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Whitney Family.
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727
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| 4036
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VIII. Julia Ann Shepard, b. at Bethel, Conn., 4 May 1825; married there, 14 May 1850, Philo Camp Merwin, a farmer, son of Philo and Polly (Starr) Merwin, of Brookfield, Conn., where he was born 29 Sept. 1809. They settled in Brookfield, and were living there in Sept. 1875.
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10718
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| 4037
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IX. Mary Adeline Shepard, b. at Bethel, Conn., 20 Jan. 1829; and was living there in Aug. 1875, unmarried.
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Child of Daniel Parsons and Joanna (Hoyt) Shepard.
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1216
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| 4038
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I. Stephen Shepard, was living in New York City, in Aug. 1874.
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Chil. of Isaac and Anna (Bristol) Sanford.
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1218
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| 4039
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I. Silas Bristol Sanford, b. at Newtown, Conn., 16 Feb. 1791; a manufacturer of spinning-wheels, and after their supersession, a worker in brass; married at Brookfield, Conn., 1 May 1814, Sally Lockwood, dau. of Isaac and Phebe (Nichols) Lockwood, of Brookfield, where she was born 12 Sept 1795. She died at Newtown, 5 Dec. 1819, and was buried at Brookfield. He was married (2d), 2 Ap. 1820, at Reading, Conn., by Rev. James M. Smith, Methodist Episcopal, to Lucretia Fayerweather, dau. of Joseph and Rachel (Beers) Fayerweather,1 of Weston, now Easton, Conn., where she was born 29 Dec. 1793. They resided in Monroe, Conn., till 1839; in Preston, Penn., till 1845; and then dwelt with his father, at Sandy Hook, in Newtown, where they were living in Sept. 1875.
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10720
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| 4040
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II. Samuel Norman Sanford, b. at Newtown, Conn., 18 March 1793; a farmer; married in March 1814, at her father's house in Sugar Street, Newtown, his mother's cousin, Anna Maria Shepard, dau. of Stephen and Anna (Foote) Shepard. She was born at Bethel, Conn., 9 June 1793. They dwelt at Sandy Hook, in Newtown, till 1845; and then moved to the village of Newtown, where they died (she, 23 Oct. 1855; he, 29 Ap. 1858), and were buried in Newtown Cemetery. They were members of the Methodist Church.
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10730
1217
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1 John Fayerweather came from England; married Nabby Curtis, of Trumbull, Conn. and settled in Weston, Conn. He was killed in the Revolutionary war. He had three sons: Samuel Fayerweather, who served throughout the Revolutionary war, and lived to see La Fayette in 1826; Zalmon Fayerweather; and Joseph Fayerweather, who married Rachel Beers, dau. of Peter and Eunice (Booth) Beers, of Trumbull, and settled in Weston.
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