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[no handwritten text supplied here] Whitman built the old homestead in which was born Nehemiah Whitman, [illegible]rents [overwrite] was born at thedescended from one of the earliest English emigrants to America, was born and died on the old Hills homestead at West Hills—which was inherited by his son, His wife was Phebe Sarah White—
Sarah White | born about 1713 |
"[no handwritten text supplied here]" | died[no handwritten text supplied here]" 1801 |
Jesse Whitman, | born Jan. 29, 1749 | |
"[no handwritten text supplied here]" | died Feb. 12, 1803 | |
Hannah Brush | born Oct. 6 1753 | |
"[no handwritten text supplied here]" | died Jan. 6, 1834 |
Jesse Whitman, jr | born June 25, 1776 | |
[no handwritten text supplied here] | Died at Dix Hills, Sept. 8, 1845 | |
Sarah Whitman, | born Jan. 1, 1778. | |
[no handwritten text supplied here] | died Feb. 2, 1852 | |
Naomi Van Velsor | died, February 1826 | |
Major Cornelius Van Velsor |
^born 1758. died August, 1837, aged |
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[no handwritten text supplied here] | (He was son of Garret Van Velsor | |
Garret Van Velsor, | died 1812 | parents of Major Van Velsor |
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One of the sons of Nehemiah Whitman was a Lieutenant in Col. Josiah Smith's Regiment of the ^American Patriot Army ^of 1776 under ^chief command of Washington,
He was in the disastrous battle of Brooklyn Col. Smiths ^the reg. having been ordered to place themselves under Gen. Greene, some days before that battle,—by Brig. Gen. Woodhull, who had charge general charge on L. I.— was also President of the N. Y. Convention.—
The L.I. regiment were hemmed in the lines
[begin leaf 1 verso]Sarah White, my great grandmother Whitman, lived to be 90 years old.—She was a large, strong woman, chewed tobacco, opium &c.—petted her slaves, and had always a crowd of little niggers about her.—She would sit with her feet up before the fire, just like a man—was every way decided and masculine in behavior
The tradition of my grandfather, Jesse Whitman, was that there were four brothers, Englishmen ^his remote ancestors who came over here.—One settled on Long Island—West Hills was formerly inhabited and owned very largely by Whitmans.—