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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.
the Crompond Church, 19 Ap. 1816; married by Rev. Silas Constant, of Crompond, in 1821, to Thomas Wildey, a farmer, born in Gomar Street, Yorktown, 7 Feb. 1797, son of Thomas and Nancy (Smith) Wildey. He settled in Gomar Street, Yorktown, where he died, 27 Nov. 1844, aged 47 years, 9 months, and 20 days, according to his gravestone in Shrub Oak Cemetery. She died in Peekskill, N. Y., 11 May 1873, and was buried beside her husband.
1477 VI. David Hyatt Whitney, b. at Crompond, in Yorktown, N. Y., 11 Feb. 1801; a farmer; married at Shrub Oak, in Yorktown, by Rev. Mr. Blair, Presbyterian, to Mary Williams, born in New York City, 15 Oct 1806, dau. of William and Bethia (Purdy) Williams, of New York, and afterward of Kensico, N. Y. They lived at Shrub Oak, East Chester, and Tarrytown; and finally settled at Kensico, in North Castle, N. Y., where he died 3 Oct. 1857, and was buried at White Plains. She was living at Kensico, in 1874. 4807



Chil. of Seth and Elizabeth (Strang) Whitney. 404

1478 I. Sarah Whitney, b. at Yorktown, N. Y., 22 Nov. 1793; married by Rev. Silas Constant, Congregational, of Crompond, 5 Ap. 1815, to Bernardus Montross, a farmer, born at Somers, N. Y., 2 July 1794, son of Nathaniel and Hester (Swartwout) Montross. He lives on the homestead of her father and grandfather, where she died, 28 Sept. 1873, aged nearly 80 years. She was buried in the Crompond East burial-ground. He has been supervisor of Yorktown for seven years; colonel of the 139th reg., N. Y. State Militia; and was, for five years, general of the 15th brigade, in the 4th division, N. Y. S. M., being the County of Westchester. He was a member of the Legislature of New York, sixtieth session, in 1837. 4812
1479 II. Eliza Whitney, b. at Yorktown, N. Y., 5 June 1810; married at Crompond, in Nov. 1833, Cornelius Fish Ferris, born at Yorktown, son of Stephen and Rachel (Fish) Ferris. He was a trader at Pine's Bridge, in Yorktown; died at Crompond, 19 Aug. 1844; and was buried in the Methodist Church yard at New Castle, N. Y. She resides on the homestead of her father and grandfather, with her brother-in-law, Gen. Montross. 4816
1480 III. Margaret Ann Whitney, b. at Yorktown, N. Y., 15 Oct. 1812; married, 23 March 1830, at her father's house in Yorktown, by Rev. Mr. McKnight, Congregational, to Ezra Kipp, a farmer, son of James and Abigail (Reynolds) Kipp, of Somers, N. Y., where he was born, 20 May 1807. They settled in Somers, and in 1857 removed to Alexandria Co., 4820
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