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             Husband: Josiah WHITNEY
                Born: l 1764 (1)
             Married: 1784 (6 7)
                Died: AUG 1794 (2)
              Father: Henry WHITNEY
              Mother: Eunice CLARK
             Spouses: 
                Wife: Hannah RIGGS
                Born: 06 MAR 1767 (3 4)
          Christened: 26 APR 1767 in First Congregational Church Of Derby (5)
                Died: 11 JUN 1815
              Father: Joseph RIGGS
              Mother: Rachel CHATFIELD
             Spouses: Philo NORTHROP

Footnotes

  1. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 778.
  2. Ibid., 778.
    ... dwelt in Derby; was commander of a vessel in the South American trade; was cast away in 1794, and died in consequence of his sufferings in Demarara, in August of that year ...
  3. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 539.
  4. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 18.
  5. 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), 476.
    Church Records.
    [http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/475.html.]
  6. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 539.
  7. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 18.

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