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Whitney Family.
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EIGHTH GENERATION.
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Chil. of James and Anna (Whitney) Merritt.
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1610
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I. Elizabeth Merritt, b. at Springtown, in New Paltz, N. Y., 11 Feb 1807, being sixteen years and four days younger than her mother; married James Horton, a farmer, who was born at Pleasant Valley, in Plattekill, N. Y., son of William and Mary (Town) Horton, and died at Esopus, N. Y.; married (2d) John James Snyder, a surveyor, of Rochester, Ulster Co., N. Y., and died at Rochester, 7 or 9 March 1869. He still lived at Rochester in 1873.
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II. Jeremiah Merritt, b. in Pine Bush district, Rochester, Ulster Co., N. Y., 16 Oct. 1808, a farmer; married Mary Ann Horton, dau. of William and Mary (Town) Horton. He was living at Elmore's Corners, N. Y., in 1873.
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III. Daniel Merritt, b. at Rochester, Ulster Co., N. Y., 1 Jan. 1810; a carman; married at Rosendale Plains, N. Y., 31 Dec. 1829, in Friends' Meeting, Hannah Tillson, who was born at Rosendale Plains, 20 Feb. 1807, dau. of Isaiah and Phebe (Coutant) Tillson. They dwelt at Rosendale Plains for one year; and then moved to New York City, where he died, 1 Jan. 1835, and was buried in Houston Street Cemetery. She was married (2d), 26 Sept. 1852, in her father's house at Rosendale Plains, by James A. Coutant, to Lewis Felladore, and was living at Rosendale Plains, in Jan. 1875.
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IV. Bethany Merritt, b. at "the Clove," in Rochester, Ulster Co., N. Y., 24 July 1812, married in her father's house at Rosendale Plains, N. Y., 17 Ap. 1830, by Thomas Butler, to Isaiah Tillson, a farmer, son of John and Mary (Crouse) Tillson, of Rosendale Plains, where he was born 18 July 1805. They lived for four years on a farm adjoining her father's, two years in New York City, four years again at Rosendale Plains; one year at Shelby. N. Y., two years at Alabama Centre, N. Y.; one year at East Bloomfield, N. Y., four years at Bristol, N. Y., where they joined the Baptist Church, moved to Michigan in 1848, living one year in Oakland Co., and three years in Bennington, and then settled on a farm of eighty acres in Antrim, where he died 30 March 1863. He was buried at Burns, Michigan. She was living at Oak Grove, Mich., in June 1875.
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