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Whitney Family.
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valuable farm, which, in Jan. 1876, was still in possession of his grandson, Simeon Sperry Rockwell. They dwelt, for some time, two miles from their nearest neighbor He had to go to Vergennes, twenty miles, to a grist-mill, taking his grain in a canoe, and reaching home after two days of bard work. Tradition says that she was at Bennington, Vt., and helped to dress the wounds of those who fell in battle near that place, 16 Aug. 1777.
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II. Jeremiah Rockwell, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 19 July 1756; a farmer; went, in early youth, with his father, to Lanesborough, Mass.; married Anna Stearns, who died 15 Aug. 1801, in her 47th year, at Cornwall, Vt., and was buried there; married (2d), about 1803, Lucy Eaton (widow of ----- Day), from Massachusetts, who died 21 Sept. 1833, in her 66th year, at Cornwall, and was buried there; married (3d), 17 July 1834, at Cornwall, Vt., a niece of his first wife, Abilene Stearns, born in Oct. 1795, widow of Otis Smith, of Lanesborough, and dau. of Ebenezer and Anna (Hyde) Stearns.1 He dwelt in Lanesborough till 1789, when he bought a farm in Cornwall, Vt., where he dwelt till his third marriage; after which he lived at Stanbridge, C. E., till the Autumn of 1846, and in Parishville, N. Y., till the Spring of 1847, part he bought a small farm in Brandon, N. Y., on which he died, 28 Aug. 1852, in his 97th year. His widow bought a small place in the village of West Bangor, N. Y., where she died 13 May 1861, and was buried near her husband, in the West Bangor Cemetery.
He was a soldier of the Revolutionary War, beginning at Bunker Hill, and, in the latter part of his life, enjoyed a pension for his service. He is described as a short, thick-set, and remarkably robust healthy man, with light complexion and silvery hair, who never knew a day of sickness till the last few days of his life, and whose death was the result of age. He was noted for his ardent piety and consistent life.
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III. James Rockwell, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 12 Ap. 1758; a farmer and shoemaker; married Mercy Smith, of Jericho, Vt., dau. of Isaac Smith; settled in Cornwall, Vt., where they both died (she, in Ap. 1819; he, about 1833), and were buried. His second wife was a widow Scovel.
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IV. Timothy Rockwell, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 20 Dec. 1760; died, about 1825, at Stanbridge, C. E., and was buried there.
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V. Rachel Rockwell, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., in 1762; probably died in infancy.
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1 Anna Hyde, third dau. of David and Alathea (Bradford) Hyde, was born at Sharon, Conn., 7 July 1753. She married Francis Griswold, and had five children. After his death, she married Ebenezer Stearns, by whom she had seven children. See note to No. 314, and Hyde Genealogy, p. 16.
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