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5 July 1819, at Ridgefield, Conn., Israel Mead Whitlock, a shoemaker, son of Jonathan and Rebecca (Selleck) Whitlock, of Danbury, Conn., where he was born 17 Jan. 1798. They settled in Ridgefield, and there died (he, 29 Ap. 1868; she, 17 Sept 1870), and were buried in Titicus Cemetery.
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Chil. of Sylvanus and Betty (Hoyt) Whitney.
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I. Betty Whitney, b. at Norwalk, Conn., 7 July 1773; went with her father, in 1783, to St. John, N. B., where she married, 13 Aug. 1797, David Brown Wetmore,1 a farmer, born at Rye, N. Y., 4 Nov. 1764, son of James and Elizabeth (Abrahams) Wetmore, of Hampton, N. B. He was g. son of Rev. James and Anna Wetmore, and of ----- and ----- (Bush) Abrahams; g. g. son of Izrahiah and Rachel (Stow) Whitmore; g. g. g. s. of Thomas and Hannah (Hall) Whitmore, of Middletown, Conn., of Rev. Samuel and Hope (Fletcher) Stow, of Middletown, and of John and Ann (Willcocke) Hall, of Middletown; and g. g. g. g. s. of John and Elizabeth (Biggs) Stow, who came from Kent, Eng., in 1634, to Roxbury, Mass., and of John Wilcocks, of Hartford, Conn., and Dorchester, Mass. He removed with his father to New Brunswick, in 1783; resided at Hampton for several years; at St. John for a short time, till 1799; and at Kingston till 1820, when they settled at Norton, N. B., and there died (he, 17 Dec. 1845, in his 82d year; she, 24 Dec. 1846, in her 74th year), and were buried in the Episcopal Church yard at Norton. He was colonel of militia, a representative in the General Assembly of the Province, for many years, and a judge of the Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions.
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II. Polly Whitney, b. at Stamford, Conn., in 1774; bap. at St John's (Episcopal) Church, Stamford, 28 May 1775; went with her parents, in 1783, to St. John, N. B., where she married, in 1793, Samuel Hicks, a ship-builder, born in England, 3 Nov. 1769, son of ----- and Lydia (McDonald) Hicks, of "Mespeck Reach," in the State of Maine. They dwelt at St. John, Kingston, Norton, and Hampton, all in New Brunswick; and died at Hampton (she, in Aug. 1845, "aged 68 years;" he, in Aug. 1846, "aged 73 years"), and were buried in Hampton Church yard. Another account says that she died in 1848, and he in June 1849.
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III. Sally Whitney, b. at Stamford, Conn., 10 Nov. 1776; bap. in St. John's Church, Episcopal, Stamford, 2 Jan. 1777; went with her parents, in 1783, to St. John, N. B., where she married, 3 Nov. 1799, Amos Adams,
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1 By his first wife, Ruth, dau. of Justus Sherwood, (who was born in Cortlandt's Manor, N.Y., 11 Jan. 1769, and whom he married at Hampton, N. B., 20 Oct. 1787) he had three children: Justus Sherwood, Martha Bashford, and Elizabeth. See Wetmore Genealogy, p.223.
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