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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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Fifth Generation.
which make the date of his death 29 Sept 1824, white his gravestone in the old Episcopal Cemetery, says "31 Oct 1824, aet. 84", though his age was really almost 87 years. It is said that his widow went to live with a son by her former husband, in Weston, Conn., and died there.
201 VII. Lot Osborn, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 23 Ap. 1744; a farmer; married, in 1763, Thankful Doolittle, dau. of Abel1 and Thankful Doolittle of Waterbury, Conn., where she was born, 15 June 1748. They settled at Watertown, Conn., and, late in life, moved to Osborn Hollow, in Windsor, now Colesville, N. Y., where she died, 5 Jan. 1813, after fifty years of married life. He married (2d), 26 Oct 1813, at Osborn Hollow, Phebe Martin, a widow. They died at Osborn Hollow; he, 5 Ap. 1821; she, 25 Jan. 1829, in her 67th year; and were buried there. 868



Chil. of John and Elizabeth (Keeler) Rockwell. 31

202 I. Elizabeth Rockwell, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 25 July 1732; married, 28 Oct. 1762, at Danbury, Conn., Capt. Daniel Wildman,2 son of Jacob and Mercy Wildman. They dwelt at Miry Brook, Danbury, till 13 Nov. 1798, when he and his son, Daniel Wildman, Jr., joined in selling to William King Comstock, of Danbury, for $2250, 166 acres of land at Miry Brook, "containing the House, buildings & whole of the said Wildman's Homestead, whereon he now lives"; then moved to Bristol, Conn., where he bought a large old-fashioned house, containing a ball-room, which, for many years, was used as a place of worship by the Baptist Church of Bristol, of which he was the founder. 874
203 II. John Rockwell, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 12 May 1734; a farmer and shoemaker; married, 16 Ap. 1754, at Ridgefield, Hannah Scott, of Ridgebury, dau. of James and Hannah Scott, of Ridgefield, where she was born 3 Oct 1731. They dwelt in Ridgefield till after 28 Oct. 1764; and moved, before 18 May 1768, to Lanesborough, Mass., where she died. He married (2d) Sally Rice, widow of ----- Hungerford. It is said that she was born in Virginia, and died at Cornwall, Vt., but further particulars have not been given. He had a third wife, a French lady, whose name is not known, whom he married in Stanbridge, L. C.; and she died a year or 878
  1 Possibly born at Wallingford, Conn., 15 May 1724, son of Samuel Doolittle; and may be the same who died at Watertown, Conn., of smallpox, 4 Dec. 1764.
  2 He first married, at Danbury, 14 Ap. 1757, Mary Shove, who died at Danbury, 26 Nov. 1759, leaving one child, Hannah Wildman, born at Danbury 26 Ap. 1758, who married at Danbury, 23 Ap. 1777, Nathan Wood, and had children; Nathan Wood, born 13 Dec. 1777; Mary Wood, born 23 March, 1780; Betty Wood, born 23 Feb. 1784; and Grizel Wood, horn 23 Oct. 1789, all at Danbury.
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