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broad, under ye Bank of ye Mill river, near ye upper ship yard, at ye Ram pasture, ye place to be fixed by Thos. Hill & James Smedley, a comtte for that purpose, at sd Whitney's cost," 21 Dec 1755. He married (2d), Martha -----, whose maide name has not been ascertained. Tradition says that he was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and that he died in the early part of the war, bein one of several who were killed by poison. It is said that he was buried in Stratford; possibly, he was a prisoner in New York at the time of his death. Mrs. Patty Whitney (as she was always called), after the death of her husband, lived a widow for many years, during fifteen of which she was mostly confined to her bed by consumption. It is said that she lived in Stratford, Huntington, or Newtown, Conn., perhaps in all of them; living at one time near the house of Landlord Jonathan Scott, who kept a public-house "on the road between Watertown and New Haven," about a mile south of Watertown Village. The date and place of her death are not known. She was a communicant in the P. E. Church.
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IV. Anne Whitney, b. in Stratford, Conn., 15 Nov. 1730; bap. in Stratford Congregational Church, 22 Nov. 1730.
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I. Matthew St. John, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 23 June 1711; joined the Congregational Church in Wilton, Conn., 24 Ap. 1737; married, 14 Dec. 1737, Mary Elmer, dau. of Dea. Jonathan1 and Mary Elmer, of Wilton, where she joined the Congregational Church, 25 March 1734-5. They removed, with his father, in June, 1745, to Sharon, Conn., and thence to Suffield, Conn.
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II. Sarah St. John, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 8 Sept. 1713.
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III. Mark St. John, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 15 Aug. 1715; joined the church in Wilton, Conn., 24 Ap. 1737; married, about 1737, Hannah -----. They settled in Wilton, where she died 7 July 1745. He and his three children left Wilton, in May 1746, and settled in Sharon, Conn., where he married (2d), about 1747, Ann Gay, dau. of John and Lydia (Colver) Gay, of Sharon. She was born at Litchfield, Conn., 3 Nov. 1729. They removed from Sharon to Stockbridge, Mass., where they joined the church, 23 Ap. 1769, by letter from the church in Sharon.
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1 Deacon Jonathan Elmer, b. 1686; dwelt in Wilton till May 1746; then moved to Sharon, Conn., where he died 5 Jan. 1758, aged 73 years. He was son of Samuel Elmer (bap. at Hartford, Conn., 21 March 1647; died, Ap. 1691), and g. son of Edward Elmer, who arrived in the Lion 16 Sept. 1632, was an original proprietor of Hartford in 1636, and was killed by the Indians in 1676.
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