Family:Whitney, Silas (1742-1768)
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He married
Phoenix says the following:
- Silas Whitney, b. at Fairfield, Conn., "July ye 16th 1742;" bap. at Fairfield, 21 July 1742; married "december ye 4, 1766," Esther Sherwood, who was "born march ye 2, 1745." They settled in North Stratford, Conn., where he died in little more than a year after his marriage, as Daniel Sherwood, of Fairfield, Conn., was appointed administrator of his estate, 23 Feb 1768; and the inventory, dated 18 Feb. 1768, amounting to £151 19s., was presented in Court, 24 Feb. 1768. She married (2d) Timothy Sanford,1 b. at Reading, Conn., 8 Feb. 1733-4, son of Joseph Sanford; and settled at Umpewaug, in Reading, where he died in 1784, aged 50 years, according to his gravestone in Umpewaug graveyard. During her second widowhood, she applied to the Court for the distribution of her third of the estate of her first husband, Silas Whitney, which was done, 3 Ap. 1786, more than eighteen years after his death. She married (3d) Josiah Stebbins, who died; and she, after a third widowhood of many years, died in Umpewaug, 10 March 1826, and was buried by the family of her second husband. Her gravestone bears his name, calling her age 80 years, though it was really 81 years, lacking 3 days, if her birth-record was made in the old style.
Children of
i. 6 Whitney, b. ii. Whitney, b. iii. Whitney, b. iv. Whitney, b. v. Whitney, b. vi. Whitney, b. vii. Whitney, b. viii. Whitney, b.
References
- All data imported from Stephen Whitney Phoenix, The Whitney family of Connecticut, and its affiliations; being an attempt to trace the descendants, as well in the female as the male lines, of Henry Whitney, from 1649 to 1878; to which is prefixed some account of the Whitneys of England. (New York : Priv. Print. [Bradford Press] 1878), p. 85 and pp. 246-247.
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