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.
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.