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Whitney Family.
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213
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Conn., by Rev. Samuel Camp, Congregational, to Rachel Darling, dau. of Joseph and Polly (Street) Darling, of Ridgebury, where she was born 6 May 1773. He dwelt on his father's homestead in Ridgebury till late in life, and then lived with his son, John Talcott Rockwell, in Brookfield, Conn., where he died 24 Sept. 1864. She died in Danbury, Conn., at the house of her daughter, Mrs. Polly Benedict, 12 Ap. 1860. They were buried in Wooster Cemetery. He joined the Congregational Church at Ridgebury, 7 Sept. 1823.
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II. ----- Rockwell, an infant son, died at Ridgebury, Conn., 27 March 1775.
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III. ----- Rockwell, an infant dau. died at Ridgebury, Conn., 14 March 1782.
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IV. Lucy Rockwell, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 6 May 1783; married, 27 Oct. 1801, at Ridgebury, Conn., Thaddeus Boughton, a tailor, son of Timothy and Martha (Scott) Boughton, of Ridgefield, where he was born 2 May 1777. They dwelt at Clinton, N. Y., till about 1810; at Washington, N. Y., till Ap. 1834; at Victory, N. Y., till 1841; and finally settled in Ledyard, N. Y., where they died (she, 5 May 1852; he, 16 June 1861), and were buried in the Friends' Cemetery. He was a member of the monthly meeting at the old stone meeting-house near Wappinger's Creek, known as the Creek Monthly Meeting, and, afterward, of the Ledyard Monthly Meeting.
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3153
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Chil. of Nehemiah and Eleanor (Rockwell) Keeler.
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211
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I. Mehetabel Keeler, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 1 Oct. 1772; died in Norwalk, Conn., 26 Nov. 1826, unmarried, "aged 54 years," and was buried in Ridgebury Cemetery.
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II. Abraham Gray Keeler; b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 20 July 1777; married in Ridgebury, 25 Ap. 1801, by Rev. Samuel Camp, Congregational, to Sarah Dann, "of N. Y. State, resident in Ridgebury," born in Southeast N. Y., dau. of William Dann. He was a farmer; settled in Ridgebury, where Col. Nehemiah Keeler lived in 1873; removed to Southeast, N. Y., about 1808, and thence, in 1818, to Danbury, Conn.; and died in the latter place, 23 Dec. 1836, "aged 61 years." She died in Yonkers, N. Y., 20 Nov. 1860, "aged 77 years," and was buried beside her husband, in Wooster Cemetery, Danbury.
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III. Ruth Keeler, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 9 March 1780; married in
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