester Co., N. Y., 12 Sept. 1795; died in New York City, in 1819, or, according to another account, in 1815.
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V. Mary Whitney, b. in Westchester Co., N. Y., 19 July 1798; married Isaac Metcalf, and, after his death, ----- Westbrook; and moved to Kingston, N. Y., where she died, 23 Sept. 1834, "leaving one daughter, who married Dr. Oliver."
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VI. Bartley Whitney, b. in Westchester Co., N. Y., 4 Aug. 1804; died at sea, about 1843, having previously lived in New Orleans, La. Another account says that he died about 1852 to 1854.
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Chil. of John and Martha (Whitney) Van Ness.
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I. Elizabeth Van Ness, b. at Milton, N. Y., 3 Nov. 1784; married, in Dec. 1804, at Milton, Xavier Abbott, a farmer, born in Danbury, Conn., 30 June 1783, son of Ezra and Ruth (Morehouse) Abbott, 1 of Milton.
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1 Ezra Abbott was born in Ridgefield, Conn., 21 July 1756, and dwelt in Danbury, Conn., and afterward in Milton, N. Y. He was a Revolutionary soldier. His father, Lemuel Abbott, married in Ridgefield, 20 Dec. 1732, Martha Wood, dau. of Jonathan and Elizabeth Wood, of Norwalk, Conn. See note to No. 369. Ruth Morehouse, wife of Ezra Abbott, was probably dau. of Lemuel Morehouse (born in Ridgefield, 13 Nov. 1766), and g. dau. of John Morehouse, who married Deborah Brush, in Ridgefield, 14 March 1753 or 5.
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