Eleanor Whitney
Wife of Jonathan Fairchild, a fuller and cloth-dresser of Norwalk, Connecticut, whom she married in 1717, and probably the mother of Thomas Fairchild. Born at Norwalk in 1693/4, probably a daughter of John Whitney, the miller, and Elizabeth Smith, she died there in 1777, aged nearly 82. Her grandson Jonathan, born in 1744, was possibly the Jonathan Fairchild who settled East Jewett, New York.
Life
- 1693Born27 Jan 1693/4, Norwalk, Connecticut
Computed by Phoenix from her age at death: "27 Jan. 1693, O. S.; 6 Feb. 1694, N. S."
- 1717
- 1777Died25 Jan 1777, Norwalk, Connecticut
"Aged 81 years, 11 months, and 19 days" (Phoenix).
- —Buried
Family
- Father
- John Whitney
Phoenix places her eighth among the children of John and Elizabeth (Smith) Whitney of Norwalk; Gilmore follows.
compiledprobableSources
- S. Whitney Phoenix, The Whitney Family of Connecticut, and Its Affiliations (1878), vol. 1
- Jean Fairchild Gilmore, Early Fairchilds in America and Their Descendants (1991), with More Fairchilds in America
- Reasoning:
research/mcmillan/Fairchild_Raymond_Woodworth.md
- Mother
Pedigree
Notes
Wife of Jonathan Fairchild of Norwalk and mother of Thomas Fairchild. A miller’s daughter who married a fuller: her grandfather Henry Whitney built Norwalk’s corn mill at the falls in 1665, and her father John, “the miller,” built a fulling mill there, which he gave to her brother John in 1707 (source). She married Jonathan Fairchild, “a fuller and cloth-dresser, of Norwalk,” on 13 June 1717, and they were members of the First Congregational Church in 1725. He died in 1772; she died at Norwalk on 25 January 1777, “aged 81 years, 11 months, and 19 days; from which facts, the date of her birth has been computed. They were buried in one of the old cemeteries at Norwalk.”
The family’s descent from her rests on the identification of Jonathan Fairchild of East Jewett with her grandson Jonathan, born at Norwalk in 1744, which is only possible (see Jonathan Fairchild).
Research: research/mcmillan/Fairchild_Raymond_Woodworth.md.
Connections
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