James CANFIELD

• Name	James CANFIELD  [1]
  	"Whitney Genealogy": Her father, in his will of 14 Nov. 1764, gave her L5 2s. 4d., which, with L22 4s already given to her, made her portion equal to those of her sisters. her husband was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. His parentage does not appear. Mary Canfield, of salem, Westchester Co., NY, widow of David Canfield, lately deceased, in her will of 6 June 1783, called him "my adopted son, known by the name of, and commonly called, James Canfield," and gave to him and his wife, Dinah Canfield (whom, by her will, she also adopted), the use of all her estate, with remainder to their children, of whom she named nine, providing that any who might thereafter be born to them should share equally with those already living. they settled in South Salem, and died there. [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	South Salem, New York   [1]
  Person ID	I69322	Main Tree
  Last Modified	11 Nov 2013

  
  

  Family	Dinah KEELER,   b. Abt 1744, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA d. South Salem, New York
  Marriage	29 Apr 1762	New Canaan, Connecticut   [1]
  Children	1. Thankful CANFIELD
  Family ID	F27926	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Sep 2012

  
  

• Sources

  [S00094] S. 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" , (Privately Printed, New York - 1878).