Edmund Paul & Martha Huntington Notes

Author: no author Call Number: CS71.H95

This book contains the history of the Huntington family of Connecticut.
Bibliographic Information: Huntington Genealogical Memior. Huntington family Association.
Hartford, Connecticut 1915.

THE HUNTINGTON FAMILY IN AMERICA
A Genealogical Memoir of the Known Descendants of SIMON HUNTINGTON
FROM 1633 to 1915.
PUBLISHED BY THE HUNTINGTON FAMILY ASSOCIATION
HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT 1915
PRESS OF THE HARTFORD PRINTING CO., (ELIHU GEER SONS,)
16 STATE STREET, HARTFORD, CONN.

Our knowledge of his ancestry is derived from a report of investigations made by Gustav Anjou, a genealogist, for Henry Edwards Huntington.

One Thomas Huntington, of whom nothing else is known with absolute certainty, had three children born in England (perhaps in Hempstead) Richard, Thomas and Elizabeth. Richard, the oldest child, born about 1460, married in 1498 Alice, daughter of Simon Loring, of Little Sampford, and had five sons, Robert, Christopher, born Dec. 18, 1500, John, Simon, (who died young,) and Richard. Christopher, the second of the sons of Richard, married, April 7, 1537, Elizabeth, daughter of George Bailey, (or Bayley,) of London, and had issue George, born Jan. 9, 1538, and seven other sons and one daughter. George married, Aug. 5, 1580, Anne, daughter of Robert Fenwick, and had issue (1,) Margaret, born May 11, 1581; married Jan. 27, 1607, Joannes Spencer; (2,) Samuel, born Feb. 16, 1582, an officer in the army of King Charles the First; (3,) Simon, born Aug. 7, 1583, our ancestor; (4,) George, born June 2, 1585, and married, Jan. 15, 1609, Marie Whitewood; (5,) Andrew, born Jan. 18, 1587, and married, June 1, 1609, Elizabeth, daughter of William Rockwell; (6.) Robert, born March 6, 1589. Thus the descent of our common ancestor is traced back through four generations.

Simon Huntington was probably married once before his marriage with Margaret Baret, June 21, 1627, though of this it is impossible to speak with certainty. Margaret Baret was the daughter of Christopher Baret, who was Mayor of Norwich, England, in 1634 and 1648, and died in August, 1649.

The church records of Roxbury, Massachusetts, contain the earliest record of the Huntington name known in New England. It is in the handwriting of Rev. John Eliot, the pastor of that ancient church. It is a "record of such as adjoined themselves unto the fellowship of this church of Christ of Roxborough, as also of such children as were born unto them under the holy covenant of this church, who are most properly the seed of the church." This is the record of Margaret Huntington.

MARGARET HUNTINGTON, WIDOW, CAME IN 1638. HER HUSBAND DIED BY THE WAY OF THE SMALL POX. SHE BROUGHT (???) CHILDREN WITH HER. This is practically all that is certainly known of the progenitor of the Huntington Family in America. The rest is tradition, inference and conjecture.

Margaret Huntington, the widow, married Thomas Stoughton in 1635 or 1636, and moved with him to Windsor, Connecticut He was prominent in the early history of that settlement, and died there March 25, 1661.

CHILDREN.
1. WILLIAM.
2. CHRISTOPHER, born probably in the Spring of 1628.
3. SIMON, born in 1629.
4. THOMAS.
5. ANN, all that is known of her is what is found in the letter of Peter Baret, printed in the "Genealogical Memoir of the Huntington Family," published in 1863.

Probably accompanied his mother to Windsor, Connecticut, where he must have spent his youth. He here married, October 7, 1652, Ruth, daughter of Wm. Rockwell, "a prominent and highly respected member of the community." He removed, probably, in the spring of 1654, to Saybrook, as the birth of one child appeared in 1653, on the Windsor records, and the death of another in May, 1654, on those of Saybrook. Here he remained until the spring of 1660, when, with a company of the Saybrook colony who had organized themselves into a church, under the care of Rev. James Fitch, he removed to the valley of the Yantie, and with his brother Simon, aided in laying the foundations of the new town of Norwich. He had now reached the prime of his manhood; and proved himself one of the most efficient and useful of the hardy pioneers. His name occurs often in the earlier records of this enterprising town, and always in honorable relations. His house lot was one of the prominent localities in the settlement. In 1668 the general court granted him 100 acres of land, not more than twenty acres of it to be meadow. In 1678, appointed town clerk. In 1685, he was one of the twelve patentees of the new town of Norwich. In 1686 his name occurs as one of the committee "to make provision for maintaining the reverend minister."

His death had occurred in 1691, as appears from the probate of his will, No stone marks the resting place of this pioneer of the Norwich settlement. He sleeps, doubtless, not far from the banks of the pleasant Yantie, in the meadow where rest, unmarked, the mortal remains of so many of the pioneers of the early settlement of Norwich.

CHILDREN.
The death of the first Christopher, and the births of all but the first two of this family, are on the Norwich records.
1. CHRISTOPHER, born in 1653; lived one year and four months, and died in Saybrook. The first fact appears on the Windsor records, and the second was taken from the Saybrook records, before they were burnt in the old fort.
2. RUTH, born April 13, 1653, and probably a twin with the above Christopher. She probably died in infancy.
3. RUTH, born in Saybrook, in April, 1658; married, March 26, 1681, Samuel Pratt of Saybrook, who came to Norwich with the early settlers. They had one child recorded in Norwich, Samuel Pratt, born February 11, 1683; she died February 14, 1683.
4. CHRISTOPHER, born November 1, 1660.
5. THOMAS, born March 18, 1664.
6. JOHN, born March 15, 1666.
7. SUSANNAH, born in August, 1668.
8. LYDIA, or as the records have chosen to enter the name, Lydyah, was born in Norwich, in August, 1672.
9. ANN, born in Norwich, October 25, 1675; married October 28, 1697, Jonathan, son of Thomas and Mary (Rudd) Bingham. Her husband was born April 15, 1674, and was the third of eleven children. His father was afterwards deacon of the Windham church. He had a family and descendants respectable both in their numbers and for their characters.

Born in Norwich, March 15, 1666; married, December 9, 1686, Abigail, daughter of Samuel Lathrop, who was born in May, 1667. Her father had moved to Norwich from New London, to which place he had gone from Scituate, Massachusetts, in 1648. He was the son of the Rev. John Lathrop, who, for nonconformity, being a preacher in the First Congregational church organized in London, was imprisoned for two years, and who, on being released in 1634, came to this country, and became the first minister of Scituate.

Know all men by these presents that we Sheba Hall of the Town of Mansfield in the County of Hartford, and Abigail his wife, and Joseph Rockwell juinsr of the Town of Windsor and Hannah his wife, and Martha Huntington of the Town of Windsor with in said County, children and heirs female unto John Huntington late of the Town of Norwich in the County of New London Deceased for and in the consideration of the sum of Thirty-four pounds Sixteen Shillings and two pence in Countrey pay, to us in band already paid or in the Law secured to be paid by our loving brother John Huntington of the Town of Windsor and County of Hartford have given granted and sold and do by these presents, fully freely and absolutely from our selves our heirs executors Administrators give grant Bargain Sell Demise Settover and Confirm unto him the above said John Huntington all our right estate Interest or Claims in or unto all the Lands Tenements or heredetaments of right belonging to or in the possession of our said Honorable Father John Huntington Deceased of what kind quality of nature soever, of which he died Seized of, To the said John Huntington.(???) * * *

In Confirmation whereof, we have hereunto Set our hands and Seals the 24th day of March anno; 1714-5.

Personally appeared the above named Sheba Hall, Abigail Hall, Joseph Rockwell, Hanna Rockwell and Martha Huntington and acknowledged the above written Instrument to be their free act & Deed before me Roger Wolcott

Born in Norwich, July 4, 1691. He married, April 16, 1723, Thankful Warner of Windham, and early in the settlement of Tolland removed to that town. He was appointed Ensign of Tolland train band in October, 1722; Lieut. in May, 1725. He was on a committee to fix the place for the meeting-house in May 1733. He died June 2, 1737, as his gravestone attests. His wife died July 14, 1739.

Born in Tolland, February 22, 1726. He married Mehetabel Steele, who was born June 6, 1733. He was a farmer, and lived in Tolland. He was accidentally killed by falling under a cart wheel on the road from Hartford to Tolland, March 23, 1774. The tradition is that he was riding a young colt who shied and threw him.

The "Steele Family" says that John Huntington married Sarah Steele, who was born, as Mohotabel, above.

CHILDREN, BORN IN TOLLAND.
1. JOHN, born May 11, 1749.
2. THANKFUL, born July 23, 1750, and died October 29, 1750.
3. MEHETABEL, born January 24, 1752; married Hezekiah Betts, and went into Upper Canada, where she died in 1829.
4.-5. TWIN DAUGHTERS, born November 15, 1753, who died on the day of their birth.
6. ELISILA, born December 17, 1754.
7. WILLIAM, born September 19, 1757.
8. HEZEKIAH, born December 30, 1759.
9. DEBORAH, born November 21, 1762; married Gamaliel Kent, a brother of her brother Hezekiah's wife.
10. SAMUEL, born March 23, 1765; married, 1787, Sally Howard, of Coventry. He was a blacksmith.
11. ABIGAIL, born March 29, 1767; married Dr. H. Farnsworth, of Ohio. They lived in Windsor.
She died March 11, 1805.
12. RUTH, born May 12, 1769; married Abraham Malvesey. They became Shakers and went to Enfield. She died January 31, 1833.
13. THANKFUL, born October 3, 1771, and married Jonathan Hartshorn, of Hartford, Connecticut.
14. MARA, born October 27, 1774, and died August 3, 1777.

Born September 19, 1757; married, February 13, 1783, Prescendia Lathrop, and was one of the first settlers in the Black River valley, in Northern New York. He resided at Watertown. He married for his second wife, December 2, 1810, Elvira Dresser. His first wife was born in Tolland, January 30, 1761, and died March 20, 1810. He died May 11, 1842. The following is an obituary notice found in one of the Watertown papers: "At his residence, on the 11th inst., William Huntington, in the 85th year of his age. Mr. Huntington was one of our oldest and most respected inhabitants. He was a native of Tolland, Connecticut, and for three or four years served in the Army of the Revolution. In the year 1784 he emigrated to New Hampshire, where he resided till the winter of 1804, when he removed to Watertown. He was for many years a member and an officer of the Presbyterian church, and in the last years of his protracted life it was evident to his friends that the absorbing subject of his contemplation, was his departure from this world; and he cheerfully expressed a readiness to go whenever God in his goodness should see fit to summon him away. He gave pleasing evidence that he was waiting and watching for the coming of the Lord; so that the large circle of his relatives and friends are not left to mourn without hope, but rather to rejoice in the hope and belief that he was numbered among the children of God by adoption."

CHILDREN, EXCEPT THE LAST, BORN IN GRANTHAM, N. H.
1. WILLIAM, born March 28, 1784.
2. DYER, born February 18, 1786.
3. JOHN LATRROP, born June 30, 1787.
4. HIRAM, born June 19, 1789.
5. AMBROSE WOODWARD, born September 1, 1791.
6. PRESENDIA, born May 8, 1794.
7. CYRUS THOMPSON, born May 15, 1801.
8. LUCIA, born September 24, 1813, in Watertown, N. Y.; married a Mr. Clapp, and died May 2, 1833.

Born March 28, 1784, in Grantham, N. H. In 1804 he moved with his parents to Watertown, Jefferson County, New York, being among the first settlers of that county. In 1806, he returned to New Hampshire, and married Zina Baker, daughter of Dr. Oliver Baker, December 28, 1806. Soon after his marriage he moved to Watertown, N. Y., where he lived and prospered in temporal blessings until 1811, when he sold out, and the following year war was declared with Great Britain, which proved fatal to his prospects, and coupled with much sickness in the family reduced them very low in pecuniary circumstances. His services in the army were done with the fife. He was in one battle, that of Sackett's Harbour. In 1816, Providence smiled on him again, and about the same time he experienced religion and joined the Presbyterian church. In the winter of 1832-33 he first heard of "Mormonism," read the Book of Mormon, believed it with all his heart and preached it almost every day, to his neighbors and everybody he could see, or had the privilege chat with, until 1835, when he and wife with two of their children were baptized by Elder (???) Dutcher. After that his house was a meeting house and a home for all Saints. May 18, 1886 he sent two of his children, Dimick and Presendia, and their families, to Kirtland, waiting himself only to sell out. October 1, 1836, he started and moved to Kirtland with quite a number of Saints under the direction of Apostles Orson Pratt and Luke S. Johnson, being ordained an Elder previous to starting. He arrived in Kirtland on the 11th, bought a farm from Jacob Bump, and paid him three thousand dollars. Of this amount he was defrauded, so that in a little over one year he was compelled to labor by the day for a living. In the breaking up of Kirtland the apostates harrassed him with law suits until he saw his children often go to bed crying for bread. For nearly two weeks he lived on greens. His house was a hiding place for Father Joseph Smith, Hyrum, Samuel and Don Carlos, while they were trying to escape from the persecutions in Kirtland. The Egyptian mummies were also hid in his house for a long time, and many of the pursued and persecuted Saints found a retreat there and hiding place from apostates' persecution. In Kirtland he received his washings and anointings in the temple, and was ordained a High Priest and High Counselor, in which office he acted until the Church left Kirtland. He lost five hundred dollars in the Kirtland bank. May 21, 1838, he started for Far West, Mo., where he arrived about two months later, and, by counsel, moved to Adam-ondi-Ahman, where he was chosen commissary for the brethren who armed for defence; and after the mob had driven and hemmed in the scattering brethren, he was commissary for all the people of that place and had charge of all the provisions of the town. After the surrender of the Church in Far West, Missouri, he was foreman of the committee chosen to confer with the committee chosen by the mob. These two committees were representatives of and authorized to transact all business for their respective committees. He was also one of committee chosen to see to the poor and get them moved out of the State of Missouri, which they did to the complete satisfaction of the whole Church, though with no ordinary exertion, and remained himself until about the last man and family. His was one of the first families that moved to Commerce (afterwards Nauvoo) where he arrived May 14, 1839. About the 1st of July his whole family was taken sick, and on the 8th his wife died of sickness, caused by hardships and exposure. At this time he suffered for the comforts of life. At a conference held in October, 1839, he was again chosen to the office of High Counselor. August 28, 1840, he married Lydia Partridge, relict of Bishop Edward Partridge, whose maiden name was Lydia Clisbee. As a member of the High Council he helped to lay one of the corner stones of the Nauvoo Temple. He continued a member of the High Council until the expulsion from Nauvoo. In the move from Nauvoo he was appointed captain of a company of fifty wagons which he helped to make, and to fit up for the company, but which was subsequently disorganized. He was then appointed a captain of ten in Amasa M. Lyman's company, until the settlement of Mt. Pisgah was located, he was left to preside over that Stake of Zion. In this place his labors were extreme and unremitting for the good and welfare of the people, and the comfort of the sick, of which there were a great many. August 9, 1846, he was taken sick with the chills and fever, of which he died August 19, 1846. In life he was beloved by all the Saints. His love and zeal for the cause were unsurpassed by any. His judgment was respected and his conduct never questioned; he never had a trial or difficulty with any person in the Church. The foregoing account of his life is extracted from the Latter Day Saints Biographical Encyclopedia.

CHILDREN.
1. CHAUNCEY DYER, born October 20, 1806.
2. NANCY, born October 20, 1806, and died March, 1807.
3. DIMICK BAKER, born May 26, 1808.
4. PRESENDIA LATHROP, born September 10, 1810.
5. ADALINE ELIZABETH, born August 3, 1815, and died November 26, 1826.
6. WILLIAM DRESSER, born February 8, 1818.
7. ZINA DIANTHA, born January 31, 1821.
8. OLIVER BOARDMAN, born October 14, 1823.
9. JOHN DICKENSON, born February 11, 1827.

Born May 26, 1808, in Watertown, N. Y.; married in 1830, in Watertown, N. Y., Fanny Maria, daughter of Gen. Clark Allen, (descendant of Ethan Allen) and Martha (Thompson) Allen. She was born October 26, 1810, in Loraine, N. Y., and died December 14, 1894, in Pleasant Green, Utah. She accompanied her husband in the famous Mormon Battalion march through the deserts, enduring all the hardships of a soldier's life. She was for four months without tasting bread, before her daughter Betsy Presendia was born, living on roots. When the girl was born at Pueblo, on Mexican Territory, she had no mid-wife or doctor, so an Indian squaw attended her. He married a second wife, about 1853, in Salt Lake City, Ellen Sophia Jacobson. She was born in Norway, about 1826, and died in Parowan, Utah, about 1900.

He was Indian interpreter for the U. S. Government up to the time of his death, which occurred February 1, 1879, in Salt Lake City. He was a private in Co. D of the Mormon Battalion, and as such took part in the Mexican War in 1846. He enlisted July 16, 1846, and was discharged July 16, 1847. He was a member of the Salt Lake City Council in the early days. He was High Priest in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He was instrumental in helping to settle and colonize the whole region south of Salt Lake City, down to St. George on the South border of the Territory. He acted as interpreter for the Indians, as a soldier of the Mormon Battalion, and he helped to secure California, Nevada, and Utah, for the U. S. He published three books for the benefit of the Snakes and Utes, (Indians.) See page 209, Vol. IV., History of Utah, by Orson F. Whitney; also History of the Mormon Battalion, by Daniel Tyler.

CHILDREN.
1. CLARK ALLEN, born December 6, 1831.
2. LOT ELISHA, born April 29, 1844, in Watertown, N. Y.; married in October, 1861; Naomi Gibson. He died January 16, 1862, in Rush Valley, Utah. She married afterwards, James Andrus, and lives in Utah. They had one daughter, Lottie Huntington, who died in 1862.
3. MARYETT, born March 17, 1836, and died May 10, 1839, in Quincy, Ill.
4. FANNY MARIA, born August 21, 1838, in Far West, Caldwell Co., Mo.; she died September 4, 1842, in Nauvoo, Ill.
5. MARTHA ZINA, born January 19, 1844.
6. BETSY PRESENDIA, born October 21, 1846, in Fort Pueblo, N. M., and died November 4, 1846, in Fort Pueblo, New Mexico.
7. JULIA CAROLINE, born June 21, 1848.
8. SARAH ADELINE, born March 30, 1851, and died November 5, 1856, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
9. JOSEPH SMITH, born January 6, 1855, in Salt Lake City; died in April, 1907, "On the Muddy," Nevada.

Born January 19, 1844, in Nauvoo, Ill.; married July 16, 1864, in Salt Lake City, Utah, Edmund, son of William and Elisabeth (Gowin) Paul. He was born in Cornwall, England, February 6, 1840. Mr. Paul is a contractor and builder. He lived in Mendon, Utah, until 1883, and then removed to Rexburg, Idaho, where he now lives. He has served two years in the City Council in the Town of Rexburg, and also as School Trustee and Justice of the Peace, He is High Priest in the Church of the Latter Day Saints. His wife died April 5, 1883, in Mendon, Utah.

CHILDREN.
1. FANNIE ELISABETH, born July 29, 1865, in Salt Lake City, Utah; married in October, 1893, in Teton Basin, Idaho, George A. Littel. They live in Garfield, Utah.
2. ZINA PRESENDIA, born December 5, 1867, in Salt Lake City, Utah; and died, October 2, 1869, in the same place.
3. EDMUND ALLEN, born October 28, 1869, in Salt Lake City, Utah; married, October 12, 1897, in Salt Lake Temple, Marcia Little. They have three children, and live in Garfield, Utah.
4. GEORGIANNA FRANCES, born September 29, 1873, in Salt Lake City, Utah; died April 17, 1888, in Rexburg, Idaho.
5. SUSAN JULIA, born February 7, 1876, in Salt Lake City, and died January 28, 1877, in the same place.
6. MARTHA PRISCILLA, born April 22, 1880, in Mendon, Utah; married in November, 1899, in Logan, Utah, James Purser. They have two children, and live in Rexburg, Idaho.
7. DIMICK HUNTINGTON, born April 5, 1883, in Mendon, Idaho; lives in Ogden, Utah.

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