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communion. She dwelt with her parents till she was nine years old, and then went to live with Thomas Taylor, with whom she moved to Wolcott, in 1789. She is said to have had one brother, William Batterson.
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VIII. Josiah Whitney, b. in Conn., 1 Jan. 1776; a farmer; went with his parents to Wolcott, Vt, where he married, 8 Aug. 1801, his cousin, Tema Taylor, born 5 May 1771, dau. of Gamaliel Taylor, of Norwalk, Conn., and widow of ----- Toby.>p>1 She died, 24 Jan.1816, in Wolcott; where he married (2d), 22 June 1820, Sarah Spaulding, born in Windsor, Vt., 12 Jan. 1788, dau. of Andrew and Sarah (Jewett) Spaulding, of Windsor. She died at Hyde Park, Vt., 22 Sept. 1868. He died at Wolcott, Vt., 3 Feb. 1841, having frequently served as an officer of that town.
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IX. Hezeklah Whitney, twin, b. in Conn., 26 Jan. 1778; a farmer, till he was thirty-five years old, afterward a shoemaker; married in Morristown, Vt., 7 Aug. 1803, Polly St. Clair, born in Sanbornton, N. H., 11 Nov. 1787, dau. of James and Sarah (Hunt) St. Clair.2 She died in Morristown, 6 March 1812, and was buried there. He then removed to Montpelier, Vt., where he married (2d), in 1813, Mary Doyne, who died at Montpelier, in the Spring or 1815, without children. After the death of his second wife, he went west, living in Pittsburgh, Penn., Covington, Ky., and Cincinnati, Ohio; and, in the latter place, married (3d), about 1825, Hannah Judd, of Kentucky. He returned to Batavia, N. Y., in 1826; went from there, in April 1828, to Eagle Harbor, in Gaines, N. Y., where he lived till the Spring of 1834; then moved to Washington, Illinois, where his wife died about 1839; after which he went to Newstead, N. Y., and lived, for a year, with his daughter, Mrs. Electa (Whitney) Cobb. In the Spring of 1840, he returned to Washington, Ill., where, in 1841, he married (4th) Mary Pires, of that place. He died, 16 July 1845, of dysentery, after four days of illness, aged 66 years, at Washington, and was buried there. His widow was thought to be still living at Washington, in 1873.
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X. Margaret Whitney, twin, b. in Conn., 26 Jan. 1778; married, 1 Aug. 1794, at Wolcott, Vt., Henry Eaton, a farmer, born at Piermont, N. H., in 1774, son of Samuel and Edna (Hunkins) Eaton, of Johnson, Vt. They lived in Sterling, now Johnson, Vt., where she died, 19 Oct. 1800, and was buried. He married (2d), 17 Sept. 1802, Abigail Ferry, at Johnson; where she died, 24 Dec. 1856, and he, 10 Jan. 1863.
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XI. Jesse Whitney, b. 10 Jan. 1780; a farmer and, for many years, an inn-keeper in Wolcott, Vt. where he often served the public as collector,
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1 She had, by her first husband, two children, James and Sally Toby. The latter married George W. Whitlock.
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2 James St. Clair served through the Revolutionary War, and reached the grade of sergeant. His discharge was signed by Washington. His children claim descent from the Sinclairs of Roslyn, Scotland.
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