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him off, say, "the old rebel has killed me"; and so it was, for he only lived to ride a half-mile. The bayonet and staff are yet kept in the old house.--See Bolton's Hist. of Westchester County, II., 390.
His wife died at Yorktown, date not known, and he m. (2d), at Yorktown, 21 March 1787, Elizabeth Wright, Rev. Silas Constant, of Crompond, officiating. The date of her death does not appear. He married (3d), Anna Smith, whose first husband was ----- Jump, and her second, Capt. Trowbridge, of Bedford, N.Y. She signed a deed with him, 9 July 1802; another 21 Mary 1803; was mentioned in his will of 1 Jan 1807; and died 29 June 1819, aged 89 years, 1 month and 19 days. She was buried in the Crompond East graveyard, where a stone marks her grave. He died in 1807, prior to 30 May, and was buried in the same yard, but nothing has been left to mark his grave, or those of his first two wives.
The diary of Rev. Silas Constant shows that, 4 Jan. 1786, he "rode to Mr. Whitney's, preached Matt. xxii, 5; conference in the evening." Also "Jan. 4, 1797, rode to Mr. Whitneys; married John Travis and Phebe Whitney."
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VIII. Josiah Whitney, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 12 June 1729; no further record has been found.
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IX. Jeremiah Whitney, b. Ridgefield, Conn., 18 Sept. 1731; went with his father to Cortlandt's Manor, now Yorktown, Westchester Co., N.Y., as early as 1747, but the exact date is not known. He lived in Westchester County, some of the time in Crompond, Yorktown, and is, perhaps, the same Jeremiah Whitney who bought ten acres of land in Bedford, adjoining his own land, 20 Aug. 1793. Tradition says that he also resided some time in Putnam County, N.Y. It is reported that he served in the Revolutionary war. He was a farmer; but his grandson, Isaac Lounsbury Whitney, who was born 26 March 1800, says: "He was a Methodist minister. I have been at his house a week at a time, and went with him to the church. He lived in a log-house on Connecticut Mountain; at that time I was only six years of age." He is said to have had two, or perhaps three wives; but the name of only one, Eva Youngs, has survived, and owes its preservation to the circumstance that it was engraved on one of her pewter plates, which is yet, Jan. 1875, in possession of her granddaughter, Mrs. Horton. He died in 1810.
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X. Uriah Whitney, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 12 Nov. 1737; a farmer. He seems to have had two wives, but no facts respecting the first one have been discovered, save that her name was Sarah Platt. He bought a farm and dwelling-house in Simsbury, Conn., 6 Jan. 1773, and he was then called of Farmington, Conn.; but the Farmington records show nothing of him until 28 Ap. 1778, when he, then of Simsbury, bought of Anthony
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