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Whitney Family.
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ing to the record at Sharon, Conn., but other reports make the date, 3 Dec. of the same year; was made the legal ward of his mother, in Berkshire Co., Mass., 11 Feb. 1772; a farmer and mill-owner; married Lois Drake,1 of Stockbridge, born 2 Dec. 1768, dau. of Aaron and Chloe (Gillet) Drake, of Wintonbury, now Bloomfield, Conn. They dwelt at Canaan, N. Y., till 1800; then moved to Mapleton, in Canajoharie, N. Y., where they died; he, 5 Dec. 1814, of typhus fever, taken while encamped at Sacket's Harbor, where he commanded a company of militia; she, 10 Nov. 1854, aged 85 years. They were buried in Ames Cemetery, Canajoharie.
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Chil. of Ezra and Anne (St. John) St. John.
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I. Mercy St. John, b. at Wilton, Conn., 26 June 1734, recorded also at Sharon, Conn.; married, 30 March 1749, at Sharon, by John Williams, Esq., to John Pennoyer, born at Stamford, Conn., 19 Dec. 1727, son of John and Abigail (Ferris) Pennoyer, of Sharon. They settled in Sharon, where "he built the brick house, known as the Taylor house, also the one now [1842] owned by Dr. John W. Smith, in which latter place he kept a tavern. In 1785, he removed to Hudson, N. Y., where he died."2
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II. Phebe St. John, b. at Wilton, Conn., 26 Jan. 1736-7, the record being also at Sharon, Conn.; married, 14 March 1754, at Sharon, Caleb Curtice, of Sharon, son of Caleb Curtice. She married (2d), at Sharon, as his second wife, 5 Nov. 1775, John Gay, son of John and Lydia (Colver) Gay, of Sharon. Re was horn in Litchfield, Conn., 28 Jan. 1727-8; and died in Sharon, 1 Jan. 1776. She married (3d), 27 Ap. 1780, in Sharon, Nathan Smith, of New Marlborough, Mass. She has no descendants at Sharon.
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III. Jemima St. John, b. at Wilton, Conn., 4 Aug. 1739, recorded also at Sharon, Conn.; bap. at Wilton, 9 Sept. 1739; moved with her mother, about 1748, to Sharon, where she was married, 30 Oct. 1755, by Rev. Cotton Mather Smith, pastor of the Congregational Church, to Isaac Benton, a millwright, son of Isaac and Ruth Benton,3 of Salisbury, Conn. He was executor of his father's will, and was appointed guardian to his brother Levi, 28 Nov. 1758. They settled in Salisbury. He died at Falls Village, Conn., in 1814, aged 83 years. Judge Samuel Church, in his
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1 See pedigree opposite page 100.
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2 Sedgwick's History of Sharon, Conn., p. 105.
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3 Isaac Benton, died in Salisbury, 17 Sept. 1757, and was buried in the old cemetery. His children were, Isaac Benton, eldest son; Stephen Benton, who m., 4 May 1759, at Salisbury, Prudence Reynolds, of the Oblong; Joseph Benton; Nathan Benton; Levi Benton, b. 20 March 1746; Ruth Benton, b. at Salisbury, 23 July 1748; Jehiel Benton, b. at Salisbury, 9 Aug. 1752, died 1 June 1753; and Sarah Benton, the eldest, who m. ----- Tousley.
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