"8 … Samuel Whitney, b. in Norwalk, Conn., 1688; married, 18 Jan. 1721-2, at Stratford, Conn., Anne Laboree. He had previously bought a home-lot and dwelling-house of Samuel Hawley, in Stratford, to wit, 9 Jan. 1718-19; and he and his wife 'owned the covenant' in the Congregational Church, in Stratford, 7 July 1723. He bought land at Woodend, in Stratford, 5 March 1735-6, of Rev. Samuel Johnson, for £26. His gravestone, in the old Congregational Cemetery, in Stratford, bears the following inscription: Here lies buried | the Body of Mr. | Samuel Whitney | who Departed this | life December ye | 6th 1753, in ye 66th | year of his age."