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OLIVER HUNTINGTON


OLIVER HUNTINGTON, son of Samuel and Hannah (Metcalf) Huntington,was born April 15, 1729, in Lebanon, Conn.; married, June 24, 1761, Anna, daughter of Joseph and Ann (Lord) Lynde. She was a direct descendant of Nathan, who was a branch of Von der Linden, of  Belgium, a Baron of Holland. She died March 23, 1811. He was a farmer and shoemaker, and died in Lebanon, in 1802.

CHILDREN, BORN IN LEBANON, CONN.

  1. ANNE, born July 21, 1762, and married, June  7 , 1795, Dea. Caleb (1. 2. 4. 10. 7), who was born in Norwich, February 4, 1748-9.He united with the First Church of Norwich in 1788, and was chosen deacon of it in 1808. He was a most excellent man and devout Christian. He lived to a very advanced age, preserving his faculties remarkably. She died in Norwich, September 16, 1851, and he died March 1, 1842. They had four children who died in infancy and were not named.
  2. LOUISA, born November 12, 1763; married, November  24, 1791, Lewis, son of Charles and Anna ( 1. 3. 6. 7. 1 ) Collins. He was born October 29, 1753. He was a physician and surgeon, and was married once before, to Ruth Root, who died in 1790. He died April 28, 1818, away from his home." At the breaking out of the War of the Revolution he started to England to prosecute a claim to a Dukedom that had descended to the Collins family. He pressed his journey as far as Boston, just as the war broke out, and was present at the Tea Riot. He abandoned the idea, and some time afterwards was made paymaster of a body of soldiery in New London." This is an Extract from notes of Julia Emaline Lilly, granddaughter of Lewis Collins, and also from letters from Oristus, son of Lewis Collins. They were the parents of ORISTUS, born September 22, 1792, who was, at one time, presiding Judge of the Second Judicial district of Pennsylvania, and LORENZO, born in 1794, who lived in Cherry  Ridge, PA.
  3. HANNAH, born August 12, 1765, and died July 29, 1783, as the Lebanon records attest.
  4. LYNDE, born March 22, 1767, in Lebanon, Conn. He graduated at Yale, in 1788, and was ordained pastor of the Congregational church in Branford, Conn., October 28, 1795. He married, June 15, 1796, Anna, widow of Rev. Jason Atwater, his predecessor, in Branford, and daughter of Rev. Warham and Ann Williams, her mother being a daughter of Rev. Samuel Hall, of Cheshire. Her paternal grandparents were the Rev. Dr. Stephen and Abigail (Davenport) Williams, of Springfield, Mass. His early ministry was one of promise, but a lingering disease soon set in, and prematurely terminated his period of earthly labor; not, however, until this record of his character and usefulness could be truthfully drawn; "Possessing a sound mind, the spirit of love and the wisdom of the prudent, he preached Christian doctrines and duties in their connection with all fidelity, was incessant in pastoral labors and an example to the flock. Entirely resigned, under a lingering illness he died in faith, September 19, 1804." The venerable Daniel Waldo, late chaplain in Congress, his classmate in college, thus testifies: "His standing in college as a classical scholar was re spectable, and his moral and religious character unstained. He and Moses Hallock were two of the most exemplary scholars in the class. That he made an able and successful minister was a fact, though he died in the morning of life." Lynde was the father of SOPHIA, LOUISA ALMIRA, and LYNDE ATWATER Huntington.
  5. LABETH, born in 1770, and died June 2, 1811, in Norwich,the death being on the Lebanon records.
  6. OLIVER, born December 22, 1771, in Lebanon, Conn.; married, May 4, 1794, Abigail, daughter of Gad Talcott, of Hebron, who was born May 26, 1772. He removed in 1805 to Owego, N. Y., where he became "a substantial freeholder," and a prominent man. He was commissioned by Gov. Tompkins, in 1812, as brigadier-general of the 41st brigade of New York Infantry; and in 1815 was appointed high sheriff of Broome county, and re-appointed again the next year. His wife, nobly descended from the best blood of the Mayflower, which she nobly honored, died in Owego, June 18, 1815, and he died in the same place, November 13, 1823. His children were ABIGAIL, WAIT TALCOTT, ORISTUS LYNDE, HORATIO LORD, HARRIET, and GEORGE OLIVER.
  7. SAMUEL, born in 1773; died March 4, 1813, in Lebanon. (twin)
  8. LUCY, born in 1773; died December 4, 1775, in Lebanon. (twin)
  9. ELIPHALET, born September 19, 1777.

      

Sketch taken from 1915 Genealogical Memoir, published by the Huntington Family Association.
Oliver is H.N. 1.3..6.2.4


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