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1742 - 1839 (96 years)
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Name |
Dorothy ST. JOHN [1] |
Birth |
14 Nov 1742 |
Wilton, Connecticut [1] |
Gender |
Female |
Baptism |
18 Dec 1743 |
Wilton, Connecticut [1] |
Death |
08 Feb 1839 |
Skaneateles, New York [1] |
Notes |
- Excerpt from "The Whitney Family of Connecticut": ...went with her father, in May 1746, to Sharon, Conn. where she married, in 164 Simeon Hyde, a tailor, b. at Lebanon, Conn. 14 Sept. 1742, son of David and Alathea (Bradford) Hyde, of Sharon, Conn. They lived in Sharon till 1776; then moved to Wyoming, now Wilkes-Barre, Penn., where they dwelt till the settlement was broken up, and the country laid waste, by the British and Indians, in July 1778. He was a cripple, unfit for military service, and was not in the battle. They returned to Sharon, and remained till about 1786, when they moved west; and he died in Sept. 1789, at Walton, NY, and was buried there. She afterward lived at Whitestown, Rome, and Auburn, NY, with her son Daniel, till his death in 1810; then with her son David, keeping is house when he died in 1824; after which she dwelt with her dau., Mrs. Laura (Hyde) Kellogg, in Skaneateles, where she died, 8 Feb. 1839, in her ninety-seventh year. She was buried at Skaneateles. She was a very energetic, active woman, and, by teaching school and other industry, greatly helped her crippled husband in supporting the family after "they were driven out of paradise", at Wyoming.
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Person ID |
I54303 |
Main Tree |
Father |
Mark ST. JOHN, b. 15 Aug 1715, Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA d. 1770 (Age 54 years) |
Relationship |
Natural |
Mother |
Hannah ? d. 07 Jul 1745, Wilton, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA |
Relationship |
Natural |
Marriage |
Abt 1737 [2] |
Family ID |
F05615 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family |
Simeon HYDE, b. 14 Sep 1742, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut, USA d. Sep 1789, Walton, New York (Age 47 years) |
Marriage |
1764 [1] |
Family ID |
F22248 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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Sources |
- [S01702] S. Whitney, Ancestry.com: "The Whitney Family of Connecticut, and its Affiliations", (Name: Name: New York: Privately Printed 1878;;).
- [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).
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