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a ship-builder, born at Newburyport, Mass., 25 Ap. 1768. They settled at St. John, and there died (he, 15 Nov. 1827; she, 8 Sept. 1853), and were buried--he in the old cemetery at the corner of King and Carmarthen Streets, she in old Episcopal Cemetery, on Loch Lomond road, near the city limits.
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IV. Walter Hoyt Whitney, b. at Stamford, Conn., 6 May 1778; died at sea, in Aug. 1794, unmarried.
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V. Platt Whitney, b. at Lloyd's Neck, Oyster Bay, L. I., 7 Aug. 1781; was lost at sea, in 1793.
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VI. William Whitney, b. at Lloyd's Neck, Oyster Bay, L. I., 17 Jan. 1783; a merchant; landed with his parents, in 1783, at St. John, N. B., where he ever after dwelt, and died 21 June 1838. He was buried in the Church Cemetery. He married, 30 Sept 1818, at Gagetown, N. B., Elizabeth Seely, dau. of Abijah and Johanna (Bates) Seely,1 of New Canaan, Conn. She was born at Stamford, Conn., 7 July 1791; and died, 14 Aug. 1859, at St. John.
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VII. Huldah Whitney, b. at St. John, N. B., 13 May 1785; died unmarried, 13 Ap. 1808, at St. John, and was buried there.
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VIII. Hannah Whitney, b. at Kingston, N. B., 2 Oct. 1788; married, 6 Nov. 1808, at St. John, N. B., by Rev. Mather Byles, Jr., D. D., Episcopal, to William Olive, a ship-builder, son of William and Catharine (Smith) Olive, of Carleton, St. John, where he was born, 10 May 1786. They settled in King Street, Carleton, St John, where she died 1 Ap. 1853, and was buried in Carleton New Cemetery. He married (2d), 2 Aug. 1854, Mrs. Jane Eliza (Leavitt) Gwinn, dau. of John and Margaret (Frost) Leavitt, of Carleton, St. John, where she was born, 4 Sept. 1801. He died, 25 Jan. 1863, at Carleton, St. John, and was buried in the New Cemetery. He was an alderman of the city of St John, from 1829 to 1835; and one of Her Majesty's justices of the peace, from 1835 till his death. His widow was living in Tower Street, Carleton, St. John, in March 1874.
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1ANCESTRY OF ELIZABETH SEELY.
JOHN SEELY, perhaps, b. 25 Aug. 1693, son of Obadiah. = ABIGAIL -----.
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ABIJAH SEELY, b. at Stamford, 26 Oct 1733; = LYDIA HOYT. JOHN BATES, = SARAH BOSTWICK, of Fairfield,
m. at Stamford, 18 May 1758. | | Conn.; m. -- June 1752.
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ABIJAH SEELY, b. at Stamford, 23 Nov. = JOHANNA BATES, b. at Stamford, 16 Jan. 1769; m. at Stamford, 13 Sept
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WILLIAM WHITNEY, No. 1407. = ELIZABETH SEELY.
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