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her dau. Rebecca (Whitney) Olmstead. They were buried in Titicus Cemetery. In 1873, one of his descendants said: "My great-grandfather, Henry Whitney, while cutting wood in the morning before sunrise, heard music, and, looking up, saw some witches in a hog's trough, go sailing along over-head, singing: 'Hoity cock, hoity cock, day breaks on;'" and genealogists are compelled to read and consider many traditions and legends which are not better than this. Another tradition says that when he was eighteen years old, he was at Ebenezer Lobdell's house, saw a babe in the cradle, and said, "I will wait till this little girl is a woman and take her for my wife," a pledge which he redeemed when he was forty years old.
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IV. John Whitney, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 28 Jan. 1717; married, 15 June 1746, at Ridgefield, by Rev. Jonathan Ingersol, pastor of the Congregational Church, to Hephzibah Olmstead, dau. of Richard and Mary (Betts) Olmstead; g. dau. of John Olmstead and of Samuel Betts, of Wilton, Conn. She died in Ridgefield, 20 May 1753, of consumption, having been able to walk about the house the day before her death. He married (2d) Thankful Benedict,1 who was born 23 June 1727, youngest child of Benjamin and Mary Benedict. By the settlement of his father's estate, 28 March 1744, and a division made by him and his brother Daniel Whitney, 4 Feb. 1745, he had the south half of his father's homestead in Ridgefield, which he sold, 14 Feb. 1753, with "dwelling house, barn, shop, fruit trees and fences," to Abraham Betts, of Norwalk, for £1200, old tenor. A deed of 20 March 1771, shows that he then lived in Salem, Westchester Co., N.Y. He signed a deed, 14 Feb. 1793, in which
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1ANCESTRY OF THANKFUL AND EBENEZER BENEDICT. Compiled from the Benedict
Genealogy, pp. 24, 49-51.
THOMAS BENEDICT, b. in England = MARY BRIDGUM, m. JOHN GREGORY; for a probable = SARAH
about 1617; d. in Norwalk, | about 1640; sur- pedigree of him, see N. E. |
Conn., March 1689-90; having | vived her hus- H. & G. Register, Vol. xxiii, |
been deacon for many years. | band. pp. 304-307. |
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JOHN BENEDICT, b. in Southold, = PHEBE GREGORY, m. in THOMAS HYATT, of Norwalk = MARY SENSION, m. 1
L.I.; settled in Norwalk, | Norwalk, 11 Nov. 1672; a soldier of King | Nov. 1677; dau. of Ma-
where both he and his son | 1670; was a mem- Philip's war, for services | thias Sension, who set-
John were deacons in 1725. | ber of the church in in which he red'd grant | tled in Norwalk about
| Norwalk, in 1725. of land.. | 1654, and d. there 1669.
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BENJAMIN BENEDICT, b. in Nor- = MARY . . . . THOMAS BENEDICT, b. in Norwalk, = MELICENT HYATT, b. in
walk, Conn., 1678; was dea- | d. 30 Nov. 1771. 1682; sergeant 1713, ensign 1724, | Norwalk, Dec. 1680;
con of church in Ridgefield, | lieut. 1742, capt. 1746; selectman | m. 1705.
Conn., in 1720, and died in | 7 times; moderator of annual town |
Stamford, Conn., 3 July 1773. | meeting 10 times; rep. in Gen. |
| Assemb. 1737, 1740, 1744. |
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THANKFUL BENEDICT = JOHN WHITNEY (25). EBENEZER BENEDICT = THANKFUL WHITNEY (18).
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