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Whitney Family.
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learn the shoemakers trade, but did not continue at it; married, 15 Jan. 1798, at Watertown, Conn., Susanna Bryan, who was, it is thought, of Milford, Conn. She was daughter of David and Jane Bryan. Her children say that her mother's name was Jane Buckingham, of Old Milford, Conn.; but it seems quite probable that this name came not by birth, but rather by a second marriage, with Hon. Gideon Buckingham.1 They settled in Watertown, Conn., where he bought, 13 Ap. 1805, of Jonathan Scott, one acre of land, "about one mile south of the Presbiterean meeting house in said Watertown." Here he dwelt till his death, of "the lake fever", 14 Jan. 1807., aged 33 years. He was buried the next day, in the old cemetery, in Watertown, directly opposite his house, where his grave stone was standing in 1873. She was baptized and admitted to the Congregational Church in Watertown, in September 1807, and had her three children baptized at the same time. As guardian of her children, properly authorized, she sold their place in Watertown, 28 Oct 1816, and taking from the church a letter of dismission, the date of which does not appear, moved with her little family, in Nov. 1816, to Westerlo, N. Y., where she dwelt till the Autumn of 1828. She then went to live with her daughter, Mrs. Sally (Whitney) Snyder, at Clarkson, N.Y., where she died, 16 March 1861, and was buried in the cemetery of the Presbyterian Church at Clarkson Corners. She was a very intelligent woman, a kind mother, and an exemplary Christian.
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Chil. of Chil. of Matthew and Mary (Elmer) St. John.
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I. Mary St. John, b. at Wilton, Conn., 25 Sept 1739, though the record is at Sharon, Conn.; bap. at Wilton, 4 Nov. 1739; married, 2 July 1755, at Sharon, Joshua Chaffee, a farmer, of Sharon, who came from Mansfield, Conn., the same year. They settled in Sharon, where Caleb and Richard B. Cole were living in 1842; and moved, in 1760, to Ellsworth, Conn., where they died (he, 9 Oct 1789; she, 28 Aug. 1824), and were buried.
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Chil. of Mark and Hannah St. John.
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I. Sarah St. John, b. at Wilton, Conn., in 1738; married at Sharon, Conn., 9 Aug. 1757, by John Williams, Esq., to Enoch Slosson,2 a farmer, son of Nathaniel and Margaret (Belden) Slosson, of Kent, Conn. He was born at Wilton, 13 Aug. 1733. Their marriage was recorded, also, at Kent, where they settled. She united with the church there, 4 June
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1 See Buckingham Genealogy, p.22.
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2 See note to number 389, for his pedigree.
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