Daniel WHITNEY

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"Whitney Family of Connecticut": A cooper. "Daniel Whitne and Hester Clason was married by ye Revnd. Mr. Ephraim Bostwick, pastor of the Church in Greenwich, on November ye 7th at evening, 1745". - Stamford town records. She was a member of the first Congregational Church at Stamford. He settled at Stamford, about three-fourths of a mile west of the village, at the fork of the road called Dumpling Road, and there died of a cancer, after thirty years of suffering. It is thought that he lived till after the Revolutionary War.

Daniel married Hester CLASON on 7 Nov 1745. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Daniel Whitney was a cooper. They lived, during the whole of their married life, about two miles west of the village of Stamford, in a house occupied by Widow John Selleck in 1868. He was a soldier of the Revolution, and enjoyed a pension,as did his wife after his death for his services. He died, on Sunday morning, 6 Aug. 1826, aged 72 years, 3 months and 2 days. His widow, who was a remarkably vigorous woman, and able, when over eighty years old, to walk from Stamford Landing, two and a half miles, to her home, died in Stamford, 24 Feb. 1849, aged 87 years, 10 months and 24 days; and was buried near her husband, in a graveyard south of the village, near the river and the railway, where their gravestones may still be found, by one willing to encounter the weeds and mosquitoes. She was a communicant in the Episc. Church.

Daniel married Hannah SELLECK on 19 Jun 1776. Hannah was born on 29 Mar 1761 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 24 Feb 1849 in Stamford, Fairfield Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]