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69th year, is buried in the Crompond East burial-ground, and is possibly the same. Her father, in his will of 1 Jan. 1807, provided for her support; as did also her brother, Seth Whitney, in his will of 8 June 1835. The date of her birth, and that of her death, have not been found.
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III. Ezra Whitney, b. in Yorktown, N.Y.; was never married; lived in Yorktown, with his brother Seth; was for many years paralytic; and the date of his death is not on record.
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IV. Abijah Whitney, b. at Yorktown, N.Y.; settled near his father, and kept an inn, and was also a farmer, his house being on the corner west of his father's house, where the road turns north to Hallock's Mills; married Melicent Hyatt, dau. of Nathaniel and Mary (Merritt) Hyatt. Rev. Silas Constant, of Crompond, noted in his diary a visit, "26 Feb. 1794 At Bijah Whitney's." He sold to his brother Seth, 3 March 1797, fifty-eight acres of land, being a part of a farm that he bought of his father, Seth Whitney. He died in Yorktown, about 1803. His wife joined the church in Crompond, 11 July 1802; and at the same place, in 1810, she married (2d) John Lounsbury.
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V. Seth Whitney, b. at Yorktown, N.Y., 3 May 1765; married at Yorktown, by Rev. Silas Constant, of Crompond, 17 Nov. 1792, to Elizabeth Strang, born at Crompond, 13 Sept. 1766, dau. of Henry and Margaret (Hazard) Strang, g. dau. of Daniel and Phoebe (Purdy) Strang, and g. g. dau. of Daniel and Charlotte (Hubert) L'Estrange.1 He was a farmer; settled in the house in which he was born, on his father's homestead; joined the Presbyterian Church at Crompond, 9 June 1802; was early elected a deacon, being called by that title in the church-records as early as 2 May 1806; made his will at Yorktown, 20 May 1835, and died of hernia, the same day, "aged 70 years and 17 days," according to his gravestone.2 She died in Yorktown, 6 Nov. 1858, according to family-record, while her gravestone says, "6 Dec. 1857, aged 91 years, 2 months and 17 days."
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VI. Amos Whitney, b. at Yorktown, N.Y., 15 Dec. 1767; a farmer; married by Rev. Silas Constant, of Crompond, 1 Jan. 1800, to Rosetta
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1 Daniel L'Estrange, a Huguenot, was born in Paris, France, in 1656, and died at Rye, Westchester Co., N. Y., in 1706. He married Charlotte Hubert, dau. of Francis Hubert. They fled from Paris to England in 1685, according to Bolton's History of Westchester County, Vol. II., p. 385.
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2 The upper signature is that of his father, which was omitted at the proper place.
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