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The Whitney Family of Connecticut

by S. Whitney Phoenix
(New York: 1878)

Transcribed by Robert L. Ward.

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Whitney Family. 81 1852, aged 88 years, 6 months and 16 days. She was buried at Malta. He held a commission in the Revolutionary army, and she enjoyed a pension for his services. He was a deacon, till his death, of the first church that was formed near his home in Malta.1 She is remembered as a remarkably consistent Christian, and a lovely woman, retaining all her faculties till the close of her life. A notice in the New York Observer, of 20 Jan. 1853, from the pen of Rev. Nathaniel S. Prime, D. D., says: "In her 21st year she became hopefully pious, and made a profession of religion, from which time she maintained a character not only free from reproach, but of singular excellence and uniform consistency. About the same time, she was united in marriage with a man of great moral worth, strictly puritanical in his views and habits, and in the strict observance of the Sabbath, and the maintenance of family worship and parental instruction, particularly in the good old form of catechising. They neared a family of seven children, all of whom arrived at adult years, walking in the foot-steps of their parents. She has always been remarkable for a peculiar evenness of disposition under all the varied circumstances of life. A look of impatience never darkened her brow; nor did a hasty or fretful word drop from her lips." 263 X. Rhoda Keeler, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 30 Dec. 1766; was named in her father's will, 17 Ap. 1774; married Abraham Ambler. They seem to have lived at Spencertown, N. Y., and at Nassau, N. Y., where she died about 1811 or 1812. He married (2d), in 1814, at Sharon, Conn., Rowena Boland, eldest dau. of John and Betty (Keeler) Boland, and niece of his first wife. 1056   1 ANCESTRY OF REUBEN DOOLITTLE; compiled, as to Doolittle, from Davis' History of Wallingford, Conn., pp. 726-20; and, as to Rockwell, from original records. ABRAHAM DOOLITTLE, was of New Haven, Conn., in = First wife, name JOHN ROCKWELL, of Stamford, Conn., 7 1642; m. (2d), 2 July 1663, Abigail Moss, who d. | not known. Dec. 1641; d. at Rye, N.Y., in 1676. ______________________________________________| | | | ABRAHAM DOOLITTLE, b. at New Haven, Conn., 14 Feb. 1649; = ELIZABETH THORP, 3d JOHN ROCKWELL, died m. 9 Nov. 1680, Mary, dau. of Wm. Holt, of New Haven; | wife; m. 5 June 1695; at Stamford, Conn., m. (2d), 12 Feb. 1689, Ruth Lothrop, of New London, | d. 1636, ae. 60. about 1673. Conn. He d. 15 Dec. 1732. | | _____________________________________________________| | | _________________________________________| | | JOSEPH DOOLITTLE, b. = MARTHA HITCH- JONATHAN ROCKWELL, m. at = ABIGAIL CANFIELD, dau. of Samuel at Walllingford, Conn., | COCK, m. 5 Feb. Norwalk, Conn., in Ap. 1700; | Canfield, of Norwalk, Conn.; d. 8 13 March 1700; m., | 1735, 2d wife. d. 19 June 1731, at Ridgefield. | July 1734, in Ridgefield, Conn. 15 Dec. 1726, Rachel | _____________________________________| Cole; or, 14 March | | 1728, Rachel Cowles. | DAVID ROCKWELL, b. 8 Oct. 1708; m. 29 Aug. = ELIZABETH HYATT, dau. of | 1731; d. 30 May 1788, all at Ridgefield, Conn. | Thomas Hyatt; d. 13 Feb. _________| ____________________| | | JOSEPH DOOLITTLE, b. at Wallingford, Conn., 25 = ABIGAIL ROCKWELL, b. at Ridge- Jan. 1738; m. at Ridgefield, 10 Aug. 1757. | field, Conn., 4 Jan. 1740-41. ________________________| | REUBEN DOOLITTLE, and eleven others.

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