[NEHGR, 15:220, Jul 1861]
... Elizabeth [Fitch], b. 12 Feb. 1749, at L., m. 7 Jan. 1767, Ebenezer Backus, b. 17 Aug. 1747, at Norwich, only son of Ebenezer Backus, Esq., of N. by his 2d wife Eunice Dyer. They settled at N., and had 5 children:
1. Eunice, b. 5 May, 1768, at N. ;
2. Eleazer Fitch, b. 13 Jan. 1779, at N., m. Harriet Whiting, b. 14 Sept. 1779, youngest dau. of Col. William Bradford Whiting and Amie Lathrop of Canaan, N.Y. They settled at Albany, where she d. 13 July, 1804, leaving one child. He then m. 8 June, 1807, Elizabeth Chester, b. 10 Nov. 1774, at Weathersfield, eldest dau. of Col. John Chester and Elizabeth Huntington, and had by her three children : Rev. Jonathan Trumbull Backus, D.D., Presbyterian clergyman at Schenectady, N.Y., Rev. John Backus, D.D., Presbyterian clergyman at Baltimore, Md., and Mary the wife of James Bayard, Esq., of Philadelphia ;
3. Elizabeth, b. 22 March, 1775 ;
4. Alexander, b. 5 May, 1777 ;
5. Lydia, m. 21 Oct. 1801, Nathan Whiting, b. 16 May, 1772, son of Col. William Bradford Whiting and Amie Lathrop of Canaan, N.U., and d. 1 Dec. 1832, at New Haven, had 4 sons and 3 daus ;
6. Julia, m. 1, Ebenezer Jones of Troy, N.Y., and 2, Samuel Cheever, and had children by each ;
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[Note of Caution: states they had 5 children and then lists 6.]
