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I. Elijah Whitney, b. at Norwalk, Conn., 16 Ap. 1710; married, 6 July 1734, at Norwalk, Rebecca Seymour, dau. of "Mr. John Seymour," of Norwalk. They settled in Norwalk, where he died prior to 15 Dec. 1741, at which date his brother, Richard Whitney, of Stratfield, was appointed guardian to his daughter Hannah.
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II. Samuel Whitney, b. at Norwalk, Conn., 5 Oct. 1711; married, 14 May 1740, at Fairfield, Conn., Amy Northrop, dau. of William Northrop. She was born 9 Nov. 1722. They were members of the Congregational Church of Stratfield, now Bridgeport, Conn., from which they were admitted to that of Greenfield, now Trumbull, Conn., in Jan. 1741-41. She died 22 Nov. 1788, aged 66 years, at Greenfield, and was buried there. He married a second wife, whose name was Sarah -----. He died at Fairfield, 20 Feb. 1796, in the 84th year of his age, and was buried at Greenfield, where his gravestone preserves for him the title of Captain.
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III. Richard Whitney, b. at Stratford, Conn., 1 Sept. 1715; bap. at Stratfield, now Bridgeport, Conn., 22 Ap. 1716; married, at Stratfield, 4 Dec. 1750, Experience Beardsley, probably born in Stratfield, 26 Feb. 1724-5, eleventh child of John and Mary Beardsley.1 Nehemiah Whitney's MS. says that he "settled in Fairfield, leaving no heirs." She died at Stratfield, 11 July 1780.
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IV. John Whitney, b. at Stratfield, now Bridgeport, Conn., 17 Jan. 1719-20. His uncle, Benjamin Darling, for "Natural Love and affection," gave to him, 12 Dec. 1748, a part of his homestead in Greenfield parish, being one-fourth of an acre of land, which he sold, 15 March 1749-50, to Joseph Jennings, Jr. He was married at Branford, Conn., 19 Jan. 1750-51, by Rev. Philemon Robbins, Congregational, to Deborah Smith, who was born at New Haven, Conn. He was a ship-carpenter, and lived at Stony Creek, in Branford, in a house that has been torn down; and later he lived near the landing, in a house which still stands, near what is called the "Dutch House Quarter," which, tradition says, belonged to his garden. He owned the baptismal covenant in Branford, 18 Feb. 1753; and bought eighty-six rods of land at Stony Brook, 11 July 1763, of William Barker, for L1 10s. He died in Branford, 29 March 1805, aged 85 years.
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1 This John Beardsley was b. at Stratford, Conn., 11 Ap. 1673, the fourth child of Samuel and Abigail Beardsley. Samuel Beardsley was born about 1638, in Mass., the fourth child, and first American-born, of William Beardsley, the emigrant, and Mary his wife. -- See Sketch of William Beardsley, by Rev. E. E. Beardsley, D.D., and the Society records of Stratfield, Conn.
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