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CHRISTOPHER HUNTINGTON
CHRISTOPHER HUNTINGTON probably accompanied his mother to Windsor, Conn., 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 Yantic, 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, he was 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 Yantic, 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.
- 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.
- RUTH, born April 13, 1653, and probably a twin with the above Christopher.
She probably died in infancy.
- 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.
- CHRISTOPHER, born November 1, 1660.
- THOMAS, born March 18, 1664.
- JOHN, born March 15,1666.
- SUSANNAH, born in August, 1668.
- LYDIA, or as the records have chosen to enter the name, Lydyah, was born in
Norwich, in August, 1672.
- 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. He had a family and descendants respectable both in their
numbers and for their characters.
Sketch (with slight modifications) taken
from 1915 Genealogical Memoir published by the Huntington Family
Association.
Christopher is H.N. 1.2
Last updated 22 Aug 1998 by Sara (Huntington) Abbott
abbott@magicnet.net
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