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Fifth Generation.
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Jan. 1784, at Ridgefield, Ephraim Clark. They settled at Pompey, N.Y., where she died in Ap. 1847. Her descendants, it is said, still lived at Pompey in 1874; but nothing has been learned of them, except that one granddaughter married a Mr. Crandall, of Rochester, N.Y.
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Chil. Of Daniel and Thankful (Burt) Whitney.
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27
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I. Mary Whitney, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 16 Sept. 1742; married John Truesdell, brother of Gamaliel Truesdell, who married her sister Anne Whitney. They dwelt at, or near, Warwick, N.Y., and afterwards, it is said, went to Wyoming, Penn.
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714
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II. Ruhamah Whitney, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 10 Ap. 1744. Tradition says that she married, in opposition to her father's wish, with a young man whom he had taught the carpenter's trade, and settled in Wilkes-Barre, Penn., where the Indians fired through an open window and killed her husband, as he lay sick in bed. She fled from the house, as did a man who was boarding there, and, as they soon became separated and he saw her no more, her friends thought she had been killed; but they afterward saw a traveller from Canada, who told them that the Indians took her to Canada, and sold her to a Frenchman, with whom she married and lived happily. As the tradition fixes the date between 1756 and 1760, when she was from 12 to 16 years old, and at least three years before the first settlement was made at Wyoming, the reader is welcome to believe as much of it as does the writer.
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III. Daniel Whitney, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 12 Jan. 1745-6; a farmer; married about 1766, at Warwick, N.Y., his cousin, Martha Burt, born at Ridgefield, 3 Ap. 1743, dau. of Daniel and Hannah (Benedict) Burt, of Warwick.1 They dwelt at Warwick Village. He is known to have been in the army in 1780, and served to the end of the war of the Revolution, and was, it is said, a Captain. In the Spring of 1784, he went to the Wyoming region, in Penn., and bought a thousand acres of land, on which to settle; and died in June of the same year, from over-exertion, when not fully recovered from an attack of measles. His widow moved, with her children, to Big Flats, N.Y., and died there, 29 May 1817, at the house of her daughter, Mrs. Martha (Whitney) Snow. She was buried in a family-cemetery, laid out on their farm, now owned by James Whitney, on the Sing Sing Creek, in the town of Big Flats, nine miles north-west of Elmira. She was a member of the Baptist Church.
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IV. Anne Whitney, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 23 May 1748; married Gamaliel Truesdell, and with him dwelt, for a short time, at Warwick,
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725
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1 See note to number 27.
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