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Wolcott. Soon after this sale, he moved to Plattekill, N.Y., where he was living 22 Dec. 1808, at which date, for himself; and as agent for Jeremiah DeGraff, he sold a portion or his father's estate, which had been set out to them in the division. His home in Plattekill was about half a mile north of Modena village; and there he died about April, 1813, of bilious colic. It is said that he was buried about a quarter of a mile west of his house; but a careful examination of the old graveyard, 6 Nov. 1873, failed to disclose any inscription to his memory. He had sold his property with the design of returning to Vermont, which his sudden death prevented. He is remembered as a pious and earnest member of the Methodist Church at Modena. His widow married a second husband. One account says that he was Daniel Soper, who went to Buffalo, N.Y.; while, according to another, he was David Soper, who settled in Avon, N.Y., and there died. Her descendants do not know the time or place of her death, but think it occurred about 1835 or 1836.
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V. Hannah Whitney, b. 26 June 1770.
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VI. Nathan Whitney, b. in Norwalk, Conn., 24 Jan. 1772, according to his father's record; a shoemaker; and, in later life, a farmer; went with his father to Wolcott, Vt, and from there, about 1797, to Esopus, N.Y., where, in the Autumn of 1801, he married Anna York, born in Esopus, 20 July 1769, dau. of John and Eve (Lyths) York. They dwelt in Esopus till 1832, when they moved to Poughkeepsie, N.Y., to live with their son, Elisha Miller Whitney. She went to New York City to visit her daughter, at 118 Perry St, and there died, 23 June 1841, of an abscess of the bowels. He died, 22 July 1858, or old age and debility, while on a visit to his daughter at Lake Hopatcong, in Roxbury, New Jersey. They were buried in Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery, where a monument has been erected to their memory.
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VII. William Whitney, b. 4 Jan. 1774; a farmer, shoemaker and cooper; bought of his father, for £3 12s., 1 Oct 1795, about twenty-four acres of land in Wolcott, Vt, "being so much of the second division lot, on the original right of Rufus Herrick, as lay on the south side of the River Lamoille." He bought, after his mother's death, so much of his father's land and mills as had been set apart for her use, making the purchase from his brother, Zadok Whitney, the executor, 29 March 1804 for three hundred and sixty dollars; and sold the same property, 17 Sept 1805, to Barney Peck, for three hundred dollars. He was frequently a town officer in Wolcott. He was married, 25 Dec. 1792, at Wolcott, by 'Thomas Taylor, justice of the peace, to Sally Batterson, dau. of William Mather and Grisel (Blackman) Batterson, of Norwalk, where she was born, 6 Oct. 1776. This was the first marriage in the town of Wolcott. They settled in Wolcott, and there died; he, 3 or 5 March 1856, aged 82 years; she, 15 Jan. 1868, aged 91 years, a consistent Christian of the Methodist
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