When Elizabeth Whittemore was born on 9 June 1741, in Mansfield, Windham, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Joseph Whittemore, was 47 and her mother, Anne Slate, was 31. She married Gen. James Dana on 27 November 1759, in Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 3 September 1819, in Cobleskill, Schoharie, New York, United States, at the age of 78.
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English (Bedfordshire): variant of Whitmore .
History: Thomas Whittemore came from England to Charlestown, MA, in or c. 1639. Amos Whittemore, born in Cambridge, MA, in 1759 was an inventor and gunsmith, and another Thomas Whittemore was born in Boston in 1800; he was a Universalist clergyman and MA legislator.
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