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Jan. 1789, at Middlesex, now Darien, Conn., by Rev. Moses Mather, Congregational, to Prudence Gray,1 born, 16 Dec. 1772, at Stamford, where also her parents, Daniel and Prudence (Waterbury) Gray, lived at the time of her marriage. They dwelt in Stamford, now Darien, till 1801; at Sharon, Conn., till 1808; and then moved to Great Barrington, Mass., where she died, 11 Dec. 1822, and was buried in Mahaiwee Cemetery. She joined the Congregational Church at Sharon, 5 Aug. 1802. He married (2d), 9 May 1824, Union Kellogg, who had already survived three husbands, Loomis, Mix, and Van Horn. He died at Great Barrington, 27 Jan. 1843, and was buried in Mahaiwee Cemetery. She went to live with her son, Charles K. Mix, at Elbridge, N.Y., where she died, 21 Aug. 1850, aged 84 years, and was buried in Elbridge. "For many years she lived a humble, devoted Christian, passed through much suffering, while patiently awaiting her change, and died in great peace."
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Chil. of Eliakim and Mary (Beachgood) Whitney.
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I. Ann Whitney, b. at Stamford, Conn., 25 March 1745; bap. at Middlesex, now Darien, Conn., 30 June 1745. Tradition says: "Some time during the Revolutionary War, Nancy Whitney, sister of Samuel Whitney, married James White, and settled in Malta, N.Y., where she died, aged 70 or 75 years.".
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II. John Whitney, b. at Stamford, Conn., 28 July 1746; bap. at Middlesex, now Darien, Conn., 24 Aug. 1746. Tradition says: "He had a wife and three sons. They settled, about 1800, in Prescott, Upper Canada, where he engaged in lumbering." His relatives have lost all trace of him and his family.
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III. Mary Whitney, b. at Stamford, Conn., 27 Feb. 1750; bap., 15 Ap. 1750, in St. John's (Episcopal) Church, Stamford, where also she married, 16 Sept 1773, Nathaniel Gorum, or Ghorum, a farmer, born about 1750, and, possibly, the son of George and Hannah (Banks) Gorum, of Stamford. They remained loyal, and in 1783, settled at Kingston, N.B., where she died about 1785, and was buried on his farm. He married (2d) Mary, or Sarah, Bostwick, by whom he had, at least, seven children.2 He died at Kingston, 9 Feb. 1846, aged 94 years.3
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1 Tradition says, perhaps untruly, that she was sister to Miss C. D. Gray, who married, 7 Oct. 1818, at N.Y. City, Jehudi Ashmun, and died in Liberia, Africa, on Sunday, 15 Sept. 1822.
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2 Fanny Gorum, married ----- Porter; Elizabeth Gorum, married Samue1 Foster; Hannah Gorum, married Hugh Watson McCleery; Hester Gorum, married Seth Street; Henry Gorum, never married; George Gorum, married Sarah Raymond; and Samuel Gorum, married Frances Perkins.
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3 See Sabine's American Loyalists, I., 484.
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