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began a voyage, which lasted four years and seven months, during which he twice circumnavigated the earth; after which they dwelt in New York, till 1832; and finally settled in Norwalk. The following extract from The New York Journal of Commerce, of 22 Oct. 1846, tells the story of his death: "Missing Vessel. Schooner Nassau, Capt. Watlington (formerly of Ship 'Camilla'), of and for this port, sailed from Charleston, 3d October 1846, with cargo of lumber, and has not since been heard of. There is no doubt she was lost in the gale of 9th Oct., with probably all on board." The widow moved in 1855, with her children, to Brooklyn, E. D., N. Y., living at 7 Washington Place till 1857; at 44 Clymer Street till 1859, and at 35 Rush Street till her death, 11 Jan. 1864. She was buried in the Norwalk Cemetery, at Norwalk, Conn. In 1865, her daughters moved to 59, now 193, Baltic Street, Brooklyn, where they were living in March 1877.
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VIII. Caroline Whitney, b. in Norwalk, Conn., about 1804; married, in Franklin Street, New York City, in 1830, Charles Randolph Gibbons, who was born in Bath, England, 17 Oct. 1806. She died in Henry Street, New York, 2 Dec. 1834, and was buried in St. Paul's Churchyard, in Norwalk. He married (2d), Mrs. Charlotte (Whitney) Langan, cousin of his first wife.
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IX. John Whitney, b. in Pudding Lane, Norwalk, Conn., 9 Nov. 1806; a shoemaker, farmer, and chopper; left Norwalk, in 1828; lived in New Canaan, Conn., Brooklyn, N. Y., Albany, N. Y., and in Caroline, N. Y., where he was married, 17 Aug. 1832, by Rev. Alfred E. Campbell, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Ithaca, N. Y., to Ruth Hutchinson, born in Genoa, N. Y., 7 June 1802, dau. of Silas1 and Elizabeth (Buell) Hutchinson, of Caroline. They lived for a short time in Ithaca, Caroline, and Dryden, N. Y.; moved, 1 Nov. 1837, to Adams, Defiance Co., Ohio; thence, in Oct. 1842, to Defiance, and, in Oct. 1846, to Evansport, both in the same county. In 1874, he was living in Adams, with his son, Munson Lyman Whitney. His wife went to California with her son, George Alpheus Whitney, and thence to Albany, Linn Co., Oregon, where she was living in 1874.
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X. Richard Whitney, b. at Norwalk, Conn., in 1808; was living at Albany, N. Y., in 1829; went to New York in 1830, and while at the house of his sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Ann (Whitney) Clark, in Wooster Street, sickened and died, aged 22 years. He was buried near his father, in St Paul's Churchyard, Norwalk.
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XI. ----- Whitney, a son, b. at Norwalk, Conn., about 1810; died in early infancy.
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1 Silas Hutchinson, a physician, was a drummer in the Revolutionary War.
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