Christopher HUNTINGTON
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Christopher Huntington.

Christopher and Simon Huntington probably settled at Saybrook as soon as they attained their majority. Christopher was there in 1649, apparently engaged in trade, and had written to his uncle Baret in Eng-. land, for consignments of cloth and shot. In 1651, he was one of five persons who seized a Dutch vessel that was on the coast trading illegally with the Indians. He married Ruth, daughter of William Rockwell of Windsor, Oct. 7, 1652. They lost one child, and perhaps more than one, in infancy, and when the removal to Norwich took place, the parents had only their little daughter, Ruth, to carry through the wilderness. But a blessing soon descended upon their new home ; a son was born, a second Christopher, Nov. 1st, 1660.

The first born male in Norwich.

The children of Christopher Huntington were subsequently increased to seven in number, while Simon had a family of ten. They both lived to embrace their children's children, and to see the family hives swarm and emigrants pass off to alight in the woods and wastes of Windham, Mansfield, and Lebanon.

Thomas, the second son, born in 1664, was one of the early settlers of Windham.

Christopher Huntington, 1st, died in 1691, as is indicated by the pro bate of his estate that year. No other record gives the date. He was probably buried in the Gager and Post burial-ground, and no stone marks his grave.

The second Christopher Huntington, the first-born son of Norwich, executed the office of Town Clerk and Recorder for twenty years, and was deacon of the church from 1696 to 1735.

The two wives of Deacon Christopher were Sarah Adgate, and Judith, widow of Jonathan Brewster. Ho had a family of twelve children ; seven sons and four daughters survived him. His oldest child, Ruth, was the mother of Dr. Eleazer Wheelock, the founder of the first Indian school at Lebanon, and the first President of Dartmouth College.

Slabs of gray stone, broad, low, and quaintly carved, point out the spot where this worthy deacon, the son of the wilderness, was laid.

Christopher Huntington, 3d, was born in 1686. Christopher Hunting ton, 4th, born in 1719, was a physician in the parish of New Concord. These four Christophers were in the direct line, each the oldest son of his father, but the fifth Christopher was the youngest son of the fourth. He succeeded his father as a physician in New Concord, or Ho/ rah, where he died in 1821. His oldest son, the sixth Christopher, settled in Hartford, where he died in 1834, and with him the direct line of the Christophers ends, other names in the family of the last -mentioned Christopher taking the place of the old heirloom.

History of Norwich, Connecticut: From Its Possession by the Indians to the Year 1866 Author Frances Manwaring Caulkins Publisher By H.P. Haven, 1874

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