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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.
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348 III. David St. John, b. at Sharon, Conn., 14 Dec. 1751.
349 IV. Matthew St. John, b. at Sharon, Conn., 7 Aug. 1755.
350 V. Gideon St. John, b. at Sharon, Conn., 15 March 1759.



Chil. of John and Sabra (Colver) St. John. 56

351 I. Daniel St. John, b. at Sharon, Conn., 25 Aug. 1747; probably died young, as he was not named in the settlement of his father's estate, 3 May 1786.
352 II. Naomi St. John, b. at Sharon, Conn., 31 Oct. 1749; married, 10 May 1768, at Sharon, Nathaniel Rudd, of Amenia, N. Y. She had part of her father's estate, 3 May 1786, and was then the wife of Grover Buel, a farmer, who lived in Amenia, about three miles west of Sharon, and there died and was buried. After his death, she lived at one time with her daughter, on the mountain in Ellsworth, or Cornwall, Conn. 1345
353 III. Rachel St. John, b. at Sharon, Conn., 18 Aug. 1751; married, 22 July 1773, at Sharon, David Harris, of Sharon, who was called Captain in 1788. She had part of her father's estate, 3 May 1786, and died in Amenia, N. Y., or in Sharon. 1348
354 IV. Eunice St. John, b. at Sharon, Conn., 7 Ap. 1755; had a share of her father's estate, 3 May 1786, and was then called Eunice Relli. Tradition says that in 1822 she lived in Georgia, a widow, wealthy and without children. She died in Georgia.
355 V. Sarah St. John, b. at Sharon, Conn., 10 July 1757; married William Palmer; had part of her father's estate, 3 May 1786.
356 VI. Mabel St. John, b. at Sharon, Conn., 31 Dec. 1758; married, 17 Sept 1778, at Sharon, Walter Burr, a farmer, son of Col. David and Eunice (Osborn) Burr, of Fairfield, Conn., where he was born, 25 Dec. 1752. They settled in Sharon, where she joined the Congregational Church, 28 Nov. 1784; was called to answer for neglect of communion, 15 Nov. 1792; and, as she positively refused to return to it, the church passed a vote of non-communion, 4 Jan. 1793, after which she joined the Baptist Church. He died at Sharon about the twelfth of June 1800,1 and 1352
1 Sedgwick's History of Sharon says 1802.
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