Elias Whitney, b. at Crompond, Yorktown, N. Y., 15 Aug. 1770; went, when eighteen years old, to Fishkill, N. Y., and in 181 5, moved to Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where he spent the rest of his life. He was a weaver and gardener, which last business he continued to pursue till the last year of his life. He married, 17 Jan. 1792, at Fishkill, Judith Wood, dau. of Isaac and Martha (Way) Wood, who lived four miles south of Fishkill Village, on the mountain, where she was born, 5 Feb. 1774; and, for nearly sixty-eight years, they lived happily together, till his death, 8 June 1860. An obituary notice says of him : " Mr. Whitney had been married for 70 years, and was the father of ten children, the grandfather of forty-seven, the great-grandfather of eighty-seven, and the great-great-grandfather of six children." He made a profession of religion and was baptized by immersion, when 88 years old. His widow survived him until 3 May 1863. They are interred in the Baptist burial-ground in Garden Street, Poughkeepsie.
Elias Whitney, b. at Crompond, Yorktown, N. Y., 15 Aug. 1770; went, when eighteen years old, to Fishkill, N. Y., and in 181 5, moved to Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where he spent the rest of his life. He was a weaver and gardener, which last business he continued to pursue till the last year of his life. He married, 17 Jan. 1792, at Fishkill, Judith Wood, dau. of Isaac and Martha (Way) Wood, who lived four miles south of Fishkill Village, on the mountain, where she was born, 5 Feb. 1774; and, for nearly sixty-eight years, they lived happily together, till his death, 8 June 1860. An obituary notice says of him : " Mr. Whitney had been married for 70 years, and was the father of ten children, the grandfather of forty-seven, the great-grandfather of eighty-seven, and the great-great-grandfather of six children." He made a profession of religion and was baptized by immersion, when 88 years old. His widow survived him until 3 May 1863. They are interred in the Baptist burial-ground in Garden Street, Poughkeepsie.
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