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Whitney Family.
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133
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William Stevens, whose second wife was Anne Fairweather, and died about 1861, at Wilton, Conn., and was buried there.
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| 505
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III. James Whitney Fairweather, b. in Norwalk, Conn., 29 March 1781.
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| 506
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IV. Thomas Colt Fairweather, b., 17 May 1783, in Norwalk, Conn., and died there, 29 May 1785.
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| 507
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V. Thomas Fairweather, b. in Norwalk, Conn., 10 Feb. 1786; married Susan -----, who died at Brooklyn, N. Y., in Oct. 1875. They dwelt in New York City, and he was a leading member of the old John Street Methodist Church.
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1739a
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VI. Maria Fairweather, b. in Norwalk, Conn., 10 Sept 1788; married Daniel Curtis, and was living 1 Feb. 1813, when she and her husband joined her sister Betsey, in mortgaging to Stephen Mott their shares of their father's estate, which then lay undivided in the homestead of their mother, "the widow Mary Fayerweather," in Norwalk.
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VII. Betsey Fairweather, b. at Norwalk, Conn., 29 March 1790, according to the town-record, while her own record says, 19 March 1792; was living in Norwalk, 1 Feb. 1813; and soon afterward married, at Ridgefield, Conn., Daniel Nash, a blacksmith, born at Newtown, Conn., son of Peter Micajah and Zaidee (Skidmore) Nash. He died at Norwalk, about the middle of Oct 1843, aged about sixty years, and was buried in St. Paul's Churchyard. She died at Brooklyn, N.Y., 4 Ap. 1872, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery.
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1740
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| 510
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VIII. Benjamin Fairweather, b. at Norwalk, Conn., 27 Sept 1792; a mariner; and, according to tradition, he was lost at sea.
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Chil. of Ebenezer and Mary (Gray) Benedict.
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105
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I. Deborah Benedict, b. in Dutchess County, N.Y., 10 Aug. 1764;1 married Thomas Ragan, a tailor and farmer, son of John and Patience (Gray) Ragan,2 of Pawling, N.Y., where he was born, 22 Sept 1756. They dwelt in Pawling till May 1802; then settled in Turin, N.Y.; and died (he, 15 May 1820; she, 24 Jan. 1823, according to the family-record, while the Benedict Genealogy says, 24 June 1823), and were buried there.
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1750
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1 The Benedict Genealogy makes the date a day earlier.
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2 John Ragan came from the vicinity of Limerick, Ireland. He had two daughters:
I. Eleanor Ragan, b. 7 Nov. 1754; married Thacher Hopkins.
II. Huldah Ragan, b. 22 Sept. 1758; married Seth Foster.
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