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The Whitney Family of Connecticut

by S. Whitney Phoenix
(New York: 1878)

Transcribed by Robert L. Ward.

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Sixth Generation.
venerable old age. Bold and fearless in thought and action, free and undisguised in words and works, if he harbored antipathy anywhere it was towards indirectness and double-dealing, whether in public or private concernment. His memory will long be revered, and his virtues cherished in the hearts of his friends."
1373 IV. Clarissa Sprague, b. at Milton, N. Y. 31 July 1782; died unmarried, aged 30 years, at Pompey, N. Y., and was buried there, in the Sweet family cemetery.
1374 V. Polly Sprague, b. at Milton, N. Y., 26 May 1785; married, 29 May 1806, at Sharon, Conn., where she then resided, Sylvester Maxam, of Sharon. She died in 1865, or 1866, in Indiana, and was buried there.
1375 VI. Anson Sprague, b. at Milton, N. Y., 23 Feb. 1787; a farmer; moved with his father, in 1794, to Pompey, N. Y., where he married, 23 Aug. 1812, Orril Wright, dau. of Aurelius and Betsey (Russell) Wright, of Springfield, N. Y. They settled at Watervale, in Pompey, and there died (he, 26 March 1842; she, 10 March 1871), and were buried in Manlius, N. Y. He served as a private in a company of artillery in the war of 1812. 4466
1376 VII. Huldah Sprague, b. at Milton, N. Y. 14 Feb. 1789; married, 22 Feb. 1821, at Pompey, N. Y. Samuel Woodworth, whose second wife was her sister Anna. After living at Pompey for six years, at Harmony, Ind., for seven years, and at Princeton, Ind., they settled at Savannah, N. Y., where he died, 29 Aug. 1857, and where she was living in Sept. 1876, four miles from the railway station. She has been described as "finely developed, always much more than ordinarily elegant in person, and intellectually strong. She is yet very handsome, and one of the brightest, most active, and delightful old ladies of eighty-seven years, ever seen." 4471
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1377 VIII. Laura Sprague, b. at Milton, N. Y., 24 Nov. 1791; married at Otisco, N. Y., John Rogers; died in 1833, at Palmyra, N. Y., and was buried in Mount Rope Cemetery, at Rochester, N. Y.



Chil. of Nathan and Zilpah (Sprague) Wood. 369

1378 I. Abigail Wood, b at Milton, N. Y., 29 Sept 1784; died 24 Jan. 1787.
1379 II. Philinda Wood, b at Milton, N. Y., 11 June 1786; married, 12 4475
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