Simon HUNTINGTON
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According to Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Penn. By John W. Jordan, p. 901., Simon Huntington came from Norwich, England. He was the son of George Huntington (9 Jan 1538 - ) and Anne Fenwick.
He married Margaret Barett on 21 Jun 1627. Margaret was the daughter of Christopher Barett (13 APR 1562 - ) and Elizabeth Clarke.

Margaret was the daughter of of the Mayor of Norwich. Simon Huntington was harassed by the religious authorities and fled with his family to New England in 1633. He died on the passage.

Simon, Margaret and the children left Yarmouth, England for the American colonies on the ship "Elizabeth Bonaventure" the first week in May, 1633. Simon died enroute, and his body was committed to the sea, but Margaret and the children landed in Boston on June 15th and settled in Roxbury, MA.

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Simon Huntington was born in England. He married Margaret Barrett on May 11, 1623 at St. Andrew's Parish in Norwich, England. Margaret’s father was Christopher Barrett. He was Mayor of Norwich in 1634. Her brother Thomas Baret was Mayor in 1650. He was also a Colonel in the Norfolk Militia in the same year. Margaret was born Sept. 29, 1595. Her mother was Elizabeth Clarke Baret.

Simon and Margaret, with 5 children, left Yarmouth the first week in May, 1633 on the ship "Elizabeth Bongventure". Simon died of Small Pox en route and was buried at sea. The family arrived near Boston, June 15, 1633.

"Simon Huntington, b. 1583 in England, d. in 1633 on board a ship bound for America. His brother was a captain of the King's Guard, but he was a persecuted Puritan. He married in England in 1623, Margaret Baret (Barrett), daughter of Christopher (William, William, John) Baret, mayor of Norwich, England. She settled in Roxbury, Mass. With their four children, and she later remarried."

Source: Oliver, Rebekah Deal, The Bottum (Longbottom) family album : an historical and biographical genealogy of the descendants of Daniel ( -1732) and Elizabeth (Lamb) Longbottom of Norwich, Connecticut, Page 275-276

From: The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633

"At the 1629 Bishop's Visitation of the Diocese of Norwich, Simon Huntington of the parish of St. Simon & Jude, Norwich, was presented "for that he doth not use to stand up at the Creed, nor bow at the name of Jesus" [Norwich and Norfolk Record Office, Norwich Diocesan Archives, VIS 6/ 1]. These were typical Puritan infractions."

SIMON HUNTINGTON, the Puritan Immigrant.

Our knowledge of his ancestry is derived from a report of investigations made by Gustav Anjou, a genealogist, for Henry Edwards Huntington. (1. 3. 6. 7. 6. 2. 2. 4.)

One Thomas Huntington, of whom nothing else is known with absolute certainty, had three children born in England (perhaps in Hempstead) Richard, Thomas and Elizabeth. Richard, the oldest child, born about 1460, married in 1498 Alice, daughter of Simon Loring, of Little Sampford, and had five sons, Robert, Christopher, born Dec. 18, 1500, John, Simon, (who died young,) and Richard. Christopher, the second of the sons of Richard, married, April 7, 1537, Elizabeth, daughter of George Bailey, (or Bayley,) of London, and had issue George, born Jan. 9, 1538, and seven other sons and one daughter. George married, Aug. 5, 1580, Anne, daughter of Robert Fenwick, and had issue (1,) Margaret, born May 11, 1581; married Jan. 27, 1607, Joannes Spencer; (2,) Samuel, born Feb. 16, 1582, an officer in the army of King Charles the First; (3,) Simon, born Aug. 7, 1583, our ancestor; (4,) George, born June 2, 1585, and married, Jan. 15, 1609, Marie Whitewood; (5,) Andrew, born Jan. 18, 1587, and married, June 1, 1609, Elizabeth, daughter of William Rockwell; (6.) Robert, born March 6, 1589. Thus the descent of our common ancestor is traced back through four generations.

Simon Huntington was probably married once before his marriage with Margaret Baret, June 21, 1627, though of this it is impossible to speak with certainty. Margaret Baret was the daughter of Christopher Baret, who was Mayor of Norwich, England, in 1634 and 1648, and died in August, 1649.

The church records of Roxbury, Mass., contain the earliest record of the Huntington name known in New England. It is in the handwriting of Rev. John Eliot, the pastor of that ancient church. It is a "record of such as adjoined themselves unto the fellowship of this church of Christ of Roxborough, as also of such children as were born unto them under the holy covenant of this church, who are most properly the seed of the church." This is the record of Margaret Huntington.

MARGARET HUNTINGTON, WIDOW, CAME IN 1638. HER HUSBAND DIED BY THE WAY OF THE SMALL POX. SHE BROUGHT (???) CHILDREN WITH HER.



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