CAPT. WILLIAM HUNTINGTON was born August 20, 1732, in Lebanon, Conn. He married, October 27, 1757, Bethia Throop, by tradition a lineal descendant of Adrian Scrope, one of the judges who condemned Charles I., whose name on coming to this country was, it is said, changed to Throop. She was born in the year 1738. Her death, which was from a cancer in the breast, occurred July 12, 1799.

He enlisted May 10, 1775, in the Third (General Putnam's) Regiment, which was raised on the first call for troops by the special session of the Legislature of May, 1775, and was recruited mainly in Windham County. They marched in May by Companies to Camps around Boston, and were stationed during the siege in Putnam's center division at Cambridge till the end of their term of enlistment, December 10, 1775. A detachment was engaged at Bunker Hill.

Capt. William Huntington was a farmer, a useful and Christian man. He died in Lebanon, May 31, 1916.

CHILDREN BORN IN LEBANON, CONN.

1. DAN, born August 9, 1758, and died September 6, 1759.
2. RHODA, born December 14, 1759, and died December 11, 1764.
3. MARY, born August 18, 1761; married the Rev. Walter Lyon, a graduate of Dartmouth in 1777, and pastor of the church in Abington Society, Pomfret, from 1783 to 1826, the year of his death. They were the parents of SAMUEL, who married Mary Warner.
4. WEALTHY, born April 18, 1763; married, Januarv 2, 1783, Simon Fitch, a descendant of Rev. James Fitch, of Norwich. They had children WEALTHY, ELIZABETH, THOMAS, MARIETTA, and ELEAZER.
5. RHODA, married Rev. William Lyman, D.D., who graduated at Yale, in 1784, was pastor of the Congegational church in a parish of Past Haddam, from 1786 to 1824, when he removed to China, N. Y., where lie died in 1833. They had eight children, three sons and five daughters.
6. WILLIAM, born March 6, 1765; married, April 6, 1788, Mary Gray. He was a farmer in his native town, and held in esteem and honor. He represented his town in the state legislature in 1810, and again in 1812. He died December 18, 1834. Their children were SIMEON, WILLIAM, MARY GRAY, EMILY, RUFUS, ELIZA, DAN, and ELEAZER.
7. EUNICE, born January 14, 1769; married, March 28, 1798, Daniel Mason, who was of the fifth generation in descent from the famous Capt. John Mason, of Norwich, and died March 26, 1828. They had children BETHIA HUNTINGTON, EMMA HUNTINGTON, MARY LYON, RHODA LOUISA, JULIA ANN, JOHN G.H., ABBY JANE, and WEALTHY FITCH.
8. DAN, born October 11, 1774; married , Jan 1, 1801, Elizabeth Whiting, only daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Porter) Phelps,of Hadley, Mass. He graduated at Yale in 1794 and was a tutor in Williams College. He later became a respected Clergyman in Litchfield, Conn., and later, Hadley, Mass. They had children CHARLES PHELPS, ELIZABETH PORTER, WILIAM PITKIN, BETHIA THROOP, EDWARD PHELPS, JOHN WHITING, THEOPHILUS PARSONS, THEODORE GREGSON, MARY DWIGHT, CATHERINE CAREY, and FREDERICK DAN.