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Whitney Family.
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75
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estates of her father, John Benedict, and her sister, Delight Benedict. She died at Moravia, N. Y., at the house of her son, John Keeler.
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IV. Nathan Keeler, b. in Ridgefield, Conn.; had a part of his father's estate, 23 Oct 1765; married Sarah -----. It is said that he joined the British army in the Revolutionary War, and was killed in battle. His estate, £125 7s. 9d., was finally distributed, 24 March 1792, to his widow and her son, Nathan Keeler. She married (2d), 10 Jan. 1782, at Ridgefield, Shubael Rundle, who was appointed, 8 Ap. 1782, as guardian of the only child of her first husband. They went to Stamford, N. Y., before 19 Feb. 1798, at which date she sold her dower lands, five and a half acres, at Limestone, in Ridgefield, to Nathan Keeler, of Ridgefield, who was probably her son.
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V. Philip Keeler, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., about 1760; a millwright; married, 8 Jan. 1784, at Ridgefield, Hannah Hull, daughter of Silas Hull, of Limestone. They settled at Limestone, in Ridgefield, in the house where their grandson, Philip Burr Keeler, was living in 1873; and there spent their lives. She died, 9 March 1826, aged 64 years. He married (2d), Sally -----, who died 27 Aug. 1848, aged 61 years, at Ridgefield. He died, 28 May 1838, aged 78 years. They were buried in Titicus Cemetery. He served, for two years, as a soldier in the Revolutionary War.
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VI. Sarah Keeler, b. in Ridgefield, Conn. had a part of her father's estate, 23 Oct 1765; married, 1 Ap. 1773, at Ridgefield, Avery Bouton, who died in Ridgefield, 3 Ap. 1794, aged 48 years. She married (2d), Daniel Sherwood, of Fairfield, Conn., and was widowed a second time, before 24 May 1819, when she bought land in Ridgefield from her brother, Philip Keeler.
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964
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VII. Esther Keeler, b. in Ridgefield, Conn; had a part of her father's estate, 23 Oct 1765; died, unmarried, before 10 June 1773.
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Chil. of Lot and Elizabeth (Goodenough) Keeler.
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I. David Keeler, birth-record not found; married at South Salem, N. Y., 23 Ap. 1770, by Rev. Solomon Mead, to Amy Ingersol, born at Bedford, Westchester County, N. Y., about 1748, dau. of John and Hannah Ingersol. He is said to have served over 400 days in the Revolutionary War, in the Salem company of militia, besides two campaigns in Canada He lived in South Salem, and died there, 22 Jan. 1812, aged 66 years. She died in South Salem, 22 Ap. 1826, aged 78 years, and was buried there.
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