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Whitney Family.
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the little band, with whom he had emigrated, and regularly sustained a reading meeting on the Sabbath in connexion with his brethren, until they were blessed with the stated ministry of the word.
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"He exercised here, too, the office of Deacon in the infant church in Brownhelm, with all his former acceptance. In the absence of clerical assistance, his labors were sought and equally acceptable to neighboring settlements.
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"These services, with the natural force of his character, made him venerated in the colony by the early settlers and their children. His name and memory are interwoven with the cherished recollections of the early history of Brownhelm."
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II. Lydia James, married successively Samuel Lockwood, ----- Beekman, and David Bruce; and died in 1843, at Williamsburgh, L. I., having had no children. Her last husband lived and died at Bordentown, N. J. He was a type-founder, for many years, in New York City, with his brother George, whose son, David Wolf Bruce, still continues the business.
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III. Robert James, b. in Conn., about 1769; a cordwainer; married, 31 May 1794, at St John, N. B., Isabella Calaghan, who was born in New Haven, Conn., and died at St. John, and was buried there; married (2d), 27 Ap. 1823, at St. John, Margaret Foucht, who was born about 1786, and died at St. John, 17 July 1870, aged 84; died at St. John, 28 Ap. 1841, or, according to another account, 29 Ap. 1842, in the 72d year of his age.
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IV. Hannah James, b., probably in Connecticut, in Feb. 1771; went with her parents, to St. John, N. B., and there married, about 1797, Elnathan Appleby, a house-joiner, who was born in England about 1770. They settled in St. John, where he died in 1826, aged about 55 or 60 years, and was buried in the city cemetery. She died in Kingston, N. B., in Feb. 1830.
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V. Esther James, b. 20 March 1772; married at St. John, N. B., Henry Finch, a master-mariner, who was born, 19 July 1761, in England. They settled in St. John, and there died; he, in St. James Street, in 1814; she, 9 Nov. 1848.
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VI. Elizabeth James, married, 14 June 1793, at St. John, N. B., Samuel Stickney, a farmer, born in May 1769, at Maugerville, N. B., whither his parents, Isaac and Elizabeth (Barker) Stickney, had moved, about 1762, from Rowley, Mass. They settled in Sheffield, N. B., where he was drowned in July 1814, and where she married (2d), 21 Nov. 1816, William Clark, son of Alexander and Mary (Vanderhoff) Clark. She died, 18 Aug. 1847. 1
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1 See Stickney Genealogy, pp. 167 and 267.
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