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Lyman, of New Haven, Conn., son of Lieut. Benjamin and Thankful (Pomeroy) Lyman, of Northampton, Mass., where he was born 18 Ap. 1718. He grad., Yale College, 1745, and settled in New Haven, where he was deacon of the First Church from 1754 till 1758, and onf the White Haven Church from Ap. 1758 till his death, 16 Oct. 1788. "He was a lawyer, a magistrate, representative, and member of the city council, greatly esteemed for many excellences of character. His tombstone stands in the Sanford lot in the old cemetery in New Haven."1 She married (3d), as his third wife, Thaddeus Betts, of Norwalk, and died 23 March 1825, in her 95th year, having been a member of the church for 61 years.2
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VII. Samuel Fairchild, b. at Norwalk, Conn., 22 Ap. 1733; a fuller and weaver; married, 15 Nov. 1754, at Norwalk, Sarah Jones, who died 23 May 1755, at Norwalk. He married (2d), 6 Jan. 1757, at Norwalk, Hannah Tuttle. He had, in 1772, a part of his father's homestead and buildings, with the fulling-mill at the upper end of Norwalk, on Mill Brook, and five acres of land. He sold his house and land, reserving the tools used by clothiers and weavers, 13 Dec. 1799; sold his land at Toilsome, 25 Dec. 1799; and that at New Dam Bogs, 11 Jan. 1800. She died in Norwalk, 31 May 1811. His death occurred in Ridgefield, Conn., 9 Oct 1820, in his 88th year. They were buried at Norwalk.
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Chil. of Nathan and Sarah Whitney.
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I. Mary Whitney, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 29 Dec. 1715; married her cousin, Isaac Keeler, and died about 1570. See his record.
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II. Eliasaph Whitney, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 3 Feb. 1716-17; bought a house and two acres of land in Stamford, Conn., 13 May 1742; bought land in Stamford, with his brother Eliakim, 17 Ap. 1744; married to Mary Bishop, "in Stanford by the worshipfull Samll Hait Esquier on of his majesties Justices of the Peace for ye County of Fairfield on May 10, 1744," but according to his family record, one day later. She was b. 18 Aug. 1722.
He learned the arts of training and shoemaking, and settled in the parish of Middlesex, in Stamford, now Darien, Conn., in a house which he built in 1751, about half a mile north of the parish church, and which, in 1866, was torn down by his grandson, Charles E. Whitney, to make room for a
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1 His first wife, Sarah Whitney [NOTE], of New Haven, whom he married in 1748, died 1 Aug. 1751. He married his second wife, Sarah, dau. of Capt. Samuel Miles, of New Haven, in June 1752.--See Lyman Genealogy, pp. 391 and 455-6.
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2 See Hall's History of Norwalk, p. 226
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