Person:Rebecca Whitney (10)

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Rebecca Whitney
b.18 Feb 1761 Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
d.14 Dec 1843 Branchville, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m.
  1. Betty Whitney
  2. Sarah Whitney
  3. Rebecca Whitney
Spouse and Children
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m. 18 Jan 1789
  1. Nicholas Olmsted
  2. William Olmstead
  3. Daniel Olmsted
  4. Ira Olmsted
  5. Elizabeth Olmsted
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Facts and Events
Name Rebecca Whitney
Gender Female
Birth? 18 Feb 1761 Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
Marriage 18 Jan 1789 Fairfield, Connecticut, United States[2nd cousins]
to Josiah Olmstead
Death? 14 Dec 1843 Branchville, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
References
  1.   Phœnix, S. Whitney (Stephen Whitney), and D. Williams (David Williams) Patterson. The Whitney Family of Connecticut and Its Affiliations: Being an Attempt to Trace the Descendants, as Well in the Female as the Male Lines, of Henry Whitney, from 1649 to 1878; to Which is Prefixed Some Account of the Whitneys of England. (New York: Privately Printed by Bradstreet Press, 1878)
    57.

    III. Rebecca Whitney, twin, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 18 Feb. 1761; married, 18 Jan. 1789, at Ridgefield, her second cousin, Josiah Olmstead, a farmer, son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Northrop) Olmstead, of Ridgefield, and grandson of Richard Olmstead, who, with his brother Daniel and others of Norwalk and Milford, Conn., purchased, 30 Sept. 1708, for £100, the township of Ridgefield, twenty thousand acres, from Catoonah, sachem of the Ramapoo Indians of the State of New York.

    They settled in Ridgefield, and there died ; she, 15 Dec. 1843; he, 10 Sept. 1847, though another report says, 15 Sept. 1857. They were buried in Titicus Cemetery.

  2.   Selleck, Charles M. (Charles Melbourne). Norwalk. (Norwalk, Connecticut: C.M. Selleck, 1896)
    282.
  3.   Olmsted, Henry King (1824-1896), and George Kemp Ward (1848-1937). Genealogy of the Olmsted Family in America: Embracing the Descendants of James and Richard Olmstead and Covering a Period of Nearly Three Centuries, 1632-1912. (New York: A. T. DeLaMare, 1912)
    214, 215.

    (4186) JOSIAH OLMSTED, Branchville, Conn. ... m. Jan. 18, 1789, (his second cousin) Rebecca Whitney; b. at Ridgefield, Conn., Feb. 18, 1761; d. Dec. 14, 1843; dau. of Henry and Elizabeth (Lobdell) Whitney, and grand-dau. of Elizabeth (Olmsted) Whitney. He was a farmer.

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