Samuel WHITNEY

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"The Whitney Family": They lived for a few years, perhaps tll after the Revolutionary War, in Stockbridge, Mass., after which he went with his family to the Sate of New York, living for a time in the large old town of Johnstown, Montgomery Co. (part of which is now in Fulton Co., part in Hamilton Co., and part in Montgomery Co.,) also for a time in the town of German Flats, perhaps in that part which is now Warren, Herkimer Co., and possibly, also in Galway, Saratoga Co. In October, 1793, he settled on the Brothertown Indian lands, in Paris, now Kirkland, New York, where he bought one hundred acres of land fro the State, a part of which lies in the present town of Marshall, the town-line crossing the farm, receiving his deed 1 Sept. 1795; and his grandchildren still own the occupy the farm, though the deed has not yet been proved, acknowledged or recorded. On this farm they died; he, 12 July 1822, aged 72 years; and she, 14 Feb. 1834, aged 79 years. they were buried in a small cemetery on their farm, which is ow known as the Whitney Cemetery.

Samuel married Mary ST. JOHN on 03 Jan 1775 in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of Mark ST. JOHN and Ann GAY) was born on 14 Jan 1755 in Sharon, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"The Whitney Genealogy":...By settlement of his father's estate, 28 March 1744, and a division made by him and his brother Daniel Whitney, 4 Feb. 1745, he had the south half of his father's homestead in Ridgefield, which he sold, 14 Feb. 1753, with "dwelling house, barn shop, fruit trees and fences," to Abraham Betts, of Norwalk, for L1200, old tenor A deed of 20 March 1771, shows that he then lived in Salem, Westchester Co., New York. He signed a deed, 14 Feb. 1793, in which he called himself of "the County of Serry Togue and State of New York". He lived, in the latter part of his life, with his son Ezra, at, or near, Johnstown, New York He is known to have visited his son Samuel, in Paris, now Kirkland, Oneida Co., New York, about 1797, when he was eighty years old, but neither the place nor the date of his death, or that of his second wife, have been reported; but she died first.

John married Hepzibah OLMSTED on 15 Jun 1746 in Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. Hepzibah died on 20 May 1753 in Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Richard and Mary (Betts) Olmsted