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Whitney Family.
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Chil. of Samuel and Mary (Northrop) Smith.
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I. Samuel Smith, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 21 Dec. 1743; settled on a farm which his father owned, about a mile north of New Canaan village, Conn., now the property of Jesse Richards; and there he died, 12 Dec. 1831, unmarried, and was buried in New Canaan. He is remembered as an intelligent man and a consistent member of the Congregational Church, who was respected by the whole community. He gave his property to the children of his brother Daniel.
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II. Daniel Smith, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 4 June 1745, according to the family-record, while the town-record says 17 June 1745; was known as "Daniel Smith, Jr." and "Daniel Smith, 2d," to distinguish him from that Daniel Smith who married Betty Whitney; married at Ridgefield, Conn., 25 Feb. 1767, Mary Smith, born 27 March 1747, daughter, it is said, of David1 and Mary (Thorp) Smith. He was a farmer, and lived on West Lane, about one hundred rods from the State line. She died at Ridgefield, 7 May 1780. He married (2d), at Ridgefield, 1 March 1781, Elizabeth Andrews, widow of Thomas Northrop, from Salem, N.Y. He died at Ridgefield, 7 March 1795, and was buried in Titicus Cemetery. His widow married (3d) Abram Nash, of Ridgefield, and was interred in the same cemetery.
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III. Sarah Smith, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 3 June 1748; married Daniel Scribner, a farmer. They moved to Unadilla, N.Y.
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IV. Mary Smith, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 24 Aug. 1750.
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V. Rachel Smith, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 23 Oct. 1752; married at Ridgefield, 17 Feb. 1779, Jeremiah Mead, a shoemaker, born in Ridgefield, 2 Nov. 1754, son of Jeremiah and Joanna (Scribner) Mead. She was his second wife; his first wife, ----- St. John, having died soon after marriage, one account says two months, and another, six months. She died, 21 Jan. 1782, at Ridgefield, where he married (3d), 6 Oct. 1784, Betty Whitney. He served as a private in the Revolutionary War.
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VI. Gamaliel Smith, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 9 Nov. 17--;2 died there, 5 Jan. 1782, of small-pox, unmarried.
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Chil. of Stephen and Sarah (Wheeler) Whitney.
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I. Samuel Whitney, b. at Derby, Conn., 15 March 1759, while
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1 He was son of Thomas and Ruth Smith; g. son of John and Phebe (Canfield) Smith; and g. g. son of John and Grace (Hawley) Smith.
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2 The rest of the date, in the original record, has been worn away.
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