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farmer; bore the title of Captain, and was a soldier of the Revolutionary War; married, 8 Ap. 1784, at Lenox, Mass., Ruth Wilson, born at Ridgefield, 16 March 1765, dau. of David and Sarah Wilson of Lenox. They settled in that part of Ballston, N.Y., which was set off, 17 March 1792, as Chariton, and about 1793 moved to Brothertown, afterward Paris, now Kirkland, N.Y.; and thence, after a few years, to Westmoreland, and from there, in 1821, to Magnolia, in Chautauqua, N.Y., where they dwelt the rest of their lives. He died, 10 May 1844, in his 85th year; she, 28 Oct 1851, aet. 87. They were buried at Magnolia.
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VIII. Josiah Anson Whitney, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 18 Jan. 1762;1 a millwright; served in the Revolutionary War, and though he was only thirteen years old when it began, tradition says that he served six years, and "held a Captain's commission under Gen. George Washington." He married, about 1786 or the beginning of 1787, at Danbury, Conn., Rebecca Olmstead. Perhaps Danbury was their dwelling place for the first ten years; but in the early part of 1797, they were living in Paris, N.Y., and, about 1800, they moved to Westmoreland, N.Y., where she died, and was buried. He married (2d), 20 Sept. 1802, Sally Leet, who was born in Guilford, Conn., where also the marriage took place.
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IX. Elizabeth Whitney, b. at Ridgebury, in Ridgefield, Conn., 24 March 1769; married Timothy Hunt, a mason and farmer, son of Gilbert and Hannah (Gorham) Hunt,2 of North Salem, N.Y., where he was born, 5 Nov. 1771. In 1799 they settled in Ridgefield, where he died, 13 Jan. 1835, in his 64th year. She died in Danbury, Conn., 12 Dec., 1867, aged 98 years, 8 months and 18 days. They were buried in the North Salem Cemetery. An obituary, signed J. H. F., says: "She retained her faculties to the last, and in her last hour bore testimony to the value of our comforting form of faith. She had been a Universalist more than fifty years, and was a member of the lamented Hillyer's parish during his entire pastorate in North Salem, N.Y. She trusted in her Redeemer with childlike simplicity, and in her life bore testimony to the salutary influence of our religion. The funeral was attended in the Universalist church in North Salem, where the tearful eyes and mournful faces of the people revealed the affectionate regard in which the aged saint was held."
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X. Nathan Whitney, b. at Ridgebury, in Ridgefield, Conn., 2 June 1765; a shoemaker; married, 16 Dec. 1787, at Danbury, Conn., by Rev. Samuel Camp, pastor of the Congregational Church of Ridgebury, to
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1 the town-record makes the date, 16 Jan. -----, the year having been torn away.
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2 Joseph Hunt, of Cortlandt's Manor, N.Y., who died in 1768, had wife Levina, and may have been the father of Gilbert Hunt, who was born about 1740, married Hannah Gorham, of Fairfield, Conn., and settled about 1768 in North Salem, N.Y., where he died, 15 May, 1819, aet. 79. She died, 21 June 1820, aged 75 years. They were buried in North Salem Cemetery. They had ten children, two of whom married Whitneys. See Hunt Genealogy, p. 167.
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