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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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Whitney Family.
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Rhode Island, 17 Feb. 1775, son of Reuben and Catharine (Clark) Corey. They dwelt in Hancock, Mass., till 1804, then settled at Stanbridge, C. E., and there died (he, 29 Dec. 1843; she, 21 Ap. 1846), and were buried.



Chil. of John and Sally (Rice) Rockwell. 203

888 XII. Elling Rockwell, so called in the records, and on her gravestone, though the Rockwell Genealogy calls her Eleanor; b. at Lanesborough, Mass., 18 June 1780; married about 1805, at Cornwall, Vt., Ichabod Delano, a farmer, born at Dummerston, Vt., 5 May 1782, son of Abijah and Joan (Hovey) Delano. She died, 22 Dec. 1822, at Sandgate, Vt., and was buried in Arlington, Vt. He dwelt at Cornwall till 1813; at Shoreham, Vt., till 1816; at Bennington, Vt., till 1818; at Arlington, Vt., till 1822; at Bennington, till 1832; and then returned to Shoreham, where he died, 25 Feb. 1847. 3092
889 XIII. Lucina Rockwell, called Lucy in the Rockwell Genealogy; married Josiah Thompson. They settled in Cornwall, Vt., and there died. 3094
890 XIV. Earl Rockwell, died, it is thought, in Jericho, Vt., unmarried.



Chil. of Daniel and Abigail (Smith) Rockwell. 204

891 I. Silas Rockwell, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 30 Aug. 1760; married, 20 Dec. 1781, at Ridgefield, Hannah Olmstead. He was of Freehold, Albany (now Greene) Co., N. Y., 26 Ap. 1796, when he sold land in Ridgebury, to Henry Whitney, 2d. They are said to have settled in the West. 3100
892 II. Chloe Rockwell, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 13 Ap. 1762; died in Ridgebury, Conn., 19 May 1775, "just entering the 14th year of her age."
893 III. Daniel Rockwell, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 19 Jan. 1764; lived to old age, and died, unmarried, at the house of his brother Martin, in Central or Western New York.
894 IV. Caleb Rockwell, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 13 Oct. 1765; married, 30 Oct. 1796, in Ridgebury, Conn., by Rev. Samuel Camp, Congregational, to Olive Starr, widow of ----- Porter, "both of Ridgebury." They settled in Western New York. 3103
895 V. Ruth Rockwell, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 6 Ap. 1767; married, 3108
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