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Elizabeth Whitney

Female Abt 1684 - Yes, date unknown


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  • Name Elizabeth Whitney  [1
    Birth Abt 1684  Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    Death Yes, date unknown 
    Notes 
    • IV. Elizabeth Whitney, b. at Norwalk, Conn.,about 1684; married Joseph Keeler, a carpenter, son of Samuel and Sarah (St. John) Keeler; g. son of Ralph Keeler and of Mark and Elizabeth (Stanley) St. John; and g. g. son of Matthias St. John and Timothy Stanley.1 He was born at Norwalk about 1683. They settled at Ridgefield, where we find early mention of him. At a Town Meeting held in Ridgefield Decembr 27th Anno Dom. 1715 . . . . it was voted by ye Mjority yt Joseph Keeler shall have two shilling as money pr day for making and mending Conveniences for ye setting of Minister and people at ye house of meeting and yt he shall be allowed for Nails and what board will not do for after service. He was elected lister, 19 Dec 1716; scaler of weights and measures, 8 Dec. 1718, 21 Dec. 1721, 13 Dec. 1725, and 27 Dec. 1727; townsman, 21 Dec. 1719, and 20 Dec. 1722; surveyor, 21 Dec. 1721; toler, 13 Dec. 1725; a member of the "committee to run and finish ye Dividend Line between Norwalk and Ridgefield, according to agreement with Norwalk." 27 Dec 1725; and, 5 Sept. 1726, one of "a Committee for the Town for the takeing care of, and carrying on the work of the meeting house by any necessary bargains, or laying out of the severall Sums and Taxes which form time to time shall be raised therefor, and that as their prudence and best discretion shall direct them and that till the meeting house be well compleated and finished." The building of this house was ordered 19 Dec. 1723. He made an agreement with the town as to which days he should grind for them, 7 Dec. 1733; was the town miller 16 Dec. 1636 [sic]; a Justice of the Peace as early as 1735, and for several years after that date. He took the freeman's oath 9 Dec. 1728.

      Both died at Ridgefield; he, 29 Nov. 1757, according to the town record, (while his gravestone says 30 Nov. 1757), aged 74; she, 17 March 1763, aged 79 years. They were buried in Ridgebury Cemetery, where their gravestones were visited in 1875; but his, having been used in trapping woodchucks, was broken in pieces.

      http://www.whitneygen.org/archives/extracts/phoenix/p0016-0020.html
    Person ID I22357  Strong Family Tree
    Last Modified 17 Aug 2014 

    Father John Whitney,   b. Abt 1645, New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef Nov 1720, Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 75 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Smith,   b. Abt 1655, Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown 
    Marriage 17 Mar 1674  Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F7741  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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  • Sources 
    1. [S1342] Edwards, Ralph--"Gates Carlos" Updated 2008-12-01, (http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=gatescarlos).