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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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house of her parents, in Ballston, six miles south-west of the village, by Rev. David Murdock, Presbyterian, to Delana Titus, born at Duanesburgh, N. Y., 5 June 1798, dau. of Samuel and Charlotte (Briggs) Titus. 1 He served, as fife-major, at Brooklyn, in the war of 1812; was, for forty-five years, an elder in the Presbyterian Church; and, for twenty-five years, recording secretary of the American Bible Society. "His circumstances were easy; his life active; his motto, 'Occupy till I come,' kept constantly in mind; and he seemed to live only to do good." He sold his farm in 1869, after which they lived in Ballston Village; and there he died, 10 Feb. 1869, aged 76 years, 9 months, and 11 days, and was buried in Ballston Cemetery. His widow was living at Ballston, in July 1875. He had no children by either wife.
1052 IV. Huldah Doolittle, b. at Malta, N. Y., 15 May 1797; married, 28 May 1828, at Malta, Xenophon Haywood, a teacher and editor, son of David Haywood, of Weathersfield, Vt, where he was born 4 Nov. 1798. They dwelt at Johnstown, N. Y., for two years; and then moved to Waterford, N. Y., where she died 1 Feb. 1834, and was buried in Waterford Cemetery. He married (2d),2 in Ap. 1836, Eliza E. Smith, dau. of Rev. John Smith, of Haverhill, N. H.; and, after a year or two, moved to Troy, N. Y., teaching till May 1854. He then moved to Amsterdam, N. Y., where he owned and edited the Amsterdam Recorder, till Ap. 1869, when he moved to Baldwinsville, N. Y. There he was proprietor and editor of the Onondaga Gazette, for two years or more, when he returned to Waterford, purchasing the Waterford Recorder, which he edited till his death, 21 Dec. 1871, at Waterford. He was buried in Greenhill Cemetery, Amsterdam, with his second wife, who died at Amsterdam, in June 1862. 3518
1053 V. Harvey Doolittle, b. at Malta, N. Y., 13 Ap. 1800; a tanner, currier, shoemaker, and farmer; married, 5 June 1825, at Monson, Mass., by Rev. Dr. Ely, Presbyterian, to Sarah Butterworth, born at Grafton, Mass., 7 May 1797, dau. of William and Sarah (Knapp) Butterworth, of Brattleborough, Vt. They were living at Malta, near East Line Post-office, N. Y., in July 1875, in the same house in which he was born, which has always been his home. 3521
  1 Samuel Titus, from Dutchess Co., N. Y., married Charlotte Briggs, whose parents were from Rhode Island. He bought a farm in Ballston, N. Y., six miles south-west of the village, in 1801, when only one small house stood among the hemlocks, where the village now is. He died on this farm, in his ninetieth year, and his wife five years earlier, aged 83 years.
  2 By his second marriage he had three children:

  I. Edward Smith Haywood, born at Waterford, 3 Feb. 1837; a physician; married Isabella Pridham, of New York; settled at Lynn, Mass., and there died, 17 June 1873, leaving a dau. and twin sons. His widow, also a physician, has had excellent success in her practice, in Lynn.
  II. Mary Louisa Haywood, born at Troy, 25 July 1840.
  III. Amelia Haywood, born at Troy, 13 Ap. 1843.

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