Isaac HUNTINGTON
Biography

Isaac, born Feb. 5, 1688, and married Feb. 21, 1715-16, Rebecca, great grand daughter of Rev. John Lathrop, of England, and later of Scituate and Barnstable, Mass. He was early brought into the public service, in which he continued all his life. He "was a professed Christian, having entered the church in 1731, on whose records his name often occurs, in relations which show he was regarded as a sound and safe ecclesiastical counselor. He was appointed, Oct. 21, 1746, on a committee, with Simon Tracy, his cousin Daniel, and Philip Turner, "to labor for the conviction and recovering of the Separates." These were the irregular and heterodox members of the church to which he belonged. He was as successor to his father, chosen town clerk Dec. 6, 1726, yet had performed the duties of the office, from an apparently unknown date, commencing his services during the official period of his father, and with the aid of his son Benjamin, continuing them down to his own death, the last entry, by his hand, being on the 9th of Jan. 1764, but a little more than a month previous to his death. This record was " examined" and attested by his son. He died, in the homestead built by his father, on soil taken from the Indians, Feb. 23, 1764, transmitting both his home and his office to his youngest son. He was the first of that "distinguished" trio referred to in the sketch of No. 28.

A genealogical memoir of the Huntington family in this country: embracing all the known descendants of Simon and Margaret Huntington, who have retained the family name (1863)
Author: Huntington, E. B. (Elijah Baldwin), 1816-1877
Subject: Huntington, Simon, 1583-1633; Huntington family
Publisher: Stamford, Conn., The author




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