Stephen WHITNEY & Sarah WHEELER

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             Husband: Stephen WHITNEY (1 2 3 4 5 6)

                Born: 10 FEB 1733 (7)
             Married: in Derby, New Haven, CT (24)
                Died:
              Father: Josiah WHITNEY
              Mother: Eunice HANFORD
             Spouses: Eunice KEENEY; Hannah HULL

                Wife: Sarah WHEELER (8 9)

                Born: 27 DEC 1737 (10)
          Christened: 02 JUL 1738 in First Congregational Church Of Derby (11)
                Died: 31 MAR 1764 in Derby, New Haven, CT (12 13 14)
              Buried: in Derby Colonial Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT (15 16)
              Father: James WHEELER
              Mother: Sarah JOHNSON
             Spouses:

Children

01               (M): Samuel WHITNEY
                Born: 15 MAR 1759 in Derby, New Haven, CT (17)
                Died:
             Spouses: Esther SMITH

02               (M): Isaac WHITNEY
                Born: 17 NOV 1761 in Derby, New Haven, CT (18 19)
                Died: 1794 (20)
             Spouses: Betty WHITMORE

03               (M): James WHITNEY
                Born: 23 MAR 1764 in Derby, New Haven, CT (21 22)
                Died: JUN 1794 (23)
             Spouses:

Footnotes

Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 814-5.
Here lyes the body of Mrs | Sarah Whitney wife to | Stephen Whitney and daughter to | Capt James and Mrs Sarah Wheeler | and mother of Samuel Isaac and | James Whitney died March ye | 31 1764 in ye 27 year of her age.
Look on me as you pass by
As you are now so once was I
As I am now so you must be
Prepare for death and follow me.
Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901), 472, 474, 476, 479.
Church Records.

[http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/472.html.]
1790 Derby Census.
1800 Derby Census.
Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901), 477, 478, 480.
Church Records.

[http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/477.html.]
Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 777.
... settled in Derby, at the Narrows ... started the first store at the Narrows ...
Ibid., 777.
Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901), 472.
Church Records.

[http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/472.html.]
Ibid., 474.
Church Records.

[http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/474.html.]
Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852 (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997), 315.
Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901), 470.
First Congregational Church - Derby
Records of Reverend Daniel Humphreys.

[http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/470.html.]
Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852 (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997), 316.
Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 257.
[http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan257.html.]
Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 777.
Ibid., 814-5.
Here lyes the body of Mrs | Sarah Whitney wife to | Stephen Whitney and daughter to | Capt James and Mrs Sarah Wheeler | and mother of Samuel Isaac and | James Whitney died March ye | 31 1764 in ye 27 year of her age.
Look on me as you pass by
As you are now so once was I
As I am now so you must be
Prepare for death and follow me.
Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 257.
[http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan257.html.]
Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852 (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997), 316.
Ibid., 316.
Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 777.
Ibid., 778.
Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852 (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997), 316.
Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 777.
Ibid., 777.
Ibid., 777.

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