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The Whitney Family of Connecticut

by S. Whitney Phoenix
(New York: 1878)

Transcribed by Robert L. Ward.

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Sixth Generation.
576 VI. Anna Seymour, b. in New Canaan, Norwalk, Conn., 1 July 1784; married, 1 Feb. 1804, in Walton, N. Y., by Rev. David Harrower, of Walton, to William Gay,1 a teacher and farmer, born in Sharon, Conn., 21 Sept. 1776, son of David and Keziah (Merchant) Gay. They lived together a little more than fifty years, and died in Walton (she 16, he 25, March 1854), and were buried in Walton Cemetery. 1968
577 VII. Sally Seymour, b. in New Canaan, Norwalk, Conn., 6 June 1787; married, 26 Jan. 1811, in New York City, with Dyer Brainerd, a ship-carpenter, afterward, a wholesale grocer, son of Amasa and Jedidah (Osborne) Brainerd,2 of East Haddam, Conn., where he was born 25 May 1774. They lived in New York, his business in Front Street, till 1832, when he retired from mercantile life, and removed to Skaneateles, N. Y. There he died, 24 June 1849. She died, 10 Sept 1863, at Walton, N.Y., and was buried with her husband, in their vault, in Skaneateles. 1973
578 VIII. Sophia Seymour, b. in New Canaan, Norwalk, Conn., 25 Feb. 1790; married, 16 Nov. 1806, in Walton, N. Y., his father then living in West Hartford, Conn., Asahel Steele, a mason, born in West Hartford, 3 Aug. 1783, son of Moses and ----- (Whiting) Steele.3 They settled in Walton, where she died 2 March 1875. He died there also, 26 Sept 1859, and was buried in East Brook Cemetery. 1981
579 IX. Andrew Seymour, b. in New Canaan, Norwalk, Conn., 27 May 1792; a merchant; settled in New York City in 1810; married, 28 Oct. 1819, at 44 White Street, by Rev. Gardiner Spring, D. D., Presbyterian, to Mary Patterson, born in Stonington Borough, Conn., 27 June 1795, dau. of Amasa and Dolly (Turner) Patterson.4 In 1857 they removed to Walton, N.Y., where she died 23 Oct 1864, and was buried in the Walton Cemetery. He still resides in Walton, 1876, able to take an active interest in the collection and completion of several genealogies, for which, during many years, he has been gathering and preserving materials. While in New York, he was a teacher, a hardware merchant, and, for 13 years, a custom-house measurer. In Walton, he has been proprietor of the East Brook Mills. 1986
580 X. Hannah Seymour, b. in New Canaan, Norwalk, Conn., 20 Sept 1794; married, 9 Oct 1811, in Walton, N.Y., Thaddeus Hoyt, a farmer, born in New Canaan, Conn., 6 Aug. 1789, son of Thaddeus and Jemima (Benedict) Hoyt.5 They settled in Coventry, N. Y., in 1836, and he died 21 March 1867, and was buried there. He was a deacon. She was still living at Coventry, in 1874. 1994
  1 See pedigree, page 147.
  2 See pedigree, page 147.
  3 See pedigree, page 148.
  4 See pedigree, page 148.
  5 See pedigree, page 150.
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