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Whitney Family.
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205
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| 865
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IV. Elnathan Osborn, b. at Danbury, Conn., 12 June 1769; a tailor; married, 14 Feb. 1793, at Danbury, Sally Jarvis, dau. of William and Mary (Wright) Jarvis, of Danbury, where she was born 19 Aug. 1772. They dwelt at Vergennes, Vt., till 1795; and then settled at Cooperstown, N. Y., where she died, 16 Dec. 1831. He died at Greene, N. Y., in Ap. 1853. They were buried in Lake-side Cemetery, Cooperstown. Going to his father's house, at noon, 26 Ap. 1777, he found dinner on the table, the family gone, and the house occupied by British soldiers, who asked: "What are you doing here?" Re replied, boy-like: "This is my home, and I want my dinner." They called for cider and apples, which he brought; and, after being refreshed, they left without injuring the house.
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V. Elias Osborn, b. at Danbury, Conn., 13 March 1771; a tanner and currier, merchant, and finally, a farmer; went, when twenty-one years old, to Durham, N. Y., where he married, 3 Ap. 1796, Betsey Thorp, born 29 Sept. 1778, dau. of Aaron Thorp, of Durham. They dwelt in Durham tilt 1806; then settled in Rensselaerville, N. Y.; moved, in 1812, to Cooperstown, N. Y., where they lived tilt March 1814; then returned to Rensselaerville, and settled on a farm, where she died 1 Sept. 1838, and was buried in Oak Bill Cemetery, Durham. He married (2d), 20 June 1842, Susan -----, widow of Charles Reed, of Durham. He died at Durham, 2 Ap. 1848, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery. She died at Otego, N. Y., in 1869. His dwelling-house at Oak Hill was burned, about 1800, his family barely escaping with their lives. He kept a store at Oakhill, as well as on his farm at Rensselaerville, about three miles from Oak Hill; and also manufactured potash.
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3001
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| 867
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VI. Mary Osborn, b. at Danbury, Conn., 26 March 1776; married, 20 Nov. 1796, at Danbury, Abner Curtis, son of Reuben and Silence (Allen) Curtis, of Danbury, where she was born 15 Dec. 1776. They dwelt at Danbury till 1801; then moved to New York City, where, after a severe course of training for political life in the business of a butcher, he was intrusted by his discerning fellow-citizens with the dignities and responsibilities of clerk of a court, and chief of police--to the great profit, it need hardly be said, of the city. He died in New York, 14 May 1827, and was buried "east of the Bowery, in, or near, North Street." She died in Brooklyn, N. Y., in Aug. 1852, aged 76 years, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery.
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3008
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Chil. of Lot and Thankful (Doolittle) Osborn.
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201
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I. Aner Osborn, b. at Watertown, Conn., 1 Oct 1765. "A child of Lot Osborn died, 29 May 1767," at Watertown.
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II. Ely Osborn, b. at Watertown, Conn., 6 July 1768; a farmer;
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3020
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