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Whitney Family.
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made her portion equal to those of her sisters. Her husband was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. His parentage does not appear. Mary Canfield, of Salem, Westchester Co., N. Y., widow of David Canfield, lately deceased, in her will of 6 June 1783, called him "my adopted son, known by the name of, and commonly called, James Canfield," and gave him and his wife, Dinah Canfield (whom, by her will, she also adopted), the use of all her estate, with remainder to their children, of whom she named nine, providing that any who might thereafter be born to them should share equally with those already living. They settled in South Salem, and died there.
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IX. John Keeler, twin, b. in Norwalk, Conn., 29 Aug. 1746; bap. in New Canaan, Conn., 14 Sept. 1746; a farmer; had, by his father's will, 14 Nov. 1764, £35, and one fourth of the remaining land; married, according to the Town Records of Ridgefield, Conn., 17 Sept. 1767, Phebe Hoyt. She was born 17 Oct. 1746, and was dau. of Dr. Abner and Phebe1 Hoyt, of New Canaan, where she was baptized, 16 Nov. 1746. They probably lived in New Canaan till 1770, then settled in Ridgefield, where they dwelt till age had made them infirm; then went to South Hero, Grand Isle Co., Vt., to live with their son, Abner Keeler, where they died and were buried.
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X. Joseph Keeler, twin, b. in Norwalk, Conn., 29 Aug. 1746; bap. in New Canaan, Conn., 14 Sept. 1746; had by his father's will, 14 Nov. 1764, £35, and one fourth of the remaining land; and nothing further has been reported of him, beyond the belief that he was unmarried.
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XI. Elizabeth Keeler, b. in Norwalk, Conn., date not found; bap. in New Canaan, Conn., 25 Dec. 1748; had by her father's will, 14 Nov. 1764, £27 6s. 4d.; since which we have no knowledge of her. It seems possible that she went with her mother, in 1766, to Wilton, Conn., and that she was that Elizabeth Keeler, of Wilton, who married, 30 March 1768, at New Canaan, Samuel Northrup, of Ridgefield, Conn.
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Chil. of Joseph and Mary (Coit) Whitney.
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I. Mary Whitney, b. 12 Aug. 1755; married, 26 March 1775, at Norwalk, Conn., Hanford Fairweather, who died 27 Aug. 1795, at Norwalk. She was living in Norwalk 30 Jan. 1813, at which date she mortgaged to Stephen Mott a part of her homestead. She dwelt in the
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1 Her maiden surname, not given in the Hoyt Genealogy, p. 380, was probably Rice, or Royce, as indicated by "Uriah Royce" and "Rice," names of two of her children, and by "John Rice," a name give by her dau., Phebe Hoyt Keeler, to two of her children.
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