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moved to Bridgeport, Conn., and there died; he, 3 Nov. 1833, by suicide; she, 2 March 1866. They were buried in the old Stratfield Cemetery, in Fairfield, near Bridgeport.
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VIII. Eben Whitney, b. at Wilton, in Norwalk, Conn., 19 Nov. 1783, the town-record calling him Ebenezer; was bound to his brother, Asa Whitney, 15 May 1798, to learn his trade of silversmith and watchmaker; married, 2 Ap. 1805, in New York City, Esther Patterson, born at Red Bank, N. J., 15 June 1780, dau. of James Patterson, of Shrewsbury, N. J. They settled in New York. The Directory places him at 20 Chambers Street, 1805; 290 Water Street, 1806; 338 Water Street, same as his brother, Asa Whitney, 1807; William Street, 1808; 381 Pearl Street, 1809; and there he continued till 1840, and was succeeded in 1842, by his son, Edward Tompkins Whitney. His wife died, 2 Feb. 1843, in New York, and was buried in Cypress Hills Cemetery. He married (2d), 20 Nov. 1843, at Norwalk, Emeline Hoyt, dau. of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Reed) Hoyt, of Stamford, Conn., where she was born 2 June 1805. She died, 9 Jan. 1854, at Norwalk, and was buried there in the "down town cemetery." He married (3d), 9 Sept. 1857, at Norwalk, Elizabeth Raymond, born, 13 Sept. 1806, at Norwalk, where her father, Hezekiah Raymond, resided. He died, 22 May 1869, at Norwalk, and was buried there, in the "down town cemetery," where his gravestone says: "The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips; he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity." His widow was living at South Norwalk, in Nov. 1874.
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1850
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IX. Lucretia Whitney, b. at Norwalk, Conn., 27 June 1786; married Daniel Fitch, a shoemaker and farmer, born in Wilton, the place of residence of his father, Samuel Fitch. They settled in Wilton, where she died, 1 March 1832, and was buried near the Episcopal Church. He also died at Wilton.
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1856
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X. Roxana Whitney, b. in Norwalk, Conn., 26 Oct. 1789; married in Norwalk, 19 March 1815, James Taylor, a cabinet-maker, born in Norwalk, now Westport, Conn., 28 Jan. 1784. They settled in that part of Norwalk now known as Westport, where she died, 18 June 1817. She was buried in Norwalk, in the "down town cemetery." He died in Westport, 28 Oct. 1821, and was buried there. His second wife, Sally Weeks, dau. of Stephen Weeks, or Norwalk, was yet living in 1868. She bore him one child, who died in 1832.
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1863
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XI. Maria Whitney, b. in Troy, N.Y., 27 June 1792, recorded at Norwalk, Conn.; married, 21 Jan. 1816, at Wilton, Conn., by Rev. Levi Dykeman, Baptist, to Benjamin Weeks, a blacksmith and, in later life, a
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