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Whitney Family.
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105
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III. John Fairchild, b. at Norwalk, Conn., 5 Ap. 1747.
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| 375
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IV. Mary Fairchild, b. at Norwalk, Conn., 31 Jan. 1748-9.
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Chil. of Daniel and Phebe Fairchild.
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62
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I. Seth Fairchild, b. at Woodbury, Conn., 22 Ap. 1756; lived in Woodbury, and there bought and sold land till 8 Sept. 1794; since which no trace of him has been found.
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| 377
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II. Susanna Fairchild, b. at Woodbury, Conn., 18 May 1760; no further record appears.
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| 378
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III. Sarah Fairchild, b. at Woodbury, Conn., 24 Jan. 1762; married William Mitchell; and their residence can be traced in Woodbury, till 4 Feb. 1793, when they sold her interest in her mother's dower-lands. Possibly he was that William Mitchell who was bap. in Woodbury, 10 Nov. 1760, son of Peter and Elizabeth Mitchell; if so, they moved to Genesee, N. Y., and had two sons, James and Peter.1
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Chil. of Samuel and Hannah (Tuttle) Fairchild.
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64
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I. Sarah Fairchild, b., 9 Nov. 1757, at Norwalk, Conn., where also she married, in 1774, John Gregory; died, 15 Jan. 1795, at Norwalk. He married (2d), 20 Sept. 1795, Nancy Dickinson, who died at Norwalk, 3 Sept. 1798; whereupon he promptly took, 9 Dec. 1798, a third wife, Betsey Betts.
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1390
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II. Gilbert Fairchild, b. at Norwalk, Conn., 21 Oct. 1759; a weaver, and afterward a farmer; married, 24 June 1779, at Norwalk, Hannah Bennett, who was born 20 May 1758. They dwelt in Norwalk till 1800, when they settled in Ridgefield, Conn., and there died (she, 24 Nov. 1816; he, 31 Oct. 1835, "aged 76 years"), and were buried in Titicus Cemetery. He served in the Revolution, from the burning of Norwalk to the close of the war, as sergeant.
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1398
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III. Hannah Fairchild, b. at Norwalk, Conn., 1 May 1763. She kept her brother's house, in Ridgefield, Conn., after his wife's death, and there died, 19 June 1839, "aged 76 years," and was buried in Titicus Cemetery.
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IV Betty Fairchild, b. at Norwalk, Conn., 19 June 1765.
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1 See Cothren's History of Woodbury, p. 637.
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