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Whitney Family.
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227
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| 1017
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VI. Betsey Boland, b. at Sharon, Conn., 21 Dec. 1779. though the family-record says 1780; bap. in Sharon, 10 Ap. 1780; and died at Sharon, 3 Aug. 1795, aged 16 years, according to her gravestone, in the South Cemetery.
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| 1018
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VII. Polly Boland, b. at Sharon, Conn., 30 Jan. 1782; married John Bemus, a teacher.
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3399
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| 1019
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VIII. David Boland, b. at Sharon, Conn., 25 Dec. 1784; went to Ohio, about 1812, and served under Gen. Harrison; and finally settled in that State. The last trace found of him was at Cincinnati.
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3400
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| 1020
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IX. Belinda Boland, b. at Sharon, Conn., 16 Jan. 1787; married at Sharon, Samuel Phillips, a hatter and trader, son of Samuel Henley and Hannah (Frost) Phillips, of Danbury, Conn., where he was born and died. She married (2d), at New York City, as his second wife, Caleb Benedict, a farmer, son of Caleb1 and Ruth (Benedict) Benedict, of Danbury, where he was born, 6 Aug. 1764, and died, 23 March 1848. She died, 11 Ap. 1868, at Danbury. She dwelt in Danbury for seventeen years; in Westchester, N. Y., for three years; in New York City for six months; and then returned to Danbury, which was her home for forty years more before her death.
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3401
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| 1021
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X. Ezra Ambler Boland, b. at Sharon, Conn., 8 Nov. 1789; a tanner, currier, and shoemaker; married at Sharon, Emily Dennis, dau. of George Dennis, of Sharon. They settled at Pittsford, N. Y., where he died, 11 Sept. 1839, and was buried in the old Baptist Churchyard. His tombstone erroneously calls his age "48 years, 10 months, and 3 days." She died at Macedon, N. Y., 17 Feb. 1856, and was buried at Fairport, N. Y.
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3404
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| 1022
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XI. Augustine Elmer Boland, b. at Sharon, Conn., 31 Aug. 1791; a farmer; went west, about 1812, and served under Harrison, in the war of 1812; dwelt at Vincennes, Ind., about five years; and, in 1818, settled near Paris, Ill., where he married, 4 Nov. 1824, Ruth Wells Ticknor, born at Lebanon, N. H., 15 March 1803, dau. of James and Theoda (Wells) Ticknor, of Danville, Ill. He died, 31 Aug. 1873, at Paris (where she was living in Nov. 1875), and was buried in Paris Cemetery, six miles from the village. It is said that he taught the first school west of the Wabash River. He learned the tailor's trade in Conn.
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1 Caleb Benedict was son of James and Mercy (Knapp) Benedict of Danbury; g. son of James and Mary (Andrus) Benedict, of Danbury; g. g. son of James and Sarah (Gregory) Benedict, of Norwalk, Conn. and g. g. g. son of Thomas and Mary (Bridgum) Benedict, of Norwalk. See Benedict Genealogy, p. 315.
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