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Whitney Family.
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281
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butcher, and painter; married Dorcas Austin, dau. of Samuel Austin. His last residence was at Horseheads, N. Y., and he died there.
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XI. Ethiel Whitney, b. in Newtown, Conn., 6 May 1796, his name on the town-record being Eathel, while the most common form given by his family is Eathiel; a blacksmith and farmer; went, at eighteen years of age, to live in Southbury, Conn.; thence, in 1819, to Hector, N. Y., where he married, 29 March 1823, Elizabeth Leonard, who was born in "Charlotte," probably a former local name for some part of Davenport, N. Y., 23 Dec. 1803, dau. of Benjamin and Effie (Berget) Leonard. They lived in Covert, N. Y., in 1824; moved across the lake to Genoa, early in 1825; thence, in 1826, to Danby, N. Y.; and, in 1832, to Spencer, N. Y., where they lived till 1837. They then moved to Cannon, Mich., which was their home till 1865, when, having become nearly blind and quite deaf, he gave up business, and lived with his son, Zerah Whitney, in Plainfield, Mich., where they were living in Oct 1873. He served in the war of 1812.
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XII. Abel Whitney, b. in Newtown, Conn., 23 Sept. 1797; a blacksmith; married, 1 Oct 1821, at her father's house in Bridgewater, Conn., by Rev. Abner Brundage, pastor of the Congregational Church in Brookfield, Conn., to Elvira Tryphosa Beecher, who was born in Bridgewater, 28 March 1802, dau. of Raphael and Hannah (Ruggles) Beecher. They lived in Newtown (where he was an assessor, in 1847) till 7 May 1849, and then moved to Wakeman, Ohio, where they were living in Sept 1875.
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Chil. of Samuel and Huldah (Stilson) Whitney.
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316
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I. John Whitney, b. in Newtown, Conn., 29 July 1784.
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II. Annie Whitney, b. in Newtown, Conn., 3 Nov. 1785.
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III. Thomas Judson Whitney, b. in Newtown, Conn., 4 Oct 1787.
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| 1256
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IV. Oliver Whitney, b. in Newtown, Conn., 22 Ap. 1789; died in Newtown, of dropsy, 6 Dec. 1828; and was unmarried, for the inventory of his property, presented to the Court of Probate, in Newtown, 22 Dec. 1828, shows no indications that he had a family. James Foot, Jr., was the administrator, 8 Dec. 1828.
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V. Henry Whitney, b. in Newtown, Conn., 14 Feb. 1793; married about 1814, Betsey Hard, of Newtown; died about 1819, probably in, or near, Newtown.
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